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818564

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date	08/01/2018
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	Islamic State: Crimes against Humanity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the letter published by the government of the Netherlands on 22 December 2017 stating that Daesh has, in all likelihood, committed genocide and crimes against humanity, and that, in the absence of any international determination of genocide, governments and Parliaments should determine its actions as such.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government condemns Daesh crimes. The Government maintains that genocide should be a matter for judicial authorities rather than a political decision, and agrees with the Netherlands Government which has stated its full support for the need to focus on prevention. The UK has led the international campaign to bring Daesh to justice through UN Security Council Resolution 2379, which mandates a special advisor to set up a team to investigate and collect evidence of Daesh crimes, starting in Iraq.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/01/2018 15:58:54 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818565

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Genocide Convention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what legal opinion, if any, they have sought from experts on international law to clarify their obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Legal advice obtained by Her Majesty's Government (HMG) is confidential. Save in exceptional circumstances, HMG do not disclose whether legal advice has been sought; if so, what that advice was; or the source of such advice.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:02:19 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818566

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incoming transfers under the Dublin III Regulation (regulation 604/2013) were made to the UK in 2017; and how many times the discretion under Article 18(1) of the Regulation was used in 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The discretionary clauses under the Dublin III Regulation can be found at Article 17 of the Regulation, with Article 17(2) being the relevant criteria for coming transfer requests</p><p>The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. It is not an application route for transfer to the UK. At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which can be found at:<br><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report</a>. <br>The Commission has data up to, and including 2016. This shows the UK processed over 6,000 Dublin requests in 2016: over 4,200 outgoing requests to other Member States and almost 1,800 incoming requests. 2017 data is not yet available. <br>Under the Dublin III Regulation, Member States have two months from receiving a request from another participating Member State to accept or reject responsibility for processing the asylum claim. <br>Once a Dublin request has been accepted (or legal matters have been resolved), the Regulation provides that the sending Member State has six months to enact the transfer. The Home Office works closely with EU Member State partners to enact transfers as soon as possible and ahead of the six month timeframe.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/01/2018 14:30:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818567

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prostitution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 5 January (HL4302) concerning offences relating to prostitution, (1) whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the terms of reference for the research that has been commissioned by the Home Office; and (2) who has been commissioned to conduct that research.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government will place a copy of the tender document which sets out the terms of reference for this research in the Library of the House. <br>The research tender process will close on 15 January, after which time bids will be assessed and the successful applicant announced by the end of March 2018.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/01/2018 12:33:57 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818568

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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	Religious Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are intending to review and strengthen their approach to addressing religious persecution worldwide; and what lessons they have learnt from steps taken by other countries in this regard, including the Hungary Helps initiative and the establishment on 1 January of the Danish Office for the Special Representative for Freedom of Religions or Belief.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>All international efforts to promote the right to freedom of religion or belief are welcome. ​Her Majesty's Government notes with interest the 'Hungary Helps Initiative' and Denmark's appointment of a Special Representative on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB). All governments engaged in defending and promoting FoRB can learn from each other. To that end, Foreign and Commonwealth (FCO) officials recently met with Denmark's Special Representative for FoRB to discuss this important issue.</p><p>The Government is constantly reviewing its own activities and looking for ways to strengthen our impact. Our approach is to work through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, seeking to encourage states to uphold the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including those which defend the right to FoRB. I recently wrote to all Ambassadors and High Commissioners urging them to look for ways to promote and defend FoRB, as appropriate, in the countries to which they are accredited.</p><p>The British Government also continues to support a number of projects which promote FoRB through the FCO's Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy. Examples include a project to support a network of human rights defenders in South Asia. In October 2017, I convened the first in a series of roundtable meetings on FoRB. These meetings will bring together faith leaders and civil society to discuss current challenges to FoRB internationally, and how we can collaborate to strengthen our response to these.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/01/2018 16:01:40 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

818569

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Woodhill Prison
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to publish the report of the former prisons and probation ombudsman on deaths at HMP Woodhill with their response to that report; and if so when.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>We hope to publish Stephen Shaw’s independent professional advice on the prevention of self-inflicted deaths and self-harm at HMP Woodhill on the website of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The report makes no recommendations, and as a result there is no Government response.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 30/01/2018 12:31:41 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

818570

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reported position of St Pancras Coroner’s Court (1) not to prioritise autopsies because of the religion of the deceased or their family, in spite of Jewish and Muslim beliefs that burials should take place as soon as possible after death, and (2) not to permit the bodies of Jewish people to be kept at local funeral homes to enable the practice of shemirah.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Coroners are judicial office holders and their independence is a fundamental principle in the constitutional separation of powers and the rule of law. It would be inappropriate for Ministers to comment on the reported actions of the Inner North London Senior Coroner.</p><p> </p><p>As to the approach a coroner will take in discharging his or her responsibilities, the Ministry of Justice’s Guide to Coroner Services, which is available on gov.uk and is aimed in particular at bereaved families, says that “the coroner’s office will take account where possible of individuals’ views and expectations, including family and community preferences, traditions and religious requirements relating to mourning, post-mortem examinations and funerals”.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 22/01/2018 17:00:07 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

818571

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Closures
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which prisons they have earmarked for closure; and what is the timetable for the closure of those prisons.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government set out its ambition for a reformed prison estate in the November 2016 Prison Safety and Reform White Paper. Our reforms will close ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced plans, subject to planning approvals, value for money and affordability, to build six category C modern prisons in the following locations:</p><p> </p><ul><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Instutition Glen Parva in Leicestershire;</li><li>HM Prison Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire;</li><li>on land adjacent to HM Prison Full Sutton in East Yorkshire;</li><li>Port Talbot in Neath;</li><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Rochester in Kent; and</li><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Hindley, in Greater Manchester;</li></ul><p> </p><p>Subsequent to that announcement on 19 July 2017, the Government announced that the closures of HM Prison and Young Offender Institutions Hindley and Rochester for redevelopment have been postponed. Cells at these sites will be kept in use for now, as part of forward-planning for the estate.</p><p> </p><p>The capacity of the sites will be determined before submitting outline planning applications. Outline planning permission was received last year for Wellingborough, Glen Parva and Full Sutton. We intend both Glen Parva and Wellingborough will have around 1,600 places and Full Sutton will have around 1,000 places.</p><p> </p><p>Work has begun on the construction of a new 207 place houseblock at HM Prison Stocken, in Rutland. This will be ready for use from December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>No decisions about future prison closures have been made other than those already announced.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4449 HL4450 question first answered 22/01/2018 17:38:02 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

818572

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Justice on 22 March 2017 (HC WS550), and in relation to their commitment to build up to 10,000 modern prison places by 2020, at which establishments they plan to add additional capacity; how much additional capacity they intend to add at each of those establishments; and what is the timetable for the creation of that additional capacity.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government set out its ambition for a reformed prison estate in the November 2016 Prison Safety and Reform White Paper. Our reforms will close ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced plans, subject to planning approvals, value for money and affordability, to build six category C modern prisons in the following locations:</p><p> </p><ul><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Instutition Glen Parva in Leicestershire;</li><li>HM Prison Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire;</li><li>on land adjacent to HM Prison Full Sutton in East Yorkshire;</li><li>Port Talbot in Neath;</li><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Rochester in Kent; and</li><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Hindley, in Greater Manchester;</li></ul><p> </p><p>Subsequent to that announcement on 19 July 2017, the Government announced that the closures of HM Prison and Young Offender Institutions Hindley and Rochester for redevelopment have been postponed. Cells at these sites will be kept in use for now, as part of forward-planning for the estate.</p><p> </p><p>The capacity of the sites will be determined before submitting outline planning applications. Outline planning permission was received last year for Wellingborough, Glen Parva and Full Sutton. We intend both Glen Parva and Wellingborough will have around 1,600 places and Full Sutton will have around 1,000 places.</p><p> </p><p>Work has begun on the construction of a new 207 place houseblock at HM Prison Stocken, in Rutland. This will be ready for use from December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>No decisions about future prison closures have been made other than those already announced.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4448 HL4450 question first answered 22/01/2018 17:38:02 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

818573

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Justice on 22 March 2017 (HC WS550) that four new prisons will be built at Full Sutton in Yorkshire, Hindley in Wigan, Rochester in Kent, and Port Talbot in South Wales, what progress has been made on the planning applications for each of those prisons.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government set out its ambition for a reformed prison estate in the November 2016 Prison Safety and Reform White Paper. Our reforms will close ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced plans, subject to planning approvals, value for money and affordability, to build six category C modern prisons in the following locations:</p><p> </p><ul><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Instutition Glen Parva in Leicestershire;</li><li>HM Prison Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire;</li><li>on land adjacent to HM Prison Full Sutton in East Yorkshire;</li><li>Port Talbot in Neath;</li><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Rochester in Kent; and</li><li>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Hindley, in Greater Manchester;</li></ul><p> </p><p>Subsequent to that announcement on 19 July 2017, the Government announced that the closures of HM Prison and Young Offender Institutions Hindley and Rochester for redevelopment have been postponed. Cells at these sites will be kept in use for now, as part of forward-planning for the estate.</p><p> </p><p>The capacity of the sites will be determined before submitting outline planning applications. Outline planning permission was received last year for Wellingborough, Glen Parva and Full Sutton. We intend both Glen Parva and Wellingborough will have around 1,600 places and Full Sutton will have around 1,000 places.</p><p> </p><p>Work has begun on the construction of a new 207 place houseblock at HM Prison Stocken, in Rutland. This will be ready for use from December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>No decisions about future prison closures have been made other than those already announced.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4448 HL4449 question first answered 22/01/2018 17:38:02 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham