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451009

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2016
	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	Niranjan Rasalingam
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Burma on the detention of Niranjan Rasalingam.
	tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
	tabling member printed	Paul Scully
	uin	26085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text The British Embassy in Rangoon has provided consular assistance to Mr Rasalingam Niranjan since 1 December 2014 when it was established that Mr Niranjan had been detained. That same month we raised the late notification of Mr Niranjan’s arrest in a Note Verbale and reminded the then Burmese government of their obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In May 2015 the Ambassador re-stated our interest in the case, raised concerns about Mr Niranjan’s health and the progress of his legal cases. A further Note Verbale was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January 2016 re-stating our interest in the case and concern about its progress. answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 11/02/2016 17:55:05 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
	tabling member	4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully

450334

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	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	Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the post-construction obligations on large volume housing developers in enforcing compliance with building regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
	tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
	uin	25705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of the housing developer to ensure that work is compliant with the building regulations both during construction and post-construction. During the construction period, the building control body would be responsible for checking compliance. Post-construction, where there is a new home warranty in place, the warranty provider provides cover for up to ten years after construction and can include compliance with aspects of the building regulations.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 11/02/2016 13:25:13 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

450482

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	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 how many children seeking asylum in the UK they estimate not to be in education, and for how long; and what steps they plan to take to tackle this issue.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
	uin	HL5844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter. Parents of children of compulsory school age have a duty to ensure their children receive a full time education suitable to the children’s age, ability, aptitude and any special education need the children might have, either by regular attendance at a school or otherwise.</p><p>Where a child of compulsory school age (including children of asylum seekers) is not registered at a school or receiving an education other than at a school, the relevant local authority has the power to require that parent to satisfy them as to the suitability of the education being provided for that child.</p><p>If they are not satisfied then the local authority can require the child to register at a named school. However, the issue of education provision for children seeking asylum is an important one and the Home Office makes every effort to ensure that families with children who claim asylum support have access to education at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 11/02/2016 15:00:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen

450294

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	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	Lasers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23018, what steps he is taking to limit the availability of laser pens.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	25699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>I refer to my answer of 25 January.</p><p> </p><p>I have asked my officials as a first step to request an urgent update from Trading Standards on their recent market surveillance activities. I am aware that Leicester Trading Standards recently seized 1,500 unsafe laser pens at point of entry and the importer agreed to destroy them.</p><p> </p><p>In addition RAPEX (the European electronic notification platform for the notifying and removal of dangerous consumer products) statistics show 98 different types of laser pointers were removed from the EU market and of these 9 different products were notified by UK market surveillance authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2016 17:58:05 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

450295

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	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	General Product Safety Regulations 2005
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23018, what steps he is taking to enforce the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	25700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Consumer products such as laser pens intended for use by consumers are regulated under The General Product Safety Regulations 2005. BIS is responsible for the legislation but it is enforced by Local Authority Trading Standards Services.</p><p> </p><p>Under the rules, Trading Standards Officers have a range of powers available to them with regards enforcement of the legislation such as requirements to mark or to warn, or to issue withdrawal or recall notices. They also have the power to prosecute traders.</p><p> </p><p>This is a well-established regime that has seen many hundreds of dangerous products taken off the market including laser pens.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2016 17:57:05 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

450296

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	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	Lasers: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23018, on lasers: regulation, what steps he is taking to restrict direct sale into the UK to individual customers.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	25701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer to my answer of 25 January.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the General Product Safety Regulations, a business importing into the EU/EEA must have a representative within the EU/EEA who is responsible and liable for the safety of imported goods. This enables Customs and Trading Standards to check that imported laser products comply with safety standards. It is harder for them to carry out these checks where customers order goods from a company outside the EU and receive them directly through the post.</p><p> </p><p>We therefore advise customers who want to buy laser products to go to a reputable dealer with authorised representation in the European Union. If consumers are concerned about the safety of laser products on sale they should report the website or retailer to their local Trading Standards department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2016 17:59:13 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

450733

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	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	Tidal Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans she has for supporting the development of tidal energy projects.
	tabling member constituency	Montgomeryshire
	tabling member printed	Glyn Davies
	uin	25945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the potential that tidal energy could play as part of the UK energy mix.</p><p> </p><p>We are considering how best we can support the development of tidal stream energy, following my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s autumn speech.</p><p> </p><p>On 10 February the Government announced that it will commission an independent review to assess the strategic case for tidal lagoons and whether they could represent good value for consumers. We anticipate that the review will be completed in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/02/2016 15:27:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4041 label Biography information for Glyn Davies

450618

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police Custody: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to prevent children being detained in police cells overnight because no suitable local authority accommodation is available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Condon
	uin	HL5919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that young people are protected and treated appropriately while in police custody. This is why in January last year, the Home Secretary commissioned a multi-agency Working Group on Section 38(6) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which concerns the transfer of children from police custody to local authority care when charged and denied bail. The purpose of the group is to better understand the problems with the operation of the law and to develop solutions to enable forces and local authorities to meet their respective statutory responsibilities. The group is currently finalising a package of measures and will present these to the Home Secretary once the work is complete.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 11/02/2016 15:07:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

450535

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many local authorities with a social care responsibility have made local authority-funded care available for those with less than substantial care needs, in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lansley
	uin	HL5897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The following table shows where local authorities set their local eligibility criteria within the eligibility framework set out in the statutory guidance <em>Prioritising Need in the Context of Putting People First: A whole system approach to eligibility for social care</em>.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Critical</p></td><td><p>Substantial</p></td><td><p>Moderate</p></td><td><p>Low</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11*</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>127</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15**</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: ADASS Budget Survey</p><p>* Data not collected</p><p>** Data not published</p><p> </p><p>The Care Act 2014 provides the power for Secretary of State to set national eligibility criteria. The national criteria are set out in the Care and Support (Eligibility Criteria) Regulations 2015, which were implemented in April 2015. The national eligibility threshold is set at a level where an adult’s needs have a significant impact on their wellbeing. Local authorities cannot tighten eligibility above this threshold, but they can choose to meet needs below this threshold.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 15:09:59 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	123 label Biography information for Lord Lansley

450536

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Older People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they estimate to be the total number of older people accessing local authority-funded social care in each of the last seven years, expressed in numbers and as proportion of the total relevant age group.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lansley
	uin	HL5898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Until 2013-14, the Health and Social Care Information Centre collected Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care (RAP) data from local authorities. These data included the number of people aged 65 and over receiving local authority arranged social care services and are shown in the table.</p><p> </p><p>The information collected does not distinguish between local authority funded and local authority arranged care.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Clients aged over 65 receiving services during the period</p></td><td><p>As a percentage of the population aged 65 and over</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>1,220,660</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>1,215,575</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>1,147,695</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>1,064,475</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>991,230</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>895,940</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>853,615</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: RAP P1 return and Office of National Statistics Mid Year Population Estimates</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>RAP was replaced after 2013-14 with the present system, which collects data in a different way that is not directly comparable with the previous system. During 2014-15, 602,885 service users aged 65 and over accessed long term support and 184,645 accessed short term support from their local authority. As a proportion of the population aged 65 and over, these two figures combined represent 8.3% of the total population of the same age.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 15:46:30 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	123 label Biography information for Lord Lansley