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1601465

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date	06/03/2023
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	Eritrea: Humanitarian Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in Eritrea (1) to uphold the democratic freedoms of Eritreans, and (2) to ensure that cross-border access for the delivery of humanitarian assistance remains open for civil society organisations working in Eritrea.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The British Embassy in Asmara regularly raises human rights issues with the Eritrean Government, encouraging the full implementation of the agreed recommendations of the 2019 UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review. This year the UK, working in partnership with UNICEF, provided £700,000 to support integrated nutrition, health, and sanitation programmes that will reach 200,000 women and children across Eritrea. Throughout the conflict in northern Ethiopia, the UK consistently called for unfettered humanitarian access to all those impacted by the conflict, including through statements at the UN Security Council and UN Human Rights Council.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 20/03/2023 15:37:16 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1601467

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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	Ukraine: Abduction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the report published by the Conflict Observatory on 14 February which found that more than 6,000 Ukrainian children between the ages of four months and 17 years have been abducted by the government of Russia, held in camps and subjected to re-education, and (2) estimates by the government of Ukraine that the number of abducted children may be much higher.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>The UK is examining the findings of the Conflict Observatory report carefully. It supports growing evidence, including from the UN and OSCE, that large-scale forced transfers to Russia or within Russian-controlled territories of Ukraine are occurring and that Russia may be seeking to erase Ukrainian identity through education programmes. We have seen this before in Crimea and other Russian-controlled territories of Ukraine, where Russia imposed the Russian curriculum. The report refers only to the number of children sent to re-education camps; the number affected by forced transfers is likely much higher. Lack of access for humanitarian and monitoring organisations to Russia and Russian-controlled territory makes it difficult verify exact numbers.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 16/03/2023 17:42:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1601468

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Eurostar: Immigration Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to (1) the remarks by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 28 February (HL Deb col 125) that "the service standard of a wait of no longer than 25 minutes for Border Force officers has been maintained throughout that period", and (2) the statement made by the chief executive of Eurostar, Gwendoline Cazenave, on 24 January that Eurostar are running trains more than a third empty, what is the current service standard of UK Border Force for each of the hours of operation in (a) St Pancras, (b) Paris, (c) Brussels, and (d) Amsterdam; and whether the same service could be achieved if Eurostar were able to run the trains full.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>Border Force operate the same service standards across all international airports, ports and rail termini. The Border Force operation across international rail operates within published service standard levels. Border Force are only one part of a port ecosystem and we are unable to speculate on Eurostar commercial operations or the wider operation and capacity of port infrastructure and processes outside of our control.</p><p>We have regular engagement with partner countries and continue to discuss with them, and Eurostar, future border arrangements and infrastructure availability’.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth grouped question UIN HL6134 question first answered 20/03/2023 17:27:54 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1601471

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospital Wards: Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Bellamy on 11 October 2022 (HLWS305) regarding their policy not to allow transgender women with male genitalia to be held in mainstream women’s prisons, whether they plan to adopt a similar policy on the placement of transgender women in female wards in hospitals, by way of guidance to all Primary Care Trusts.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL6135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is currently reviewing its guidance <em>‘Delivering Same Sex Accommodation’</em>.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 21/03/2023 14:12:01 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1601473

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will inform local authorities of their provisional public health grant budgets for 2023–24.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL6136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/03/2023 16:22:05 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1601474

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the public health grant in (1) 2023–24, and (2) 2024–25, in line with inflation as announced in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL6137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/03/2023 16:21:57 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1601476

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Public Health: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of the level of funding of the public health grant to local authorities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL6138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>At the Spending Review 2021, we considered the need for local authority public health funding and confirmed that the public health grant to local authorities would increase over the settlement period.  In 2022/23, the Grant increased by 2.81% to £3.417 billion.  This is in addition to targeted investment through local Government in Start for Life support and drug and alcohol treatment services.</p><p> </p><p>We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities shortly and in doing so will consider the impact of changes to pay and inflation trends and forecasts since the Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/03/2023 16:23:47 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1601477

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ministers of Religion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) religious workers visas, and (2) Minister of Religion visas, have been issued to Iranian subjects since July 2015; who were those visas issued to; and what plans they have, if any, to review this system.
tabling member printed	Lord Godson
uin	HL6140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release. Data on ‘Religious Worker (previously Tier 5)’ visas issued to Iranian nationals are published in table Vis_D02 of the ‘Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes’ detailed datasets. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to Q4 (October to December) 2022.</p><p>We are unable to discuss individual cases for GDPR reasons.</p><p>There are no plans to review the Immigration Rules governing Religious Workers or Ministers of Religion.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 20/03/2023 18:00:49 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth attachment 1 file name entry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-dec-2022 v3.xlsx title Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes
tabling member	4903 label Biography information for Lord Godson

1601479

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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	Fish Farming: Animal Welfare
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their planned timescale for reviewing the recommendations contained in the Farm Animal Welfare Committee's Opinion on the Welfare of Farmed Fish at the Time of Killing, published in May 2014; and when they will make the recommendations publicly available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayman of Ullock
uin	HL6141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>We asked the Animal Welfare Committee to update its 2014 Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing and we will study their recommendations carefully to determine next steps.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 16/03/2023 15:17:10 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

1601480

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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	Armenia: Azerbaijan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of Azerbaijan about the killing of three Armenian officials on 5 March, near the village of Ghaibalishen; and whether they have raised this matter with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>His Majesty's Ambassadors to Azerbaijan and Armenia continue to engage with their hosts on the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and whilst we have not raised the 5 March incident at the OSCE we will continue to call upon both parties to engage in discussions to peacefully resolve outstanding issues relating to the conflict. The Minister for Europe reinforced these messages to the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister when visiting Baku last month. The loss of life in this instance and throughout this conflict, is lamentable and the UK Government expresses condolences to all those who were injured and the families of those who lost their lives.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 16/03/2023 17:53:46 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton