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226468

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date	10/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ebola
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of the containment of the ebola epidemic in West Africa, they intend to review the ebola screening arrangements at Heathrow.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Screening arrangements at London Heathrow and the other ports remain under constant review.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/03/2015 14:59:12 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

226469

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Short-term Holding Facilities: Heathrow Airport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the results of their consultation with Public Health England on how the refurbishment plans for short-term holding facilities at Heathrow might be delivered.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) and the Border Force have agreed arrangements to release accommodation space at London Heathrow in order to provide temporary holding room space for Border Force. These changes do not compromise current screening operations which continue to be delivered through close and effective working between PHE, Border Force and Heathrow Airport Limited.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/03/2015 15:00:18 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

226470

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the outcome of the work by Detention Operations and Border Force with Heathrow Airports Limited on temporary alternatives for the spaces currently used for ebola screening at Heathrow, which had been designated as short-term holding facilities.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Border Force has recently negotiated an agreement with Public Health England (PHE) for use of their accommodation at Terminals 3, 4 and 5 as temporary holding room space. PHE accommodation at T3 and T5 will be shared with Detention Operations, while the accommodation at T4 will be entirely vacated. Heathrow Airport Limited, in conjunction with Detention Operations and Border Force, is working with their contractor to finalise the specifications for each temporary holding room.</p><p>Discussions are now taking place to determine the phasing of this work and associated timescales.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/03/2015 15:20:38 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

226471

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Short-term Holding Facilities: Heathrow Airport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they now expect to begin the refurbishment of short-term holding facilities at Heathrow Terminal 4; and if no firm date can be named, whether they will provide showers within the existing facilities.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The design for a new facility at Heathrow Terminal 4 has been agreed but is still subject to contractor agreement and final sign off.</p><p>During the course of the work, space currently occupied by Public Health England will be converted into a temporary holding room. Heathrow Airport Limited, Border Force and Detention Operations are currently finalising the specifications for this temporary facility. The current planned design for this interim facility includes a shower.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/03/2015 15:18:59 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

225769

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
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 Northover on 4 August 2014 (HL1061), when they received the report of the feasibility study commissioned by the Government Equalities Office; and why the report has not yet been published.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We received a final copy of the report in January 2015, and its findings are currently under consideration. We will publish it as soon as we are in a position to do so.</p> answering member printed Baroness Garden of Frognal question first answered 12/03/2015 15:48:41 answering member 3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

225770

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they are complying with the ruling of the High Court in the case of Moore and Coates [2015] EWHC 44 (Admin), which found that the practice of recovering all appeals relating to planning applications by Travellers in the Green Belt was declared unlawful.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering their position in the light of the Judgment of Moore &amp; Coates and will respond in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/03/2015 12:11:31 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

224937

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to seek advice from the Propriety and Ethics team in the Cabinet Office about launching the consultation on adding caste to the list of protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 in a 12-week period that overlaps the general election.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>General election guidance for Government Departments published by the Cabinet Office includes advice on carrying out public consultations.</p><p> </p><p>That guidance primarily covers situations where an election is called once a public consultation is already under way, rather than any consideration that would be necessary about whether to launch a consultation when an election is known to be imminent.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of caste, that consultation has been delayed because of legal developments in a caste-related case – <em>Chandhok v Tirkey</em>. The Employment Appeal Tribunal issued a judgment in December 2014 opening the possibility that claims of caste-associated discrimination may already have a legal remedy under existing legislation, namely the “ethnic origins” element of Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are now carefully considering the judgment’s implications for discrimination law in respect of caste in order to ensure the appropriate level of protection against caste-associated discrimination exists.</p> answering member printed Baroness Garden of Frognal question first answered 12/03/2015 15:49:14 answering member 3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

224288

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the agreement between the Metropolitan Police Service and the Independent Police Complaints Commission and others regarding the investigation of public complaints relating to Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000, when they expect that complainants will receive an answer to their complaints.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The Independent Police Complaints Commission is awaiting receipt of the draft investigation reports from the Metropolitan Police Service and will write to the Noble Lord shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 05/03/2015 13:00:03 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

222741

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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	Bangladesh
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will propose to the United Nations Secretary-General that he suggest to the government and opposition in Bangladesh that they should invite him to appoint a mediator acceptable to both sides to help them reach an agreement that would put an end to the violence in Bangladesh and reach a political solution to their differences.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>We welcome the news that the United Nations Secretary General has written to Prime Minister Hasina and the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and we continue to encourage the UN to maintain their engagement in Bangladesh. It is important that the political parties do all they can to build confidence with each other, put an end to the violence and defuse the tension across the country.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 09/03/2015 16:24:07 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

178658

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
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	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what bids were accepted by the Homes and Communities Agency for Traveller accommodation under the affordable homes programme for the period 2015–18, including in each case the location, number of pitches and the cost of the scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL4808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2015 answer text <p>The Homes and Communities Agency announced grant allocations totalling £886 million to deliver almost 44,000 new affordable homes as part of the 2015/18 Affordable Homes Programme. Of this, allocations for traveller pitches are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority area </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Site</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Pitches</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grant Funding </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norwich City Council</p></td><td><p>To be confirmed - indicative allocation</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>£819,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>Potton site extension</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>£150,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>Potton site extension part 2</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>£825,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>Dunton Lane</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>£900,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlike the 2011/15 Affordable Homes Programme, where all the funding was allocated at the start of the programme, the Homes and Communities Agency’s intention was to hold back at least 25% of the 2015/18 budget for future market engagement on an ongoing basis. This approach is intended to allow providers more time to work up proposals, including those intending to bid for funding for traveller sites, and reduces the need to ring-fence funding for particular groups. The Agency are now inviting bids for the remainder of the 2015-18 Affordable Homes Programme funding of around £800 million.</p><p>Allocations for traveller pitches by the Homes and Communities Agency cover the period of the 2011/15 programme, rather than 2012/15. The total allocated in the 2011/15 programme was £49 million. This allocation reflected the number and quality of bids received.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL4809 question first answered 20/02/2015 10:59:24 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury