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1677558

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date	12/12/2023
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	China: Philippines
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the tactics deployed by Chinese vessels against the Philippines on 9 and 10 December in the South China Sea.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2023 answer text <p>The UK condemns the unsafe and escalatory tactics taken by Chinese vessels against the Philippines on 9 and 10 December in the South China Sea. The UK opposes any action which raises tensions, including harassment, unsafe conduct and intimidation tactics which increase the risk of miscalculation and threaten regional peace and stability. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) sets out the legal framework that governs all activities in the ocean and seas. We oppose any claims that are not founded in UNCLOS. Both China and the Philippines must adhere to the findings of the 2016 Arbitral Award proceedings, which are legally binding on both parties. This position is reflected in an FCDO Spokesperson statement of 11 December, which was issued in response to the latest incidents. The UK will continue to support regional partners through an enhanced programme of maritime capacity building in Southeast Asia which provides training and funding to strengthen regional capacity on maritime law and security.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 29/12/2023 15:01:08 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1677559

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
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	Sudan: Armed Conflict
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of (1) the consequences for civilians of the fall of Darfur to the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, and (2) reports of related atrocity crimes.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The UK condemns in the strongest terms reported atrocities being committed across Sudan, particularly in Darfur. Reports of ongoing attacks on innocent civilians by militias, particularly the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing. These acts must stop immediately. Over 2,221,579 people are now internally displaced across the five Darfur states, and the lack of humanitarian access continues to make it very difficult for humanitarian organisations to get an accurate picture of needs on the ground and provide the necessary level of assistance. We are also aware of reports of attacks on Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps, widespread looting of humanitarian assets, health services out of service and communication blackouts. The UK continues to pursue all diplomatic avenues to press the warring parties into a permanent ceasefire, to allow unfettered humanitarian access, to protect civilians, and to commit to a sustained and meaningful peace process.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 20/12/2023 15:44:39 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1677560

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: British National (Overseas)
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how long it takes on average to process a British National (Overseas) visa application and what is the longest outstanding application awaiting assessment.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Those who apply to the British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route from overseas should not travel to the UK until they have received a decision on their application. Most individuals who hold a BN(O) or Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport will be able to apply to the BN(O) route without needing to attend a visa application centre by using the UK Chip Checker smartphone application.</p><p>In most cases, a person with a pending asylum claim can make an application to the BN(O) route, but all applications will need to meet the relevant requirements to be granted, including the suitability requirements. The Home Office is aware of the issues some individuals have faced when switching into the BN(O) route since it was amended to allow adult children of BN(O) status holders who were born after the handover of Hong Kong to apply independently of their parent, and we are looking into these cases.</p><p>Recent published data shows that in Quarter 2 of 2023, 98.58% of leave to enter cases and 98.35% of leave to remain cases classed as straightforward were decided within the service standard of 12 weeks.</p><p>This can be found at the following link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fvisas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023&amp;data=05%7C02%7CRebecca.Taylor9%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc69664d34f9e4ee7ce3208dbfbfcd721%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638380835574940535%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pz9hAMQ2oRFOVdyz5vzdipqbxBR3ll8ANcXpJ%2FWPioQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visas and citizenship data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The Home Office does not currently hold any publishable data on the longest outstanding case.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL1090 HL1091 question first answered 20/12/2023 13:07:02 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1677561

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: British National (Overseas)
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the position of British National (Overseas) visa applicants who remain in Hong Kong while their application is considered.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Those who apply to the British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route from overseas should not travel to the UK until they have received a decision on their application. Most individuals who hold a BN(O) or Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport will be able to apply to the BN(O) route without needing to attend a visa application centre by using the UK Chip Checker smartphone application.</p><p>In most cases, a person with a pending asylum claim can make an application to the BN(O) route, but all applications will need to meet the relevant requirements to be granted, including the suitability requirements. The Home Office is aware of the issues some individuals have faced when switching into the BN(O) route since it was amended to allow adult children of BN(O) status holders who were born after the handover of Hong Kong to apply independently of their parent, and we are looking into these cases.</p><p>Recent published data shows that in Quarter 2 of 2023, 98.58% of leave to enter cases and 98.35% of leave to remain cases classed as straightforward were decided within the service standard of 12 weeks.</p><p>This can be found at the following link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fvisas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023&amp;data=05%7C02%7CRebecca.Taylor9%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc69664d34f9e4ee7ce3208dbfbfcd721%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638380835574940535%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pz9hAMQ2oRFOVdyz5vzdipqbxBR3ll8ANcXpJ%2FWPioQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visas and citizenship data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The Home Office does not currently hold any publishable data on the longest outstanding case.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL1089 HL1091 question first answered 20/12/2023 13:07:02 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1677562

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hong Kong
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the number of asylum seekers from Hong Kong who have switched to British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) visa routes, and the way in which such applications have been handled, since they decided to allow adult children of BN(O) status holders to apply independently of their parent.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Those who apply to the British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route from overseas should not travel to the UK until they have received a decision on their application. Most individuals who hold a BN(O) or Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport will be able to apply to the BN(O) route without needing to attend a visa application centre by using the UK Chip Checker smartphone application.</p><p>In most cases, a person with a pending asylum claim can make an application to the BN(O) route, but all applications will need to meet the relevant requirements to be granted, including the suitability requirements. The Home Office is aware of the issues some individuals have faced when switching into the BN(O) route since it was amended to allow adult children of BN(O) status holders who were born after the handover of Hong Kong to apply independently of their parent, and we are looking into these cases.</p><p>Recent published data shows that in Quarter 2 of 2023, 98.58% of leave to enter cases and 98.35% of leave to remain cases classed as straightforward were decided within the service standard of 12 weeks.</p><p>This can be found at the following link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fvisas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023&amp;data=05%7C02%7CRebecca.Taylor9%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc69664d34f9e4ee7ce3208dbfbfcd721%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638380835574940535%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pz9hAMQ2oRFOVdyz5vzdipqbxBR3ll8ANcXpJ%2FWPioQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visas and citizenship data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The Home Office does not currently hold any publishable data on the longest outstanding case.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL1089 HL1090 question first answered 20/12/2023 13:07:02 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1677563

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Lighting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Gower on 11 December (HL579), what percentage of lamp columns on each major motorway are out of light, how often lamp columns on motorways are inspected for such issues, and within what period of time they expect defective lamp columns on each motorway to be repaired.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL1092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>National Highways does not centrally hold aggregated information on the lamp columns out of light for the whole of the motorway network.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways inspect lamp columns on motorways every 28 days. Where defects are identified, the nature and priority of the fault(s) will determine the timescales in which they are repaired, with most simple faults being repaired within 14 days.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 19/12/2023 13:28:58 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1677564

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide a timetable for updating the HM Prison & Probation Service Strategy for care-experienced people; and whether there will be a specific focus on race.
tabling member printed	Lord Carlile of Berriew
uin	HL1093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>We are updating our strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system, to ensure we are using their time in the criminal justice system to support them to lead crime-free lives.</p><p>This will include a focus on race and its role in shaping the experiences and outcomes of those with care experience in the criminal justice system, and will link to wider departmental efforts to address racial disproportionality in the criminal justice system.</p><p>We are aiming to publish this strategy in 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 21/12/2023 15:30:00 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1138 label Biography information for Lord Carlile of Berriew

1677565

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their timetable for updating the Statutory Guidance on Promoting the Health and Well-being of Looked After Children, published in March 2015; whether there will be a specific focus on mental health services for this group; and how they plan to deliver updated guidance in a culturally sensitive way.
tabling member printed	Lord Carlile of Berriew
uin	HL1094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The government gave a commitment to update the statutory guidance, ‘Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children’ and extend it to care leavers up to the age of 25, in the ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ strategy for the reform of children’s social care. The update forms part of the wider mission in the strategy, ‘to reduce the disparities in long-term mental and physical health outcomes and improve wellbeing for care-experienced people’.</p><p>This commitment was reaffirmed in September 2023, but a timeframe for completing the update has not been set. However, the department and the Department of Health and Social Care continue to work together on this update and will work with a wide range of stakeholders with a diversity of professional and lived experience to ensure that the guidance is sensitive to the health and wellbeing needs of all looked-after children and care leavers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 21/12/2023 15:47:02 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1138 label Biography information for Lord Carlile of Berriew

1677566

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Visits: Germany and Spain
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Home Secretary on 7 December announcing the changes to travel document requirements for school groups visiting the UK from France (HCWS106), whether they will extend those changes to school groups visiting the UK from Spain and Germany.
tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
uin	HL1095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>At the Leaders’ Summit in Paris on 10 March 2023, as part of an overall agreement on migration reached with France, the UK committed to ease the travel of school groups to the UK by making changes to documentary requirements for schoolchildren on organised trips from France. The agreement we have is specific to France.</p><p>We would consider negotiating with other countries should they approach us with an interest in making similar arrangements.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 19/12/2023 17:29:15 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

1677567

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Victoria Tower Gardens
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what options they are considering for the future management of the parts of Victoria Tower Gardens which will not be occupied by the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL1096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Decisions on the future management arrangements for Victoria Tower Gardens will be agreed in good time before the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre opens.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 20/12/2023 12:37:37 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech