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454637

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date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Engineering: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many employees in the UK engineering sector are from other EU member states, and what is their total contribution to (1) UK Gross Domestic Product, and (2) UK Gross Value Added.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL6387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>It is not possible to answer the question as there is no agreed statistical definition of what is meant by the term “engineering sector”.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/03/2016 15:50:58 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

454638

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Engineering: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many employees in the UK engineering sector are from other countries outside the EU, and what is their total contribution to (1) UK Gross Domestic Product, and (2) UK Gross Value Added.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL6388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>It is not possible to answer the question as there is no agreed statistical definition of what is meant by the term “engineering sector”.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/03/2016 15:52:01 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

454639

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to acquire Zephyr high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, and if so, for what purpose.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL6389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>As part of our commitment to providing next-generation battlefield intelligence capabilities to the UK Armed Forces, the Ministry of Defence has contracted for the demonstration of two Zephyr Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. This contract will allow the UK to understand whether Zephyr can fulfil the requirement for high-altitude persistent surveillance capability as announced in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 01/03/2016 16:33:08 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

454640

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Affinity Flying Training Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the contract with Affinity Flying Services Limited to provide fixed-wing flying training will be fully operational.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL6390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Full course capability for the fixed-wing flying training service will be achieved by the end of 2019.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 01/03/2016 16:32:41 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

454641

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Primates: Animal Welfare
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the review of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Privately Kept Non-Human Primates will commence, and what is the proposed timetable for that review.
tabling member printed	Lord Dholakia
uin	HL6391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The review of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Privately Kept Non-Human Primates is expected to commence this year with a view to recommendations being made within a year.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 02/03/2016 16:12:22 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2685 label Biography information for Lord Dholakia

454642

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Screening: Prisoners
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 Prior of Brampton on 9 February (HL5469), of those tested, how many were subsequently diagnosed with (1) hepatitis B, (2) hepatitis C, and (3) HIV, over the same time period.
tabling member printed	Lord Dholakia
uin	HL6392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) collects data on people in prison tested for blood-borne viruses (BBVs) via the Sentinel Surveillance Study. This system does not currently receive reports from all prisons in England where testing occurs currently 28 prisons report data. Table 1 below shows data from this system on the total number of prisoners tested positive for BBVs in the calendar years 2012-2014. Similar information from this study for the year 2015 will not be available until mid-2016. NHS England also collects data on levels of testing for BBVs in prisons via the Health &amp; Justice Indicators of Performance. The numbers of positive tests for BBVs in these data are presented in Table 2 using currently available data. The higher number is due to the greater coverage of prisons by this dataset.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Reported levels of positive tests for BBVs for people in prisons for calendar years 2012-14</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>hepatitis B</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>hepatitis C</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>327</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HIV</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: PHE Sentinel Surveillance Study</p><p>Table 2: Reported levels of positive tests for BBVs for people in prisons from April 2015 to December 2015</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>April 2015 – December 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>hepatitis B</p></td><td><p>743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>hepatitis C</p></td><td><p>2164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HIV</p></td><td><p>1777</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS England</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/03/2016 16:23:55 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2685 label Biography information for Lord Dholakia

454643

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many individuals within the total prison estate have commenced treatment for hepatitis C in 2015–16 to date, broken down by Operational Delivery Network area; and of those, how many commenced treatment while in prison but were released from prison before completion of treatment.
tabling member printed	Lord Dholakia
uin	HL6393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>People diagnosed with hepatitis C infection in prison may be treated in prison (through an ‘in-reach’ care programme) or as outpatients via specialist services in National Health Service acute trusts or via a ‘mixed model’. Data on patients treated while in prison or whose treatment is continued following release are held by specialist service providers locally within Operational Delivery Networks and are not currently available centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/03/2016 16:23:21 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2685 label Biography information for Lord Dholakia

454644

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Political Parties: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to seek agreement on a comprehensive package of party funding reform, as outlined in the <i>Cabinet Office single departmental plan: 2015 to 2020</i>, and what cross-party discussions they are holding to that end.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL6394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>We remain committed to seeking a comprehensive cross-party reform agreement. No cross-party discussions are currently taking place.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley grouped question UIN HL6290 question first answered 07/03/2016 17:36:22 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

454645

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Political Parties: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether their planned introduction of votes for life would also mean that British citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years could fund UK political parties.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL6395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>We will introduce a Bill in due course that will make these matters clear.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 09/03/2016 16:53:27 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

454365

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Embryo Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 11 February (HL5909, HL5910 and HL5960) and 12 February (HL5909), what specific licence conditions have been required by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in accordance with its Code of Practice in order to resolve any potential or perceived conflict between the demand for sufficient numbers of zygotes to perform genome editing successfully and the usual practice of transferring embryos to the uterus following assessment of their potential to develop further after at least two to three days; what reasons the person responsible provided when requesting that reference to surplus embryos should be removed from the research project title; and whether they will now place in the Library of the House copies of the patient information and consent forms submitted to the HFEA by the person responsible in order to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) publishes on its website the inspection report relating to a licence renewal application and the minutes of the Licence Committee’s decision. It does not publish other information associated with a licence application.</p><p> </p><p>The Licence Committee considering the application to which the noble Lord refers was satisfied that the requirements of General Directions 0008 were met, with the exception of evidence of ethics approval, which must be submitted to the HFEA before any licensed research can begin.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The HFEA has advised that licence conditions R18-R27 and T97 address any potential conflict between the use of embryos in research and the use of embryos in the provision of treatment services. The person responsible did not give a reason on the application form for requesting that reference to surplus embryos should be removed from the research project title, nor are they required to do so. The removal of ‘surplus’ from the title does not reflect a change in the way embryos will be donated to the research.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/03/2016 12:18:54 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool