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77284

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to ensure that there are sufficient prison places to accommodate people who receive custodial sentences.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Prison numbers fluctuate throughout the year and we have sufficient accommodation for the current and expected population. Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we will have sufficient capacity to deal with the projected level of the population. These measures include identifying additional places if required in prisons that can provide safe and decent conditions. This is a proportionate measure to ensure that we are able to hold all of those committed to custody by the courts.</p><p> </p><p>We are planning to open an additional 2,000 places over the next nine months. We will have more adult male prison places at the end of this Parliament than we inherited. In the next Parliament, we will open a new prison in Wrexham, providing a further 2,000 places.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 22/07/2014 16:48:27 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

77285

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Internet: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what legislation is currently in place and what further steps they are taking to protect children from cyber-bullying through the internet.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Current Acts that can be used to prosecute cyberbullying-related offences are: The Protection from Harassment Act 1997, The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, The Malicious Communications Act 1998, The Communications Act 2003 and The Defamation Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The Government thinks that schools, parents and internet providers all have a role to play in keeping children and young people safe online.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Education Act 2011 we have given teachers greater powers to tackle cyber-bullying - via text message or the internet - by providing a specific power to search for and, if necessary, delete inappropriate images or files on electronic devices, including mobile phones</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All schools must have a behaviour policy that includes measures to prevent all forms of bullying, including cyber-bullying. Schools have the flexibility to develop their own measures to prevent and tackle bullying, but are held to account by Ofsted.</p><p> </p><p>Educating children and young people about online safety is key to tackling cyber-bullying. From September 2014, e-safety will be taught at all four key stages of the curriculum, covering primary-age children for the first time. This will empower young people to tackle cyber-bullying through responsible, respectful and secure use of technology, as well as ensuring that pupils understand age-appropriate ways of reporting any concerns they may have about what they see or encounter online.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education is providing £4 million of funding over two years from 2013 to four anti-bullying organisations: Beatbullying, the Diana Award, Kidscape and the National Children’s Bureau consortium. While this funding has been awarded to specific projects to reduce bullying in general, this can, and does, include work to tackle cyber-bullying.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has produced case studies showing good practice in how to manage behaviour and bullying. These include a case study about how a school deals with cyber-bullying. Through funding provided by the Department, the Anti-Bullying Alliance has also produced specific advice on cyber-bullying for children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities. We provide a link to this in our own advice on preventing and tackling bullying.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers from the Department for Education, Home Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport co-chair the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), which brings together a range of experts across government, law enforcement, industry, academia and charities to consider the best ways to minimise the risk of harm to children when online.</p><p> </p><p>We are pleased to see that internet service providers (ISPs) have rolled out whole home filters to their customers which will help parents to keep their children safe online. The ISPs have also launched ‘Internet Matters’, a new £75 million internet safety campaign which will run over three years and will reach out to millions of parents on how best to protect their children and make good use of filters.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 21/07/2014 15:27:21 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

77288

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Horse Racing: Betting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 3 July (WA 281), on what grounds they believe that the Horserace Betting Levy, as a state aid which predates the United Kingdom's accession to the European Union, is therefore compatible with the United Kingdom's obligations under European Union law and state aid rules.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL1022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Horserace Betting Levy is a State Aid pursuant to Article 107 TFEU. As a permissible pre-accession measure, it does not need to be notified to the European Commission for as long as it remains unaltered. There has been no major change to the Levy since 1963 so it retains its pre-accession status. It is for this reason that we believe the Levy is compatible with the United Kingdom's obligations under European Union (EU) law and state aid rules. Any major change to the Levy, such as extending it to offshore remote betting operators, would constitute a substantive alteration to the existing scheme meaning that Government would have to notify the European Commission (EC). The Commission would then take a view as to the changed Levy's compatibility with Article 107 TFEU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 17/07/2014 14:32:17 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

77289

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mass Media: Ownership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the results of their consultation "Media ownership and plurality", launched in July 2013.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL1023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>We plan to publish the Government's response to the consultation on media plurality in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 17/07/2014 14:32:36 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

77290

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to improve general practitioner facilities and training and the provision of primary healthcare services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL1024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2014 answer text <p>NHS England have advised that they are working with clinical commissioning groups, Health and Wellbeing Boards and other local partners to ensure that joint strategic plans identify where premises developments are needed and how the capital and revenue for these premises developments will be met.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Department has recently set out its ambitions for primary care in publishing <em>Transforming Primary Care.</em> A copy has already been placed in the Library. The changes to the general practitioner (GP) contract for this year will help ensure that patients aged over 75 and those with the most complex needs receive more personalised and proactive care.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also invested £50 million, through the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund, to develop new ways of improving access to GP services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recognised the need to increase the GP workforce and between September 2010 and September 2013, the number of full time equivalent GPs has risen by 1,051. Additionally, the Department has included in its mandate to Health Education England (HEE), a requirement that “HEE will ensure that 50% of trainees completing foundation level training enter GP training programmes by 2016”.</p><p> </p><p>A new Chief Inspector of General Practice has also been appointed and the Care Quality Commission is inspecting standards in GP practices and taking action where it finds poor care.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/07/2014 14:30:22 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

77291

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the costs and benefits of the internal market in the National Health Service over the last 20 years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL1025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Retaining the purchaser provider separation has been the policy of successive governments. In line with its predecessors, this Government considers it the most effective means of developing efficient high quality care while providing value for money for the public purse. More specifically, it created a means of managing the health service in which providers of care were accountable to the public through contracts which specified the quality of care, and its cost in a much more transparent way than had previously been the case. In doing so, it also drove improvement in both the quantity and quality of what the health service was providing.</p><p> </p><p>However, there are two distinct reasons why it has often been difficult to quantify the relative costs and benefits of the internal market. First, it is difficult to estimate the cost of what would have happened without it – in other words what would have been the case had such accountability not been in place. Second, there have been differing models for implementing the internal market over at least two decades (total purchasing pilots, general practitioner fundholding and practice-based commissioning).</p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment for the Health and Social Care Act 2012<sup>1</sup> looked at the broad cost and benefits of continuing a separate commissioning function as an advocate for patients and the taxpayer, separate from the more autonomous provider side.</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/215819/dh_129916.pdf</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/07/2014 11:22:38 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

77292

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many legal entities exist within the National Health Service which do not directly deal with patients.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL1026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the precise information requested. However, the Department has published guidance, entitled <em>The Health and Care System Explained</em>, on organisations that are involved in the delivery of health services since the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act (2012). Based on that guidance, it is estimated that there are 16 national bodies and 224 local bodies that do not directly provide health services to patients within the system.</p><p> </p><p>By contrast, there are approximately 33,000 bodies in England that do provide NHS services directly to patients, including NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, general practices, dental practices, opticians and community pharmacies.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 22/07/2014 15:38:33 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

77293

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Bereavement Counselling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they issue to commissioners of Children's Services to ensure the availability of bereavement counselling to children and young people.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL1027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Counselling services for children and young people, including bereavement support, are commissioned regionally by local authorities and clinical commissioning groups. Local Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWB) undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) to develop an understanding of the health and wellbeing needs of the community, including mental health needs, and base their provision on that. These services may be provided through Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS), whilst some regions may also choose to additionally fund voluntary organisations to provide bereavement services.</p><p> </p><p>Nationally, the Government has awarded £11.2 million to the NSPCC for ChildLine and the NSPCC HelpLine from 2011-2015. These helplines support children by offering them the ability to talk to a counsellor about any difficulties, including bereavement, 24 hours a day.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL1028 question first answered 21/07/2014 15:08:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

77294

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Bereavement Counselling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they have given to the funding of voluntary organisations working to facilitate the access of children and young people to specialist bereavement services.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL1028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Counselling services for children and young people, including bereavement support, are commissioned regionally by local authorities and clinical commissioning groups. Local Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWB) undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) to develop an understanding of the health and wellbeing needs of the community, including mental health needs, and base their provision on that. These services may be provided through Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS), whilst some regions may also choose to additionally fund voluntary organisations to provide bereavement services.</p><p> </p><p>Nationally, the Government has awarded £11.2 million to the NSPCC for ChildLine and the NSPCC HelpLine from 2011-2015. These helplines support children by offering them the ability to talk to a counsellor about any difficulties, including bereavement, 24 hours a day.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL1027 question first answered 21/07/2014 15:08:08 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

77296

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Playing Fields
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions have taken place between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education about increasing the provision of sports playing fields available for schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL1030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>In June 2014, Sport England, in partnership with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Education and the Department of Health, awarded £18 million of National Lottery funding, through the Primary Spaces programme, to 601 primary schools to transform their physical education (PE) and sport facilities.</p><p>The new facilities will be installed in the first 100 schools this summer, with the rest opening throughout the academic year and all completed by summer 2015. The fund will help schools make good use of spaces and provide facilities that will:</p><p>· inspire physical activity and participation by children</p><p>· enable and encourage healthy activity</p><p>· develop the foundations of a sporting habit for life.</p><p>Primary Spaces builds on and complements the primary PE and sport premium, through which we are providing over £450 million of ring-fenced funding across academic years 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16. This goes directly to primary schools to be spent on the improvement of PE and sport.</p><p>In addition, from 2010 to the present day, Sport England have made 16 awards to schools, investing £750,000 of National Lottery funding towards total project costs of £1.6 million, as part of the protect playing fields programme. The sites cover a total of over 200 acres of land and each site has protection via charge for a minimum of 25 years. There are two more rounds of the funding planned with £5 million available each year for the next two years (2015 and 2016).</p><p>Officials and Ministers from both Departments meet regularly to discuss issues relating to the provision of PE and school sport, including the Primary Spaces and protecting playing fields programmes.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 21/07/2014 15:09:26 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry