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79628

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of patients whose treatment was incomplete have waited (1) for their appointment, and (2) for treatment, for longer than (a) 18 weeks, (b) 26 weeks, and (3) 52 weeks, at each NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust for every month since May 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL1524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is collected each month to measure performance against the waiting time standards for consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions. The data measures the number of patients who waited each month and the number of weeks they waited from referral to start treatment. It distinguishes between those patients who are admitted into hospital and those who are non-admitted (for example, outpatients). It does not identify appointments. The data also measures the number of patients who had not yet started treatment at the end of each month and the number of weeks they were waiting.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information has been placed in the Library. It does not sum to published national figures, because it excludes other organisations who submitted data over the time period including primary care trusts and the independent sector.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1525 HL1526 HL1527 HL1528 HL1529 HL1554 HL1555 HL1556 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:16:18 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL1524 - HL1525 - HL1526 - HL1527 - HL1528 - HL1529 - HL1554 - HL1555 - HL1556 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title NHS patient waiting times by Trust
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

79629

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many admitted patients waited (1) for their appointment, and (2) for treatment, for longer than (a) 18 weeks, (b) 26 weeks, and (3) 52 weeks, at each NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL1525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is collected each month to measure performance against the waiting time standards for consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions. The data measures the number of patients who waited each month and the number of weeks they waited from referral to start treatment. It distinguishes between those patients who are admitted into hospital and those who are non-admitted (for example, outpatients). It does not identify appointments. The data also measures the number of patients who had not yet started treatment at the end of each month and the number of weeks they were waiting.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information has been placed in the Library. It does not sum to published national figures, because it excludes other organisations who submitted data over the time period including primary care trusts and the independent sector.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1524 HL1526 HL1527 HL1528 HL1529 HL1554 HL1555 HL1556 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:16:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL1524 - HL1525 - HL1526 - HL1527 - HL1528 - HL1529 - HL1554 - HL1555 - HL1556 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title NHS patient waiting times by Trust
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

79630

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-admitted patients waited (1) for their appointment, and (2) for treatment, for longer than (a) 18 weeks, (b) 26 weeks, and (3) 52 weeks, at each NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL1526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is collected each month to measure performance against the waiting time standards for consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions. The data measures the number of patients who waited each month and the number of weeks they waited from referral to start treatment. It distinguishes between those patients who are admitted into hospital and those who are non-admitted (for example, outpatients). It does not identify appointments. The data also measures the number of patients who had not yet started treatment at the end of each month and the number of weeks they were waiting.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information has been placed in the Library. It does not sum to published national figures, because it excludes other organisations who submitted data over the time period including primary care trusts and the independent sector.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1524 HL1525 HL1527 HL1528 HL1529 HL1554 HL1555 HL1556 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:16:23 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL1524 - HL1525 - HL1526 - HL1527 - HL1528 - HL1529 - HL1554 - HL1555 - HL1556 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title NHS patient waiting times by Trust
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

79631

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many patients whose treatment was incomplete waited (1) for their appointment, and (2) for treatment, for longer than (a) 18 weeks, (b) 26 weeks, and (3) 52 weeks, at each NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL1527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is collected each month to measure performance against the waiting time standards for consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions. The data measures the number of patients who waited each month and the number of weeks they waited from referral to start treatment. It distinguishes between those patients who are admitted into hospital and those who are non-admitted (for example, outpatients). It does not identify appointments. The data also measures the number of patients who had not yet started treatment at the end of each month and the number of weeks they were waiting.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information has been placed in the Library. It does not sum to published national figures, because it excludes other organisations who submitted data over the time period including primary care trusts and the independent sector.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1524 HL1525 HL1526 HL1528 HL1529 HL1554 HL1555 HL1556 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:16:24 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL1524 - HL1525 - HL1526 - HL1527 - HL1528 - HL1529 - HL1554 - HL1555 - HL1556 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title NHS patient waiting times by Trust
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

79632

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many admitted patients have waited (1) for their appointment, and (2) for treatment, for longer than (a) 18 weeks, (b) 26 weeks, and (3) 52 weeks, at each NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust for every month since May 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL1528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is collected each month to measure performance against the waiting time standards for consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions. The data measures the number of patients who waited each month and the number of weeks they waited from referral to start treatment. It distinguishes between those patients who are admitted into hospital and those who are non-admitted (for example, outpatients). It does not identify appointments. The data also measures the number of patients who had not yet started treatment at the end of each month and the number of weeks they were waiting.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information has been placed in the Library. It does not sum to published national figures, because it excludes other organisations who submitted data over the time period including primary care trusts and the independent sector.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1524 HL1525 HL1526 HL1527 HL1529 HL1554 HL1555 HL1556 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:16:27 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL1524 - HL1525 - HL1526 - HL1527 - HL1528 - HL1529 - HL1554 - HL1555 - HL1556 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title NHS patient waiting times by Trust
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

79633

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-admitted patients have waited (1) for their appointment, and (2) for treatment, for longer than (a) 18 weeks, (b) 26 weeks, and (3) 52 weeks, at each NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust for every month since May 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL1529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is collected each month to measure performance against the waiting time standards for consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions. The data measures the number of patients who waited each month and the number of weeks they waited from referral to start treatment. It distinguishes between those patients who are admitted into hospital and those who are non-admitted (for example, outpatients). It does not identify appointments. The data also measures the number of patients who had not yet started treatment at the end of each month and the number of weeks they were waiting.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information has been placed in the Library. It does not sum to published national figures, because it excludes other organisations who submitted data over the time period including primary care trusts and the independent sector.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1524 HL1525 HL1526 HL1527 HL1528 HL1554 HL1555 HL1556 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:16:29 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL1524 - HL1525 - HL1526 - HL1527 - HL1528 - HL1529 - HL1554 - HL1555 - HL1556 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title NHS patient waiting times by Trust
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

79592

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	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	Gibraltar: Spain
	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 Warsi on 10 July (WA 78), when they intend next to raise within the European Union the issue of unlawful incursions by Spanish vessels into British territorial waters.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL1488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government regularly raises Gibraltar with EU partners and the EU institutions. We have made it clear to Spain that unlawful incursions are unacceptable. We have not asked the European Commission or any other Member State to take any specific action in relation to incursions into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters because they have no locus on this issue.</p><p>The main focus of our lobbying within the EU remains Spain’s unlawful, unjustified and disproportionate action at the border. The Government is pleased that a second border monitoring mission was sent to Gibraltar on 2 July 2014, following concerted lobbying of the European Commission. We have also been very clear to the Commission and other Member States that Spain’s attempts to suspend Gibraltar from EU aviation legislation are unacceptable. We lobby on other Gibraltar issues within the EU as required.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 30/07/2014 12:02:54 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

79595

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	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 reasons why, according to their recent <i>Evaluation of Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy: Interim Report</i>, 4.5 per cent of people affected have downsized to smaller accommodation, compared with the 25 per cent estimated in the impact assessment <i>Housing Benefit: Under occupation of social housing</i>,<i></i>published in 2012.
	tabling member printed	Lord German
	uin	HL1491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Across the social sector as a whole there are a total of around 1.4 million one-bedroom properties (GB). Managing that stock efficiently is part of the challenge that social landlords must embrace. Landlords were given three years notice to start to prepare for this change and during that time were encouraged to take account of local needs and demographic trends when allocating properties and developing their building programmes.</p><p> </p><p>There is turnover of properties in the social sector, and with suitable management and prioritisation by social landlords this should provide a means of allowing many of those affected by the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy to move to suitable properties over time.</p><p> </p><p>The 2012 Impact Assessment: stated there was little robust evidence on which to base an assessment of behavioural responses and so did not predict the likely extent of downsizing. The 25 per cent figure within the Impact Assessment reflected research which asked a hypothetical question about what people thought they might do in response to a reduction, but this was undertaken some time before the full details of the policy were finalised.</p><p> </p><p>The Impact Assessment did look at the potential sensitivity of the estimated savings to moves by affected claimants. This sensitivity testing was based on an assumption that around 50,000 affected claimants moved (around 8 per cent). This was not a prediction, but both the interim evaluation report and ad-hoc analysis show that people are downsizing. The ad-hoc report shows around 19,000 had downsized in the Social Rented Sector between May and December 2013, broadly within the bounds of the Impact Assessment sensitivity analysis.</p><p> </p><p>It was never assumed that downsizing was a remedy for everyone and we were not in a position to predict how many people would choose to move.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 28/07/2014 13:16:26 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

79596

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their recent <i>Evaluation of Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy: Interim Report</i>, what incentives they intend to make available to social landlords to encourage offers of alternative housing to be made to people affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy.
	tabling member printed	Lord German
	uin	HL1492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Government has already taken steps to support mobility of tenants in the social rented sector.</p><p>Our social housing reforms have given social landlords, including councils, much more flexibility when allocating housing. Our statutory guidance on social housing allocations stresses the importance of giving under-occupying social tenants appropriate priority for a transfer. It also encourages authorities to re-consider the parameters of their allocation schemes which may prevent under-occupiers from being able to move.</p><p>The introduction of the national <em>HomeSwap</em> Direct scheme has made it easier for tenants wanting to move to find a suitable property. A guide was issued in February 2014 to support landlords seeking to facilitate mutual exchanges; highlighting various steps landlords can take to make mutual exchange a more attractive and viable proposition for tenants.Indeed, many social landlords are helping affected tenants by holding “mutual exchange fairs”, where tenants who want to downsize can meet those looking for larger properties.</p><p>The 2015-18 Affordable Housing Programme also encourages housing providers to build appropriately sized social homes to meet local need, 77% of successful bids have been for 1 and 2 bedroom homes, increasing the stock of housing available for those working to downsize.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 29/07/2014 11:10:40 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

79603

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mesothelioma
	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 progress in negotiations between the Association of British Insurers and the British Lung Foundation over the last three months to establish a long-term funding scheme for mesothelioma research.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL1499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>In April this year, I convened a high level meeting between the Association of British Insurers and the British Lung Foundation (BLF) to discuss how insurers can remain engaged in support for mesothelioma research following earlier donated funding. Departmental officials attended this meeting. Discussions between the BLF and insurers are ongoing. The Department has no direct role in these discussions but is monitoring progress.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This year, a number of noble Lords and members of the House of Commons have written to the Secretary of State for Health, Mr Jeremy Hunt, or to me about this subject.</p><p> </p><p>Any further funding made available by insurers for mesothelioma research will be in addition to existing sources of public funding. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has highlighted to the research community that it wants to encourage research applications in mesothelioma. Further details of this are available on the NIHR website at:</p><p> </p><p>www.themedcalls.nihr.ac.uk/mesothelioma</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1500 HL1502 HL1503 HL1530 HL1534 question first answered 30/07/2014 13:04:31 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool