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1002492

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date	06/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what role, if any, the Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group (NSSIG) has within the Cabinet Office; and how the role and responsibilities of the NSSIG differs from those of the Integrated Delivery Board.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The requested information is not readily available. The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. </del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong><em> </em></strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">National Security Strategy and Implementation Groups (NSSIGs) were established after the 2017 National Security Capability Review to support the delivery of national security priority programmes, including by better utilising the full range of national security capabilities. Each NSSIG is chaired by a Senior Responsible Official (SRO), who is accountable to the National Security Council.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Gulf Delivery Board has not met since the establishment of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG, which subsumed its primary roles and responsibilities in April 2018. Cabinet Office officials are members of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG and attend all meetings. The Cabinet Office also provides some secretariat support to the NSSIG, alongside that provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/11/2018 16:57:28 question first ministerially corrected 20/11/2018 17:09:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham previous answer version 86171 answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1129564

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Integrated Activity Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the allocated budget for the Gulf Integrated Activity Fund for the 2019/20 financial year; and which countries will receive support from that Fund.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL16049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The allocated budget for the Gulf Integrated Activity Fund (IAF) for the 2019/20 financial year is £20m. The IAF will fund activity in all <del class="ministerial">seven</del> <ins class="ministerial">six </ins>Gulf <ins class="ministerial">Cooperation Council </ins>States including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates<del class="ministerial">,</del> <ins class="ministerial">and </ins>Oman<ins class="ministerial">.</ins> <del class="ministerial">and Yemen.</del></p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/06/2019 13:14:30 question first ministerially corrected 25/06/2019 14:53:06 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon previous answer version 123511 answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1608872

registered interest
date	29/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, of the unaccompanied children seeking asylum who were housed in hotels and went missing but were subsequently found, how many were reported to, or were found to, have been involved in (1) organised crime, and (2) county lines drug activity, during the period they were missing.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL7024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office takes the wellbeing, welfare and security of children and minors in our care extremely seriously. Robust safeguarding procedures are in place to ensure all children and minors are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with local authorities.</p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">This information is not held centrally but is held by the encountering police forces. When a young person who has previously gone missing from a hotel housing unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) is encountered or located we engage with statutory partners, including the police who will identify whether there are any concerns regarding possible trafficking; exploitation or other potential criminal activities that may require investigation.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">All cases of missing children remain open, with police forces completing investigations and following any new evidence.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">When any young person goes missing the 'missing persons protocol' is followed and led by our directly engaged social workers. A multi-agency, missing persons protocol is mobilised involving the police and the local authority, who have a shared statutory responsibility to safeguard all children, including missing migrant children, in order to establish their whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 17/04/2023 17:09:11 question first ministerially corrected 28/06/2023 16:38:57 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth previous answer version 68420 answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1665580

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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	Roderick Drummond
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what authorisation process was followed in granting permission to the former ambassador to Bahrain, Roderick Drummond, to accept a medal granted and given by the King of Bahrain.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL10633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/10/2023 11:02:31 question first ministerially corrected 26/10/2023 11:41:03 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon previous answer version 104442 answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1002491

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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	Najah Ahmed Yousif
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to Formula One to encourage it to abide by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, following the Bahraini court’s decision to uphold the three year sentence of political activist Najah Yusuf, for criticism of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has not had conversations with Formula One on the details of the case of Najah Yusuf. I would refer the Noble Lord to the recent statement made by the Bahraini Government advising that the charges and conviction had no relation to the Bahrain Grand Prix, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 20/11/2018 16:38:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1010139

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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	Bahrain: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 26 July 2017 (HL844 and HL845), 8 January (HL4425 and HL4427), 8 May (HL7180 and HL7183), 11 May (HL7811), 18 June (HL8316), 25 June (HL8576 and HL8577), 4 July (HL8871), 25 July (HL9605), 23 October (HL10580, HL10581, HL10582, HL10583, HL10584, and HL10585), and 5 November (HL10908, HL10909, HL10910, and HL10961), what assessment they have made of the UN Committee against Torture’s concluding remarks on the second and third periodic reports of Bahrain, published on 29 May 2017, and its concerns that the Bahraini bodies to which people may file complaints about torture or ill-treatment are “not independent”, have “little or no effect”, and provide “negligible information regarding the outcome of their activities”; and, in the light of those concerns, why they “encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to report these to the relevant human rights oversight bodies”.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>We believe that the oversight bodies in Bahrain, including the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman, are structured so that they are able to operate independently from the organisations that they oversee. While these bodies still have more to do, they have already demonstrated their abilities including through the prosecution of more than 70 police officers accused of human rights abuses.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/12/2018 14:20:08 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1012536

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	DeepMind
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to Google about the abolition of DeepMind Health’s independent review committee following the integration of DeepMind Health into Google; and what assessment they have made of the impact on the confidentiality of NHS patients’ data of DeepMind Health no longer being a separate subsidiary of Google.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>We will seek a full explanation from Google about its plans, including why they have halted the independent review panel and how they intend to replace this function.</p><p>We will work with regulators, including the Information Commissioner’s Office, and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to ensure anything that happens as a result of the transfer of Streams respects patients’ privacy and complies fully with the law.</p><p>I met with DeepMind recently and raised this issue with them.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 06/12/2018 15:09:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1012537

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	DeepMind
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what information was provided to NHS patients whose data are held by DeepMind Health before that company was integrated into Google rather than being a separate subsidiary; and whether patients gave informed consent for the handling of their data to be changed.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>At this moment in time no contracts have been signed or amended, or other arrangements put in place, and the Streams team have been open with us at the Department about their plans for the transition.</p><p>National Health Service trusts are the data controller and retain the responsibility for how the data is used and for gaining patient consent for any change of use.</p><p>We have received assurances from DeepMind that no Personally Identifiable Data has been transferred as a result of this corporate restructure.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 06/12/2018 15:10:17 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1012538

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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	DeepMind
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what independent verification is in place to make sure that the NHS data handled by DeepMind Health will be used only for appropriate purposes now that DeepMind Health is no longer a separate subsidiary of Google but has been fully integrated.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>We will work with regulators including the Health Research Agency, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the Information Commissioner’s Office, and with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to ensure anything that happens as a result of the transfer of Streams respects patients’ privacy and complies fully with the law.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 04/12/2018 14:21:40 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1014670

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
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	Bahrain: Human Rights
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 Ahmad of Wimbledon on 19 November (HL11289), whether they have taken into consideration the UN Special Rapporteurs’ concerns on Bahrain for reports pertaining to (1) infringements of the right to life, freedom from torture, freedom of religion and belief, and freedom of peaceful assembly of Fadhel Sayed Abbas Hassan Radhi, Mohamed Abdul Hasan Ahmed Al Mutaghawi, Sayed Alawi Husain Alawi Husain and three other individuals, (2) violations of the rights to life, liberty and security of person, freedom from torture and ill-treatment, and right to a fair trial of Maher Abbas Yousef al-Khabbaz, and (3) cruel and degrading treatment of Nabeel Rajab at Jau Prison.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL11803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The British Government takes note of a number of sources of information on these issues; including publications by the United Nations. We continue to encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to raise them with the appropriate Bahraini human rights oversight body. We encourage the oversight bodies in Bahrain to carry out thorough and swift investigations into any such claims.</p><p>The noble Lord will recall that the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, expressed his concerns on the sentence given to Mr Rajab in his written statement of 21 February. He also reiterated the UK's call for Bahrain to protect freedom of expression for all its citizens, in line with international obligations. Our Embassy in Bahrain has closely monitored the trials of Mr Rajab and officials regularly attend Mr Rajab's court hearings, including the handing down of the latest appeal verdict. We have raised the case at senior levels as part of the UK's ongoing open dialogue with Bahrain. I am aware that there is now an opportunity for Mr Rajab's legal team to apply for an appeal through the judicial system. My officials will continue to monitor the case closely.</p><p>The UK’s position on the use of the death penalty is longstanding and clear. We oppose its use in all circumstances and countries. The Government of Bahrain are fully aware of our position.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/12/2018 14:49:50 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven