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515485

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	Human Rights
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House whether time will be made in the Parliamentary timetable for a full debate on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s <i>Human Rights and Democracy Report 2015</i>.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL7865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>My Noble Friend the Government Chief Whip does not expect to be able to facilitate a full debate on the report before the end of this session, but from the start of the new session, the usual mechanisms - which include balloted debates, Thursday debates, and questions for short debate - will be available to secure a debate on the Report.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 09/05/2016 11:05:17 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

515507

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the Movement for an Adoption Apology campaign, whether they have any plans to make a public apology to the mothers whose children were taken away from them between the 1950s and 1980s.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howells of St Davids
	uin	HL7887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government has a great deal of sympathy for those women and children who were affected by the pressures to give children up for adoption. Their accumulated experiences clearly show them to be victims of the prevailing moral and social behaviour of their time. Governments have subsequently done much to resolve these social ills in the past.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/05/2016 14:57:44 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	2486 label Biography information for Baroness Howells of St Davids

515542

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Dental Council
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the General Dental Council’s (GDC) response to the British Dental Association’s Freedom of Information request of 18 March, whether they will ask the National Audit Office to carry out a value-for-money examination of GDC’s financial management.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL7922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The General Dental Council (GDC) is an independent statutory body. Ministers take a keen interest in the performance of the GDC and its plans for improvement, particularly in light of the Professional Standards Authority’s (PSA) performance review and publication of its investigation into concerns raised by a whistleblower. A copy of the PSA’s report, <em>A report on the investigation into the General Dental Council’s handling of a whistleblower’s disclosure about the Investigating Committee</em>, is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The GDC is required under the Dentist Act 1984 to prepare a statement of accounts and for those accounts to be audited. These accounts would cover all expenditure including that during the PSA investigation. The statement of accounts and auditor’s report are then published and properly scrutinised, including being certified and reported on by the Controller and Auditor General and being laid before Parliament and the Scottish Parliament by the Privy Council.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to ask the National Audit Office to carry out a value for money examination of the GDC’s financial management.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL7921 question first answered 04/05/2016 11:08:49 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name PSA investigation-report---general-dental-council.pdf title General Dental Council PSA report
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

515531

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	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	West Bank: Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Mr Tobias Ellwood, on 18 January (HC21629), what action they propose to take to prevent the forcible transfer of Bedouin in the West Bank by Israel.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>We continue to raise our concerns with the Israeli authorities over demolitions and the treatment of the Bedouin community. We have supported Bedouin communities in Area C facing demolition or eviction through support to Rabbis for Human Rights and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) legal aid programme. This helps individuals challenge decisions in the Israeli legal system. The NRC has successfully suspended demolitions and evictions so that Palestinians can remain in their homes in 99 per cent of the cases they represent.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/05/2016 14:21:29 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

515554

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	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, further to the Written Answer by Immigration Minister, James Brokenshire, on 14 March (HC29894), and in the light of the figures released by the Home Office on the number of non-EU students who had their visas curtailed in the three years to the end of December 2015 as part of their strategy to clamp down on immigration abuse, how many educational institutions were affected, and whether any of those educational institutions remain open to British and EU students.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL7934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>It is not possible to run a report linking each curtailment decision to a specific educational institution. To provide the information requested would require a manual check of every curtailment in the cohort referenced which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Immigration Rules allow for leave of an individual to be curtailed for a variety of reasons, not only as a result of an institution losing its sponsor licence but also, for example, is a student drops out of their course of study and is reported to the Home Office by the sponsor. Sponsors have a number of reporting duties in respect of their students, and these can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sponsor-a-tier-4-student-guidance-for-educators</p><p>The Home Office does not close down educational institutions. The revocation of a Tier 4 sponsor licence means that an educational institution can no longer recruit non-EEA students under the Points Based System. The institution may, however, continue to operate and teach UK and EEA students. The Home Office does not routinely monitor educational institutions who do not hold a sponsor licence.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon attachment 1 file name Tier_4_Sponsor_Guidance_-_Document_3_-_Tier_4_Compliance_2016-04.pdf title Tier 4 Compliance 2 file name Tier_4_Sponsor_Guidance_-_Document_2_-_Sponsorship_Duties_2016-04.pdf title Sponsorship Duties 3 file name Tier_4_Sponsor_Guidance_-_Document_1_-_Applying_for_a_Tier_4_licence_2016-04.pdf title Applying for a Tier 4 Licence question first answered 04/05/2016 14:01:33 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

515547

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	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	European Parliament: Art Works
	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 Neville-Rolfe on 21 April (HL7637), whether the new settlement for the UK in the EU negotiated by the Prime Minister included a provision for the British Art Collection in the European Parliament to be repatriated in the event that the UK votes to leave the EU.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Rawlings
	uin	HL7927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/05/2016 12:16:27 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3278 label Biography information for Baroness Rawlings

515510

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why less than 30 of the 157 children at Calais and identified as eligible for family re-union have so far been admitted to the UK; and what plans they have to improve the processes for re-union.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL7890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>There is no official estimate of the number of children in Calais; this is primarily a matter for the French authorities. It is only possible to assess whether an individual has links to the UK that could enable a transfer on family unity grounds once they make an application for asylum in France.</p><p>Once an asylum claim is lodged in another Member State, the Dublin Regulation procedure requesting the UK to take charge of a child on family unity grounds can take place very quickly, often in a matter of weeks, subject to consideration of the evidence in each individual case.</p><p>Since February 2016 the UK has accepted 30 requests from France under the Dublin Regulation to take charge of asylum seeking children on family grounds of which 23 have already been transferred to the UK. We are working closely with the French Government and NGOs, including on a joint communications campaign to inform migrants of their options and we provided a senior UK asylum official to the French Government who has put processes in place to support an efficient procedure.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL7892 question first answered 04/05/2016 14:03:34 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

515508

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	World Humanitarian Summit
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who will represent the UK at the World Humanitarian Summit meeting to be held in Istanbul.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL7888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Preparations for the Summit are proceeding and a final decision on who will be in the UK delegation will be taken nearer the time.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 10/05/2016 15:49:32 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

515498

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Ferries: Isle of Wight
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who was responsible for the maintenance of the access ramps to the mezzanine deck on the St Helen ferry at Fishbourne, Isle of Wight, which collapsed on 18 July 2014 causing several injuries; whether any prosecutions are planned; and who would be responsible for any resulting prosecutions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL7878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>Maintenance of all parts of a vessel is the responsibility of the ship owner or operator.</p><p> </p><p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) examines significant breaches of safety and environmental aspects of Merchant Shipping legislation to determine what action is appropriate, which may include prosecution.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The MCA is considering the circumstances of this particular incident in light of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch’s report.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/05/2016 08:38:55 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

515492

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Transport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which other companies bid to become the main service provider of patient transport in Sussex, and why the decision was made to award the contract to Coperforma over other competitors.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL7872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>We are advised by NHS England that four organisations including Coperforma completed the Pre-Qualifying Questionnaire (PQQ) in order to submit their bid for the contract and of these the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Arriva Transport Solutions Ltd and Coperforma Ltd were assessed as passing the PQQ. An Invitation to Tender was issued to all three organisations on 3 August 2015.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England advises that Coperforma’s bid was evaluated in line with criteria published at the start of the process by a group of subject matter experts, clinicians and patient representatives and the bid was assessed as demonstrating a comprehensive response. The award of the contract to Coperforma was approved by all seven Sussex Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).</p><p> </p><p>We understand that the lead commissioner, High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, awarded Coperforma the non-emergency Patient Transport Service (PTS) contract for Sussex, which commenced on 1 April 2016. The CCG acknowledges that early performance of the new non-emergency Sussex PTS has not been acceptable.</p><p> </p><p>For this reason High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, on behalf of all seven Sussex CCGs, has begun an inquiry with an aim for a report to be available for review by June 2016 with interim progress reports.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL7871 question first answered 04/05/2016 10:52:02 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton