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79543

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date	23/07/2014
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	Hong Kong
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how often, and with what result, they have raised breaches of Hong Kong's Basic Law with China in the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p>We monitor closely the implementation of One Country, Two Systems, as enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.</p><p>We discuss issues relating to Hong Kong regularly at senior levels with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government and with the Chinese authorities. As the former Foreign Secretary noted in the most recent Six Monthly Report to Parliament, Official Record 10 July Col 33WS, Hong Kong’s unique constitutional framework has worked well. We have made clear that it is vital it continues to be respected, and is seen to be respected, by all sides.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Popat question first answered 11/08/2014 11:29:50 answering member 4173 label Biography information for Lord Popat
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

79544

registered interest
date	23/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the shooting down of flight MH17, what they are doing to ensure the safety of long haul flights between the United Kingdom and the Far East.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The safety of our aviation industry is of paramount importance to the Government.</p><p> </p><p>We are actively participating in the Dutch led investigation into MH17. We are also working very closely with our airline community to ensure that decisions on routings and operations are informed by relevant information.</p><p> </p><p /> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 30/07/2014 10:58:27 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

79545

registered interest
date	23/07/2014
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	Common Fisheries Policy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they are doing to reform the European Union fisheries policy.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government recently secured wide-ranging and progressive reforms to the EU Common Fishery Policy. Specific changes include the introduction of regionalised fisheries management, a phased landing obligation banning the discarding of fish and a legal commitment to setting fishing rates at sustainable levels. These wide ranging reforms will help deliver a prosperous fishing industry, healthy fish stocks and protect the marine environment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Work to implement these measures is underway. A formal consultation on how to implement the landing obligation in pelagic fisheries in England recently closed. Regionally agreed Discard Plans for the North Sea and North West waters have been submitted to the Commission for adoption. Consultations with the fishing industry and other groups have started to develop a policy position for the introduction of the landing obligation in demersal fisheries.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 04/08/2014 10:14:35 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

79546

registered interest
date	23/07/2014
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	Energy: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they are making to achieve the 2020 energy efficiency goals.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>In 2007 EU Member States agreed to an overarching non-binding target to reduce primary energy consumption by 20% by 2020, against a 2007 business-as-usual projection.</p><p>The 2012 EU Energy Efficiency Directive established, among other things, non-binding national energy savings targets on Member States. In April 2013, the UK notified the European Commission of its national energy saving target (Article 3). The target was set at the level of 129.2 million tonnes of oil equivalent for final energy consumption, representing an 18% reduction relative to the 2007 business-as-usual projection. This is equivalent to a 20% reduction in primary energy consumption.</p><p>According to DECC’s Updated Energy and Emissions Projections 2013, final energy consumption in the UK will be 20% lower in 2020 than the 2007 business as usual projection meaning that the UK is on track to overachieve against its target. This reflects the Government’s ambitious policy package.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2014 16:04:38 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78858

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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	Energy: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what help they are providing to householders off the gas grid who want to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government is actively encouraging all householders to invest in energy efficiency and reduce their energy bills.</p><p>The Green Deal is designed to help all householders in England and Wales improve the energy efficiency of their homes. A Green Deal assessment will identify the most cost-effective improvements to their home from a wide range of measures, such as condensing boilers (gas, oil and LPG), renewable heating and other microgeneration technologies, insulation and better glazing. Green Deal financing is also available to allow households to pay for these improvements via the estimated savings households will be expected to make on their energy bills. There have already been over 260,000 Green Deal assessments and 875,000 energy efficiency measures installed in 726,000 households through ECO, Cashback and Green Deal to the end of May 2014.</p><p>The ECO Affordable Warmth scheme obligates energy suppliers to meet targets by installing heating and insulation measures to low income, vulnerable households. By the end of April 2014, over 334,000 measures had been installed.</p><p>The legislation allows energy suppliers to support a wide range of measures. Energy suppliers can choose which measures to deliver, with a view to meeting their obligation in the most cost effective way. Delivery of boiler repairs and measures to non-gas households has been low to date.</p><p>Following a consultation on changes to ECO, we announced scheme amendments on 22 July which will provide stronger incentives for delivery of both new boilers in non-gas homes and boiler repairs. These changes include an ‘uplift’ that will make these forms of support more cost-effective for suppliers to undertake. The impact assessment suggests this will take the proportion of measures delivered to non-gas homes from 2% to 30% of Affordable Warmth measures.</p><p>More broadly changes are being made to the ECO Carbon Saving Communities rural sub-obligation to widen the eligibility criteria and make it easier for suppliers to identify and support eligible rural households.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2014 16:08:54 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78859

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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	Energy Company Obligation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the success of the delivery of Energy Company Obligation assistance in rural areas.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) is divided into three strands, of which the Carbon Saving Communities Obligation (CSCO) provides insulation measures to households in specified areas of low income. CSCO has a specific rural sub-obligation which ensures that 15 per cent of each supplier’s obligation is used to upgrade more hard-to-reach low-income households in rural areas.</p><p>The monthly Green Deal/ECO statistical release published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change presents the number of measures installed under the CSCO rural sub-obligation in each month. The latest release was published on 22 July and is available on the gov.uk website. This shows that between January 2013 and May 2014 there were 955 measures installed:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-july-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-deal-and-energy-company-obligation-eco-monthly-statistics-july-2014</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s response to the recent consultation on the future of ECO, published on 22 July, confirmed proposals to make changes to the rules of the rural sub-obligation to ensure that more homes are eligible for support, thus facilitating delivery in future:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-of-the-energy-company-obligation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-of-the-energy-company-obligation</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2014 16:20:32 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78860

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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	Energy Company Obligation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking in relation to the Affordable Warmth Obligation and the Energy Company Obligation in the light of reports of suppliers not funding repairs of boilers run on heating oil or liquid petroleum gas.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The ECO Affordable Warmth scheme obligates energy suppliers to meet targets by installing heating and insulation measures to low income, vulnerable households. By the end of April 2014, over 334,000 measures had been installed.</p><p>The legislation allows energy suppliers to support a wide range of measures. Energy suppliers can choose which measures to deliver, with a view to meeting their obligation in the most cost effective way. Delivery of boiler repairs and measures to non-gas households has been low to date.</p><p>Following a consultation on changes to ECO, we announced scheme amendments on 22 July which will provide stronger incentives for delivery of both new boilers in non-gas homes and boiler repairs. These changes include an ‘uplift’ that will make these forms of support more cost-effective for suppliers to undertake. The impact assessment suggests this will take the proportion of measures delivered to non-gas homes from 2% to 30% of Affordable Warmth measures:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335002/future_energy_company_obligation_government_response.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335002/future_energy_company_obligation_government_response.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2014 16:27:40 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78861

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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	Energy Company Obligation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will extend the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund to provide householders with additional financial support via the Energy Company Obligation where they are replacing their central heating boiler and that boiler is reliant on off-grid supplies.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p>The Green Deal Home Improvement Fund closed to new applications on 24<sup>th</sup> July 2014 as the value of applications made to date had reached the available budget.</p><p>However, the Government has a range of other energy efficiency schemes which can help households who need assistance with energy efficiency measures, including for repairing and replacing ‘non-gas’ heating systems. These include Green Deal Finance, the Affordable Warmth element of the Energy Company Obligation and the Renewable Heat Incentive.</p><p>The Government has set up the Energy Saving Advice Service (0300 123 1234) which provides the public with independent advice about these and other energy efficiency schemes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 11/08/2014 11:49:13 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78258

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
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	Sports: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage young people to engage in sport.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>As part of Sport England’s 2012- 17 Youth and Community Strategy it is investing £461 million to get more young people playing sport regularly. Currently over half of all young people (54.5%) play sport once a week and almost a quarter of a million more young people are playing sport today than in 2005 when London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Specific targets for young people have been agreed with each national governing body of sport. Sport England is also running programmes specifically targeting young people including Sportivate which over the last two years has given almost 400,000 young people the opportunity to take up a new sport. Over 2000 satellite clubs have been set up across England to reduce the number of young people who stop playing sport after leaving school.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 22/07/2014 12:04:48 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

78259

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Business: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage the teaching of entrepreneurship in schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL1154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2014 answer text <p>Young people need better work-related learning to prepare for employment. This is one of the reasons why the Department for Education introduced work experience as part of the new 16-19 Study Programmes and Traineeships from August 2013. Schools may also include teaching about enterprise and entrepreneurship as part of their personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education. The PSHE Association has produced a suggested programme of study as guidance for teachers which includes reference to enterprise, and continues to highlight other sources of expertise.</p><p>The new post-16 funding flexibilities provide an opportunity for schools and colleges to promote enterprise and entrepreneurial skills as part of students’ non-qualification activities. By working with local employers, schools and colleges can help students improve their skills and employability.</p><p>Many schools already run the Young Enterprise scheme, which is the UK’s largest business and enterprise education charity. Every year it helps 250,000 young people learn about business and the world of work in the classroom.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 23/07/2014 14:21:47 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth