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46430

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/04/2014
	date	01/04/2014
	date tabled	01/04/2014
	ddp created	01/04/2014 22:51:52
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:04:29
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	2
	identifier	HL6527
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	08/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, as part of their package of sanctions towards Russia, they intend to instruct Centrica to cancel their agreement with Gazprom to supply the United Kingdom with gas; and if so, what will be the consequences for United Kingdom gas supplies and energy prices.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 HL6527
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6527
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The international community has sent a clear, strong, consistent message to Russia. The sanctions we have imposed to date are having an impact. The European Council is clear that it will respond with further wide-ranging measures if there is any further destabilisation in Ukraine by Russia.</p><p> </p><p>The contract between Gazprom and Centrica is a commercial matter. It relates to a small part of total gas supply to the UK. While the contract is with a Russian company, the gas can be sourced from anywhere in the European network. The UK is not dependent on Russian energy imports and this contract does not alter that.</p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3790
	creator	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

46431

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/04/2014
	date	01/04/2014
	date tabled	01/04/2014
	ddp created	01/04/2014 22:51:53
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:04:30
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	house id	2
	identifier	HL6528
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the financial impact, in terms of percentage of United Kingdom food prices, of the United Kingdom's participation in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy; and what is their assessment of the overall effect on the United Kingdom economy if the Common Agricultural Policy were abandoned.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 HL6528
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6528
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) cost EU consumers approximately €16 billion in 2012 as a result of higher food prices. This equates to 4% of consumption expenditure on agricultural commodities (at farm gate prices).</p><p>The Government does not have estimates of the effect of abandoning the current CAP programme. However studies are available from 2009 which estimated the impact of removing aspects of the CAP policies and budgets that were in place at the time:</p><p>1) Modelling commissioned by Defra estimated the impact of phasing out direct payments in CAP and liberalising agricultural trade. The results vary by sector, ranging from a negligible impact expected on UK cereal production and prices to around a 25% reduction in beef prices and production.</p><p>2) A European Commission study estimates the impact of eliminating direct payments and liberalising trade. The results showed a 6% reduction in land use and a 30% reduction in land prices across Europe. However the impact on agro-food production was modest and food price changes ranged from a 33% fall in beef, to just a 1% fall for milk and eggs.</p><p> </p> question first answered 16/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2202
	creator	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

46428

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/04/2014
	date	01/04/2014
	date tabled	01/04/2014
	ddp created	01/04/2014 22:51:52
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:04:27
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	house id	2
	identifier	HL6525
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	14/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of President Obama's statement on 26 March that "Kosovo only left Serbia after a referendum was organised".
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 HL6525
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6525
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The point that President Obama was making is that the situations in Crimea and Kosovo are not comparable. Kosovo's independence followed a humanitarian crisis, nearly nine years of UN administration, and the failure of a long period of inclusive, internationally sponsored negotiations on Kosovo's final status. Kosovo thus declared independence only after other options were exhausted, and by the decision of a parliament that had been assembled through a free and fair vote conducted under UN supervision. None of these conditions apply in Crimea.</p> question first answered 14/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3839
	creator	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

46432

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/04/2014
	date	01/04/2014
	date tabled	01/04/2014
	ddp created	01/04/2014 22:51:53
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:04:31
	answering body	HM Treasury
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	house id	2
	identifier	HL6529
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	14/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they envisage that the United Kingdom can maintain its influence in the European Union if it remains outside a reformed eurozone.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 HL6529
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6529
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>As set out in the coalition programme for government, the UK will not be joining or preparing to join the European Single Currency in this Parliament. The UK can continue to be outside the euro and remain influential within the EU, as we are now. We work closely with member states on the key issues of the day– improving Europe's competiveness, the single market, trade, taking tough action on Iran – and euro area members are often our closest allies. We have also been clear that as the euro area reforms, any new arrangements must work for those outside the single currency as well as those within it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 14/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1916
	creator	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

46429

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/04/2014
	date	01/04/2014
	date tabled	01/04/2014
	ddp created	01/04/2014 22:51:52
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:04:28
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	2
	identifier	HL6526
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	08/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's report (HL Paper 157) on the Housing Benefit (Habitual Residence) Amendment Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/539) noting that the measure was announced by the Prime Minister in the Financial Times, and that no consultation followed; and what steps they will take to prevent future practice of that kind and to ensure that measures are announced by the appropriate Secretary of State.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 HL6526
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6526
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department for Work and Pensions has noted the report of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. The Prime Minister covered a strategy to manage several aspects of migration at a national and international level. This inevitably engaged the work of a large number of Government Departments simultaneously. Follow up details have been announced by the relevant Secretaries of State. In particular, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced the detail as to how and when this Department would implement the measures to restrict access to Housing Benefit for EEA jobseekers in January 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Officials have engaged with a wide range of parties on the detail of policy and implementation since January. Although urgency procedures were used with both the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) and the Local Authority Associations (LAAs), the draft proposals were informally discussed with SSAC at their 5th March meeting <a href="http://ssac.independent.gov.uk/meetings/" target="_blank">http://ssac.independent.gov.uk/meetings/</a>. There has also been constructive engagement with Local Authorities on the detail of implementation and new procedures to be adopted. The Department will continue this engagement to monitor the implications and operation of this measure, including through formal SSAC consultation, which was announced on 7 April 2014 following formal referral to them on 2 April 2014. <a href="http://ssac.independent.gov.uk/news/press-releases/07-04-14.pdf" target="_blank">http://ssac.independent.gov.uk/news/press-releases/07-04-14.pdf</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893
	creator	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon