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1038763

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion
	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 Fairhead on 20 September 2018 (HL10343), whether they have now received the regional trade plan of each of Her Majesty's Trade Commissioners; and if so, whether they will publish those plans.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL12726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>All of Her Majesty’s nine Trade Commissioners have completed their first Regional Trade Plans, which set out how each region will meet the Department’s objectives overseas. These have all been discussed at the Departmental Board. Over the coming months, Trade Commissioners will be refreshing their plans to ensure they remain fully updated.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade does not intend to publish Regional Trade Plans at present, as they are internal documents. However, for the future, we are considering what information may be appropriate to publish and when.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead grouped question UIN HL12727 question first answered 23/01/2019 14:18:01 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1038764

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion
	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 Fairhead on 20 September 2018 (HL10343), which Trade Commissioners, if any, have not yet submitted their regional trade plan.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL12727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>All of Her Majesty’s nine Trade Commissioners have completed their first Regional Trade Plans, which set out how each region will meet the Department’s objectives overseas. These have all been discussed at the Departmental Board. Over the coming months, Trade Commissioners will be refreshing their plans to ensure they remain fully updated.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade does not intend to publish Regional Trade Plans at present, as they are internal documents. However, for the future, we are considering what information may be appropriate to publish and when.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead grouped question UIN HL12726 question first answered 23/01/2019 14:18:02 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1042139

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Religion: Educational Institutions
	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 case for a specific educational institute in the UK to promote religious inclusiveness and the awareness of all faiths.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL12874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>In the Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper, published last year, the Government set out its commitment to building strong, integrated communities where people – whatever their background – live, learn, work and socialise together based on shared rights, responsibilities and opportunities. All schools are required to promote Fundamental British Values, which include mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs, and there are a range of existing sources of advice and guidance for schools on religious awareness.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/01/2019 14:41:18 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1041693

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Baby Care Units
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2018 to Question 201219 and with reference to the finding of Sands' Audit of Bereavement Care Provision in UK Neonatal Units 2018 that 12 per cent of neonatal units provide mandatory bereavement staff training, what steps his Department is taking to ensure neonatal units meet the Toolkit for High Quality Neonatal Services standard that all staff have bereavement training.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	208910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Toolkit for High Quality Neonatal Services sets out that all staff should have training appropriate to their role in supporting families during bereavement; that each unit has a bereavement lead; and that parents are given written information about bereavement services where relevant.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently undertaking a review of specialised neonatal services in order to improve quality of care and ensure there is sufficient capacity for the future. It will specifically consider the National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP), referenced in the Audit of Bereavement Care Provision in UK Neonatal Units 2018, which sets out a comprehensive framework for bereavement support across five stages of pregnancy and baby loss, including neonatal death. Like the Toolkit for High Quality Neonatal Services, the NBCP recommends that bereavement care training is provided to all staff who come into contact with bereaved parents.</p><p> </p><p>All bereaved parents, following baby loss, should be offered the same high standard of care and support in an appropriate environment. That is why the Government recently announced over £100,000 of funding for Sands, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity, to continue the roll-out of the NBCP for 2018/19. This builds upon £50,000 of start-up funding and is in response to the great strides the project is making.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2019 16:47:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1041694

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Maternity Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many employed mothers of babies who were admitted to neonatal care used their full 52 weeks of maternity leave entitlement in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	208911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely collect data on the length of maternity leave taken by employed mothers of babies who were admitted to neonatal care. The most recent data on the length of maternity leave taken by all mothers is from the Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey in 2009, which collected data from parents of children born in 2008 across Great Britain.</p><p>This shows that in 2008, 23% of all employed mothers took 52 weeks of Statutory Maternity Leave or more (e.g. by taking annual leave in addition).</p><p>We are currently undertaking a new survey of parents which will provide updated information on family-related leave and pay entitlements, including the length of Maternity Leave taken by mothers in general. Mothers who gave birth prematurely or whose babies were admitted to neonatal care are within the scope of this survey, but it may not be possible to identify them, nor to draw conclusions given that they will represent only a small number of respondents.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/01/2019 14:04:36 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1041695

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Fathers: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support working fathers whose babies have been admitted to neonatal units.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	208912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Employed fathers have a number of workplace employment rights which can be used to help care for their children or to support the other parent, subject to meeting qualifying conditions. These include Paternity Leave and Pay, Shared Parental Leave and Pay, Unpaid Parental Leave and time off for dependants. Where a child is born prematurely, fathers have the flexibility to take Paternity Leave and Pay within 8 weeks of the expected date of birth rather than within 8 weeks of the actual birth.</p><p>The Government is sympathetic towards the traumatic experiences of parents whose babies have been admitted to neonatal care units. This is why officials in the Department are currently conducting an informal review of the provisions available to parents or premature and sick babies and those experiencing multiple births, as part of the evaluation of Shared Parental Leave.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/01/2019 14:04:42 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1041419

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	208386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY14-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY15-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY16-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY17-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Taxis</p></td><td><p>£382,709.59</p></td><td><p>£416,642.05</p></td><td><p>£472,350.01</p></td><td><p>£338, 852.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>First Class Train Tickets</p></td><td><p>£605.34</p></td><td><p>£806.85</p></td><td><p>£2,403.27</p></td><td><p>£1,065.65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business Class Air Travel</p></td><td><p>£267.90</p></td><td><p>£2,087.81</p></td><td><p>£6,188.76</p></td><td><p>£516.34</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Expenditure on Taxis by the Home Office Group for FY2017/18 has decreased to £339k when compared to FYs14/15, 15/16 and 16/17 figures. Business class flights and first class train tickets spend fluctuated in the last four years but remained low for the Home Office Group.</p><p>There has been a continued drive to reduce spend on first class rail travel across the group. First class rail travel may be booked if there are no standard class facilities available, and to accommodate staff with disabilities or other special needs requirements.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/01/2019 16:49:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1037800

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January to Written Question 203216 on Immigration; Appeals, what the criteria are for his Department to expedite the consideration of an appeal based solely on human rights grounds in immigration cases, within the time limits set by the Tribunal Procedure Committee.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	206208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Where the Home Office decides not to contest an allowed appeal, follow-on actions are completed as quickly as practically possible. The timeframe will vary for individual cases, especially where a fresh decision is required, or the customer needs to provide further information.</p><p>Requests for priority implementation are considered on a case by case basis. For example, if an appellant has provided credible evidence of the life-threatening illness or death of a close family member overseas, UKVI will prioritise the implementation, unless there are serious countervailing factors which necessitate holding the case.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2019 16:57:54 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1041613

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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	Heart Diseases: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to support research into heart attacks in women; and for what reason that research was not included in the Government’s NHS Long-Term Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	208737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p><strong></strong>The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including heart attacks in women. It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions.</p><p> </p><p>There have been 28 studies directly funded by the NIHR relating to heart attacks (myocardial infarction) in the last five financial years, from 2013/14 to 2017/18, all with female participants, including a randomised controlled trial investigating the prevention of cardiac toxicity in breast cancer patients. Additionally, over the same period, there has been support through NIHR Clinical Research Networks for 23 studies investigating heart attacks all of which included female participants, with a total expenditure of £1.9 million. The British Women’s Heart and Health Study, which commenced in 2009, was directly funded by the NIHR and specifically looked at heart disease in women.</p><p> </p><p>Preventing and managing cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a priority for NHS England, as indicated by the inclusion of CVD in the NHS Long Term Plan. CVD prevention is also a key theme in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View and their NHS RightCare programme. NHS RightCare launched the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Optimal Value Pathway in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan also sets out how we will ensure that patients continue to benefit from high quality research and innovation with a commitment that the National Health Service will play its full part in delivering the Life Sciences sector deal and work to increase the number of people registering to participate in health research to one million by 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/01/2019 14:48:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1041200

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Iran about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in particular that she be granted access to medical treatment for long standing mental and physical health complaints.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
	uin	HL12782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>​The treatment of all British-Iranians detained in Iran, including Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, is a priority for the Government. We urgently raise these cases with the Iranian government at every opportunity. On 14 January, the Foreign Secretary summoned the Iranian Ambassador to the UK and called for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be immediately given the healthcare she requires and for her and other British-Iranian dual nationals to be released. We will continue to raise Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, as well as our other consular cases, with the Iranian government at every opportunity, including requesting consular access, and will continue to take action in line with what we believe will produce the best outcomes in their cases.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/01/2019 16:37:49 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry