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House of Lords Written Answers and Statements Session 2021-22 Wednesday No. 41 18 August 2021 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS WRITTEN STATEMENTS AND WRITTEN ANSWERS Written Statements ................................ ................ 1 Written Answers ................................ ..................... 2 [I] indicates that the member concerned has a relevant registered interest. The full register of interests can be found at http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests/ Members who want a printed copy of Written Answers and Written Statements should notify the Printed Paper Office. This printed edition is a reproduction of the original text of Answers and Statements, which can be found on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/. Ministers and others who make Statements or answer Questions are referred to only by name, not their ministerial or other title. The current list of ministerial and other responsibilities is as follows. Minister Responsibilities Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal Earl Howe Deputy Leader of the House of Lords Lord Agnew of Oulton Minister of State, Treasury and Cabinet Office Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Lord Ashton of Hyde Chief Whip Baroness Barran Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Lord Benyon Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Baroness Berridge Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Department for International Trade Lord Bethell Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Whip Waldrist Lord Callanan Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Earl of Courtown Deputy Chief Whip Lord Frost Minister of State, Cabinet Office Baroness Goldie Minister of State, Ministry of Defence Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Lord Greenhalgh Minister of State, Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Minister of State, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for International Trade Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay Whip Baroness Penn Whip Baroness Scott of Bybrook Whip Baroness Stedman-Scott Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions Lord Stewart of Dirleton Advocate-General for Scotland Lord True Minister of State, Cabinet Office Baroness Vere of Norbiton Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport Baroness Williams of Trafford Minister of State, Home Office Lord Wolfson of Tredegar Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice Viscount Younger of Leckie Whip © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2021 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/ Written Statements 18 August 2021 Page 1 or revocation, including by another force; where there is Written Statements evidence of violence, domestic abuse or medical unsuitability; or where concerns have been raised by Wednesday, 18 August 2021 someone known to the licence holder. Shootings in Plymouth The Government keeps firearms licensing controls under constant review. The Home Office is bringing [HLWS247] forward new statutory guidance to improve how people Baroness Williams of Trafford: My rt hon Friend the applying for a firearms licence are assessed in future. The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Priti Patel) new guidance draws on previous lessons learned and will has today made the following Written Ministerial ensure better consistency and improved standards across Statement: police firearms licensing departments. It will mean that In the wake of the tragic shootings in Plymouth on 12 that no one is given a firearms licence unless their doctor August, my heartfelt condolences are with the family and has confirmed to the police whether or not they have any friends of those who lost their lives - Maxine Davison, relevant medical conditions, including an assessment of Lee and Sophie Martyn, Stephen Washington, and Kate their mental health, and it will make explicit that firearms Shepherd - as well as with those that were injured and the applicants may be subject to social media checks. The people who witnessed this truly terrible event. police will have a legal duty to consider the new statutory guidance when it is published. We plan to publish this The Home Office and the Ministry of Justice are new guidance in the coming weeks. We will keep the new working closely with Devon and Cornwall Police and statutory guidance under review, especially in light of this with victims’ services to ensure that those affected by this terrible incident, and we will update it as necessary in due tragedy, including bereaved families, have all the support course. they need. The police have not declared this to be a terrorist We must do all that we possibly can to avoid something incident. Investigations into Davison’s motives for like this happening again. committing these terrible attacks continue. Whether or not The UK has some of the strictest gun control legislation an incident is determined to be terrorism-related is a in the world and comparatively low levels of gun crime. decision made independently of the Government by the Yet while tragedies like last Thursday’s are rare, their police, based on the specific circumstances and what the impact is profound. We constantly assess what sensible police finds during the investigation. and proportionate steps we can take to help prevent such The UK has one of the most robust counter-terrorism terrible loss of life. frameworks in the world. Our definition of terrorism This is now the subject of an ongoing police includes an act or the threat of serious violence to advance investigation, and the Independent Office for Police an ideological, religious, racial, or political cause. The Conduct (IOPC) is looking at actions taken by Devon and Terrorism Act 2000 definition is sufficiently broad to Cornwall Police in relation to issuing a firearms licence, capture modern causes of terrorism, including “incel” so it would be inappropriate to comment further on these violence. It is this definition that is applied when matters while that work is ongoing. determining whether specific individuals are engaging in However, as a matter of urgency, I have asked every terrorism and if incidents should be classified as a police force in England, Wales, and Scotland to review terrorist attack. their current firearms licensing processes - in particular This appalling event has shaken the whole country, and the processes that they follow for returning a certificate - in particular the people of Plymouth. Our hearts go out to and ensure they are appropriate as set against the current them. This is something which no community and nobody Home Office guidance and legislation. This current should have to endure. I would also like to thank those guidance asks Chief Officers to ensure high-risk decisions police officers and others who attended the scene for their are approved at a sufficiently senior level. Such decisions incredible bravery. include granting a certificate following a previous refusal Page 2 18 August 2021 Written Answers Afghanistan over the next year given the advance of the Written Answers Taliban in that country. [HL2016] Wednesday, 18 August 2021 Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in coordination with the United Nations High Affordable Housing: Rural Areas Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) and the Asked by The Lord Bishop of St Albans International Organisation for Migration (IOM), conducts assessments of the likely scale of migration and internal To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they displacement due to the situation in Afghanistan. They are have to allow local planning authorities in rural currently preparing revised estimates to reflect the communities to (1) set the threshold for affordable deteriorating situation and we will continue to work with housing, and (2) decide the tenure for affordable OCHA, UNHCR, IOM and other donors and housing. [HL2276] neighbouring countries to respond. Lord Greenhalgh: This Government believes that meeting the housing needs of rural communities is Afghanistan: Politics and Government important. We’re increasing the supply of affordable Asked by Lord Pearson of Rannoch housing and investing over £12 billion in affordable housing over 5 years, the largest investment in affordable To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment housing in a decade. This includes the new £11.5 billion they have made of the safety of people in Afghanistan Affordable Homes Programme, should economic who are not Muslim; and what plans they have, if any, conditions allow. Since April 2010, over 190,000 to offer such individuals asylum. [HL1911] affordable homes have been provided in rural local Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: British Embassy authorities in England. And between April 2015 and officials in Kabul regularly meet with representatives March 2020, 11% of new build additional Affordable from religious minority groups to hear their concerns. We Homes have been delivered in
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