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1344886

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date	07/07/2021
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	North Korea: Coronavirus and Famine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the famine in North Korea, (2) the effects of COVID-19 on its population, and (3) whether these issues or other factors explain the scale of the evacuation of Russians from that country.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The UK is concerned that humanitarian needs may be growing in North Korea. According to UN figures, 40% of North Korea's population were food insecure in 2019. We assess that North Korea's own restrictions at the border have prevented aid shipments from entering the country since January 2020, and that natural disasters last year may have reduced harvest yields. North Korea continues to claim that it has had zero cases of Covid-19.</p><p>We are unable to verify the humanitarian or Covid situations directly, because the border restrictions also forced the temporary closure of the British Embassy in Pyongyang in May 2020. Other Embassies have also closed or reduced their staff, and we understand the Russian Embassy sent some of its staff home in early July. All UN agencies and NGOs have also now withdrawn expatriate staff and ceased operations. We will work to restore the British Embassy presence in Pyongyang once it is safe and possible to do so, and encourage North Korea to allow entry for humanitarian workers to carry out an independent assessment of humanitarian needs, and to facilitate delivery of humanitarian assistance to vulnerable communities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 21/07/2021 16:42:20 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1344887

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Newport Wafer Fab: Nexperia
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 takeover of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia; and whether they used the powers granted by the National Security and Investment Act 2021 in relation to this takeover.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has considered this transaction thoroughly. We do not comment on the detail of commercial transactions or of national security assessments. The Government will continue to monitor the situation closely and will not hesitate to take action if needed.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 19/07/2021 11:43:21 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1344889

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Barriers: China
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to impose (1) import, and (2) export, controls on firms linked to (a) China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy, and (b) the surveillance and abuse of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>HM Government does not at present have any plans to place import controls on goods from China. With regards to China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy, under our existing export controls regime exporters of specified dual-use items require a licence to export or transfer from the UK. All licence applications are assessed against the Consolidated EU and National Export Licensing Criteria which require us to consider the impact of the proposed export on national security, international peace and security, and human rights.</p><p> </p><p>In January, the Foreign Secretary announced a series of measures to help make sure British businesses and the public sector are not complicit in the violation of rights and responsibilities in Xinjiang, including a review of export controls. This review is ongoing and we will report its outcome to Parliament in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Grimstone of Boscobel question first answered 16/07/2021 12:56:22 answering member 4876 label Biography information for Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1344892

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Electric Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of vehicles owned or hired by the government to transport (1) ministers, and (2) senior civil servants, on official business are fully electric.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL1788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government Car Service (GCS) provides a departmental pool car service to most Government Departments. Cars are provided as a shared resource for Ministers and senior officials, which is managed by individual departments. The departmental pool car fleet currently consists of 96 vehicles. 28 of those vehicles are fully electric (29%) and 26 are hybrid electric (27%).</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/07/2021 10:47:36 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1344893

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many biologically female transgender prisoners are housed in the male prison estate; what assessment they have made of the safety of those prisoners; what steps they are taking to protect those prisoners from sexual assault; and whether those prisoners are subject to full body searches by biologically male prison officers.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>At the time of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Offender Equalities Report 2018/19, there were 163 people who self-identified as transgender. Of the 129 transgender prisoners in men’s prisons, 2 reported their legal gender as female. Although those known to hold Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) were excluded from this data set, it is possible that prisoners may not always disclose this as there is no legal requirement for them to do so.</p><p>The policy framework ‘The Care and Management of Individuals who are Transgender’ sets out how decisions regarding the allocation of transgender prisoners are taken. Local and Complex Case Boards provide expertise on the management of transgender prisoners. When managing prisoners, all risk information relating to each individual must be considered, including risk from others, risk to others and risk of self-harm, in order to protect the welfare and rights of every individual as well as those around them.</p><p>Searching arrangements for transgender prisoners are agreed on a case-by-case basis, but must be in line with PSI 07/2016 (Searching of the Person).</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 21/07/2021 16:56:20 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1344894

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Retirement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to use the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to amend the law to raise the mandatory retirement age for judicial office holders; and whether, further to consultation on the matter, they will propose an amendment to that Bill to fulfil the commitment made by the Lord Chancellor on 9 March to “legislate to increase the mandatory retirement age as soon as parliamentary time allows”.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL1791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the background briefing notes to the Queen’s Speech on 11 May, the government intends to legislate to raise the mandatory retirement age of judicial office holders to 75 through the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill, to be introduced shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 21/07/2021 16:55:12 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1344895

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people sentenced to Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences have never been released.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL1792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>As of 31 March 2021, there were 1,784 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who have never been released.</p><p>As of the same date, there were 632 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who had been recalled more than once, whilst there were 2243 offenders serving the IPP sentence in the community who have been released and not been recalled.</p><p>As of 8 July, 18 applications have been received from offenders requesting termination of their IPP licence. From September this year, officials will refer automatically to the Parole Board the case of every offender serving the IPP sentence who has become eligible to apply for termination of his/her IPP licence.</p><p>Notes for all figures:</p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</li></ol> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL1793 HL1794 HL1795 question first answered 21/07/2021 16:56:42 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1344896

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have been recalled more than once.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL1793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>As of 31 March 2021, there were 1,784 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who have never been released.</p><p>As of the same date, there were 632 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who had been recalled more than once, whilst there were 2243 offenders serving the IPP sentence in the community who have been released and not been recalled.</p><p>As of 8 July, 18 applications have been received from offenders requesting termination of their IPP licence. From September this year, officials will refer automatically to the Parole Board the case of every offender serving the IPP sentence who has become eligible to apply for termination of his/her IPP licence.</p><p>Notes for all figures:</p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</li></ol> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL1792 HL1794 HL1795 question first answered 21/07/2021 16:56:42 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1344897

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have been released but not recalled.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL1794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>As of 31 March 2021, there were 1,784 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who have never been released.</p><p>As of the same date, there were 632 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who had been recalled more than once, whilst there were 2243 offenders serving the IPP sentence in the community who have been released and not been recalled.</p><p>As of 8 July, 18 applications have been received from offenders requesting termination of their IPP licence. From September this year, officials will refer automatically to the Parole Board the case of every offender serving the IPP sentence who has become eligible to apply for termination of his/her IPP licence.</p><p>Notes for all figures:</p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</li></ol> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL1792 HL1793 HL1795 question first answered 21/07/2021 16:56:42 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1344898

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence who have been released applied for the life licence to be lifted as they have been released more than 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL1795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>As of 31 March 2021, there were 1,784 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who have never been released.</p><p>As of the same date, there were 632 prisoners serving the IPP sentence in custody who had been recalled more than once, whilst there were 2243 offenders serving the IPP sentence in the community who have been released and not been recalled.</p><p>As of 8 July, 18 applications have been received from offenders requesting termination of their IPP licence. From September this year, officials will refer automatically to the Parole Board the case of every offender serving the IPP sentence who has become eligible to apply for termination of his/her IPP licence.</p><p>Notes for all figures:</p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</li></ol> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL1792 HL1793 HL1794 question first answered 21/07/2021 16:56:42 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett