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170271

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Exchanges
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans formally to recognise international high school exchanges.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL3767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government recognises that school links and exchanges can provide valuable opportunities to learn about other countries and to improve language skills. It is, however, for individual schools to decide whether or not they wish to participate in such exchanges.</p><p> </p><p>For those who do, there are many opportunities available, for example through the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme, the Global Learning Programme, which is jointly funded by the Department for International Development and the British Council, and the EU’s Erasmus + programme. The British Council also offers an International School Award which enables schools to have their international work recognised.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/12/2014 12:49:48 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

519077

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Exchanges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she made of the effect of a vote to leave the EU on school language exchange programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	37531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not made any assessment of the effect that a majority leave vote in the European Union Referendum would have on school language exchange programmes.</p><p> </p><p>It is the Government’s view that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off in a reformed European Union. A vote to leave the European Union would put this at risk.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/05/2016 16:55:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

530751

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Educational Exchanges
	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 13 June (HL566), what the calculation systems are for payments by the UK to France, Ireland and Spain for the cost of providing treatment to people for whom the United Kingdom is responsible under European Union law.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>Other European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland reimburse the United Kingdom for the cost of the National Health Service providing treatment to people they are responsible for under European Union law, including UK nationals insured in another EEA country or Switzerland. In the same way, the Department, on behalf of the UK Government, reimburses other EEA countries and Switzerland for the cost of providing healthcare treatment to people we are responsible for under EU law, irrespective of nationality.</p><p> </p><p>As insurability under EU law is not determined on the basis of nationality, it is not possible to provide information on the number of citizens from each country covered by these rules.</p><p> </p><p>Payment arrangements from the UK to France, Spain and Ireland are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>France:</p><p>- All categories of insured persons: Actual costs (meaning the UK is billed for actual healthcare usage)</p><p>Spain:</p><p>- Temporary Visitors: Actual costs</p><p>- All other categories: Average costs (a lump sum is billed, irrespective of the amount of healthcare received)</p><p>Ireland:</p><p>- Temporary Visitors (not including planned treatment claims or workers): Formula agreement</p><p>- Planned Treatment claims: Actual costs</p><p>- Workers: Waiver agreement between the two countries</p><p>- All other categories: Average costs</p><p> </p><p>The decision on whether to bill on the basis of average costs is for individual EEA countries to make.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL914 question first answered 11/07/2016 12:42:11 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

542167

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Exchanges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the availability of university year-abroad schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	43948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2016 answer text <p>The referendum result has no immediate effect on students abroad under the Erasmus scheme or applying for 2016/17. Payments will be made in the usual way. Access to the programme after we leave the EU is a matter for the forthcoming negotiations. The Department offers the same support for study abroad under other schemes as for Erasmus.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 19/09/2016 13:31:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies