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date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Aviation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the first commercial flights to St Helena will commence.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The first commercial flight to St Helena will be in February 2016, subject to completion of the remaining airport construction works and to meeting all regulatory requirements.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:12 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392035

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many tourist beds (1) are currently available, and (2) are under construction, on St Helena.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>St Helena Government confirms that 101 tourist beds are currently available in serviced rooms, with an additional 38 serviced rooms planned for construction between 2015 and 2016. There are also 90 self-catering rooms on the island.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:27 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392036

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many tourist beds will be required on St Helena to support one weekly flight when the island’s airport opens in February 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>St Helena Government estimates that 80 to 160 tourist beds will be required when the air service becomes operational.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:41 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392037

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many proposals to create more tourist beds on St Helena (1) have been passed, (2) are currently under consideration, and (3) have been rejected, by the island’s planning authority.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>St Helena Government has confirmed that since July 2014, five applications for additional accommodation have been approved by St Helena’s Planning Authority and two are currently under consideration. None have been rejected.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:14:34 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392038

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to increase the number of tourist beds on St Helena; what progress has been made in this regard since the decision to build an airport on the island was made in 2010; and what incentives they are offering to encourage inward investors to provide tourist facilities on the island.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department for International Development supports Enterprise St Helena (ESH), the St Helena Government’s development agency. Enterprise St Helena offers grants to assist local businesses with proposals to increase the quantity and quality of tourist accommodation. Fifteen new serviced rooms have been added since 2010, with an additional 38 serviced rooms planned for construction between 2015 and 2016. The Saint Helena Government has introduced a range of tax incentives for investors, including tax credits, rollover reliefs and accelerated depreciation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:15:03 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392065

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Civilian Stabilisation Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people are currently on the Civilian Stabilisation Group list maintained by the Department for International Development, broken down by gender.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL1820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Stabilisation Unit’s Civilian Stabilisation Group (CSG) consists of over 1,350 individuals. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications to the CSG from every background. We would need to carry out a manual search of each individual’s profile to provide data broken down by gender, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:15:31 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

392066

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Civilian Stabilisation Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many members of the Civilian Stabilisation Group have been deployed in other countries in each of the last five years; and how many are currently deployed.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL1821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Stabilisation Unit has deployed:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of CSG deployed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>133</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>On 23 July 2015, 55 members of the Civilian Stabilisation Group were on deployment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:15:46 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

392067

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Civilian Stabilisation Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much funding is currently allocated to the deployment of members of the Civilian Stabilisation Group.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL1822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>Deployments are funded by the programmes they are supporting rather than as a standalone cost. This ensures deployments are directly tied to HMG objectives and can flex according to demand. The cost of maintaining the Civilian Stabilisation Group falls under the Stabilisation Unit’s core budget, which for CSG training and management comes to £1,345,000 p.a.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:16:01 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

392068

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Civilian Stabilisation Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review the Civilian Stabilisation Group in the light of emerging priorities and the anticipated agreement of the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations in September 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL1823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Stabilisation Unit is conducting an internal review of the Civilian Stabilisation Group skillsets to ensure it meets HMG priorities, both now and in the future. To inform this work, wider multilateral and international aims for UK capability will be considered.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:12:30 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

392069

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Civilian Stabilisation Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether any of the Civilian Stabilisation Group have experience of devolved administration within the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL1824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Stabilisation Unit’s Civilian Stabilisation Group database does not provide the functionality to search for specific areas of an individual’s career history that does not directly correlate to stabilisation. A manual search of each individual’s profile would be required in order to provide this information and, as such, it would not be possible to obtain the information required without incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 13:30:27 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale