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438504

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	care.data Advisory Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current membership of the care.data Advisory Group.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The care.data Advisory Group met between March 2014 and October 2015 and has now been disbanded. The group was Chaired by Ciarán Devane, who at the time was a non-executive director of NHS England, and included representatives from the following organisations:</p><br /><p>- Academy of Medical Royal Colleges;</p><p>- Association of Medical Research Charities;</p><p>- Big Brother Watch;</p><p>- British Heart Foundation;</p><p>- British Medical Association;</p><p>- HealthWatch England;</p><p>- Hurley Group;</p><p>- Kings College London;</p><p>- Kings Fund;</p><p>- medConfidential;</p><p>- MIND;</p><p>- National Institute for Health Research;</p><p>- National Voices;</p><p>- Patients4Data;</p><p>- Royal College of General Practitioners;</p><p>- Royal College of Psychiatrists;</p><p>- Clinical Commissioning Groups;</p><p>- UCL Partners; and</p><p>- Wellcome Trust.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:26:06 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

436579

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	West of England Line
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the annual amount spent on upgrading the railway tracks and stations between Salisbury and Exeter between 2015 and 2020 will increase or decrease in real terms.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL4413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Network Rail currently has no funded strategic plans for significant upgrading on this route. However, it advises that it is working closely with local stakeholders, including Local Enterprise Partnerships and local authorities, to work up potential schemes that could support growth and meet the needs of passengers.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 21/12/2015 12:25:54 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

435693

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what provisions the contract with Concentrix regarding child tax credits and other benefits makes concerning the time within which decisions must be made about the eligibility for such benefits once they have been withdrawn, and what assessment they have made of how the company has performed against any such requirements in respect of the number of cases in which that period has been exceeded.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	uin	HL4268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) contract with SYNNEX-Concentrix UK Limited, signed in May 2014, provides additional capacity to review and correct tax credit claims that are potentially based on incorrect information.</p><p>Full details of the contractual arrangements, including agreed performance indicators put in place in respect of the intervention service, can be found on gov.uk.</p><br /><p>HMRC regularly monitors the performance of contractors but, due to the commercially sensitive nature of this information, it does not disclose such information.</p><br /> <br /> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 21/12/2015 15:25:33 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

434128

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Students
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria they use in auditing compliance with Tier 4 licences for non-EU students.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL4247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>All Tier 4 licensed sponsors are assessed against criteria set out in the published Tier 4 Guidance for Sponsors. This includes the following four documents:</p><ul><li>Document one – Applying for a Tier 4 licence</li><li>Document two – Sponsorship Duties</li><li>Document three – Tier 4 Compliance</li><li>Appendix D - record keeping</li></ul><p>Some of the key criteria includes:</p><ul><li>Ensuring that each sponsor has a genuine and lawful trading presence.</li><li>Ensuring that each sponsor holds the appropriate education oversight with the relevant external inspection body.</li><li>Compliance visits; where checks are undertaken to establish whether an institution’s HR functions are appropriate.</li><li>An annual basic compliance assessment (BCA); where the sponsor must meet demonstrate that their visa refusal, enrolment and course completion rates fall within the outlined requisites<em>.</em></li></ul> answering member printed Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Tier 4 Guidance 11-2015 - Documents 1-3 combined.pdf title Tier 4 Guidance - 1-3 Combined 2 file name Appendix D.pdf title Appendix D question first answered 21/12/2015 16:55:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

438501

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	UnitingCare Partnership
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the NHS Strategic Projects Team is to be held to account for the advice it gave to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, and to the NHS Commissioning Board, on the contract for older people's services in Cambridge and Peterborough.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that it will be commissioning an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the termination of the contract between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and UnitingCare Partnership LLP to deliver urgent care for the over 65s and adult community services. This will include the role of the Strategic Projects Team. NHS England is also considering how similar contracts will be managed and assured in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4598 question first answered 21/12/2015 17:22:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

438502

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	UnitingCare Partnership
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to establish an independent external assessment of the reasons for the failure of the contract for older people's services in Cambridge and Peterborough; and what plans they have for a moratorium on further large-scale procurements until lessons from that contract have been learnt.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that it will be commissioning an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the termination of the contract between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and UnitingCare Partnership LLP to deliver urgent care for the over 65s and adult community services. This will include the role of the Strategic Projects Team. NHS England is also considering how similar contracts will be managed and assured in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4597 question first answered 21/12/2015 17:22:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

436998

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Turkey: Yazidis
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussion, if any, they have had with the government of Turkey and the UNHCR about urgent plans for the return home of Yazidi refugees, currently in a camp near Diyarbakir.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL4464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government is not aware of plans to return Yezidi refugees to their homes from Diyarbakir. The UK works with the Government of Turkey, the United Nations and the international community to support the rights of all minorities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 21/12/2015 14:20:12 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

436999

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	Turkey: Refugees
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take steps to ensure that Turkey does not repatriate any genuine refugees, following the recent EU–Turkey financial agreement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL4465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK cooperates closely with Turkey on migration and Turkey has consistently confirmed that their borders remain open to genuine refugees. We commend Turkey’s generosity in hosting over 2.2 million refugees from the crisis in Syria and Iraq. Enhanced cooperation between the EU and Turkey is critical to resolving the current migration crisis. At the EU-Turkey summit on 29 November, the EU agreed €3billion of additional support to Turkey to help ease its refugee burden and prevent further irregular migration to the EU. Turkey and the EU also agreed to activate the migration action plan. As part of this action plan, Turkey committed to accelerate procedures in order to readmit smoothly irregular migrants who are not in need of international protection, whilst ensuring that vulnerable people continue to be identified and taken care of.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 21/12/2015 14:41:44 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

437873

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Trident Submarines
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend, before the Scottish general election, to table a debate in the House of Commons on the decision to build the Vanguard-class replacement.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL4575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Government has confirmed it will hold a debate in Parliament on the principle of Continuous at Sea Deterrence and our plans for the Successor submarine. A decision on when it will be held will be taken in due course.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/12/2015 14:43:42 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

436064

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Tornado Aircraft
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Tornado aircraft (1) the RAF possess which are (a) available for operation, (b) maintained at each of the various defined levels, and (c) in storage; and (2) the RAF intend to fund for each of the above categories in each of the years from 2015–18.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL4360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. The number of aircraft available varies day-to-day according to normal fleet management activities.</p><p>I am withholding further information on the number of serviceable aircraft available for operations on the grounds of safeguarding national security.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 21/12/2015 14:40:39 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead