The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government who is responsible for maritime and air border controls between the Schengen area and the Channel Islands.
Lord Bates
The Bailiwicks of the Channel Islands are responsible for their own border controls. The Government takes protecting our border security very seriously, and there is a high level of collaboration on work to strengthen the Common Travel Area’s external border.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current estimate of (1) how many British citizens are serving prison sentences in other European Union member states, and (2) the distribution of those prisoners across member states.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
We collect global detainee statistics twice a year. On 2 March 2015 we were aware of 807 British nationals detained (either pre- or post- sentencing) across EU member states. The distribution of British national detainees across Europe was:
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Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania and Slovakia |
fewer than 5 each |
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Belgium |
11 |
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Bulgaria |
10 |
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Cyprus |
7 |
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Finland |
5 |
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France |
104 |
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Germany |
83 |
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Greece |
12 |
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Ireland |
222 |
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Italy |
27 |
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Malta |
11 |
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The Netherlands |
16 |
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Portugal |
31 |
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Spain |
247 |
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Sweden |
5 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Trefgarne on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Faulks on 16 September (HL1895), how many male prisoners over the age of 80 who are currently serving prison sentences were over the age of 70 when sentenced.
Lord Faulks
As at 30 June 2015, of the 133 male prisoners over the age of 80 who are currently serving prisons sentences in England and Wales, 123 were sentenced when they were over the age of 70 years.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what training has been provided to British military and police personnel by Israel in the past 12 months.
Earl Howe
During the last 12 months, one military officer has attended an International Brigade Logistics Course in Israel at the invitation of the Israeli Defence Forces.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what military hardware and components have been imported into the United Kingdom from Israel in the past 12 months.
Lord Maude of Horsham
Firearms, firearms component parts and ammunition are the only items of military equipment subject to import licensing controls.
In 2014, BIS Import Licensing Branch issued 10 import licences for imports from Israel totalling 240 firearms and 2760 firearms component parts.
In 2015 (to 30th September), BIS Import Licensing Branch issued 20 import licences for imports from Israel totalling 1858 firearms and 3260 firearms component parts.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel following the stop-work order issued by the Israeli Civil Administration in relation to the construction of a football field in the Muslim village of Wadi Foquin in the Bethlehem district of the West Bank.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
While the British Government has not raised this specific case with the Israeli authorities, we frequently lobby the Israeli government on this issue more broadly: we urge them to take steps to enable Palestinian construction, most recently on 17 September with Deputy Head of Israeli Office for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they are making to the government of Israel regarding the extension of the Separation Barrier in the Cremisan Valley and its effect on Christian families who previously occupied that land.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv have raised the issue of the separation barrier though Cremisan Valley with the Israeli authorities on several occasions, most recently on 1 September. On 9 July, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), issued a press statement which was clear that the UK is deeply concerned by the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision of 6 July to allow the construction of 1.2km of the Separation Barrier through the Cremisan Valley. If built, this section of the Separation Barrier will restrict 58 Palestinian families from accessing their land, which will have a detrimental effect on their livelihoods.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have about the effects on health, gender and environmental outcomes of integrated family planning, conservation and sustainable livelihood generation programmes.
Baroness Verma
Evidence of the impacts of integrated population, health and environment programmes has been produced by a range of development partners including USAID and the Population Council. We will continue to look at the lessons from emerging work in this field.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what mechanisms are in place to ensure that Department for International Development policy and funding streams support integrated population, health and environment programmes.
Baroness Verma
Taking the new Global Goals as our starting point, a number of reviews are underway across DFID to ensure that DFID maintains a high quality and high impact development programme. We will report findings and programming recommendations over the coming months.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Sharkey on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, before withdrawing supplementary funding for the highly specialist work carried out at tertiary and teaching hospitals in England, they carried out an impact assessment of the effects of such a withdrawal on medical research; if not, why they did not do so; and if so, whether they will publish that assessment.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The supplementary funding, known as Project Diamond funding, was provided by the former London Strategic Health Authority in recognition of arguments made by providers about the higher costs of tertiary and teaching hospitals both for research and service provision. The research component was subsequently taken on by the Department, and the service component was taken on by NHS England.
In the case of research funding, the Department’s view is that the approach to funding already recognises the higher costs of providing services. For example, a large part of funding is bids based. In bidding for research funding, providers will have taken into account all the costs they face. Any supplementary funding would be double-counting costs. Consequently the Department does not expect an impact on medical research from withdrawing funding as existing funding streams should meet all costs.
In the case of funding for specialised services to patients, 2014/15 was the final year of supplementary funding provided by NHS England. Refinements to the National Tariff are being made, including the introduction of HRG4+, that make a significant improvement in recognising the additional costs associated with patient complexity. However no payment system can perfectly reflect patient complexity and other local issues. Monitor have a published process for providers who wish to seek an amendment to tariff prices, known as the local modification process.