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731081

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff members are from (1) EU member states other than the UK, and (2) countries outside the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.</p><p>As of 31 March 2017, latest data available, there are now 61,934 (headcount) European Union nationals (excluding the United Kingdom), or 5.2% employed in the NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups. There are 75,450 other overseas nationals, or 6.4% employed in the NHS. 80,822 NHS staff records do not contain nationality data, with people either choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 04/07/2017 15:50:03 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1313697

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how schools will be funded to continue to deliver the additional services they are providing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>As part of the three year increase to core funding, the biggest in a decade, schools have received a £2.6 billion increase in funding in financial year 2020/21 and will receive a further £4.8 billion increase in 2021/22, compared to 2019/20. The Department has also provided a range of funding and support to schools since March 2020 to help with the challenges of responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes making available:</p><ul><li>Exceptional costs funding. The Covid Exceptional Costs fund was established to reimburse schools for costs such as additional cleaning. Schools have been paid £139 million for all claims within the published scope of the fund across both application windows.</li><li>£1 billion catch-up funding announced in June 2020, including a one off £650 million catch-up premium and £350 million to support tutoring across the National Tutoring Programme and 16 to 19 tuition fund, which will go to schools, colleges and other 16 to 19 providers.</li><li>A further £700 million recovery package announced in February 2021, including a new one off £302 million Recovery Premium for state primary and secondary schools in academic year 2021/22, £200 million for summer schools, and a further £200 million expansion to tutoring including support for early language development.</li><li>Free school meals support. Schools have been able to use either the national voucher scheme, where costs were met centrally, or claim back additional funding to provide meal parcels or locally arranged vouchers for children who would be eligible for free school meals while children were educated from home. This funding has been in addition to the free school meals and universal infants free school meals funding that is with schools. As well as this, the free school meals supplementary grant was extended into 2020/21. This grant provides schools with extra funding to meet the costs of providing meals for newly eligible students before the lagged funding system catches up. The Department has made available over £760 million to support this.</li><li>Remote education support. The Department has invested over £400 million to support access to technology and online social care services, including delivering 1.3 million laptops.</li><li>Mass testing support. The Department has made over £100 million available on costs relating to the initial roll out of rapid mass testing.</li></ul><p>My right hon. Friends, the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Education, have appointed Sir Kevan Collins as Education Recovery Commissioner to advise on the approach for education recovery, including to consider how schools and the system can use evidence and more effectively target resources and support at pupils and areas in greatest need.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 25/05/2021 15:46:54 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1168631

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Development Aid
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what contribution the Department for International Development made to (1) core, and (2) non-core, funding in (a) 2017–18, and (b) 2018–19, to the (i) United Nations Population Fund, (ii) World Health Organization, (iii) UNICEF, (iv) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, (v) International Planned Parenthood Federation, (vi) Women and Children First UK, (vii) Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and (viii) UN Women.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>Department for International Development’s Official Development Assistance funding to selected multilateral institutions by (1) core and (2) non-core for 2017 and 2018 calendar years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Core (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Non-core (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Core (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Non-core (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Population Fund</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p>120.5</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p>147.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>World Health Organisation</p></td><td><p>19.5</p></td><td><p>105.5</p></td><td><p>29.5</p></td><td><p>133.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)</p></td><td><p>48.0</p></td><td><p>390.1</p></td><td><p>48.0</p></td><td><p>391.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Planned Parenthood Federation</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Women and Children First UK</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria</p></td><td><p>317.1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>360.0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 07/01/2020 17:26:15 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1461052

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Natural Gas: Continental Shelf
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking (1) to encourage, and (2) to secure, investment in UK Continental Shelf gas fields (a) to expand production, and (b) to strengthen security of energy supply.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>On 14 March, my rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister hosted a roundtable of leaders in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry to discuss domestic energy security, increasing investment in the North Sea oil and gas industry and boosting supply of domestic gas.</p><p> </p><p>The North Sea Transition Authority plans to launch another licensing round in the autumn, taking into account the forthcoming climate compatibility checkpoint.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 24/05/2022 15:19:17 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

1149797

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	English Language: Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to launch the new national strategy for English Language learning announced this autumn; and whether that strategy will include an assessment of the efficacy of English for Speakers of Other Languages as an English language learning programme.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The government has committed to developing a new strategy for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in 2019. This strategy will provide a shared vision and common aims for all publicly funded ESOL.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 24/10/2019 15:46:13 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

58564

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have held talks with the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Justice Minister about the forthcoming parading season in Northern Ireland; when any such meetings occurred; and who was present at those meetings.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland met the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Chair of the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland and the Minister for Justice for Northern Ireland on Wednesday, 14 May 2014.</p><p>Also in attendance at this meeting were senior officials from the Northern Ireland Office and Department of Justice along with members of the PSNI Service Executive Team and the Secretariat of the Parades Commission.</p><p>This meeting provided participants with an opportunity to exchange general views on the parading season in Northern Ireland. No decisions were taken at this meeting and there were no discussions about operational matters relating to specific parades.</p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 10/06/2014 14:33:44 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

347225

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Community Hospitals: Staffordshire
	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 recommendation made by KPMG in the Staffordshire Distressed Health Economy report that beds in community hospitals in Tamworth, Longton and Cheadle be reduced.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>Both North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups have been working to develop community models of care, so that their populations, particularly frail older people who use community hospitals, are receiving rehabilitation care through effective step down services and that where a patient has an exacerbation they can have access to a community bed.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 09/06/2015 12:43:07 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

518795

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to reallocating public funds presently allocated to (1) candidate and party election addresses, and (2) government advertising, to enable a cost-neutral package of reform of the rules on political party finance, including a cap on donations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Tyler
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is open to dialogue on practical measures to reform the funding of political parties. This can only be achieved by cross party discussions from the political parties themselves.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 02/06/2016 15:47:54 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
	tabling member	225 label Biography information for Lord Tyler

1668653

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Development Aid
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to support community-led efforts in other countries that focus on HIV (1) prevention, (2) awareness, and (3) support for key affected populations, such as sex workers, LGBTQ+ communities, and people who use drugs.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>Addressing stigma and discrimination and ensuring equality of access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services is critical to the global HIV response. Our funding to the Robert Carr Fund and to UNAIDS helps to support legal and policy reform to combat stigma and discrimination and to improve access to HIV services, including prevention, awareness and support services, for key populations, particularly LGBT+ communities. The UK is a champion for human rights. Our £1 billion pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria will support its Strategy which includes focus on addressing inequities and structural drivers of HIV infection and AIDS-related deaths including legal barriers.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/11/2023 17:17:18 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1721272

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Bibby Stockholm
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to continue to use the "Bibby Stockholm"; and, if so, for what purpose and at what budgeted cost.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2024 answer text <p>The Bibby Stockholm will continue to be in use until the contract expires in January 2025.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint question first answered 01/08/2024 15:14:47 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno