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385293

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date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer Drugs Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the total value of projected savings to be made by removing drugs and indications from the Cancer Drugs Fund in England over (1) Q1 of 2015–16, and (2) the whole of 2015–16.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p> </p><p /> <p>NHS England has advised that the projected value of savings from the Cancer Drugs Fund, as a result of removing drugs from the national list, is not yet available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Decisions to de-list drugs were made taking account of the need to ensure the limited resources of the Fund are used most effectively. Advances in medical science mean that new and exciting cancer medicines are emerging all the time and we want people to have access to these too.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government established the Cancer Drugs Fund to ensure that cancer patients in England have better access to life-extending and improving drugs not routinely funded by the National Health Service.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Between October 2010 and March 2015, the Fund has helped over 72,000 cancer patients.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 02/07/2015 15:54:13 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

385294

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer Drugs Fund
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 delisting from the Cancer Drugs Fund on the availability of cancer drugs in the United Kingdom, in comparison with (1) the level of access in 2010 when the Fund was introduced, and (2) availability levels in comparable European countries.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>Neither the Department nor NHS England has made any such assessment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Decisions to de-list drugs were made taking account of the need to ensure the limited resources of the Fund are used most effectively. Advances in medical science mean that new and exciting cancer medicines are emerging all the time and we want people to have access to these too.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government established the Cancer Drugs Fund to ensure that cancer patients in England have better access to life-extending and improving drugs not routinely funded by the NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Between October 2010 and March 2015, the Fund has helped over 72,000 cancer patients.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 02/07/2015 15:55:02 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

385295

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take in the event of the Clinical Commissioning Groups outsourcing parts of their commissioning role to get round the restrictions on administrative costs.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), as independent statutory bodies, can choose how best to carry out their commissioning functions from within their running cost budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where CCGs choose to outsource their support and to buy from external providers, this funding will be charged against their fixed running cost allowance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Service integrators and lead providers co-ordinate and provide care for patients; they are not commissioners, nor do they undertake commissioning activities or responsibilities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL779 HL780 question first answered 29/06/2015 15:05:34 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

385296

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, when Clinical Commissioning Groups outsource some of their commissioning role to integrators, lead providers or through other similar mechanisms, how the administrative costs so transferred will be counted against the Clinical Commissioning Groups' administrative cost cap.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), as independent statutory bodies, can choose how best to carry out their commissioning functions from within their running cost budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where CCGs choose to outsource their support and to buy from external providers, this funding will be charged against their fixed running cost allowance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Service integrators and lead providers co-ordinate and provide care for patients; they are not commissioners, nor do they undertake commissioning activities or responsibilities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL778 HL780 question first answered 29/06/2015 15:05:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

385297

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, when Clinical Commissioning Groups outsource some of their commissioning role, the element of administration that would have counted towards the fixed cap on administrative costs will be separately identified and appropriately deducted from Clinical Commissioning Group budgets.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), as independent statutory bodies, can choose how best to carry out their commissioning functions from within their running cost budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where CCGs choose to outsource their support and to buy from external providers, this funding will be charged against their fixed running cost allowance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Service integrators and lead providers co-ordinate and provide care for patients; they are not commissioners, nor do they undertake commissioning activities or responsibilities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL778 HL779 question first answered 29/06/2015 15:05:34 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

385302

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Pension Funds: Climate Change
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 possible impact of climate change on pensions funds; and whether they intend to invite the Prudential Regulation Authority to include this issue in its Climate Change Adaptation Report.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The Climate Change Risk Assessment, published in 2012, identified the impact on investment funds from climate change. It found that impacts would be indirect but could be substantial and that it would be difficult to establish a link between impacts and financial performance. The assessment identified the increasing exposure of insurers due to flood risk.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the current round of reporting under the Adaptation Reporting Power, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is focusing its report on the insurance sector and its role in addressing the increasing exposure of the sector to climate risks. It does not directly supervise pension funds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The PRA’s report will inform our next national assessment of risk, due in 2017, and the National Adaptation Programme due around 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 03/07/2015 11:43:18 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

385304

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Cole Commission on Exports
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 report by the Cole Commission on Exports <i>An Action Plan from business</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government welcomes this report and the serious work by members of the Cole Commission. It contains much invaluable analysis and we will consider its recommendations very carefully.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 29/06/2015 12:23:26 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

385309

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Neonicotinoids
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of evidence that bees are harmed by the use of neonicotinoids, what plans they have to restrict the use of neonicotinoid-treated seeds.
tabling member printed	Lord Harries of Pentregarth
uin	HL792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on the approval of pesticide active substances are made at European level. Since December 2013, three of the five neonicotinoids currently approved are not permitted for use on a wide range of crops considered “attractive to bees”. A number of other uses remain permitted under the EU approval. The restrictions currently in place for neonicotinoids are not time-limited.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 03/07/2015 11:55:11 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3813 label Biography information for Lord Harries of Pentregarth

385312

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Animal Welfare: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions there have been for animal cruelty in each of the last five years; and how many of those related to cruelty to cats.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The number of prosecutions for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal under section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 for each of the last five years, for which records are available, can be viewed in the table below. Centrally held statistics do not record the species of animal involved.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to causing, permitting or failing to prevent unnecessary suffering<sup>(1)</sup>, England &amp; Wales, 2010-2014<sup>(2)(3)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Offence</p></td><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Causing, permitting or failing to prevent unnecessary suffering</p></td><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>1,077</p></td><td><p>1,277</p></td><td><p>1,385</p></td><td><p>1,266</p></td><td><p>1,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found Guilty</p></td><td><p>856</p></td><td><p>1,010</p></td><td><p>1,101</p></td><td><p>1,006</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(1) An offence under SS4(1) &amp; 32(1) and 4(2) &amp; 32(1) Animal Welfare Act 2006, which came into force on 6 April 2007.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ref: HL795</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 03/07/2015 11:49:01 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

385313

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Unidentified Flying Objects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in relation to the 18 Ministry of Defence files on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) that have yet to be released to the public, what is the originating division of the file reference M9/18; what is the remit of that division in relation to UAP; and what is their latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The originating branch of file reference MO9/18 relates to ministers' private offices. The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016. The National Archives will make the necessary judgement about when they release these files to the public.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 01/07/2015 15:48:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood