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1670098

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2023
	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	Horticulture: Environment Protection
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 25 October (HL10678), what steps they intend to take to ensure that the environmental horticulture industry, previously known as “ornamental” horticulture and not including food, receives adequate support and acknowledgement, and is regarded as part of the “green economy” in assessment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the UK’s environmental (or ornamental) horticulture sector plays a crucial role as part of the ‘green economy’ and is aware that the priorities of the sector align with many of the environmental goals in the Environmental Improvement Plan.</p><p> </p><p>Ornamental horticulture is in scope of the majority of competitions in the Farming Innovation Programme. Under this programme we have committed over £80 million to 163 projects. Of that funding, around a quarter (£19 million) is earmarked for projects focusing on horticulture and just under two thirds of that (£12 million) has potential application across both edible and ornamental sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Beyond this, the Tree Production Capital Grant will reopen soon for new funding applications. This grant provides funding to increase domestic production of tree seed and saplings by supporting investments in expansion, automation and mechanisation of facilities and equipment. This will help to improve nursery resilience and sustainability and increase the diversity of tree species produced, as well as the quantity of trees and tree seed coming into the market.</p><p> </p><p>Defra will continue to engage with the ornamental horticulture industry to understand the issues they face.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 22/11/2023 11:56:13 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
	tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1462914

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Sequestration of Assets: Russia
	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 amount of Russian foreign exchange reserves that are held frozen in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The Russian government is unable to access any of their foreign exchange reserves held in the UK due to the measures the UK government have put in place that prevent UK persons from providing financial services for the purposes of foreign exchange and asset management to the Russian Ministry of Finance or Russia's Central Bank.</p><p> </p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the quantum of Russian foreign exchange reserves.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 26/05/2022 16:31:23 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1314968

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners continue to be in (1) Category A, and (2) Category B, prisons after the expiry of their original tariff.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2021 answer text <p>The total number of prisoners serving life and Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences who have never been released and as at 31 March 2021 had served more than 10 years past the expiry of their tariff, broken down by each year served beyond 10 years (time over tariff), is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Time over tariff</strong><sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Status</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Unreleased IPP Sentenced Prisoners</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unreleased Life Sentenced Prisoners</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 10 years to less than 11 years</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 11 years to less than 12 years</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 12 years to less than 13 years</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 13 years to less than 14 years</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 14 years to less than 15 years</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 15 years to less than 16 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 16 years to less than 17 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 17 years to less than 18 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 18 years to less than 19 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 19 years to less than 20 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 20 years to less than 21 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 21 years to less than 22 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 22 years to less than 23 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 23 years to less than 24 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 24 years to less than 25 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 25 years to less than 26 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 26 years to less than 27 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 27 years to less than 28 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 28 years to less than 29 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From 29 years to less than 30 years</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 years or more<sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>525</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>698</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,223</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(1) These counts have been aggregated due to small numbers. This is to prevent the disclosure of individual information. Further disclosure control may be completed where this alone is not sufficient.</p><p> </p><p>The tariff-expired unreleased indeterminate sentence prisoner population, broken down by ethnicity as of 31 March 2021, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Ethnicity Group</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Status</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Unreleased IPP Sentenced Prisoners</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unreleased Life Sentenced Prisoners</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian or Asian British</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black or Black British</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other ethnic group</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>1,334</p></td><td><p>1,345</p></td><td><p>2,679</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unrecorded</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not stated</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,705</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,648</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,353</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The tariff-expired unreleased indeterminate sentence prisoner population, broken down by prison security category as of 31 March 2021, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Main Function of Prison*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unreleased IPP Sentenced Prisoners</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unreleased Life Sentenced Prisoners</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cat A (High Security)</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td><p>299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cat B Trainer</p></td><td><p>229</p></td><td><p>203</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*These prisons may hold prisoners with lower security categories than the main function of the prison.</p><p> </p><p>Notes for all tables:</p><p>1. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p>2. The figures in these tables do not include recalled indeterminate-sentence prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the indeterminate sentence population in prisons are routinely published as part of the Quarterly Offender Management Statistics on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p><p>By law prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL263 HL264 question first answered 02/06/2021 12:40:00 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1169909

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2020
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 31 October 2019 (HL Deb, cols 1019), when the report of the Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry will be published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2020 answer text <p>In December 2018, Sir Patrick Coghlin Chair of the independent inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme issued the following statement:</p><p> </p><p><em>“I recognise that there will be considerable public interest in this issue. I’m afraid it’s simply not possible to give a date by which the Inquiry report will be published. What we can say is that the report will be published as soon as reasonably possible and that the public can be assured that the Inquiry will work assiduously to ensure that is the case.”</em></p><p> </p><p>As the inquiry was established by the previous Executive and is being supported by the Department of Finance, my Noble Friend should direct further queries about the inquiry to the NI Minister of that Department.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 17/01/2020 12:32:01 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

1151188

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Bangladesh: UN Population Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they have committed to support the UN Population Fund’s work in Bangladesh.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>DFID Bangladesh has current commitments to the United Nations Population Fund’s work in Bangladesh amounting to £20.8 million, to support strengthening of the national health system, and to provide midwifery education and services across the country, and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services for Rohingya refugees and host communities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 30/10/2019 13:58:41 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

746634

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether there is any one Government department charged with ensuring that all fire retardant materials are safe and effective at all times.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Public safety is a priority for Government. There are a range of measures in place across a number of Government departments to ensure the effectiveness and safety of flame retardant materials.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is responsible for product safety legislation, which requires products to be safe when they are placed on the market.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has responsibility for ensuring the safety of chemicals, including those used as flame retardants.</p><p> </p><p>The Health and Safety Executive oversees the EU regulations concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals (known as REACH). This has several aims, including providing a high level of protection of human health and the environment from the use of chemicals.</p><p> </p><p>Lead responsibility for the safety and effectiveness of flame retardant chemicals will rest with the Department responsible for any legislation specifying their usage.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL264 question first answered 13/07/2017 14:40:39 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

521016

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Fire Resistant Materials
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they received from the former Mayor of London, Mr Johnson, about the 2013 conclusions of the Report on Air Pollution in London, which he commissioned but did not publish in full; when any such information was received; and what response they made, if any.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2016 answer text <p>The Mayor is responsible for air quality standards in London. The Mayor provides the framework and guidance which London boroughs use to review and improve air quality within their areas. Officials have found no evidence that information about the specific report referred to was shared with Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/06/2016 11:36:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

348493

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Church Schools
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Freud on 3 June (HL Deb, col 508), what form the engagement with the church will take, and whether it will take place before the Education and Adoption Bill is introduced.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>Department for Education officials meet with representatives of the Church of England and Catholic Church on a regular basis to discuss the impact of Government policy on their schools. They will continue such engagement during the passage of the Education and Adoption Bill.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/06/2015 16:20:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

61487

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Kramer on 12 March (WA 375), in relation to the United Kingdom general aviation sector, what action has been taken to ensure cross-party cooperation and support for the Civil Aviation Authority in encouraging the growth of a vibrant United Kingdom general aviation sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
	uin	HL265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government and Civil Aviation Authority are taking forward a programme of work aimed at encouraging the growth of a vibrant general aviation sector. This has involved consultation with a wide range of stakeholders. My Noble Friend, Lord Rotherwick, secured a Question for Short Debate on the regulation of general aviation on 21 January 2014 [Official Report, column GC319], at which there was wide support for our programme of work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 25/06/2014 12:14:38 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
	tabling member	3733 label Biography information for Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington