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100157

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Energy: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the likely total allocation from the levy control framework for (a) feed in tariffs, (b) renewables obligations and (c) projects agreed under the final investment decision-enabling process in each year from 2015 to 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
	uin	211400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The projected allocation from the levy control framework for feed in tariffs, the renewables obligation and projects agreed under the final investment decision-enabling process in financial years from 2015/16 to 2020/21 <del class="ministerial">will be</del> <ins class="ministerial">is expected to be</ins> published in an annex (‘DECC’s Consumer Funded Policies – a report to Parliament’) to the Annual Energy Statement.</p><p>Publication of the Annual Energy Statement is expected in Autumn 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/10/2014 13:35:38 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 16:37:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 24144 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

99812

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	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	Energy: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the schemes in the Levy Control Framework on average annual household energy bills in each of the years from 2015 to 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
	uin	211114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The projected expenditure from schemes under the Levy Control Framework for the financial years from 2015/16 to 2020/21 <del class="ministerial">will be</del> <ins class="ministerial">is expected to be</ins> published as an annex (‘DECC’s Consumer Funded Policies – a report to Parliament’) to the Annual Energy Statement. Publication of the Annual Energy Statement is expected in Autumn 2014.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/10/2014 13:32:43 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 16:33:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 24105 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

100056

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Obesity: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to provide further advice to schools on how to tackle childhood obesity.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL2262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government recognises that through physical education, competitive school sport and encouraging healthy eating, schools can help address the problem of childhood obesity. The PE and sports premium is part of a package of measures to tackle obesity in primary schools. Our research found 96% of schools said that their pupils are now living healthier lives as a result of the funding. In addition, the introduction of universal infant free school meals will ensure that all infants receive a nutritious school lunch.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 24/10/2014 12:35:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

93677

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	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	Wind Power
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to protect Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Sites of Specific Scientific Interest from wind turbine development.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL2106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework sets out strong protection for the natural environment and valued landscapes and is clear that planning applications for renewable energy should only be approved if the impact is, or can be made, acceptable. In addition our planning guidance makes clear that the need for renewable energy does not automatically override environmental protection and the planning concerns of local communities.</p><p> </p><p>Under the National Planning Policy Framework Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty have the highest status of protection in relation to landscape and scenic beauty. Strong planning protection also applies to Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Development on land within or outside such sites which is likely to have an adverse effect on the site, either individually or in combination, should not normally be permitted.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/10/2014 11:33:49 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

93684

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to co-ordinate good leadership with local authorities to improve the attainment levels of disadvantaged pupils.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL2113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education expects local authorities to provide strategic leadership to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils in their maintained schools. This was set out in the recently revised guidance to local authorities on <em>Schools Causing Concern</em>, which was published in May 2014. Since May 2013, Ofsted has inspected local authority school improvement arrangements which relate to their duty to ensure that, ‘their education functions are exercised with a view to promote high standards and fulfilment of potential’ (Education Act 1996, s13a).</p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Minister of State for Schools, has met leaders from the nine local authorities that have failed these inspections to date. These discussions have focused on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. In addition, in his role as Pupil Premium Champion, Sir John Dunford has worked closely with school leaders in 25 local authority areas with the poorest results for disadvantaged pupils during the 2013/14 school year. This work continues.</p><p>Peer-to-peer support for school leaders is a highly effective way to tackle poor school performance. The Department is therefore increasing the number of National Leaders of Education (NLEs) and the number of teaching schools. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has designated over 900 NLEs and establish 602 teaching schools to date, and some local authorities use local teaching school alliances and national leaders to provide school improvement.</p><p>The Talented Leaders programme and School-to-School Support Fund, both launched on 10 September 2014 by the Minister of State for Schools, will also help drive school improvement through better leadership. The Talented Leaders programme will recruit one hundred talented school leaders and deploy them to take on headship positions in challenging schools, working with local authorities who sign up to the programme. The £13m School-to-School Support Fund will support NLEs and teaching schools to undertake deployment in under-performing maintained schools and academies.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 24/10/2014 11:32:32 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

93686

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Care Leavers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Action For Children’s recent report <i>Too Much, Too Young </i>on the recognition of the emotional needs of young care leavers; and what steps they are taking to improve the emotional well-being of young care leavers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL2115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Improving the lives of care leavers has always been a priority for this Government, and the Department for Education has significantly improved the support on offer to this vulnerable group. The Department published the first cross-Government care leavers’ strategy in 2013, and will shortly produce a ‘one year on’ report setting out how those commitments have been met. We have tightened the rules so that fewer young people leave care before they are ready. We have also provided an additional £40 million to local authorities, backed by a change in the law, so that looked-after children can remain with their former foster carers until they are 21 years old.</p><p>The Action for Children report highlights the importance of mental health and emotional wellbeing.[1] We recognise that there is more to be done, and the Government has established the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Task Force to make recommendations on improving mental health commissioning for young people. This will include a particular focus on the needs of vulnerable groups. The Government recently published a National Prospectus setting out the key activities it wishes to fund at a national level though organisations working with children, young people and families in 2015-16. One of the policy areas we wish to fund through this programme relates to improving the identification of children and young people’s mental health issues (including care leavers’), prevention, improved commissioning of support and more effective collaboration between agencies and services.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/policy-research/policy-priorities/too-much-too-young" target="_blank">www.actionforchildren.org.uk/policy-research/policy-priorities/too-much-too-young</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 24/10/2014 13:51:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

93696

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Medicine: Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 3 June 2013 (HL210), whether they have altered their decision to reduce by two per cent the number of students entering medical schools in 2014; what were the findings of the 2014 review by Health Education England on the question; and whether they plan to expand the numbers significantly from 2015 and in later years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL2125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not altered its decision to reduce, by 2%, the number of students entering medical school in 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) has not, to date, undertaken a comprehensive review of medical student intake numbers since that undertaken by the Health and Education National Strategic Exchange review published in December 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The requirement for graduate doctors (and the medical student intakes that create this supply) will form an integral part of the 2015 annual workforce planning process undertaken by HEE.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/10/2014 11:27:22 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

93697

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors: Registration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many doctors were registered to practise medicine by the General Medical Council (GMC) in the last five years; and how many of the first registrations with the GMC in each year were from doctors who gained their primary medical qualification in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or rest of the world respectively.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL2126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information. This information is held by the General Medical Council and they have provided the information below for the purposes of answering this question.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of doctors joining the register for the first time, from 2009 to 2013, by the region of their primary medical qualification and first registration year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>No. of Doctors</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EEA</p></td><td><p>2,368</p></td><td><p>2,973</p></td><td><p>2,726</p></td><td><p>2,899</p></td><td><p>3,062</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-EEA</p></td><td><p>2,579</p></td><td><p>2,959</p></td><td><p>2,437</p></td><td><p>2,222</p></td><td><p>2,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>6,876</p></td><td><p>7,010</p></td><td><p>7,112</p></td><td><p>7,083</p></td><td><p>7,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>11,823</p></td><td><p>12,942</p></td><td><p>12,275</p></td><td><p>12,204</p></td><td><p>12,892</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: General Medical Council</em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of doctors on the register at the end of each year by the region of their primary medical qualification. The number of registered doctors who hold a licence at the end of each year is also provided. A licence in necessary to work as a doctor in the UK, but holding one does not guarantee that a doctor is working.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>EEA</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Non-EEA</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>No. of Doctors Registered</p></td><td><p>No. of Doctors Licensed</p></td><td><p>No. of Doctors Registered</p></td><td><p>No. of Doctors Licensed</p></td><td><p>No. of Doctors Registered</p></td><td><p>No. of Doctors Licensed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>21,177</p></td><td><p>19,495</p></td><td><p>64,685</p></td><td><p>59,857</p></td><td><p>145,498</p></td><td><p>139,161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>22,757</p></td><td><p>21,174</p></td><td><p>66,001</p></td><td><p>61,422</p></td><td><p>150,465</p></td><td><p>144,042</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>24,032</p></td><td><p>22,398</p></td><td><p>66,574</p></td><td><p>61,892</p></td><td><p>155,258</p></td><td><p>148,442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>25,529</p></td><td><p>23,305</p></td><td><p>67,092</p></td><td><p>61,297</p></td><td><p>159,890</p></td><td><p>151,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>27,114</p></td><td><p>23,931</p></td><td><p>67,821</p></td><td><p>59,893</p></td><td><p>164,688</p></td><td><p>154,397</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: General Medical Council</em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. Doctors will leave and re-join the register over the course of a year so the difference between each year end total will never be equal to the number of first time registrants in a year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. These tables exclude doctors who were registered with a status of “Temporary full registration for special purpose registrations”, which allows doctors to be registered for a temporary period in order to treat non-UK nationals within the UK. For example, we had a significant number of doctors who were registered temporarily in 2012 to accompany their national team to the Olympic or Paralympic games. The tables also exclude “Temporary full registration for visiting eminent specialists”. These registrations are for doctors visiting the UK for a temporary period to provide specialist knowledge and skills in a particular branch of medicine and cannot exceed 26 weeks in a 5 year period.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/10/2014 11:35:59 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

93703

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	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	British Overseas Territories
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish a list of investment protection treaties agreed by all United Kingdom Overseas Territories with another country.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ashcroft
	uin	HL2132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The UK has extended a number of Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (IPPA) to the Overseas Territories when the Territories have provided a case for doing so and the other country agreed. These are the IPPAs currently in force that have been extended to Overseas Territories:</p><p>UK-Antigua &amp; Barbuda IPPA (Gibraltar)</p><p>UK-Belize IPPA (Cayman Islands, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Dominica IPPA (Gibraltar)</p><p>UK-Grenada IPPA (Bermuda, Gibraltar, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Guyana IPPA (Bermuda, Gibraltar, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Hungary IPPA (Bermuda, Gibraltar, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Indonesia IPPA (Bermuda)</p><p>UK-Korea Republic IPPA (Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Mauritius IPPA (Gibraltar)</p><p>UK-Panama IPPA (Cayman Islands)</p><p>UK- Philippines IPPA (Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Singapore IPPA (Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-St Lucia IPPA (Cayman Islands, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Thailand IPPA (Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>UK-Tunisia IPPA (Bermuda, Gibraltar, Turks &amp; Caicos Islands)</p><p>Records of all treaties involving the United Kingdom concluded between 1834 and 31 March 2014 can currently be found through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)’s UK Treaties Online service at: <a href="http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/treaties/treaty.htm" target="_blank">http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/treaties/treaty.htm</a></p><p>Details of treaties involving the United Kingdom since March 2014 can be found on the FCO Treaty Section’s pages on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/uk-treaties" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/uk-treaties</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 24/10/2014 12:33:52 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	2568 label Biography information for Lord Ashcroft

93708

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many newly qualified general practitioners have started work in (1) the United Kingdom, (2) the South West of England, and (3) Bristol, in the last 12 months.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
	uin	HL2137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally. On 25 March 2014 the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) published its annual census on the General and Personal Medical Services workforce, which collects information from general practices in England and reflects the position as at 30 September 2013. The census shows that 2,763 general practitioners (GP) (excluding registrars and retainers) joined the profession between 2012 and 2013. However, the census does not show how many of these joiners were newly qualified GPs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The census also shows that there were 36,294 full time equivalent GPs working in the NHS in England. More information is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB13849/nhs-staf-2003-2013-gene-prac-rep.pdf</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government established Health Education England (HEE) to be responsible for delivering a better health and healthcare workforce for England and for ensuring a secure future supply. HEE has published the number of postgraduate medical trainees that enter general practice specialty training at ST1 in each of the last five years, at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>http://gprecruitment.hee.nhs.uk/Portals/8/Documents/Annual%20Reports/GP%20ST1%20Recruitment%20Figures%202009-13.pdf</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The provision of health services in the UK is a devolved issue. The contacts for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are available from the links below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland: http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index.htm</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Scotland: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Wales: http://wales.gov.uk/topics/health/?lang=en</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/10/2014 11:26:17 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3703 label Biography information for Baroness Royall of Blaisdon