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1042080

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date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to ensure that European Health Insurance Card application forms on the official NHS or gov.uk websites appear at the top of internet search engines rather than those websites charging a fee.
tabling member printed	Lord Brabazon of Tara
uin	HL12825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is aware of a problem with third-party websites presenting themselves as legitimate providers of Government services. The Government has taken robust steps to tackle misleading websites, routinely monitoring unofficial sites and reporting any cases of specious advertisements to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and National Trading Standards (NTS). This helps to ensure that only official European Health Insurance Card application websites appear at the top of Internet search results.</p><p>The Government has also set up a webpage to enable members of the public to report misleading websites and lodge a complaint with Google and other search engine providers. Such customer insight forms an important aspect of representations made by Government authorities to the ASA and NTS in the continued effort to tackle misleading websites.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 29/01/2019 17:27:03 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	3493 label Biography information for Lord Brabazon of Tara

1042081

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many European arrest warrants the UK has issued in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL12826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p>However, statistics on the European Arrest Warrant are published by the National Crime Agency each year. These figures include a breakdown of the numbers of requests made by the UK.</p><p>These figures are published at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/01/2019 16:35:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1042085

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Antisocial Behaviour
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what requirements there are for the drivers of public service vehicles to report unruly passengers to their depots and to the police at the time when a disturbance is taking place; whether there are any restrictions on how drivers communicate this; and what requirements there are to provide drivers with the equipment to enable them to do this.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL12829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Bus/Coach crews have a duty of care towards their passengers under Section 5(1) of the Public Services Vehicles (Conduct) Regulations 1990. This section states that a driver and/or a conductor shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of passengers, who are on, or are boarding or alighting from the vehicle. Internal operator safety procedures, including provision of equipment is a matter for individual operators.</p><p> </p><p>The transport industry, local authorities, the police and others are already investing in and undertaking wide-ranging initiatives to improve the personal security of public transport passengers and staff and to keep our public transport systems as low crime environments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 29/01/2019 15:08:08 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1042088

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) which countries they consider to be “low risk” in the context of provision for low skilled workers set out in paragraphs 25–31 of their White Paper on the UK's future skill-based immigration system (Cm 9722), and (2) whether such low skilled workers will be permitted to return to the UK to work after their one year “cooling off” period and, if so, for how long.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL12832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>(1) To determine low-risk countries as set out in the UK’s Future Skills-Based Immigration System White Paper, the Home Office will consider a range of relevant factors such as returns’ agreements, reciprocal mobility agreements, co-operation on border security and prosperity. These measures will be reviewed regularly and further information will be provided in due course.</p><p>(2) Following a 12-month cooling off period, previous holders of a temporary short-term work visa will be eligible to apply for another temporary work visa to come to the UK for as long as the scheme remains in place.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/01/2019 16:23:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

1042091

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
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	St Helena: Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of an obesity epidemic in the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena; and whether they intend to take steps to address any such epidemic.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL12834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>​The St Helena Government is responsible for public health on the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena. The UK works in close partnership with, and provides funding to, St Helena to support their efforts to reduce obesity. In 2018 the St Helena Government launched a series of programmes to strengthen local health services so they can better advise, encourage, and motivate St Helenians to make healthier lifestyle choices.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 29/01/2019 15:31:24 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1042097

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Insurance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to add the type of insurance held to the information displayed when a registration number is entered into the Motor Insurance Database, so that passengers using, or firms employing, minicabs, can check that those cabs are properly insured.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL12839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Motor Insurance Database (MID) is owned and managed by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB). The information contained within the database is provided by the motor insurance industry. The Government has no plans to propose changes to the MID.</p><p>The MID already contains data fields to capture and display information about the type of use that the vehicle is insured against. For example Social, Domestic and Pleasure purposes or for Hire and Reward. However, in some instances this data is not uploaded to the MID by the insurance company, and instead one is referred to the insurance company for specific details. This information is not publicly available but is available to the Police for insurance enforcement purposes. Passengers and firms employing minicabs do not have the right to check insurance against the MID.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 29/01/2019 15:07:08 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

1042108

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what analysis they have conducted into the prevalence of female genital mutilation in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL12848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>An estimated 137,000 women in the United Kingdom are affected by female genital mutilation (FGM). NHS Digital publishes annual experimental statistics – the FGM Enhanced Dataset – which supports the Department’s FGM Prevention Programme by presenting a national picture of the prevalence of FGM in England. The most recent quarterly statistics, published in December 2018 and covering the period July-September 2018, show that there were 1,630 women and girls who had an attendance where FGM was identified or a procedure related to FGM was undertaken. These accounted for 2,025 attendances reported at National Health Service trusts and general practitioner practices where FGM was identified or a procedure related to FGM was undertaken. There were 925 newly recorded women and girls in this period.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 29/01/2019 17:26:04 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

1042124

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Midwives
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS midwives there were in England, broken down by age, (1) in the latest year for which figures are available, and (2) ten years earlier.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL12862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the headcount number of midwives employed by the National Health Service in England, by five-year age band as at 30 September for the years specified. Comparisons between these data sets is not possible due to changes in headcount methodology.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All midwives</p></td><td><p>23,659</p></td><td><p>25,866</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which:</p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 25</p></td><td><p>640</p></td><td><p>1,242</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 to 29</p></td><td><p>2,187</p></td><td><p>3,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 to 34</p></td><td><p>2,401</p></td><td><p>3,372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35 to 39</p></td><td><p>2,968</p></td><td><p>3,367</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40 to 44</p></td><td><p>4,787</p></td><td><p>2,990</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45 to 49</p></td><td><p>4,757</p></td><td><p>3,137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50 to 54</p></td><td><p>3,313</p></td><td><p>4,225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55 to 59</p></td><td><p>1,798</p></td><td><p>2,846</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60 to 64</p></td><td><p>717</p></td><td><p>1,079</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65 and over</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>171</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS HCHS workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 29/01/2019 17:24:56 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1042125

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Maternity Services: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many support workers were employed in maternity care in the NHS in England in each of the last three years, expressed as (1) a headcount, and (2) a full-time equivalent basis; and what was the age profile of such workers in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL12863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The information requested is attached due to the size of the data. The table shows the number of support workers employed within the care setting of maternity services, in the National Health Service in England, in each of the last three years in headcount and full-time equivalents, by five-year age band, as at September 30 for the years specified.</p><p>In March last year, the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Rt. hon. Jeremy Hunt MP) announced that there will be further investment in maternity support staff. This would include working with the Royal College of Midwives and other partners to develop new training routes into midwifery – this will help talented support workers to develop and move quickly to become registered midwives and help the midwifery profession attract and retain talented staff.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 29/01/2019 17:22:49 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor attachment 1 file name HL12863 formatted.docx title Maternity support workers 2016-2018
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1042127

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Midwives: Leadership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to strengthen leadership within the midwifery profession at (1) national, (2) regional, and (3) local level.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL12864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>As part of the delivery of Workstream 5 (Transforming the Workforce) of the NHS England Maternity Transformation Programme, Health Education England is working with the NHS Leadership Academy to develop a leadership training offer to Local Maternity Systems to support those working in maternity services to develop the collaborative, compassionate and inclusive leadership that evidence demonstrates is most effective in delivering improvements to care and better health outcomes.</p><p>Health Education England is also working collaboratively with key stakeholders including NHS England, NHS Improvement, the Royal College of Midwives and Local Maternity System Leaders to ensure alignment with work that is already taking place to develop midwifery leaders and to ensure that the training offer meets the ongoing needs of those who will be delivering and supporting improvement across maternity services.</p><p>Additionally, the NHS Leadership Academy works to support excellent leadership across the National Health Service. The Academy provides tools, programmes and expertise to support individuals to improve as leaders. Midwives can access all these resources, whether taking their first steps in healthcare leadership or working at a senior/executive level. The Academy also has ten local leadership academies who connect services on a regional level and provide bespoke support to leaders at every level across the country.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 29/01/2019 17:23:40 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge