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984984

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date	10/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Overseas Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the UK’s bilateral aid programme is directed towards the rebuilding of Pakistan’s colony shanty towns in which families from the country’s minorities live; what assessment they have made of the number of people, in total, living in those colonies and their access to running water, electricity or education; and when officials from the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office last visited those colonies to assess the conditions of people living there.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL10527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Our work targets poor people in Pakistan regardless of race, religion, social background, or nationality. Some of the UK’s work has targeted people living in shanty towns and informal settlements. This includes emergency responses to floods, and schools for children from marginalised communities in Karachi, including minorities. We do not hold information on what percentage of the UK’s bilateral aid programme is directed towards rebuilding Pakistan’s colony shanty towns, and there have been no recent staff visits to these areas.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 22/10/2018 16:20:20 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

984985

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Pakistan: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that (1) Pakistani refugees have recently been rounded up by Thai police and taken to detention centres, and (2) Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan has issued an instruction to the Immigration Bureau to detain all foreigners without visas, stating that they will be deported within a month; and whether they have assessed the likelihood that Christian and Ahmadis may face persecution when returned to Pakistan.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL10528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>We are following closely the recent detention in Thailand of approximately 100 people, mainly from Pakistan, whom the Thai authorities consider illegal immigrants. This follows arrests of Cambodian and Vietnamese nationals at the end of August. We understand approximately 200 people who claim refugee and asylum status are currently in immigration detention, and that some of these are registered with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). We believe that the recent orders are not aimed at any specific group or groups but apply to anyone whom the Thai authorities deem an illegal visa over-stayer, as part of a general tightening of immigration enforcement. In September a senior official from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office raised our concerns about the treatment of those in immigration detention with the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are also working with the Thai authorities to improve conditions of detention.</p><p> </p><p>We remain concerned about the treatment of minority communities, including religious minorities, in Pakistan. I discussed our concerns about Freedom of Religion or Belief and the protection of minority religious communities with Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister, Dr Shireen Mazari, in September 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/10/2018 15:57:35 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

984986

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Hong Kong: Press Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action, if any, they are taking in response to the decision by the government of Hong Kong to deny a work visa to the Financial Times’ Asia News Editor Victor Mallet; and whether they have made an assessment of the implications of that decision on (1) freedom of expression, and (2) the one country, two systems policy, in Hong Kong.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL10529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>We remain very concerned by the Hong Kong authorities’ unprecedented rejection of a visa for senior British journalist Victor Mallet. In the absence of an explanation from the authorities we can only conclude that this move is politically motivated. We believe this undermines Hong Kong’s freedom of speech and freedom of the press, both guaranteed by the Joint Declaration, and the Basic Law, and increases the pressure on the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ framework. We urge the Hong Kong authorities to urgently reconsider this decision. Confidence in Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms is an essential component of its future success. We have raised this issue with the Hong Kong authorities.</p><p>​</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/10/2018 15:56:54 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

984987

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Eritrea: Human Rights
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have seen any evidence of substantive Human Rights reforms in Eritrea since the most recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Eritrea to the thirty-eighth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL10530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>​The UK has seen no evidence of any human rights reforms in Eritrea since the last session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Minister for Africa raised our concerns on the human rights situation with the Eritrean Foreign Minister when they met on 25 September, and expressed our hope for an improvement in light of political developments in the region.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/10/2018 11:48:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

984988

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Eritrea: UN Human Rights Council
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK intends to vote in support of Eritrea joining the Human Rights Council at the UN General Assembly.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL10531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK has a long-standing policy of not revealing our voting intentions for elections at the UN.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/10/2018 11:48:35 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

984989

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Eritrea: UN Human Rights Council
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which factors will be considered by the UK when it votes on Eritrea’s candidacy for election to the Human Rights Council at the UN General Assembly.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL10532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK considers our votes against candidates’ human rights records, and their cooperation with the Human Rights Council (HRC). The UK also considers candidates’ track record at the HRC, broader Government priorities, standing obligations, and whether a reciprocal deal can be made. Eritrea will take part in an uncontested election for a seat as one of the Africa Group members in the UN Human Rights Council. The UK has a long-standing policy of not revealing our voting intentions.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/10/2018 11:49:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

984990

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Females
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 quality of data collected on women's and girls' experience of the Mental Health Act 1983.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL10533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that ethnicity and gender are factors in detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983. Data is not collected centrally on experiences of the Mental Health Act, nor is data available that shows ethnicity as a factor among the numbers of self-inflicted deaths.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL10534 question first answered 22/10/2018 10:49:04 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

984991

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Females
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 relevance of ethnicity in (1) the numbers of BAME girls aged 17 and under who were detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, and (2) the numbers of self-inflicted deaths amongst girls and young women from BAME backgrounds.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL10534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that ethnicity and gender are factors in detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983. Data is not collected centrally on experiences of the Mental Health Act, nor is data available that shows ethnicity as a factor among the numbers of self-inflicted deaths.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL10533 question first answered 22/10/2018 10:49:04 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

984992

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
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: Directors
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many directors of public health there are in England; and of those directors, how many are qualified medical doctors.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>At the end of September 2018, there were 135 Directors of Public Health in England; 48 were registered with the General Medical Council.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 22/10/2018 10:48:28 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

984993

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
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 Sugg on 20 September (HL10301), whether they have considered implementing a target for NOX emissions to be reduced to 4 per cent by 2025; and if so, how much of this improvement is dependent on (1) vehicle design, and (2) policies to reduce traffic congestion.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL10536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>There is no target to reduce NOX emissions by 4 per cent by 2025. However, all local authorities with levels of NO2 exceedance must achieve legal compliance in the shortest possible time. Measures that could be implemented to achieve this might include reducing NOX emissions from buses by retrofitting them to a minimum Euro VI standard, purchasing low and ultra-low emission buses, implementing bus priority measures and encouraging mode shift to public transport to help reduce traffic congestion.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 24/10/2018 13:16:41 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw