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registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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	UK Trade with EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the deficit in trade with the EU in 2014 in (1) goods, and (2) overall in goods and services; and how that deficit is financed.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK’s trade in goods deficit with the EU was £78.9bn in 2014. The overall trade in goods and services deficit with the EU was £61.7bn.</p><p>The UK’s total trade deficit is financed by a net inflow of investment in the financial account, for which data is not available on a geographical basis. The UK’s financial account surplus was £89.4bn in 2014.</p><p>Source: ONS Pink Book 2015</p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 17/11/2015 17:52:40 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

425892

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 21 July (HL1392), whether, in the light of the collapse of Kids Company, they will now publish a list of charities receiving significant donations from government departments or the National Health Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The 2014/15 government Grants Register will be published in the coming months by the Grants Efficiency Programme in the Cabinet Office. The Register includes high level details on all central government grant schemes, not just those to charities. It does not include details of all recipients or grants made by the NHS or local authorities. To improve sharing of information on grant awards, the Grants Efficiency Programme is developing a grants data repository.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 16:43:06 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

425893

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Severn River Crossing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 29 October (HL2815) concerning Severn Crossings tolls, why the cost of collecting tolls is not made available by the concessionaire, and whether they will now require them to make that information available.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>There is no contractual requirement for the Severn Crossings concessionaire to provide this cost. The Government has no plans to require that information to be made available.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/11/2015 12:45:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

425894

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Population
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are their plans to deal with the increase in the United Kingdom population to 70 million within 12 years and 74.3 million by 2030, as projected by the Office for National Statistics, and what estimate they have made of the cost of those plans.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The recent 2015 Office for National Statistics projections predict the United Kingdom population to reach 70 million in 2027. This is consistent with their previous 2013 projections which also predicted the UK population would reach 70 million in 2027. The new projections forecast the population to increase to 71 million by 2030, as did the previous projections.</p><br /><p>Population growth does not necessarily cause an equivalent increase in demand for all public services, because at different points in their lives people will use different services. For instance, population increases caused by people living longer than previously, might increase demand for health services but probably would not increase demand for classroom places.</p><br /><p>However, as these increases are largely consistent with the previous population projections, they are well covered by existing plans and planning processes. Public services are provided local authorities and central departments. Local Government and Departmental budgets are set in advance through multi-year Spending Reviews. This allows the Government to make decisions on all areas of public spending in the context of projected demand and available resources while ensuring the public finances remain sustainable in the long term. Departments are responsible for deciding how this money is then allocated, subject to strict Treasury rules on the proper management of public funds. This allows money to flow to where it is most needed, given demographic pressures and other considerations.</p><br /><p>The independent Office for Budget Responsibility produce 50-year forecasts of the sustainability of the public finances in the biannual Fiscal Sustainability Report. For instance, the most recent report highlighted pressures from growth in health spending, state pension costs, and the costs of long-term social care. In response to these pressures, the Government introduced reforms that will save £500 billion over the next 50 years.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 17/11/2015 17:30:29 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

424145

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, if their objectives of European Union re-negotiation are not met, they plan to recommend leaving that organisation.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), is confident that with good will and understanding, he can and will succeed in negotiating reform in the EU and Britain’s relationship within it. As he has said, if he succeeds he will campaign to keep the UK in a reformed EU but if he does not achieve these changes he rules nothing out.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/11/2015 15:40:25 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

424146

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the European Union policy of requiring farmers to erect notices advertising the European Union if they receive grants; whether such notices require planning consent; and whether they will require that all such advertising notices should also indicate information about the ratio of United Kingdom contributions to the European Union budget and the sums returned by way of grants to farmers and others.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>EU regulations require any business who receives over €500,000 for capital items to display a billboard setting out:</p><ul><li>The name of the project</li><li>A description of the activity supported by the project</li><li>The name of the funding stream: ‘European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas’</li><li>The full relevant EU logo</li></ul><br /><p>We expect less than 1% of all agreements will be large enough to meet this requirement.</p><p>However, the Minister of State for farming, food and marine environment will be considering how this requirement might be removed in future CAP regulations.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 09/11/2015 11:52:57 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

424147

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Electricity Generation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 21 October (HL2529), how the loss of coal-fired generating capacity will be made up, what level of spare capacity will be maintained between 2015 and 2020, how they will ensure that disconnections or significant reductions in voltage do not occur, and whether compensation will be available to victims of such measures should they happen.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>From 2018, the Capacity Market will ensure that retiring plant can be replaced by new investment by providing additional secure investment for both existing and new electricity generators. In the meantime, National Grid secures adequate loss of load expectation through the Contingency Balancing Reserve in which additional power stations are held to provide security in times of system stress.</p><p>Both facilities deliver against the statutory reliability standard of 3 hours of loss of load expectation, a level as high as anywhere else in Europe. Loss of load expectation does not equate to the number of disconnections in a year, but is the estimated number of hours in a year that the System Operator (National Grid) needs to intervene in the market in order the maintain supply. For 2015/16, National Grid procured 2.4GW of reserve to deliver a loss of load expectation of 1.1 hours, sufficient to maintain security of supply even in the toughest system conditions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 02/11/2015 14:53:27 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

424148

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the construction of four commercial nuclear power reactors for the United Arab Emirates by a South Korean consortium with a total capacity of 5.6 GWe at cost of £14 billion, in the light of their plans for nuclear generation at Hinkley Point.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not make direct comparisons between projects in different circumstances that have different contracts and are situated in different markets.</p><br /><p>There has been a thorough review of the costs of the Hinkley Point C project to ensure that the contract represents value for money. Hinkley will provide reliable low carbon energy for around 60 years and offer 25,000 jobs during construction. My rt. hon Friend the Secretary of State expects to be in a position to take her final decision on the Contract for Difference and associated agreements for Hinkley Point C once the documentation relating to equity investment into the project is finalised.</p><p><br></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 03/11/2015 15:40:09 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

422489

registered interest
date	20/10/2015
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	Turkey: EU Enlargement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of reports that the German Chancellor has promised to facilitate the full entry of Turkey to the European Union, what assessment they have made of (1) the impact of Turkish membership of the European Union on the United Kingdom's voting powers, and (2) whether all Turkish nationals would have rights of access to the United Kingdom under the existing free movement provisions.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL2814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>The British Government supports EU enlargement, subject to candidate countries meeting the requirements. Any impact on the UK’s voting powers would depend on the specific issue being discussed and be contingent on the provisions in place on voting weights following any new accession.</p><p>Arrangements on free movement of people of any new Member state depends on transitional controls at the time of accession to the EU. The Government recognises the concern caused by the large-scale movement of people that has followed the accession of new countries to the EU. This issue would be subject to negotiation as part of the accession process. The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), has made clear that there needs to be reform of the transitional controls on free movement of workers before any further countries join the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 02/11/2015 14:28:40 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

422490

registered interest
date	20/10/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Severn River Crossing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 12 October concerning operational expenditure on the Severn Crossings (HL2333), whether those figures include the costs of collecting tolls; and if so, what are the specific costs for each year between 2005 and 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL2815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The figures provided with the previous answer (HL2333) included the cost of collecting the tolls at the Severn Crossings. The specific costs in relation to the collection of the tolls have not been made available by the concessionaire.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 30/10/2015 09:46:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon