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753310

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to increase the use of rooftop solar power.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>Solar PV is a UK success story. In 2013 we estimated that solar capacity would reach 10-12GW by 2020. We now expect Government support to bring forward around 13 GW by 2020. The Feed-in Tariff remains open to solar PV which provides an incentive for businesses to invest in rooftop solar.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 13:33:03 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753296

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is the budget of the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate for 2017–18; how many staff it expects to employ in 2017–18; and how many staff it employed in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
	uin	HL984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate currently employs thirteen members of staff and has a budget of £750,000 for the financial year 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The table below details the number of staff employed by EAS in the last five years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Full Time Equivalent Staff as of the 1st April for each year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2 (supported by an Administrative Officer)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 13:32:45 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

518804

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Funeral Payments
	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 impact of Health Education England’s demand-led approach to the assessment of the number of consultant posts needed in highly specialist fields such as clinical pharmacology.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL98
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2016 answer text <p>It is Health Education England’s responsibility to ensure that there is sufficient future supply of staff, including those needed in specialist fields, to meet the workforce requirements of the English health system.</p><p> </p><p>The Workforce Plan is built upon the needs of local employers, providers, commissioners and other stakeholders who, as members of its Local Education Training Boards (LETBs), shape the thirteen local plans.</p><p> </p><p>The Workforce Plan is predominately an aggregate of the local LETB plans, but the final national plan is only agreed with the advice and input of its clinical advisory groups and Patients’ Advisory Forum, as well as the Royal Colleges and other stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 25/05/2016 13:52:12 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

518803

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that NICE guidance is followed in the use of faecal microbiota transplants in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL97
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has produced guidance on faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection under the interventional procedure programme. This programme makes recommendations about the safety of the procedures and how well they work. However the guidance does not constitute a direction to National Health Service trusts to provide the interventions. Decisions about whether to provide a treatment are taken locally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL94 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:29:01 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

518802

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Burial and Cremation
	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 rate of uptake by the NHS of faecal microbiota transplants in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL96
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced guidance on faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection. NICE has recommended that the procedure is safe enough for use in the National Health Service, but no assessment of its cost effectiveness has been made by NICE.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the uptake by the NHS of faecal microbiota transplants in the treatment of recurrent <em>Clostridium difficile</em> is not collected centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL95 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:25:27 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

532362

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Public Finance
	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 assessment they have made of the discrepancy between the total claims made by the UK against EEA countries and Switzerland and the total claims made against the UK by EEA countries and Switzerland.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>There is no discrepancy, merely an imbalance due to demographic factors. European Union healthcare rules ensure that millions of United Kingdom citizens who work, visit or retire to other European countries can receive the free or reduced cost healthcare they need. Some 80% of the UK’s European Economic Area healthcare bill is for our pensioners who chose to retire to Europe.</p><p> </p><p>As many more of our pensioners choose to retire to other EEA countries than pensioners from those countries retiring to the UK, it is inevitable we will pay more to cover the healthcare costs of people insured by the UK than we will receive from other EEA countries. People from Europe who choose to live, work and pay tax in the UK are fully covered by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>All EEA counties, including the UK, have a legal obligation to pay agreed claims relating to healthcare treatment provided. Once both sides are satisfied that such claims are accurate, they are paid in full.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/07/2016 12:30:20 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

532360

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	School Libraries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what resources were allocated in, or are planned for, (1) 2016–17, (2) 2017–18, (3) 2018–19, and (4) 2019–20, for (a) university social work programmes via student bursaries and the Training Support Grant; (b) the Frontline social work trainee programme; (c) the Think Ahead trainee programme; (d) the Step Up to Social Work trainee programme; (e) social work teaching partnerships; and (f) the start-up and continuing costs for the accreditation of child and family social work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The following table shows the funding allocated to the Frontline social work trainee programme, the Think Ahead trainee programme, the Step Up to Social Work trainee programme and social work teaching partnerships in the 2016-17 financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme</p></td><td><p>2016-17 £ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frontline social work trainee programme Contract to deliver a national fast-track programme Pilot grant</p></td><td><p>2.4 7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Think Ahead trainee programme</p></td><td><p>4.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Step Up to Social Work trainee programme</p></td><td><p>11.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social work teaching partnerships</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The 2016-17 funding for university social work programmes via student bursaries and the Education Support Grant is currently being finalised and as such is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>The final costs of the assessment and accreditation system for child and family social workers are subject to future procurement, but will be met within the Department for Education (DfE) Spending Review settlement.</p><p> </p><p>The budgets in future years for each of these programmes, with the exception of the contract with Frontline, an independent charitable organisation, to deliver a national fast-track programme, are not yet agreed and are subject to business planning in the normal way.</p><p> </p><p>DfE has a protected budget of £320 million each year of the Spending Review period for children’s services and Ministers are in the process of making decisions about how best to allocate resources within this envelope. DfE programme figures in this response show the allocations which have already been made.</p><p> </p><p>The following table below shows the allocations to Frontline, up to and including 2019-20, to deliver a national fast-track programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme</p></td><td><p>2017 – 18 £ million</p></td><td><p>2018 – 19 £ million</p></td><td><p>2019 – 20 £ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Contract to deliver a national fast-track programme</p></td><td><p>11.07</p></td><td><p>16.24</p></td><td><p>18.49</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/07/2016 13:55:18 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

518801

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	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 outcome and cost effectiveness of the use of faecal microbiota transplants in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL95
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced guidance on faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection. NICE has recommended that the procedure is safe enough for use in the National Health Service, but no assessment of its cost effectiveness has been made by NICE.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the uptake by the NHS of faecal microbiota transplants in the treatment of recurrent <em>Clostridium difficile</em> is not collected centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL96 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:25:27 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

518800

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that NICE guidance is followed in the use of faecal microbiota transplants in the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL94
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has produced guidance on faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection under the interventional procedure programme. This programme makes recommendations about the safety of the procedures and how well they work. However the guidance does not constitute a direction to National Health Service trusts to provide the interventions. Decisions about whether to provide a treatment are taken locally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL97 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:29:01 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

752491

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to preserve businesses' confidence as part of a transitional plan for Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>We need an economy that works for everyone and the Government is working to deliver a bold, long term Industrial Strategy that builds on our strengths and prepares us for the years ahead.</p><p>Government is engaged in extensive and diverse engagement with businesses of all sizes across the UK, having open and honest conversations about both the challenges that leaving the EU poses, but also the opportunities that will become open to us. As part of this, government is creating a new EU exit business advisory group to ensure business is not only heard but is influential throughout the negotiations.</p><p>We are also providing as much certainty and clarity as we can at every stage. For example the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill aims to maximise certainty for businesses by ensuring that the laws and rules that we have now will, wherever practicable, continue to apply once we have left the EU. This provides the basis for a smooth and orderly exit.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 31/07/2017 14:22:36 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick