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1189400

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Prescriptions: Rural Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that NHS England implements the Electronic Prescription Service in dispensing practices to benefit rural patients.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2020 answer text <p>The majority of dispensing practices are live with the prescribing functionality of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS). In the next round of general practitioner contract negotiations, the Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement will look at what further support can be provided to dispensing practices to implement the EPS.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 01/05/2020 11:54:41 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

1358921

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Secondary Education: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reintroduce COVID-19 safety measures in secondary schools in light of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in younger people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The department’s priority is for schools to deliver face to face, high quality education to all pupils. The evidence is clear that being out of education can cause significant harm to educational attainment, life chances, and mental and physical health. As COVID-19 becomes a virus that we learn to live with, there is now an imperative to reduce the disruption to children and young people’s education.</p><p>While the latest data and scientific modelling suggest that cases will continue to rise as restrictions are eased, we are now in a context that has fundamentally changed due to the success of the vaccination programme.</p><p>We have therefore moved away from stringent restrictions on everyone’s day-to-day lives, towards advising people on how to protect themselves and others, alongside targeted interventions to reduce risk.</p><p>All young people aged 16 and 17 years have already been offered a first dose of vaccine and 12 to 17 year olds with certain medical conditions that make them more at risk of serious illness, or who are living with someone who is immunosuppressed, are eligible for 2 doses.</p><p>To reduce transmission, the department is keeping some measures in place across nurseries, schools and colleges to enable us to provide as normal an experience as possible. This will be supported by our ability to respond swiftly and consistently to any exceptional circumstances should it prove necessary and may include reintroducing additional control measures for a limited period to deal with outbreaks. These are set out in the contingency framework: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-local-restrictions-in-education-and-childcare-settings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-local-restrictions-in-education-and-childcare-settings</a>.</p><p>Schools continue to have their own health and safety risk assessments and keep these under review. As part of this there are certain control measures we have asked schools to maintain in order to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. This includes ensuring good hygiene for everyone, maintaining appropriate cleaning regimes and keeping occupied spaces well ventilated.</p><p>Carbon dioxide monitors have also been provided to all state-funded schools starting from September, so staff can quickly identify where ventilation needs to be improved. The government has also launched a trial of air purifiers in 30 schools in Bradford, which is designed to assess the technology in education settings and whether they could reduce the risk of transmission.</p><p>The department will continue to keep these measures under review, in partnership with health experts and informed by the latest scientific evidence and advice.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 26/10/2021 16:15:51 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1537290

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2022
	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	Packaging: Recycling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what evaluation they have made of the commercial viability of the use of compostable potato starch bag packaging by government agencies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>HM Government is not currently providing any specific support for the development of compostable potato starch bag packaging and have not evaluated the commercial viability of using compostable potato starch bag packaging by government agencies. Through UK Research and Innovation, we have provided over £190 million to over 280 projects in the last 5 years, for research to help us reduce plastic waste and increase the sustainability of the plastic packaging we use.</p><p> </p><p>In light of evidence received in response to our call for evidence on bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastic, our focus is on working towards all plastic packaging being recyclable or reusable rather than compostable. Currently there is insufficient industrial composting capacity throughout England to manage compostable plastics at end of life and our call for evidence suggests these materials are often stripped out at the start of the process and landfilled or incinerated. This packaging also does not contribute to a circular economy in the same way as packaging that can be reused or recycled into new packaging or products do, as compostable plastic packaging is generally intended to be used once.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon grouped question UIN HL3042 question first answered 14/11/2022 18:00:59 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

157098

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Directors: LGBT+ People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the action they have taken on gender and race, what efforts they are making to improve the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on corporate boards in the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Madingley
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Following Lord Davies’s Review on Women on Boards in 2011, we are now at 22.8% women on FTSE 100 boards (October 2014), from a starting point of 12.5% in 2011.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Business innovation and Skills has also recently asked Trevor Phillips to start a new private sector led campaign which will look to address the lack of ethnic diversity in boardrooms, based in part on research that indicates the proportion of Black &amp; Ethnic Minority people in leadership positions is lower than expected compared to the wider population (estimated at 5.1% and 14% respectively).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Recruitment, appointment and promotion should always be on merit, irrespective or gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. We believe it is in the best interests of business to tap into the widest talent pool and that by definition means a diverse and representative leadership team.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We expect that through the progress made on gender and the planned work on ethnic diversity, the momentum will help to improve diversity on corporate boards for all people from different backgrounds, including those from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2014 16:07:22 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2172 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Madingley

1694006

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Port Talbot
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the electricity transmission network is sufficient to allow for the replacement of the Port Talbot steel works blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>Tata Steel and National Grid have been working closely to ensure the deliverability of a grid connection in line with the project requirements.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 19/03/2024 12:35:48 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

424132

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Energy: Subsidies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current cost per kilowatt hour of public subsidies for (1) oil, (2) gas, (3) coal, (4) nuclear, and (5) wind solar, power stations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Donoughue
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government currently does not provide subsidies to oil, gas, coal or nuclear power stations.</p><br /><p>The ring fence tax regime for oil and gas does include allowances, such as the Investment Allowance, which are designed to reduce the impact of the supplementary charge ensuring otherwise economic investment is not uncommercial. Upstream companies continue to pay Ring Fence Corporation Tax at a rate of 30% (which is higher than the 20% mainstream rate of Corporation Tax rate paid by other sectors).</p><br /><p>Top up payments provided through Contract for Difference (CfD) and Capacity Market (CM) are expected to come online in the next decade and therefore do not count towards current levels of subsidy. Please note that these payments have been awarded on a competitive basis and are technology neutral.</p><br /><p>In relation to successful technologies of the Capacity Market auction, such as coal, gas, and existing nuclear, payments for 2018/19 have been awarded at £19.40/kW. CM payments are to provide revenue certainty to capacity providers that in a perfectly functioning energy market and absence of a CM would have accrued to them in any case. Therefore CM payments are certainty over future revenues rather than subsidy as such.</p><br /><p>In relation to the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C, the first nuclear CfD is expected to come online at the start of the next decade. The strike price for Hinkley Point C was agreed and announced in 2013. It has been set at £92.50/MWh fully indexed to the Consumer Price Index.If the final investment decision is taken on Sizewell C, the Strike Price for Hinkley Point C will be reduced to £89.50/MWh, on the assumption that EDF will be able to share first of a kind costs of EPR reactors across Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C sites.</p><br /><p>Wind and solar technologies are currently subsidised through the Renewables Obligation and the Feed-in-Tariff, which respectively support large scale and small scale renewable generation. In Northern Ireland there is no Feed-in-Tariff and the Renewables Obligation subsidises both large and small scale renewable generation.</p><br /><p>The current solar PV and wind subsidy levels for the Renewables Obligation (RO) are set out in the table below. These figures reflect the current 2015/16 banding levels, they are based on a Buy-out price of £44.33 per RO certificate, and are expressed in 15/16 prices.</p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>RO (Great Britain) : Solar PV</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Installation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subsidy (p/kWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ground Mounted &gt;1MW</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Building Mounted &gt;1MW</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>RO (Northern Ireland) : Solar PV</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Installation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subsidy (p/kWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>17.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50kW-250kW</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>&gt;250kW</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>RO (Great Britain) : Wind</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Installation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subsidy (p/kWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Onshore &gt; 5MW</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offshore &gt;5MW</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>RO (Northern Ireland) : Wind</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Installation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subsidy (p/kWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Onshore</p></td><td><p>17.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Onshore 50kW-250kW</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Onshore &gt;250kW</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offshore &gt;250kW</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The current solar PV and wind subsidy levels for the Feed-in-Tariff are set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>FIT : Solar PV</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>FIT: Wind Onshore</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Installation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subsidy (p/kWh)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Installation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subsidy (p/kWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>13.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4-50kW</p></td><td><p>11.3</p></td><td><p>100–500kW</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-150kW</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>500–1,500kW</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>150-250kW</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td><td><p>1,500-5,000kW</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>250-5000kW</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stand alone</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The figures are taken directly from the generation tariffs reported in Ofgem’s FIT Tariff Tables available on the attached links, and are expressed in 15/16 prices.</p><br /><p>Please note that we are proposing to revise the subsidy levels for solar PV under both the FIT and the RO, and for wind under the RO. Awarded Contracts for Difference for solar PV and wind will come into place in the next few years.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name fit_payment_rate_table_for_publication_1_october_2015_pv_tariffs.pdf title FIT payment rate table for publication 1 Oct 2015 2 file name fit_non-pv_tariff_table_1_october_2015_0.pdf title FIT non-PV tariff table 1 Oct 2015 question first answered 18/11/2015 13:21:03 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	2709 label Biography information for Lord Donoughue

631024

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Radio Frequencies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with Ofcom about contingency plans for the audio Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE) sector should no audio PMSE equipment be available for use in the 960–1164MHz band by Q2 2020 when the 700MHz band is cleared of PMSE users.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>Ofcom provides monthly updates to DCMS on its work to encourage development of equipment for use in the 960-1164 MHz band. DCMS and Ofcom are also holding meetings with PMSE representatives and equipment manufacturers.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 17/11/2016 13:10:19 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

785895

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice they give to state-funded schools about excluding pupils for reasons other than those connected to behaviour.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL3043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Exclusion on any grounds other than discipline is unlawful. The Government supports head teachers in using exclusion as a sanction where it is warranted. However, permanent exclusion should only be used as a last resort, in response to a serious breach or persistent breaches of the school's behaviour policy; and where allowing the pupil to remain in school would seriously harm the education or welfare of the pupil or others in the school.</p><p> </p><p>The department publishes statutory guidance, attached, for head teachers and governors on exclusion: ‘Exclusion from maintained schools, Academies and pupil referral units in England’. The guidance covers the process from start to finish, and makes clear the factors that a head teacher should take into account before taking a decision to exclude.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 20/11/2017 11:42:52 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name 20170831_Exclusion_Stat_guidance_Web_version.pdf title Exclusion from maintained schools
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie