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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of violations of Iranian airspace by US airforce fighter jets around Khorramshahr on 13 November; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

David Leslie Taylor (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 December 2007

Reference

469 c1357W; 175392

House

House of Commons

Taxation: Northern Ireland

My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Andy Burnham) has made the following Written Statement. Following representations by political parties in Northern Ireland, the Government commissioned Sir David Varney in March 2007 to carry out a review of tax policy in Northern Ireland. His terms of reference...

Member

Lord Davies of Oldham (Labour)

Department

Treasury

Type

Written statements

Date

17 December 2007

Reference

697 c90-2WS

House

House of Lords

Varney Review (Tax Policy in Northern Ireland)

Following representations by political parties in Northern Ireland, the Government commissioned Sir David Varney in March 2007 to carry out a review of tax policy in Northern Ireland. His terms of reference were to examine ““how current and future tax policy, including the tax changes announced in the Budget 2007,...

Member

Andy Burnham (Labour)

Department

Treasury

Type

Written statements

Date

17 December 2007

Reference

469 c74-6WS

House

House of Commons

Guantanamo Bay: Return of UK Residents

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (David Miliband) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The House will be aware that, with the agreement of my right honourable friend the Home Secretary, I wrote to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 7...

Member

Lord Malloch-Brown (Labour)

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written statements

Date

13 December 2007

Reference

697 c52-3WS

House

House of Lords

Guantanamo Bay

The House will be aware that, with the agreement of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, I wrote to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 7 August to request the release from Guantanamo Bay and return to the UK of five men who, while not UK Nationals, had...

Member

David Miliband (Labour)

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written statements

Date

13 December 2007

Reference

469 c56-7WS

House

House of Commons

Finance: Debt

asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 22 November (WA 89) on level 3 assets, whether they will provide some examples of an unobservable input.

Asked by

Lord Barnett (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

12 December 2007

Examples are: long-dated currency swap—a level 3 input would include interest rates in a specified currency that are not observable and cannot be corroborated by observable market data at commonly quoted intervals or otherwise for substantially the full term of the currency swap. The interest rates in a currency swap are the swap rates calculated from the respective countries' yield curves; three-year option on exchange-traded shares—a level 3 input would include historical volatility, that is, the volatility for the shares derived from the shares' historical prices. Historical volatility typically does not represent current market participant expectations about future volatility, even if it is the only information available to price an option; interest rate swap—a level 3 input would include an adjustment to a mid-market consensus (non-binding) price for the swap developed using data that are not directly observable and that cannot otherwise be corroborated by observable market data; asset retirement obligation at initial recognition—a level 3 input would include expected cash flows (adjusted for risk) developed using the reporting entity's own data if there is no information reasonably available without undue cost and effort that indicates that market participants would use different assumptions. That level 3 input would be used in a present value technique together with other inputs, for example (1) a risk-free interest rate or (2) a credit-adjusted risk-free rate if the effect of the reporting entity's credit standing on the fair value of the liability is reflected in the discount rate rather than in the expected cash flows; and reporting unit—a level 3 input would include a financial forecast (for example, of cash flows or earnings) developed using the reporting entity's own data if there is no information reasonably available without undue cost and effort that indicates that market participants would use different assumptions.

Date

12 December 2007

Reference

624; 697 c62WA

House

House of Lords

Extradition: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations her Department has made to the US authorities in the last 12 months on the time taken to bring the three extradited former NatWest bankers to trial.

Asked by

Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 December 2007

Reference

469 c678W; 167024

House

House of Commons

Government: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

asked Her Majesty's Government:On how many occasions since appointment the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has officially visited the United States; on what dates he travelled to and from that country; what was the purpose of any such visits; and what was the cost; and

Asked by

Lord Laird (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2007

Reference

288; 697 c35-6WA

House

House of Lords

Government: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Whether the current Secretary of State for Northern Ireland stayed in the United States on official business; if so, when; at what cost; and how many officials were involved and at what cost.

Asked by

Lord Laird (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2007

Reference

451; 697 c35-6WA

House

House of Lords

G6 Counter-Terrorism Symposium

I met with counterparts from Poland, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, along with experts from the seven countries for a two-day symposium at Schwielowsee, near Werder, on 30 November and 1 December 2007. The symposium was intended to provide a chance to reflect, together with...

Member

Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Written statements

Date

10 December 2007

Reference

469 c8-9WS

House

House of Commons

Counterterrorism: G6 Symposium

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Jacqui Smith) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I met counterparts from Poland, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, along with experts from the seven countries for a two-day symposium at Schwielowsee, near...

Member

Lord West of Spithead (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Written statements

Date

10 December 2007

Reference

697 c1WS

House

House of Lords

Terrorism and Crime (EUC Report)

Lords debate on motion to take note of the report of the European Union Committee on Prum: An Effective Weapon against Terrorism and Crime? (HL 90 2006-07). Agreed to on question. (Debated with Lords motion to take note of the report of the European Union Committee on The EU/US Passenger...

Lead member

Lord Wright of Richmond

Answering member

Lord West of Spithead

Department

Home Office; European Union Committee

Type

Debates on select committee reports

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1894-920

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, I can confirm that the Home Office has received a request for assistance from the United States of America in respect of corruption allegations concerning BAE Systems. The request is being dealt with in accordance with the bilateral treaty on mutual legal assistance between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Answered by

Lord West of Spithead (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1812

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, considering that after five months’ procrastination on this request the Government have now finally refused to give the US Department of Justice the information it sought, and also bearing in mind the comments of Lord Justice Moses in the case for judicial review of the decision to halt the SFO investigation, that the case involved, "““matters of public concern and public importance””," and that the challenge, "““cries out for a hearing””," do not the same arguments apply to the refusal of a reasonable request for information by the Department of Justice? Is not the refusal a breach of our obligations under the OECD convention on bribery, notwithstanding the fact that the requests were made under mutual legal assistance of the bilateral treaty? Do not the arguments of the convention apply pari passu to requests made under the bilateral treaty?

Asked by

Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1812-3

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, I am somewhat confused by the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Avebury. The Home Secretary has not refused this. She is in the process of giving this request the detailed consideration that it requires. About 5,000 of these requests come in annually and some of them are highly complicated and have complex investigative and criminal aspects to them. It is not unusual for one to take this long; many take longer than this.

Answered by

Lord West of Spithead (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1812-3

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, this is not a mundane day-to-day request such as the 5,000 that are received, as the noble Lord has explained. It is a matter of vital importance, not only because of the presence of BAE in the United States and its recent multibillion takeover of the Armor Corporation but of the right of BAE to continue doing business in the United States and not to be under the cloud of investigation that it is in breach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which is US law? Does not the noble Lord consider that it is a matter of importance to give a prompt reply to the Department of Justice?

Asked by

Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1814

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, we are in no doubt about how important this is, and there are a number of issues and a number of complications within it. That is why the Home Secretary is considering it so carefully. As I said, it is not unusual for something like this to take a length of time. Many such requests have taken much longer than this. We are looking at it very closely. It is a very important issue and the fact that it is taking time, if anything, shows how important we believe it is.

Answered by

Lord West of Spithead (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1814

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, my noble friend raises an issue but we have these mutual legal assistance treaties with many countries, not just the United States, so it not a one-way street. These things are very sensitive; we have to be very careful when talking about them. It is highly unusual for the fact that one has been requested to come into the public arena. This is an extremely unusual circumstance.

Answered by

Lord West of Spithead (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1813

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, I thought I had already answered the noble Lord’s question. As I said, there are about 5,000 of these requests annually. Some of them are highly complicated and they very often take a very long time to deal with. This one is very complicated. There are a number of issues. The Home Secretary is in the process of giving very detailed consideration to this request and looking at all the ramifications and complications.

Answered by

Lord West of Spithead (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1813

House

House of Lords

UK-US Mutual Legal Assistance

My Lords, have the Government given any assistance to the American authorities? Has anything happened as a result of that, or is it just going to be quietly thought about for the next 12 months in the Home Office? Cannot the Home Office give the issue some priority?

Asked by

Lord Thomas of Gresford (Liberal Democrat)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

696 c1814

House

House of Lords

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