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1583445

registered interest
date	02/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: a:gender
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the activities of a:gender within Government departments, including its support for a statement by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention dated 29 November 2022 which describes the gender critical movement as “fascist” and “genocidal”.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>A:gender is one of the cross-government networks which operates across the Civil Service. All of these networks are expected to operate within the Civil Service Code and its values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/02/2023 14:09:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1583465

registered interest
date	02/02/2023
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	Ambulance Services and Hospital Beds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the additional (1) ambulances, and (2) hospital beds, announced on 30 January to be staffed and in operational use by patients.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL5374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>The Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services was published on 30 January 2023 and sets out plans for increasing National Health Service capacity. A copy of the plan is attached.</p><p>The plan includes over 800 new ambulances, of which 100 are specialist mental health ambulances, in 2023/24, with the majority of these on the road by next winter. There will be an additional 5,000 staffed beds in 2023/24 as part of the permanent bed base for next winter.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 10/02/2023 12:04:53 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name B2034-delivery-plan-for-recovering-urgent-and-emergency-care-services (3).pdf title Attachment
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1583466

registered interest
date	02/02/2023
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 Professions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what forecasts they have made of the number of additional (1) GPs, (2) nurses, (3) hospital consultants, and (4) radiographers, they will need by 2030, compared with the numbers currently available, according to the latest available data.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL5375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>To support the overall health workforce, the Department has commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term plan for the National Health Service workforce for the next 15 years.</p><p>The Government has committed to publishing the high-level workforce plan this year, including independently verified projections for the number of doctors, nurses and other professionals that will be needed in five, 10 and 15 years’ time.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 10/02/2023 12:03:37 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1583467

registered interest
date	02/02/2023
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	NHS: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what forecasts they have made of the number of extra NHS staff required to make operational the additional (1) ambulances, and (2) hospital beds, announced on 30 January; and what estimates they have made of the revenue costs of employing those extra staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL5376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has asked systems as part of the 2023/24 planning round to develop and implement integrated urgent and emergency care workforce plans based on capacity and demand assessments in line with local population need. As such, these estimates are still under consideration.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 10/02/2023 12:03:58 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1583108

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Duty Free Allowances: Airports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that people living in Northern Ireland who fly from airports in Northern Ireland to EU countries can avail themselves of the same duty free benefits that are available to people flying from airports in Great Britain.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL5309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>Duty-free shopping is available to individuals buying excise goods when leaving the UK, depending on their destination. It is available when leaving Great Britain to go to any destination outside the UK, although duty may be liable upon arrival, subject to allowances applied by that country. Individuals who leave Northern Ireland to go to any destination outside the UK or the EU may also benefit from duty free, subject to the same controls.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of EU destinations and trips to Ireland, individuals who leave Northern Ireland are able to carry unlimited duty paid products to take to the destination or on return from that destination, and no further duty is due on arrival or return.</p><p> </p><p>Introducing duty-free shopping for individuals moving between Northern Ireland and the EU or Ireland would require the introduction of allowances and controls to ensure duty is paid where those allowances are exceeded.</p><p> </p><p>Otherwise, unlimited amounts of duty-free tobacco and alcohol could flow between Ireland and Northern Ireland, undermining domestic suppliers who must charge excise on these goods, and the UK’s ability to collect tax revenues to fund public services.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 10/02/2023 14:09:17 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1583153

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Overseas Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to identify trusted traders for the purposes of the UK border.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL5349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>HMRC operates a range of customs and excise Trusted Trader Schemes that give traders access to a range of facilitations and simplifications. Once authorised for a particular scheme, traders are trusted to operate that particular facilitation. This trusted status is recognised in HMRC border processes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 10/02/2023 14:08:27 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1582626

registered interest
date	31/01/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Waste
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that consideration of food waste on farms is included in financial planning and subsidy development.
tabling member printed	Lord Shipley
uin	HL5279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government supports a productive and efficient farming sector that can prevent waste occurring in the first place. For instance, we are supporting investment in productivity-enhancing equipment, technology and infrastructure through the Farming Investment Fund. This provides grants to farmers, foresters and growers (including contractors to these sectors) that will help their businesses to prosper through improving their productivity whilst enhancing the environment.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 10/02/2023 14:10:36 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4176 label Biography information for Lord Shipley

1581655

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	House of Lords: Legislation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, further to the request made to the Leader by Lord Blencathra on 12 January (HL Deb col 1535), whether he will (1) send a printed copy of the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation to every civil servant in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel with an instruction to read it, and (2) amend section E of the Guide which begins with the sentence “The House of Lords is usually the more difficult House to take legislation through…”.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>On instruction from the relevant policy department, the Office of Parliamentary Counsel are responsible for the drafting of Government legislation.</p><p>In light of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee's report Democracy Denied? The urgent need to rebalance power between Parliament and the Executive (HL 106), the Guide to Making Legislation was updated last summer. This included integrating a link to the Committee's revised guidance. Along with the Committee's report and the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's report Government by Diktat: A call to return power to Parliament (HL 105), the guide was circulated to all officials in Whitehall responsible for preparing and passing primary legislation.</p><p>The Guide to Making Legislation is usually updated annually and I have asked the responsible officials to consider how to best express in the Guide the different procedures, practices and challenges posed by legislating in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. I hope very much that in that process officials will take carefully into account points made by Your Lordships in what was an important debate.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 10/02/2023 14:11:04 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1581690

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to counter future shocks to the UK’s financial system.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL5238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>Since 2008, the UK financial system has been significantly strengthened, and UK banks now hold over three times more capital than they did at the time of the financial crisis. The government has introduced a resolution regime which empowers the Bank of England to manage the failure of financial institutions in a way that protects depositors and maintains financial stability, while limiting the risks to public funds. The Bank of England is now at the centre of the regulatory framework, and through the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) is responsible for identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to the system as a whole, working alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) who supervise individual firms. The FPC has a range of tools, including regular stress testing of the financial system to severe scenarios. HM Treasury participates in FPC discussions through its non-voting membership on the Committee.</p><p> </p><p>The FPC’s December Financial Stability Report (FSR) set out its current assessment of the stability of the UK financial system. The FPC judge that major UK banks’ capital and liquidity positions remain strong, and the banking system is resilient to the current economic outlook, with capacity to support lending, even if economic conditions are worse than forecast. The FSR was also an important milestone in the ongoing lessons learned process following volatility in the gilt markets in 2022. The government supports this work and continues to work closely with domestic and international regulators to enhance resilience in market-based finance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 10/02/2023 14:08:07 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1581706

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Sugar Beet: Pesticides
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the damaging effect, in particular on sugar beet crops, of pesticides used to prevent attacks from aphids.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL5222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>Emerging sugar beet seedlings and young plants are vulnerable to feeding by aphids, which transmit several viruses, known collectively as Yellows Virus (YV). Neonicotinoid seed treatments provide emerging beet crops with highly effective protection. <br> <br> Following an application made by British Sugar and the National Farmers Union, the Government has granted an emergency authorisation for the limited and controlled use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment on the 2023 sugar beet crop. This decision has not been taken lightly and is based on robust assessment of the environmental and economic risks and benefits. The Government’s statement of reasons for this decision has been published on gov.uk.</p><p><br> It is important that the Government understands the potential environmental impacts of the emergency authorisation. To further develop that understanding the applicant is required to carry out a range of environmental monitoring activities as a condition of the emergency authorisation. The Government is supplementing these activities with its own monitoring projects. These projects include the monitoring of residues of thiamethoxam (the neonicotinoid active ingredient in the authorised seed treatment) and its metabolite, clothianidin, in various parts of the environment, to gain a better understanding of the potential exposure of non-target organisms to the active substance in the seed treatment. This includes the soil of treated fields; the soil, vegetation and pollen from field margins; honey from honeybee hives in close proximity to sugar beet fields; and rivers in sugar beet catchments. Further detail of these projects can be found within the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) emergency registration report on Cruiser SB, published on gov.uk.</p><p><br> Defra has also funded a study assessing the chronic toxicity of thiamethoxam to adult honeybees. This has allowed HSE to conduct a robust assessment of the chronic risks to honeybees via different routes of exposure. Details and results of this study can be found within HSE’s emergency registration report, published on gov.uk.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 10/02/2023 13:13:45 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry