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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

385298

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Social Mobility
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to review procurement processes to penalise companies which are failing to recruit bright working-class candidates, according to the recent report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Wider socio-economic criteria can be taken into account at tender evaluation stage if they relate directly to the subject matter of a contract from the point of view of the contracting authority.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 08/07/2015 15:44:10 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

385299

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to protect cyclists from collisions with heavy goods vehicles.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>Road safety including reducing the instances of cyclists being killed or seriously injured, particularly by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) is a subject that we take extremely seriously. Government has helped encourage and develop better HGV design and will continue to do so.　　 The Department for Transport will be consulting on a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS). Our plans to tackle cyclist safety and fatalities caused by all vehicle types, including HGVs will form a key part of this document.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/07/2015 13:21:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

385300

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	Liver Diseases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the programme of work for liver disease being developed by Public Health England will include a hepatitis C improvement framework.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>NHS England and Public Health England (PHE) are working alongside a coalition of other organisations and patient groups to draft a framework for hepatitis C improvement. This hepatitis C improvement framework will set high level aims for the public health system towards elimination of hepatitis C related liver disease as a significant public health concern.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The hepatitis C improvement framework will be referred to in PHE’s liver disease framework.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/07/2015 14:54:40 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

385301

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	Hepatitis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the national waiting time criterion for referral to hepatitis C treatment is 18 weeks whereas the national waiting time criterion for referral to specialist services for HIV treatment is two weeks.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">NHS England and Public Health England (PHE) are working alongside a coalition of other organisations and patient groups to draft a framework for hepatitis C improvement. This hepatitis C improvement framework will set high level aims for the public health system towards elimination of hepatitis C related liver disease as a significant public health concern.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The hepatitis C improvement framework will be referred to in PHE’s liver disease framework.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Timing for access to care or treatments for all NHS England service specifications or policies is based on an assessment of the evidence for clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness and affordability.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/07/2015 13:53:15 question first ministerially corrected 08/07/2015 14:59:37 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 12907 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

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

385303

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Pension Funds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 7 January (HL Deb, col 432), when they plan to consult on improving transparency for pension savers regarding where their money is invested and how rights attached to it are being exercised; and when they plan to consider how secondary legislation could be used to ensure greater transparency for pension savers.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to ensuring greater transparency for pension savers.</p><p> </p><p>From April this year, workplace schemes are required to report on the value delivered by costs and charges in their scheme for the first time. Building on this, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Financial Conduct Authority ran a joint Call for Evidence ‘Transaction Cost Disclosure: Improving Transparency in Workplace Pensions’, considering how transaction costs could be disclosed in a standardised way. This is the first phase of work required to meet duties under Section 44 of the Pensions Act 2014 to require transaction costs to be disclosed to members and others; and transaction costs and administration charges to be published. The Government is currently considering responses to the Call for Evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Transparency is not just about costs and charges. Earlier this year the Government consulted on changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes Investment Regulations requiring trustees to report how they take financial and non-financial factors into account when investing, and their schemes stewardship policy. The Government is currently considering responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intends to consult on any secondary legislation required following these exercises later this year, and will consider what further proposals may be needed to ensure greater transparency for pension savers including consideration both of its duties under the Pensions Act 2014 and the remarks made in debates on 7 January.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:06:11 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

385305

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the number of lay members sitting in asylum cases, and (2) the regional distribution of lay members who sit in asylum cases; and what steps they are taking to promote the sitting of lay members in asylum cases, in particular those concerned with appeals by foreign criminals against deportation involving complex assessments of Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>HMCTS does not routinely assess the number of lay members sitting in asylum cases or their regional distribution by either location or appeal type, as the composition of panels is a judicial function.</p><p> </p><p>The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Order 2008 states that the composition of Tribunal panels is the responsibility of the Senior President of Tribunals. The need for non-legal members is continuously assessed by the Immigration and Asylum Chambers and sitting days are made available based on workloads and requirements set out under the Senior President’s delegated powers.</p><p> </p><p>The contribution and deployment of non-legal members is a matter for the Senior President of Tribunals.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL789 question first answered 08/07/2015 15:48:49 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

385306

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to review how the contribution of lay members in asylum cases is treated following the Court of Appeal judgment in <i>PF (Nigeria) v the Secretary of State for the Home Department </i>[2015] EWCA Civ 251, in which the importance of the lay member’s interpretation on matters of fact was highlighted.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>HMCTS does not routinely assess the number of lay members sitting in asylum cases or their regional distribution by either location or appeal type, as the composition of panels is a judicial function.</p><p> </p><p>The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Order 2008 states that the composition of Tribunal panels is the responsibility of the Senior President of Tribunals. The need for non-legal members is continuously assessed by the Immigration and Asylum Chambers and sitting days are made available based on workloads and requirements set out under the Senior President’s delegated powers.</p><p> </p><p>The contribution and deployment of non-legal members is a matter for the Senior President of Tribunals.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL788 question first answered 08/07/2015 15:48:49 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich