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1580487

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date	24/01/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Agriculture: Genetic Engineering
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what recent discussions they have had with the governments of EU member states regarding the use of gene editing in agriculture.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>Government officials have ongoing discussions with EU member states. In November last year, officials from Defra, and from the Food Standards Agency, took part in a global regulators meeting, organised by the US Food and Drug Administration Mission to Europe, which included representatives from EU Member States.</p><p> </p><p>This covered regulatory approaches to biotechnology, including gene editing in agriculture. Since then, Defra officials have met with Netherlands officials to discuss gene editing.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 02/02/2023 16:55:20 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1388884

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date	16/12/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Religious Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the projected budget for the global summit to promote freedom of religion or belief in London on 5–6 July 2022; and how many staff are expected to work on it.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
uin	HL5046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2021 answer text <p>In July 2022, the UK will host an international Ministerial conference to promote freedom of religion or belief for all. The conference will demonstrate the UK's international leadership on supporting partner countries towards freedom and openness, underpinning the Network of Liberty the UK is committed to building around the world.</p><p>A conference budget will be finalised next year in line with all future programme budgets under the FCDO's business planning process for 2022 onwards. A conference team is being built and will be further boosted by additional surge staff in the summer.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/12/2021 16:28:18 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1199437

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date	02/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Religious Buildings: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government further to the publication of Our plan to rebuild: The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy on 11 May, what discussions they have had with faith leaders about the number of people who will be permitted to gather in places of worship for services and events.
tabling member printed	Baroness Mone
uin	HL5046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>Following publication on 11 May of “Our Plan to Rebuild”, which outlined the steps we would be taking to ease the lockdown restrictions, the Government launched a Places of Worship Taskforce to look at how places of worship can reopen and operate safely.</p><p>The Secretary of State and I have held a series of meetings with the Taskforce as well as holding faith-specific roundtables to hear the views of our faith leaders on how our places of worship can reopen. This is to ensure that those who visit and those who work there are protected as far as possible. The Government is working with the Taskforce as we develop guidance for our faith communities on the safe reopening of our places of worship. This will include guidance on individual prayer, and services and ceremonies such as weddings. This will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh grouped question UIN HL5044 HL5045 question first answered 15/06/2020 16:15:25 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	4544 label Biography information for Baroness Mone

829069

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date	23/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will send additional UK Liaison Officers to Greece and Italy to help process the transfer of children eligible under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 to the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Sheehan
uin	HL5046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK is fully committed to transferring the specified number of 480 unaccompanied children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 as soon as possible</p><p>As part of the Sandhurst Treaty, signed between the UK and France on 18 January 2018, we committed to deploying a UK Liaison Officer to France by 1 April 2018 to facilitate cooperation on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. We already have secondees based in Italy and Greece working on transfers of unaccompanied children to the UK under both the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.</p><p>However, as set out in our published policy statement, it is for France, Greece and Italy to refer potentially eligible children under section 67 of the Immigration Act as the children are on their territory. The UK must operate within the national laws of our partner countries.</p><p>In addition, after extensive discussion with France, Greece and Italy, we have agreed to amend the eligibility date on an exceptional basis to ensure we can transfer the circa. 260 remaining unaccompanied children and meet our obligation under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. The Government had previously insisted on the previous eligibility date of 20 March 2016 to avoid establishing an open-ended relocation scheme from Europe, as this would increase the pull factor that puts children’s lives at risk.</p><p>The UK and France share a special relationship and have a strong track record of cooperating with France to manage migration and to protect our shared border. The primary responsibility for refugees and migrants lies with the authorities of the country in which they are present. France has many of the same international obligations towards those on its territory as the UK, and President Macron has made clear that French authorities should behave in an exemplary manner.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5045 HL5047 question first answered 29/01/2018 16:50:21 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4548 label Biography information for Baroness Sheehan