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I have given further consideration to the point of order that was made by the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) earlier this afternoon. I realise that the question he raised deserves an urgent response, given that the deportation of the young woman is imminent.
This House does not...
I have given further consideration to the point of order that was made by the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) earlier this afternoon. I realise that the question he raised deserves an urgent response, given that the deportation of the young woman is imminent.
This House does not...
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am very grateful for your ruling and for the speed with which it was delivered, given the urgency of the matter. Thank you.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am very grateful for your ruling and for the speed with which it was delivered, given the urgency of the matter. Thank you.
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have just been contacted by the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr Burrowes)
about a constituent of his who is being removed by the Home Office today. She is on her way to Heathrow airport, her mother having given evidence to...
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have just been contacted by the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr Burrowes)
about a constituent of his who is being removed by the Home Office today. She is on her way to Heathrow airport, her mother having given evidence to...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking, in respect of public documents for which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is responsible, to meet their commitment to reduce the period of retention from 30 to 20 years; and when they expect to release to the National Archives documents...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking, in respect of public documents for which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is responsible, to meet their commitment to reduce the period of retention from 30 to 20 years; and when they expect to release to the National Archives documents...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), like all Government departments, is required to achieve the release of its records at the 20-year mark by transferring two years’ of selected records to the National Archives (TNA) over every year of the transitional period (2013-2022).
Work on the release of colonial administration files over the 2011-2013 period has regrettably caused a backlog in the regular annual transfer of FCO departmental files to TNA. The colonial files project was completed in November 2013 and we have now deployed all of our file transfer resources onto annual release. We publish the order in which we will be transferring files to the TNA on our website at: www.gov.uk/archive-records.
FCO departmental files relating to Mauritius and the British Indian Ocean Territory form part of the FCO 31 class (Eastern Africa) at TNA. We expect 1981 and 1982 FCO 31 files to transfer to the TNA later this year following which the TNA will require a further period to prepare the files for public release. We are working closely with the TNA on the transfer of files in the FCO 31 class for later years.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the decision by Mauritius to withdraw its offer to host the next scheduled Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in 2015; and whether they considered the United Kingdom as an alternative venue.[HL4218]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the decision by Mauritius to withdraw its offer to host the next scheduled Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in 2015; and whether they considered the United Kingdom as an alternative venue.[HL4218]
We respect Mauritius’ decision not to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in 2015. At the 2013 CHOGM in Colombo, the UK, along with the rest of the Commonwealth, welcomed and accepted Malta’s offer to host CHOGM in 2015.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will investigate whether advice to investors on the use of off-shore jurisdictions is offered by UK-registered financial institutions, with particular reference to Mauritius.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will investigate whether advice to investors on the use of off-shore jurisdictions is offered by UK-registered financial institutions, with particular reference to Mauritius.
There are currently no plans to investigate whether advice to investors on the use of off-shore jurisdictions is offered by UK-registered financial institutions.
My Lords, I will not rehearse the tragic story of the exile of the Chagossians again. Numerous Hansard references can do that. I will just remind your Lordships that it was an acknowledged fundamental injustice—acknowledged not least by the present Government.
As the noble Lord, Lord Luce, said in the most...
My Lords, I will not rehearse the tragic story of the exile of the Chagossians again. Numerous Hansard references can do that. I will just remind your Lordships that it was an acknowledged fundamental injustice—acknowledged not least by the present Government.
As the noble Lord, Lord Luce, said in the most...
My Lords, I congratulate warmly the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, on securing this debate and on all the hard work that she has put into securing a just solution for the problems of the Chagos Islands and their inhabitants over many years.
I agree with the noble Baroness in welcoming the...
My Lords, I congratulate warmly the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, on securing this debate and on all the hard work that she has put into securing a just solution for the problems of the Chagos Islands and their inhabitants over many years.
I agree with the noble Baroness in welcoming the...
My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for introducing this debate, particularly at this time, in the light of the Government’s decision—a good decision—to have a wide-ranging feasibility study on the future of the Chagossians.
I think that it was...
My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for introducing this debate, particularly at this time, in the light of the Government’s decision—a good decision—to have a wide-ranging feasibility study on the future of the Chagossians.
I think that it was...
My Lords, it is good that my noble friend Lady Whitaker has raised the plight and the future of the Ilois as, in the words of the noble Lord, Lord Luce, a considerable black mark on our late colonial history, which has been revealed in documents provided for various court...
My Lords, it is good that my noble friend Lady Whitaker has raised the plight and the future of the Ilois as, in the words of the noble Lord, Lord Luce, a considerable black mark on our late colonial history, which has been revealed in documents provided for various court...
My Lords, about an hour and a half ago a charming lady came up to me and said, “I wonder if I could persuade you to speak in my debate”. It was the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker. I realised that the rest of my party had gone off to some...
My Lords, about an hour and a half ago a charming lady came up to me and said, “I wonder if I could persuade you to speak in my debate”. It was the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker. I realised that the rest of my party had gone off to some...
My Lords, how marvellous it was to hear about the fantastic trips the noble Lord, Lord Selsdon, took to Mauritius. I hope that one day I will be able to do the same. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Whitaker on securing this debate and on her commitment to this...
My Lords, how marvellous it was to hear about the fantastic trips the noble Lord, Lord Selsdon, took to Mauritius. I hope that one day I will be able to do the same. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Whitaker on securing this debate and on her commitment to this...
My Lords, I begin by expressing my thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for highlighting the important issue of the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory. I am grateful for the important contribution she makes through her membership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Chagos Islands, and...
My Lords, I begin by expressing my thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for highlighting the important issue of the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory. I am grateful for the important contribution she makes through her membership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Chagos Islands, and...
Lords question for short debate on what plans they have for the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Lords question for short debate on what plans they have for the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last held discussions with his Mauritian counterpart.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last held discussions with his Mauritian counterpart.
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), last held discussions with his Mauritian counterpart on 23 February 2012 during the Somalia Conference and with the Prime Minister of Mauritius on 17 April 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when a representative of the Government last visited Mauritius.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when a representative of the Government last visited Mauritius.
My hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, visited Mauritius in September 2012 to attend the 18th Conference for Commonwealth Education Ministers Stakeholders Forum. We continue to be represented by a resident high commissioner in Port Louis.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many UK citizens visited Mauritius in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many UK citizens visited Mauritius in each of the last five years.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to respond to your Parliamentary Question to the Minister for the Cabinet Office asking how many UK citizens visited Mauritius in each of the last five years [169811].
I am able to report estimated visits to Mauritius made by UK citizens or nationals who are resident in the UK. Estimates are derived from the International Passenger Survey and are provided separately from 2008 to 2012.
| Table
1: Number of visits by UK nationals to Mauritius (rounded to the
nearest 000) in the last five
years | |
| Number | |
| 2008 | 112 |
| 2009 | 83 |
| 2010 | 79 |
| 2011 | 79 |
| 2012 | 57 |
| Source: International Passenger Survey |
Please note that if more than one country was visited during a trip abroad only the main country visited is recorded. This means that if a UK national residing in the UK visited Mauritius and another country in the same visit and Mauritius was stayed in for longest, only Mauritius would be recorded in the estimates.
The IPS is a sample survey and is subject to sampling errors. The 2012 annual 95 per cent confidence interval relating to overseas travel and tourism visits from the UK is approximately +/-13.6 per cent of the estimate for "Other African" countries such as Mauritius.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many Mauritians are currently resident in the UK.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many Mauritians are currently resident in the UK.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson, dated October 2013:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to respond to your Parliamentary Question to the Minister for the Cabinet Office asking how many Mauritians are currently resident in the UK [169812].
The Office for National Statistics collects data on residents of the UK from the Annual Population Survey (APS), which is the Labour Force Survey (LFS) plus various sample boosts. It is a household survey and so does not include people living in most types of communal establishment.
The latest estimates that are available are derived from the APS for the 12 month period of January to December 2012. The estimated number of Mauritian born residents in the UK is 46,000 with a corresponding margin of error of +/- 9,000. The estimated number of Mauritian nationals resident in the UK is 19,000 with a corresponding margin of error of +/- 6,000; this estimate is lower because some people born in Mauritius will be, or will have become, UK nationals, or will be nationals of other countries.
The margin of error refers to the 95 per cent confidence interval and is a measure of the uncertainty associated with making inferences from a sample.