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227337

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to reduce differences between survivor pensions received by surviving married partners in same-sex partnerships and those in mixed-sex partnerships, in both the public and private sectors and when they consider full equality will be achieved in that area.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has carried out a review of survivor benefits in occupational pension schemes. The review was carried out jointly by the Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury, and was published in June 2014. It considered the differences in survivor benefits between different groups, and the costs and effects of eliminating the differences.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is considering the findings of the review, which provided important information on the costs and other effects of eliminating or reducing differences in survivor benefit provision.</p><p> </p><p>A decision on the review will be made and a response issued in due course, however it is vital that the findings are considered thoroughly before doing so.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/03/2015 15:24:02 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

225347

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 3 March (HL5244), what steps they plan to take to ensure that information about people claiming asylum on grounds of their sexuality is recorded on a central database.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the basis of an asylum claim is not usually recorded but the Home Office has made arrangements to record this data for cases made on the basis of sexuality on our Case Information Database.</p><p>We have reminded decision makers to record this information accurately for all such cases and recording compliance is reviewed as part of the second pair of eyes checks on these cases.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/03/2015 15:50:28 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

224960

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detention Centres: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what urgent action they will take to include reference in enforcement instructions and guidance to the assessment of risks relating to detaining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals in immigration detention centres.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>When a decision has been taken to detain someone who has no right to be in the UK, the Home Office has specific procedures in place in detention centres to identify those who may be vulnerable and require extra support, which could include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. Additionally the Home Secretary recently announced an independent review of welfare in detention led by Stephen Shaw CBE. This review, which is expected to report within 6 months, will focus on vulnerable detainees. Once the review has made its recommendations the Home Office will consider what changes to guidance are required.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 09/03/2015 16:25:06 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

223864

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people claimed asylum in the United Kingdom due to their sexuality in each of the years from 2008 to 2014; from which countries they came by number; and how many cases were granted or refused.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide the information requested about people who have claimed asylum on the basis of their sexuality, as information on the basis of a claim for asylum is not readily accessible. The information requested could only be obtained through a manual search of individual case files, which would only be achievable at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 03/03/2015 15:28:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

222777

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 9 February (HL4664), what urgent action or advice they have given to police forces about adding faces to the database.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>As I said to my Noble Friend on 3 February, the use and retention of custody photographs taken by the police is a complex issue and needs careful consideration of the balance between public protection and civil liberties. The Government is currently reviewing the framework within which the police use these custody images, and expects to be able to report in the Spring. We have not provided any advice to forces in advance of that review concluding.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/03/2015 15:13:28 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

177297

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take in the light of the uploading of photographs of faces by police forces in England and Wales onto a facial recognition database despite a previous court ruling that it could be unlawful.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL4664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The use and retention of custody photographs taken by the police is a complex issue and needs careful consideration of the balance between public protection and civil liberties. The Government is reviewing the framework within which the police use these custody images, and expects to be able to report in the Spring.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 09/02/2015 15:03:55 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

175876

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ICT: North of England
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 TechNorth project; and what action they are taking to support its implementation.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL4456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>TechNorth was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister in October 2014 to support the digital technology sector in the North of England. It will form part of Tech City UK, and will focus on Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Hull and the North East tech cluster (Newcastle, Sunderland and Tees Valley). It will seek to coordinate the existing support and expertise across the region, and will help to link start-ups to potential investors. It will have a budget of £2m per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government is working closely with Tech City UK to develop TechNorth. Tech City UK is in the process of recruiting staff to support the programme, including the Head of Tech North.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More details will be announced as the programme progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 05/02/2015 13:18:34 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

174093

registered interest
date	15/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public bodies as defined in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill do not meet the provisions of the Prevent duty guidance consultation document, according to each category of public body.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL4196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The duty outlined in Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill (‘the Prevent duty’) falls on the specified authorities listed in Schedule 3 to the Bill. The authorities include local government, prisons and probation services, schools, further and higher education institutions, NHS bodies, and the police. The Government does not hold information about the Prevent policies and processes of all the authorities on which the duty would fall. There are many examples of good practice, but involvement in Prevent activity is not consistent across the country. In legislating, the Government’s intention is to spread that good practice, and ensure all apply the duty in a risk-based and proportionate way.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 26/01/2015 15:01:24 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

170950

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism and Security Bill
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their definition of the data and information to be classed as "any other technical identifier" under the terms of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill; and whether they will provide examples.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL3857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>In order to resolve who is, for example, accessing a server of illegal images on the internet, a range of data needs to be retained by internet service providers. The way that an internet service provider identifies their individual customers varies from company to company, depending on how their systems work. An IP address can often be shared by hundreds of people at once – in order to find out which device is accessing the illegal content other data would be required, for example, port numbers (akin to a house number where an IP address is akin to a post code) or MAC addresses (the identifier of the particular computer).These are the types of data that may be used to identify which &quot;other identifier&quot; belongs to the sender or recipient of a communication. The purpose for which these data types are retained is strictly limited by the clause to resolving the sender or recipient of an internet communication – the shorthand for which is IP resolution.</p><p>The IP resolution clauses in the Counter-terrorism and Security Bill will enable a device linked to an IP address to be identified in many circumstances. However further data, excluded by the provisions in this Bill, would be required to resolve them in all circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 07/01/2015 14:58:51 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

170951

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism and Security Bill
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their definition of "Internet Access Service" and "Internet Communications Service" under the terms of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill; and whether they will provide examples.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL3858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>An Internet Access Service is a service that provides access to the internet and can include a home broadband connection, mobile internet or publicly available wi-fi. The term internet access already exists in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 and is well understood by those affected by the legislation.</p><p>An Internet Communications Service is a communications service which takes place on the internet and can include internet telephony, internet email and instant messaging services.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 07/01/2015 14:56:36 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven