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225303

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date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to revise social care charging guidance for War Disablement Pensioners, in the light of a proportion of military compensation being regarded as income in local authority income assessments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL5428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>We are in the process of introducing fundamental reforms to how we pay for care and support that will make the system fairer for everyone, including veterans. At the moment, someone who is unfortunate enough to have the highest care needs may risk losing all they have to meet the cost of their care. These reforms will mean that, for the first time ever, everyone will be protected from the risk of catastrophic care costs. The proposals are currently out for consultation and can be found at <a href="http://www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk</a>. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Personal injury compensation paid to veterans and civilians has always been fully disregarded provided the money is placed in a Trust. The War Pensions Scheme, which is available to those injured prior to April 2005, provides a range of allowances some of which were designed to pay for ongoing care costs and that is why these payments have been taken into account under the care and support charging rules. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, introduced for those injured from April 2005, operates differently. Officials in the Department are working with the Royal British Legion to review this issue and assess how the rules could be aligned in future to ensure fair treatment of veterans under both of these schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL5429 HL5430 HL5431 question first answered 18/03/2015 13:53:52 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name The Care Act 2014- Consultation.pdf title The Care Act 2014- Proposals for consultation
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

225304

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why, in relation to the treatment of injured veterans’ compensation payments within the social care system, their charging guidance differs depending on whether the injury was sustained before or after 6 April 2005.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL5429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>We are in the process of introducing fundamental reforms to how we pay for care and support that will make the system fairer for everyone, including veterans. At the moment, someone who is unfortunate enough to have the highest care needs may risk losing all they have to meet the cost of their care. These reforms will mean that, for the first time ever, everyone will be protected from the risk of catastrophic care costs. The proposals are currently out for consultation and can be found at <a href="http://www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk</a>. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Personal injury compensation paid to veterans and civilians has always been fully disregarded provided the money is placed in a Trust. The War Pensions Scheme, which is available to those injured prior to April 2005, provides a range of allowances some of which were designed to pay for ongoing care costs and that is why these payments have been taken into account under the care and support charging rules. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, introduced for those injured from April 2005, operates differently. Officials in the Department are working with the Royal British Legion to review this issue and assess how the rules could be aligned in future to ensure fair treatment of veterans under both of these schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL5428 HL5430 HL5431 question first answered 18/03/2015 13:53:53 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name The Care Act 2014- Consultation.pdf title The Care Act 2014- Proposals for consultation
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

225305

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why, in October 2012, they decided fully to exempt Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Guaranteed Income Payments from local authority means tests for social care, but did not do the same for War Disablement Pensions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL5430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>We are in the process of introducing fundamental reforms to how we pay for care and support that will make the system fairer for everyone, including veterans. At the moment, someone who is unfortunate enough to have the highest care needs may risk losing all they have to meet the cost of their care. These reforms will mean that, for the first time ever, everyone will be protected from the risk of catastrophic care costs. The proposals are currently out for consultation and can be found at <a href="http://www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk</a>. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Personal injury compensation paid to veterans and civilians has always been fully disregarded provided the money is placed in a Trust. The War Pensions Scheme, which is available to those injured prior to April 2005, provides a range of allowances some of which were designed to pay for ongoing care costs and that is why these payments have been taken into account under the care and support charging rules. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, introduced for those injured from April 2005, operates differently. Officials in the Department are working with the Royal British Legion to review this issue and assess how the rules could be aligned in future to ensure fair treatment of veterans under both of these schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL5428 HL5429 HL5431 question first answered 18/03/2015 13:53:53 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name The Care Act 2014- Consultation.pdf title The Care Act 2014- Proposals for consultation
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

225306

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Veterans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the Armed Forces Covenant principle of no disadvantage due to service, whether they plan to exempt War Disablement Pensions from local authority income assessments for social care, as is already the case for civilian personal injury compensation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL5431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>We are in the process of introducing fundamental reforms to how we pay for care and support that will make the system fairer for everyone, including veterans. At the moment, someone who is unfortunate enough to have the highest care needs may risk losing all they have to meet the cost of their care. These reforms will mean that, for the first time ever, everyone will be protected from the risk of catastrophic care costs. The proposals are currently out for consultation and can be found at <a href="http://www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.careact2016.dh.gov.uk</a>. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Personal injury compensation paid to veterans and civilians has always been fully disregarded provided the money is placed in a Trust. The War Pensions Scheme, which is available to those injured prior to April 2005, provides a range of allowances some of which were designed to pay for ongoing care costs and that is why these payments have been taken into account under the care and support charging rules. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, introduced for those injured from April 2005, operates differently. Officials in the Department are working with the Royal British Legion to review this issue and assess how the rules could be aligned in future to ensure fair treatment of veterans under both of these schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL5428 HL5429 HL5430 question first answered 18/03/2015 13:53:53 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name The Care Act 2014- Consultation.pdf title The Care Act 2014- Proposals for consultation
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

225307

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ketamine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what negotiating position they are adopting at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs on imminent proposals to restrict the supply and use of ketamine.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Coalition Government does not believe that controlling ketamine internationally is appropriate. It could result in reduced access to a substance listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organisation and widely used as an anaesthetic in low and middle income countries. We will be adopting this position at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.</p><p>However, we are determined to clamp down on the illegal misuse of ketamine, which leaves young people in the UK hospitalised with serious bladder and kidney damage every year.</p><p>To prevent its misuse, we have made ketamine a Class B drug and taken action to ensure its availability for health and veterinary care in the UK is properly regulated.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 10/03/2015 14:38:12 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

225308

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Ketamine
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 impact of restrictions on the supply and use of ketamine on people living in the most rural areas of developing countries with no alternative anaesthetic for surgical procedures.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>Ketamine is widely used as an anaesthetic in low and middle income countries. The Coalition Government believes that it is inappropriate to control ketamine internationally as it could result in reduced access to a substance listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organisation. We will be adopting this position at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.</p><p>However, we are determined to clamp down on the illegal misuse of ketamine, which is why we have made ketamine a Class B drug and taken action to ensure its availability for health and veterinary care in the UK is properly regulated.</p><p>We continue to discuss our concerns over the impact of international control with a range of civil society groups and professional bodies, including bodies representing anaesthetists.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5434 question first answered 10/03/2015 14:40:54 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

225309

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Ketamine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have held with the British Medical Association, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists about the potential impact on the world’s rural poor of restrictions on the availability of ketamine.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>Ketamine is widely used as an anaesthetic in low and middle income countries. The Coalition Government believes that it is inappropriate to control ketamine internationally as it could result in reduced access to a substance listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organisation. We will be adopting this position at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.</p><p>However, we are determined to clamp down on the illegal misuse of ketamine, which is why we have made ketamine a Class B drug and taken action to ensure its availability for health and veterinary care in the UK is properly regulated.</p><p>We continue to discuss our concerns over the impact of international control with a range of civil society groups and professional bodies, including bodies representing anaesthetists.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5433 question first answered 10/03/2015 14:40:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

225310

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to devolve responsibility for the Wales and Borders rail franchise to the Welsh Government; and how the interests of stakeholders and customers in England would be protected under such a change.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government is proposing to devolve executive franchising functions to the Welsh Government, to enable them to lead on the procurement and management of the next Wales and Borders franchise. We continue to work with the Welsh Government on the details of the devolved franchise, including how cross-border routes are procured and managed. Cross-border routes are vital for passengers on both sides of the border; having sufficient safeguards in place to protect all cross-border rail users is extremely important.</p><p> </p><p>In order for the Secretary of State for Transport to ensure proper accountability, it is likely that services primarily serving English markets will be placed into other franchises for which the Secretary of State for Transport is the franchising authority. No final decision has been made at this stage on which services would be affected and specific proposals will be consulted on in due course as is normal practice. It should also be noted that any transfer of executive franchising functions to Welsh Ministers will be subject to parliamentary process in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 11/03/2015 14:37:37 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

225311

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Veterans: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2 March (HL Deb, col 6), what is their assessment of the number of (1) veterans casually sleeping rough, and (2) homeless veterans, in (a) London, and (b) elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL5436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>DCLG’s Rough Sleeping Statistics England – Autumn 2014 statistical release provides a single night snapshot and does not provide information on the demographics of rough sleepers. However, the Greater London Authority’s CHAIN (Combined Homeless and Information Network) database in London shows that, in 2013/14, 3% (145) of people seen rough sleeping who are from the UK had served in the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally. There is a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation. The initiatives help a wide range of single homeless people including military veterans.</p><p> </p><p>StreetLink has helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or faced the prospect of doing so. By using Streetlink the public can help connect rough sleepers to the local services available so they can get the help they need to get them off the streets. Since 2012, StreetLink has made nearly 24,500 rough sleeping referrals to councils to investigate, leading to 10,500 rough sleepers being found and connected with local services of which nearly 2,000 resulted in them finding accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We have also supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector, ensuring rough sleepers are found quickly and that they do not spend more than one night on the street.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness. Thirty-four projects, working across 168 local authorities, will provide support for up 22,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is helping single homeless people find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £14 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people since it started in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced protection to ensure that former and current Service personnel are not disadvantaged in accessing social housing because of the disadvantages of military life. We have changed the law by regulation so that seriously injured personnel and former members of the Armed Forces with urgent housing needs must always be given high priority for social housing by local authorities. We have also made sure that serving personnel and those who have recently been discharged do not lose their qualification rights because of the requirement to move from base to base. Additionally, we have issued statutory guidance strongly encouraging local authorities to give sympathetic consideration to prioritising the needs of all former Service personnel, for example through the use of local preference criteria and local lettings policies.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations publish their own statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5437 HL5478 question first answered 12/03/2015 15:08:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

225312

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Veterans: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2 March (HL Deb, col 6), what programmes they have to help veterans sleeping rough in (1) London, and (2) the rest of the United Kingdom; what programmes are in place to move homeless veterans to permanent housing; and what programmes are in place to prevent veterans from becoming homeless.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL5437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>DCLG’s Rough Sleeping Statistics England – Autumn 2014 statistical release provides a single night snapshot and does not provide information on the demographics of rough sleepers. However, the Greater London Authority’s CHAIN (Combined Homeless and Information Network) database in London shows that, in 2013/14, 3% (145) of people seen rough sleeping who are from the UK had served in the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally. There is a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation. The initiatives help a wide range of single homeless people including military veterans.</p><p> </p><p>StreetLink has helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or faced the prospect of doing so. By using Streetlink the public can help connect rough sleepers to the local services available so they can get the help they need to get them off the streets. Since 2012, StreetLink has made nearly 24,500 rough sleeping referrals to councils to investigate, leading to 10,500 rough sleepers being found and connected with local services of which nearly 2,000 resulted in them finding accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We have also supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector, ensuring rough sleepers are found quickly and that they do not spend more than one night on the street.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness. Thirty-four projects, working across 168 local authorities, will provide support for up 22,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is helping single homeless people find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £14 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people since it started in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced protection to ensure that former and current Service personnel are not disadvantaged in accessing social housing because of the disadvantages of military life. We have changed the law by regulation so that seriously injured personnel and former members of the Armed Forces with urgent housing needs must always be given high priority for social housing by local authorities. We have also made sure that serving personnel and those who have recently been discharged do not lose their qualification rights because of the requirement to move from base to base. Additionally, we have issued statutory guidance strongly encouraging local authorities to give sympathetic consideration to prioritising the needs of all former Service personnel, for example through the use of local preference criteria and local lettings policies.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations publish their own statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5436 HL5478 question first answered 12/03/2015 15:08:26 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig