Lord Touhig

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their process for considering an application for asylum.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what information an asylum seeker needs to provide in order to make an application for asylum.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 25 March (HL Deb, col 1611), whether the review of autism services will examine the questions of autistic people without a learning disability being placed in ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of female offenders who have experienced traumas such as domestic and sexual abuse; and what steps they intend to take to prevent the victims of such experiences from committing ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what they are doing to address sentence inflation following the average increase of three months over the past six years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government why there has been a decline in community service sentences; and how they intend to reverse this decline.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce psychiatric alternatives to prison, and other forms of sentences, for persons who have committed a crime because of their mental health condition; and if so, how.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel about the practice of trying Palestinian young offenders, engaged in acts of provocation, in military courts.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to advise and support families attempting to secure the discharge of autistic relatives from mental health hospitals.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to lower the number of autistic people in mental health hospitals who have been in inpatient care for five years or more; and if so, how.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help release autistic people identified as not needing inpatient care from mental health hospitals.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by the National Autistic Society Beyond Transforming Care: What needs to change?, published in December 2018, what steps they are taking to reduce the 24 per cent increase in autistic people without a...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase understanding of the autistic spectrum among the health and care services; and if so, how.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what meetings they have had with faith groups to ensure that chaplaincy and pastoral support is available to people in immigration detention.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that people held in immigration detention receive appropriate access to chaplaincy and pastoral support.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many religious chaplains have been appointed to each immigration removal centre and short-term holding facility in each of the last five years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they collect data on the faith identity of people currently held in immigration detention; and if so, what those data are.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people currently held in immigration detention are claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what improvements in payment timelines they expect to achieve for claimants of Universal Credit in 2018.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Buscombe on 19 July, stating that "on underpayments, I should be clear that no one suffered a cash loss", what is their definition of a cash loss; what term a claimant should use to descri...