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670037

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Naturalisation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether any applications for naturalisation have been awaiting a decision from the Home Office for longer than two years; and if so, why.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office aim to process 95% of naturalisation applications within six months. In some cases, applications for naturalisation have been outstanding for more than two years. These case are of a more complex nature where further investigation is required, often involving other government departments and external agencies. The extent and length of time taken to complete these investigations varies according to the particular circumstance of each application.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/01/2017 16:55:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

670038

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
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 recommendations in December 2016 by Save the Children and UNICEF concerning the situation of child refugees in France, Italy and Greece, and, in particular, the case for improving family reunion rules.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>We welcome the recognition from Save the Children and UNICEF that the Government has made progress in facilitating the transfer of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK, and we will consider the recommendations made when developing future policy in this area.</p><p>In 2016, we welcomed over 900 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK, including more than 750 from France as part of the UK’s support for the Calais camp clearance - almost half of the unaccompanied children who were in the camp at the time of the clearance.</p><p>We continue to work closely with partners across Europe to ensure the timely and efficient operation of the Dublin Regulation, including the family reunification provisions. We have seconded experts to France and Greece, and we have a long-standing secondee in Italy to support the work on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Europe.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/01/2017 16:53:27 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

670040

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Corruption
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many successful prosecutions for corruption overseas there have been of (1) British companies, and (2) individuals, in the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>Official data regarding prosecutions are held by the Ministry of Justice, but the department does not record it in a form which allows it to distinguish between overseas bribery and domestic bribery.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst not official data, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) record data for their own management information purposes. In the last five years, the SFO has successfully prosecuted three British companies and 10 individuals, nine of whom were British citizens, for bribery or corruption overseas (offences under the Bribery Act 2010 or the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906).</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this the SFO has secured three Deferred Prosecution Agreements with British companies in the past two years for overseas corruption offences. The first agreement included a financial penalty of $25m, plus SFO’s full costs; the second resulted in financial orders of £6.6m and the most recent one was for £497.25m plus interest, as well as a payment of the SFO’s full costs.</p><p> </p><p>CPS’s data measures the outcome of prosecutions against defendants but not on the outcome against individual offences. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 19/01/2017 11:41:49 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

670041

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Corruption: Developing Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what use has been made of the £180 million in stolen assets recovered with the support of the Department for International Development since 2006.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The process of asset recovery through the criminal justice system involves a number of stages, and in respect to work funded by DFID represents a range of cases which are at different stages of the process. At present, approximately £180m is frozen in connection with DFID-funded law enforcement investigations into the proceeds of grand corruption. Since 2006, these efforts have resulted in the permanent confiscation of £8.4m, of which over £1.1m has been returned to the Government of Nigeria as part of the UK’s obligations under the UN Convention Against Corruption; with the balance of confiscated assets to be returned at the conclusion of all legal proceedings. UK law enforcement investigators continue to gather evidence to progress cases related to the remaining frozen assets</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/01/2017 17:09:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

670042

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Property
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of British development aid is used to help poor countries establish secure titles to property and efficient registers of land ownership.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Improving land governance and poor people’s tenure security is an important priority of the UK Government’s work on agriculture and economic development.</p><p>Approximately 0.05% (£5.6 million) of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2014 and 0.1% (£12.5 million) in 2015 was used to support standalone programmes to establish secure titles to land and support land administration systems. This represents only a proportion of total UK funding to support poor people’s land tenure security as it (a) does not include land titling activities that are a component of other programmes or (b) other activities that underpin property rights, such as improving land governance policy or promoting responsible agricultural investment. There is no globally agreed ODA spending code for land tenure programmes so compiling further details is difficult at present.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/01/2017 17:15:18 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

670043

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Corruption
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 extent to which UN and other multilateral aid and development agencies are affected by corruption.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The UK expects all multilateral organisations to have a zero tolerance approach to fraud and corruption; acting immediately if it is found, working with authorities to bring perpetrators to account and pursuing aggressive loss recovery approaches. The Multilateral Development Review confirmed that of the multilateral agencies that DFID funds, the systems in place to prevent, detect and combat fraud range in their quality. The multilateral development banks included in the report have some of the best developed systems to prevent fraud.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/01/2017 16:59:11 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

662691

registered interest
date	20/12/2016
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	Andargachew Tsege
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made representations to the government of Ethiopia to release the British citizen Mr Andy Tsege; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government has taken every opportunity to raise Mr Tsege’s case at the very highest levels in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Government are in no doubt about our concern for Mr Tsege and the priority we place on his wellbeing. We have not directly called for Mr Tsege’s release. The UK does not interfere in the legal system of other countries by challenging convictions, any more than we would accept interference in our judicial system. Our priority is to ensure Mr Tsege’s wellbeing and access to legal advice. We believe that calling for his release would not be successful at this stage and could put at risk the progress that has been made, including our access to Mr Tsege.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 05/01/2017 16:44:06 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

662692

registered interest
date	20/12/2016
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	Turkey: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to join with the Turkish Federation of Employers Associations in making representations to the government of Turkey about the exploitation of Syrians working in Turkey and the restrictions on work permits; and whether they plan to discuss those concerns with the International Labour Organisation.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government regularly raises human rights issues with Turkish counterparts. The UK Government is supporting work in Turkey to strengthen the Turkish clothing and textile sector's ability to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The project will bring together business, trade unions and civil society to raise awareness of business's role on human rights, promote workplace social dialogue and address the root causes of human rights issues in the sector, including issues relating to Syrian workers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 06/01/2017 14:31:37 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

662693

registered interest
date	20/12/2016
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	Syria: Military Intervention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, following their calling-in of Russian and Iranian ambassadors to discuss Syria, they will also call in the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss Syria.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>We have regular dialogue with Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Syria. Both states are members of the International Syria Support Group and supporters of the Syrian opposition. The Prime Minister, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), recently discussed Syria with Saudi Arabia and Qatar at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit on 6 December. The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) also attended a likeminded Ministerial meeting in Paris on 10 December at which Saudi Arabia and Qatar were represented.</p><p>The Foreign Secretary summoned the Russian and Iranian Ambassadors to the UK on 15 December to express the UK Government's profound concern over the actions of Iran and Russia in Syria. The Foreign Secretary made clear that both states have failed to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law. It is now imperative that the regime, Russia and Iran implement resolution 2328, providing the UN with unhindered humanitarian access and oversight of evacuation processes to ensure that all civilians and non combatants are properly protected.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 05/01/2017 16:45:09 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

662694

registered interest
date	20/12/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Television: Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Russian Television, based in Edinburgh, has paid in full all taxes and charges due and complied with any United Kingdom statutory requirements.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>HMRC has a statutory duty of confidentiality and therefore is unable to comment on individual cases.</p><p> </p><p>UK tax law applies to all individuals and organisations that operate within the UK, and HMRC are responsible for ensuring the law is adhered to. Failure by any individual or organisation to comply with their statutory obligations is dealt with consistently.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 05/01/2017 14:33:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton