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date	04/03/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Sanctions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 2 March (HL Deb, col 389), whether the planned secondary legislation under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 will be applied to individuals linked to crimes against humanity; and whether the definition of a perpetrator will vary based on country or nationality.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>As I stated in my answer to the Oral Question on 2 March 2020, House of Lords, column 389, we are currently working to soon lay secondary legislation for the UK's first autonomous sanctions regime under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. It would be inappropriate to comment on the specific aspects of the scope before the secondary legislation comes into force.</p><p>The regime is not intended to target individual countries, but those who commit serious human rights violations or abuses anywhere in the world.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 12/03/2020 15:47:58 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1182875

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	China: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 2 March (HL Deb, col 390), what steps they are taking to ensure that companies registered in the UK are not contributing to forced organ harvesting in China.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>We encourage UK businesses to conduct appropriate due diligence to satisfy themselves that their activities do not support, or risk being seen to be supporting, any human rights violations or abuses. The Government's position remains that, if true, the practice of systematic, state-sponsored organ harvesting would constitute a gross violation of human rights.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/03/2020 12:59:40 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1182876

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	China: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 2 March (HL Deb, col 390), whether they will place in the Library of the House all reports and correspondence they have received from the World Health Organisation, especially those relating to the transparency of the government of China’s organ transplant system.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>We consult and share assessments with a wide range of human rights and international organisations, including the World Health Organisation, on the basis of confidentiality. In order to maintain working relationships with these organisations, we do not publish details of discussions between them and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/03/2020 16:57:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1182877

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Priti Patel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish a report at the conclusion of their inquiry into allegations of bullying by the Home Secretary.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL2200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my answer on 12th March 2020 to Lord Young of Cookham (<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-03-12/debates/2D8B6145-D6DF-4AEF-BBEB-6AB08158DF0D/MinisterialCode" target="_blank">Official Record, House Of Lords,Vol. 802. Col. 1158</a>).</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 19/03/2020 14:27:55 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton