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172687

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date	08/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they have yet to respond to the application submitted on 25 October 2013 by the person whose Home Office reference is A1342128 for indefinite leave to remain under the settlement protection route.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL4007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases and has obligations in law to protect this information. Applications for indefinite leave to remain need to meet the requirements set out in the Immigration Rules.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/01/2015 15:03:27 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

172692

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Natural Gas: Ukraine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of the United Kingdom's gas supply comes through Ukraine; and whether they are satisfied about the security of this supply.
tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
uin	HL4012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Due to the interconnected nature of the European gas system, it is possible that some gas feeds through to the UK via Ukraine. Nevertheless, we estimate that these are small volumes, likely less than 1 per cent of total imports.</p><p>Since the gas agreement between Russia and Ukraine signed on the 31 October we assess the risk to the UK and Europe’s energy supply is low and we have no grounds at present to expect a disruption to gas transiting the Ukraine. Ukraine has proved through the gas dispute to date to be a reliable transit state. The UK and other EU Member states have reiterated that existing contracts for gas supply from Russia to the European Union need to be respected.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 15/01/2015 16:33:42 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne

172693

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scottish Parliament
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to change the status of the Scottish Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL4013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Commission chaired by Lord Smith of Kelvin delivered a cross party agreement on further devolution to Scotland on 27 November 2014. The Government has committed to producing draft clauses by 25 January 2015. Individual parties have made commitments to introduce legislation to Parliament following the General Election in May 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness question first answered 15/01/2015 12:14:35 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

172699

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Gibraltar: Spain
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the position taken by the government of Spain that Gibraltar should be excluded from the proposed European Union legislation Single European Sky Two+.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Gibraltar continues to be included in the scope of existing Single European Sky II (SESII) legislation, as it should be under the Treaties of the European Union.　 At the Transport Council on 5 December, the Government took a very firm position making it clear to the European Commission and Italian Presidency that Spain’s attempts to exclude Gibraltar airport from the proposed Single European Sky Two+ proposals were unacceptable to the UK and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Robert Goodwill walked out of Council to protest this approach.　 The Government will continue to oppose Spain’s attempts to exclude Gibraltar airport from future aviation legislation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 15/01/2015 12:20:40 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

172700

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Bahrain
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 16 December 2014 (HL3617), what are the names and sentences of those imprisoned in Bahrain.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Due to consular confidentiality, any information about British nationals detained abroad cannot be released without the express written permission of the individuals concerned.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 15/01/2015 14:27:26 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

172708

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the way Network Rail manages station rebuilding projects.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Network Rail is responsible for managing a large number of station rebuilding projects. The scope and scale of these works vary from relatively minor works to very large scale projects such as London King’s Cross or Birmingham New Street. The amount of assessment will similarly vary depending upon the scale of the project concerned. For the larger schemes it is usual for the Department for Transport to appoint a scheme sponsor. These sponsors are in regular contact with Network Rail to undertake assurance activity around delivery.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the Office of Rail Regulation undertakes regular reviews of Network Rail’s delivery against its Business Plan commitments, and this will include station rebuilding projects.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 15/01/2015 12:18:04 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

172710

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Credit Unions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they are making in enabling credit unions to offer services to members of Her Majesty's Forces and their families.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given in the House of Commons by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (Anna Soubry) on 8 December 2014 to Question number 216988 to the hon. Member for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas).</p><p> </p><p>http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-12-03/216988/</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 15/01/2015 17:26:30 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever attachment 1 file name HOC 216988.doc title Hansard Extract 8 December 2014
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

172712

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Social Rented Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was (1) the total council-owned housing stock, and (2) the stock of other social housing, in each local housing authority in England for each year since 1980.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold figures at local authority district level to fully answer this question. The information published by the Department can provide the numbers of local authority-owned stock from 1994 and numbers of social housing stock from 1997.</p><p> </p><p>These data are available from the Department’s statistical tables at the following link:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants</a></p><p> </p><p>Private Registered Provider (housing association) stock can be found in live table 115, local authority-owned stock can be found in live table 116. These can be summed to provide an estimate of social and affordable housing stock. Total housing stock can be found in live table 100 from 2009.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/01/2015 15:49:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

172713

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Social Rented Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for each local housing authority in England, and for England as a whole, how many units of housing were sold under Right to Buy and Right to Acquire provisions in each year since 1980; and how many new units of (1) council housing, and (2) other social housing, were provided (by new build, conversion or purchase) in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on total Right to Buy sales in England for each year since 1980/81 and Right to Acquire sales in England for each year since 1998/99 are published in the Department’s tables 671 and 677 respectively. Annual Right to Buy sales for each local authority district for each year since 1998/99 are published in table 685. These tables are available at the following link:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Right to Acquire sales are not available by local authority district.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Annual statistics on delivery since 1991/92 of housing for social rent (table 1006) and since 2011/12 of housing for affordable rent (table 1006a) for each local authority district are published at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures include newly built and acquired housing delivered by both local authorities and Private Registered Providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Statistics for Right to Buy starts on site by local authority district are only available from 2012-13 when one for one replacement on additional local authority sales - that is, sales above the level forecast before the changes were made - was introduced. They are published in the Department’s table 693 at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p> </p><p>Councils have three years to start building the homes after the sale, which gives them time to ensure new builds maximise value for money.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/01/2015 16:30:30 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

172714

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how, for the purposes of official statistics, they define (1) the annual budget deficit, (2) the structural deficit, and (3) the cyclical deficit.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The annual budget deficit is also referred to as Public Sector Net Borrowing (PSNB). The Office for National Statistics (ONS) defines PSNB as the difference between public sector receipts and expenditure as measured by National Accounts. It also equals the net balance of the public sector’s net acquisition of financial liabilities less its acquisition of financial assets. In December 2009, the ONS defined an alternative measure of PSNB excluding the temporary effects of the financial sector interventions (PSNBex).</p><p> </p><p>Typically PSNB excluding banks (PSNBex) is the measure that is used to describe the public finances. Further information on ONS definitions of the Public Finances can be found in the latest Public Sector Finance (PSF) release from December 2014<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p>The cyclically adjusted deficit and cyclical deficit are not official statistics. These measures are estimates by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) based on assessments of the output gap. Information on how these are derived can be found in the OBR’s Working Paper No. 3: Cyclically Adjusting the Public Finances which can be found on the OBR’s website<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/psa/public-sector-finances/november-2014/stb-nov-2014.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/psa/public-sector-finances/november-2014/stb-nov-2014.html</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/wordpress/docs/Working-paper-No3.pdf" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/wordpress/docs/Working-paper-No3.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 15/01/2015 17:45:51 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves