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433374

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Islamophobia
	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 Islamophobia on Muslim communities in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Afshar
	uin	HL4092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Everyone in Britain has the right to feel safe and at ease in the place where they live. There is no place for hatred against people because of their race, gender, ethnic origin, faith, sexual orientation, age or disability.</p><p>Anti-Muslim attacks rose 30-40% in the first two weeks after the Paris attacks. These attacks are unacceptable in Britain. The Government funds Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) to encourage reporting of these crimes and to support victims. We have also set up the first cross Government Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group to raise awareness of Islamaphobic attacks. In addition, the Prime Minister announced that the police will disaggregate hate crime by religion beginning in April 2016. This will help the police to build community trust, target their resources and enable the public to hold them to account.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/12/2015 15:09:33 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3847 label Biography information for Baroness Afshar

435694

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	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	Students: Loans
	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 changes in student loan repayments to freeze the £21,000 income threshold cap on students and graduates from lower and middle incomes.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	uin	HL4269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p><del class="ministerial">The budget for the Tradeshow Access Programme was £11.05M in 2014/15 and the estimated spend in 2015/16 is £10.25M.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">For 2016/17 and beyond, UKTI will be reviewing how the Tradeshow Access Programme is aligned with other Export Services as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review settlement. It is therefore not possible to confirm the budget at this stage.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">I will respond positively to a request for a meeting with the Sponsors Alliance subject to diary commitments.</del></p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government published an Equality Analysis of the impact of freezing the student loan repayment threshold on 25th November.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">All borrowers whose earnings are above the repayment threshold will pay around £6 per week more (in nominal terms) by 2020/21. Those individuals with the lowest lifetime earnings will be affected the least, because they will either never earn above the earnings threshold, or will only do so for a more limited period of the loan’s life.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The full Equality Analysis is attached, but can also be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf</a></ins></p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 15/12/2015 16:20:37 question first ministerially corrected 21/12/2015 13:24:16 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park attachment 1 file name HL4269 attachment -freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf title Equality Analysis previous answer version 35662 answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

433124

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2015
	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	Yemen: Military Intervention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have suspended or revoked any extant arms licences to Saudi Arabia, or refused any new requests for licences for bombs, missiles, or other military arms and equipment, in the light of repeated UN statements regarding breaches of international humanitarian law in Yemen by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
	uin	HL4084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Since 2014 there have been no suspensions, no revocations and no refusals for licences for bombs, missiles, or other military arms and equipment”.</p><br /> <br /> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 15/12/2015 16:02:22 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

433386

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2015
	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	Lead Ammunition Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to publish the report of the Lead Ammunition Group, which was submitted on 3 June, and their response.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Parminter
	uin	HL4104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering the independent Lead Ammunition Group’s report and will respond as soon as possible.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 15/12/2015 16:22:40 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	4178 label Biography information for Baroness Parminter

434110

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Hepatitis
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what incentives and performance targets exist to encourage HM Prison Service to improve rates of testing for hepatitis C among prisoners.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL4229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Improving the proactive detection, surveillance and management of infectious diseases in prisons is a shared priority for the National Offender Management Service, NHS England and Public Health England, as described in the Second National Partnership Agreement published earlier this year. A copy is attached.</p><p>Included within this work programme is implementation of the blood-borne virus (BBV) opt-out testing programme for people in prisons, which includes testing for Hepatitis C virus infection as well as Hepatitis B virus and HIV.</p><p>The ambition is to have BBV opt-out testing in all adult prisons in England by end of the financial year 2016-17.</p><p>While there are currently no financial incentives or direct performance targets, performance in this activity is measured by NHS England through the collection of data via the Health &amp; Justice Indicators of Performance. The data are used by NHS England commissioners to performance manage healthcare providers in prisons.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/12/2015 15:52:38 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name national_partnership_agreement_commissioning-delivery-healthcare-prisons_2015.pdf title National Partnership Agreement
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

433075

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2015
	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	Apprentices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many engineering and manufacturing apprenticeships were created in the last Parliament (1) nationally, and (2) in North Lincolnshire, and how many they are intending to create during this Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL4035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>There have been 324,800 apprenticeship starts in the manufacturing technologies sector subject area nationally in the last parliament (May 2010 to April 2015).</p><br /><p>In North Lincolnshire Local Authority there have been 1,500 apprenticeship starts in the manufacturing technologies sector subject area in the last parliament (May 2010 to April 2015).</p><br /><p>We are committed to reaching 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020.</p><p>The locations and sectors where apprenticeships are available are determined by employers choosing to offer apprenticeships and recruit apprentices. We have therefore set no specific regional targets.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/12/2015 12:34:30 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

434144

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Vocational Guidance: Young People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in developing their plans for improving the careers service for young people up to the age of 18, they have consulted the National Careers Service about possible collaboration.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Sharp of Guildford
	uin	HL4263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education works closely with the National Careers Service (NCS), which supports young people directly through a website, telephone helpline and webchat service and through a brokerage role with schools and employers.</p><br /><p>We consulted the NCS in advance of establishing The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company, and since then the two organisations have worked together to understand where and how services can be coordinated to ensure that they complement each other.</p><br /><p>In the spring we will publish a strategy for improved careers provision for young people and we are engaging with the NCS as we develop our proposals. In particular the NCS will support one of our key aims, which is to ensure that young people and their parents or carers can access the information they need to make informed decisions on their education, training and employment options.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/12/2015 13:00:13 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	2113 label Biography information for Baroness Sharp of Guildford

436599

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	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	District Heating
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made any assessment of the cost of energy bills to people served by District Heating Networks.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL4433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>In March 2015 DECC published a report by AECOM titled ‘An Assessment of the Costs, Performance, and Characteristics of UK Heat Networks’. The report included a review of the prices charged to final customers by a representative sample of heat networks (7 in total). The average heat price was found to be 6.43p/kWh but with a wide range of 4.64 to 9.88 p/kWh reflecting differences in network design, construction, commissioning and operation. On average this is less than the modelled cost of gas central heating in flats and terraced houses when boiler ownership costs are included (7.22 to 10.24p/kWh).</p><br /><p>The Government is aware that costs to the consumer can vary and achieving cost savings is dependent on the quality of the individual network. DECC has supported industry development of a technical code of practice for heat networks, and worked closely with industry and consumer groups on the development of Heat Trust, an independent consumer protection scheme that launched in November 2015. There are also plans to launch an on-line cost comparator tool in 2016 to allow a consumer to assess their charges against gas central heating. This greater transparency of heat charges is complemented by the billing information requirements in the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 15/12/2015 15:48:46 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

433630

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Police Custody
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in 2015 towards ensuring that people with mental health issues are not detained in police cells because no hospital bed is available for them.
	tabling member printed	Lord Condon
	uin	HL4140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>According to data from the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the number of people detained in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 fell by 34% in England between 2013-14 and 2014-15. This corresponds to an increase in the use of hospital-based places of safety of 14%, according to the Health &amp; Social Care Information Centre. The figure amounts to a 54% reduction in the use of police custody since 2011-12, surpassing the ambition of a 50% reduction set out in the Government’s Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, which was published in February 2014 and is attached. Existing guidance in the Concordat and the Mental Health Act Code of Practice makes it clear that police custody should only be used as a place of safety in exceptional circumstances.</p><p>The Concordat – signed by over 25 national organisations – has led to the establishment of 96 local groups covering the entirety of England, consisting of health, policing and local authority partners who have pledged to work together to improve mental health crisis care and set out detailed, publicly available plans, including to reduce the use of police custody for those detained under the Act.</p><p>However, although significant progress has been made, the Government has signalled its intention to go further by amending legislation through the forthcoming Police and Criminal Justice Bill, so that, among other measures, police custody can never be used as a place of safety for under-18s and so custody can only be used for adults in the most exceptional circumstances.</p><p>Moreover, in May this year the Home Secretary announced that the Government would invest up to an additional £15 million in 2016-17 to reduce the use of police custody as a place of safety. Further announcements around this will be made shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/12/2015 15:50:44 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Mental_Health_Crisis_Care Concordat.pdf title Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat
	tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

434088

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Devolution: North of England
	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 extent to which devolution from central government to the North of England should be based on devolving decision-making and administration to (1) local authorities, (2) the areas covered by Local Economic Partnerships, (3) city regions, (4) the three traditional regions of the North West, the North East and Yorkshire, with or without Humberside, and (5) the North of England as a whole.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL4207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to devolving significant powers away from Whitehall, and we have already agreed devolution deals with five great Northern areas. We have been very clear that it is for places to define their own aspirations for devolution. We encourage all relevant local partners, including local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships, to engage in discussions to ensure consensus is reached on the most suitable geography to pursue devolution.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/12/2015 15:10:40 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves