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166203

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Islamic State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which governments they are aware of which have paid ransoms to IS; and what discussions they have had with them.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The UN Al Qaeda Sanctions regime sets out the international legal framework. It makes clear that ransom payments to terrorist organisations are illegal. All UN Member States are bound by this. We are unable to comment on reports of ransom payments by other countries. <br><br>The UK policy position is clear. We do not pay ransoms or make any other substantive concessions to terrorists. Ransom payments strengthen terrorist groups and encourage them to carry out further kidnaps. This is why the UK has also led the drive to secure agreement on the principle of not paying ransoms. Under UK Presidency in 2013 the G8 made an unequivocal commitment to reject ransom payments to terrorists. The UK also secured the first standalone UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) on tackling terrorist ransom payments, which was unanimously adopted in January 2014, as UNSCR 2133.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/12/2014 15:52:59 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

166206

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	International Commission on Missing Persons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support has been provided by the United Kingdom to the International Commission on Missing Persons in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL3190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text The UK has been a strong and consistent supporter of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) since its creation in 1996. We support the ICMP in all of its program areas – the Western Balkans, Colombia, Iraq and Libya. The UK has provided grants to the ICMP for the following amounts: 2012: £18,101; 2013: £160,407; 2014: £253,051. These grants have supported projects which relate to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) identification activities at the Tomasica Excavation Site in Bosnia and aiding the Government of Libya address the issue of missing persons. The UK also provides political support as the ICMP’s work supports our wider objectives on justice and accountability. With our Dutch colleagues, the UK has successfully led a recent initiative to develop an international agreement that will grant the ICMP a new, international legal status. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/12/2014 15:54:11 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

166207

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	International Commission on Missing Persons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they expect to secure international agreement on the legal status of the International Commission on Missing Persons as an international organisation.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text Yes. The UK and the Netherlands have led a recent initiative to draft an international agreement that will accord the International Commission on Missing Persons the status of an international organisation and we expect that the UK and other States will sign the agreement shortly. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/12/2014 15:54:38 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

166208

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Middle East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they will make to the government of Israel in the light of the finding by Defence for Children International that 10 children were killed by live ammunition in the West Bank in 2014.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL3192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Our Ambassador in Tel Aviv raised the high number of Palestinian civilians killed – including ten children – at the hands of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since the start of 2014 with a high-ranking Israeli military official on 26 November. He urged robust investigation into these incidents, and encouraged restraint on the IDF’s use of live fire to control crowds.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/12/2014 16:00:27 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

166209

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to implement any of the changes suggested in the Winterbourne View report.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department welcomes the Sir Stephen Bubb report, <em>Winterbourne View: Time to Change,</em> commissioned by NHS England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Officials will work with NHS England to consider the report’s recommendations in the context of the ongoing system-wide <em>Transforming Care </em>programme, established in response to events at Winterbourne View Hospital.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 13 December 2013, the Department published <em>Winterbourne View: Transforming Care One Year On </em>which was a review of progress to date and the on-going work to ensure the right, high quality care for vulnerable people is delivered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A further commitment was made in <em>Transforming Care </em>for the Department to publish a further two year on progress report. This will be published in 2015 following the publication of the 2014 Learning Disability Census data. This will set out progress made by the Department’s system partners in implementing the commitments in <em>Transforming Care</em>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/12/2014 15:57:05 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

166210

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they expect the National Health Service to operate at a deficit for 2014; and what assessment they have made of the impact of any such deficit on performance.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department group contains almost five hundred separate National Health Service organisations. The Department is required to contain the total spending of all of those organisations within a set of financial controls operated by HM Treasury and approved by Parliament. Despite significant pressures, the Department expects to contain spending within these financial controls in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Alongside financial balance, maintaining performance against waiting time standards is a priority for the Government. The NHS is experiencing unprecedented demand for its services from a growing, ageing population with complex health needs which is making delivery of consistently high quality, timely care within its budget ever more challenging. Performance against a range of quality measures remains high but some patients are not receiving treatment as soon as the Government would like. Robust year-round operational resilience planning and performance management, backed by additional funding, is in place to help the NHS recover performance against waiting time standards in 2014-15.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/12/2014 12:19:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

166213

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Travellers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what National Health Service datasets are available to compare the mental and physical health of people from Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities with that of the rest of the population; and what those sources yield by way of trend information since 2011.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL3197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>National Health Service datasets do not enable comparisons to be made between the mental and physical health of the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities with that of the rest of the population. These datasets – such as the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities dataset – use the nationally mandated ethnicity categories from the NHS data dictionary, based on the 2001 census groups. These groups did not include Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities. The 2011 census included a new ethnic category group for Gypsy or Irish Traveller.</p><p> </p><p>The National Inclusion Health Board’s report, <em>Hidden Needs: identifying vulnerable groups in data collections: vulnerable migrants, gypsies and travellers, homeless people and sex workers </em>published in March 2014 recommended the adoption of the 2011 census ethnic classification by the NHS data dictionary. The Department, the NHS, Public Health England, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre are considering how this recommendation could be implemented whilst ensuring data consistency.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/12/2014 15:51:00 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

166224

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Hinkley Point C Power Station
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the potential risk that the development of Hinkley Point C power station may cause a shortage of nuclear engineering skills at Devonport dockyard.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	216006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>A detailed assessment has been carried out of future skills needs for the civil nuclear new build programme, including the Hinkley Point C development. That assessment, carried out by skills bodies on behalf of the Nuclear Industry Council, included input from Ministry of Defence (MoD), who are members of that Council.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant departments – Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC), Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Work &amp; Pensions (DWP) – are working with industry to ensure that a coordinated approach is taken to meeting future skills demand, including for engineers in both the civil and defence sectors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/12/2014 15:47:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

166264

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will publish an analysis of the savings from local authorities' transformational schemes set against the timescales involved.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	216168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>My Department is supporting transformational schemes across local authorities in England and has published the projected savings from schemes funded through the Transformation Challenge Award. <br><br>In September 2014, 32 local authorities were awarded £8.6 million to deliver transformational projects with projected savings of up to £100 million over the next 10 years. In November 2014, 73 local authorities, working in partnership with other parts of the public sector were awarded £89.4 million to deliver large scale transformational projects, with projected savings estimated to be over £900 million over the next 10 years. On-going monitoring and accountability for these savings will be the responsibility of individual authorities and their partners.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 04/12/2014 15:56:46 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

166295

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Offshore Structures: Electric Cables
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much sub-sea off-shore cabling has been laid in which areas in each of the last 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	216069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>In the last 30 years, there has been a total of 1340km of sub-sea electricity transmission cables laid in the waters surrounding the UK.</p><p>This comprises 702km of licenced sub-sea offshore transmission cables1 that connect offshore wind farms in UK territorial sea and surrounding Renewable Energy Zone (REZ)2 to shore, and 638km of interconnector cables, consisting of links from the UK mainland to France, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man.</p><p>Lengths provided are for sub-sea sections of cables only, and do not include onshore components that link to relevant grid connection points.</p><p><strong>Table of licenced offshore transmission projects</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Licenced offshore wind farm transmission assets</em></p></td><td><p><em>Sub-sea cable length (km)</em></p></td><td><p><em>Year licence granted</em></p></td><td><p><em>Sea</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Robin Rigg East and West</em></p></td><td><p>25.2</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Sheringham Shoal</em></p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>North Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Barrow</em></p></td><td><p>26.6</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Greater Gabbard</em></p></td><td><p>152.5</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>North Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Gunfleet Sands 1 and 2</em></p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>North Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Ormonde</em></p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Wallney 1</em></p></td><td><p>45.3</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Wallney 2</em></p></td><td><p>43.7</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Lincs</em></p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>North Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>London Array</em></p></td><td><p>216</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>North Sea</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Total Cable length</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>702</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table of interconnectors</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Interconnector</em></p></td><td><p><em>Sub-sea cable length (km)3</em></p></td><td><p><em>Laying year(s)</em></p></td><td><p><em>Connection points</em></p></td><td><p><em>Sea</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>IFA</em></p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>19864</p></td><td><p>GB – Folkestone, Kent</p><p>FR - Calais</p></td><td><p>English Channel</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Moyle</em></p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>20015</p></td><td><p>N.I - Nr Belfast,</p><p>Scotland - near Stranraer</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>BritNed</em></p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>2009 to 20106</p></td><td><p>GB - Isle of Grain,</p><p>Netherlands - Maasvlakte</p></td><td><p>North Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>East West</em></p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>2009 to 20127</p></td><td><p>GB - Deeside, north Wales,</p><p>Ireland - Woodland, County Meath</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Isle of Man</em></p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>20008</p></td><td><p>Bispham, Blackpool to Douglas, Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>Irish Sea</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>Total Cable length</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>638</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> Source – Ofgem. Offshore transmission is defined as all electric lines of 132 kilovolts or more which are built for the purpose of conveying electricity generated by an offshore generating station. The km length figure does not include ‘inter array’ cables that connect individual wind turbines to the nearby sub-station. </em></p><p><em>2</em><em> The REZ is an area of the sea, beyond the UK’s territorial sea, which may be exploited for energy production. A map of the REZ may be obtained from the UK Hydrographic Office - <a href="https://www.ukho.gov.uk/ProductsandServices/Services/Documents/Renewable_Energy_Web%20Page_Jan06_v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ukho.gov.uk/ProductsandServices/Services/Documents/Renewable_Energy_Web%20Page_Jan06_v2.pdf</a> . A map of the ten offshore transmission projects tendered to date, as well as the five projects currently in Ofgem’s competitive tender process, can be found on Ofgem’s website - <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/electricity/transmission-networks/offshore-transmission/offshore-transmission-tenders" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/electricity/transmission-networks/offshore-transmission/offshore-transmission-tenders</a> </em></p><p><em>3</em><em> Length provided refers to the distance between landing points and does not take into account cable configurations of the interconnectors.</em></p><p><em>4<strong>[1]</strong> Refers to the year IFA was commissioned. Source: National Grid - <a href="http://faculty.london.edu/mottaviani/IFA.pdf" target="_blank">http://faculty.london.edu/mottaviani/IFA.pdf</a> </em></p><p><em>5</em><em> Source: Mutual Energy - <a href="http://www.mutual-energy.com/The_Moyle_Interconnector/History_and_Development_of_the_Interconnector.php" target="_blank">http://www.mutual-energy.com/The_Moyle_Interconnector/History_and_Development_of_the_Interconnector.php</a> </em></p><p><em>6</em><em> Source: BritNed - <a href="http://www.britned.com/BritNed/About%20Us/Construction" target="_blank">http://www.britned.com/BritNed/About%20Us/Construction</a></em></p><p><em>7</em><em> Source: ABB - <a href="http://www05.abb.com/global/scot/scot221.nsf/veritydisplay/4d580b5e493d268dc1257c00003e44dc/$file/Overview%20of%20the%20500MW%20EirGrid%20East-West.pdf" target="_blank">http://www05.abb.com/global/scot/scot221.nsf/veritydisplay/4d580b5e493d268dc1257c00003e44dc/$file/Overview%20of%20the%20500MW%20EirGrid%20East-West.pdf</a></em></p><p><em>8</em><em> Source: AWJ Marine - <a href="http://www.awjmarine.co.uk/fishery-liaison/isle-of-man-interconnector/" target="_blank">http://www.awjmarine.co.uk/fishery-liaison/isle-of-man-interconnector/</a></em></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/12/2014 15:12:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane