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433627

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date	02/12/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment
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 Freud on 1 December (HL3877), whether they plan to compile data relevant to the assessment of whether Work Capability Assessment tests are connected to the incidence of suicide or mental health problems in disability benefit claimants, and to make that data publicly available; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the relevant information required and we have no plans to collect such information.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 16/12/2015 13:33:27 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

433630

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Police Custody
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in 2015 towards ensuring that people with mental health issues are not detained in police cells because no hospital bed is available for them.
tabling member printed	Lord Condon
uin	HL4140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>According to data from the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the number of people detained in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 fell by 34% in England between 2013-14 and 2014-15. This corresponds to an increase in the use of hospital-based places of safety of 14%, according to the Health &amp; Social Care Information Centre. The figure amounts to a 54% reduction in the use of police custody since 2011-12, surpassing the ambition of a 50% reduction set out in the Government’s Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, which was published in February 2014 and is attached. Existing guidance in the Concordat and the Mental Health Act Code of Practice makes it clear that police custody should only be used as a place of safety in exceptional circumstances.</p><p>The Concordat – signed by over 25 national organisations – has led to the establishment of 96 local groups covering the entirety of England, consisting of health, policing and local authority partners who have pledged to work together to improve mental health crisis care and set out detailed, publicly available plans, including to reduce the use of police custody for those detained under the Act.</p><p>However, although significant progress has been made, the Government has signalled its intention to go further by amending legislation through the forthcoming Police and Criminal Justice Bill, so that, among other measures, police custody can never be used as a place of safety for under-18s and so custody can only be used for adults in the most exceptional circumstances.</p><p>Moreover, in May this year the Home Secretary announced that the Government would invest up to an additional £15 million in 2016-17 to reduce the use of police custody as a place of safety. Further announcements around this will be made shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/12/2015 15:50:44 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Mental_Health_Crisis_Care Concordat.pdf title Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat
tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

433640

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadcasting: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how a child is defined within the Ofcom Broadcasting Code.
tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
uin	HL4150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>For the purposes of protecting children from viewing or listening to unsuitable material, section one of the Broadcasting Code defines children as those aged under fifteen years. For the purporses of safeguarding children involved in programmes, the Code protects all young people under the age of eighteen.</p> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 15/12/2015 17:29:03 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

433641

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadcasting: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how Ofcom is ensuring that persons under the age of 18 are protected from inappropriate content in television and radio services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
uin	HL4151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Section One of the Broadcasting Code serves to protect children from unsuitable content in television and radio services. The rules in this section include specific provisions, and cover areas such as drugs, smoking, violence and dangerous behaviour, offensive language, sexual material and nudity. The rules also specifically protect children before the watershed on television at 9pm and at times when they are particularly likely to be listening to radio services. Ofcom enforces these rules robustly, and can impose statutory sanctions on any broadcaster that breaches them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 15/12/2015 17:29:48 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

433657

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date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Syria: Reconstruction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they plan to spend the £1 billion pledged for post-war reconstruction in Syria.
tabling member printed	Lord Rana
uin	HL4167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of the international response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. We have committed over £1.1 billion to date, making us the second largest bilateral donor to the international response.</p><br /><p>We have planned for the endgame since the beginning of the conflict and during the Geneva process. We are now updating our planning to reflect the timeline envisaged in the Vienna process and are asking others to do the same. The initial priorities for Syria post-conflict will be protection, security, stabilisation and confidence building measures, including meeting basic needs and helping displaced people to return. Over time the focus will shift to longer-term re-building of Syria’s shattered infrastructure, harnessing the expertise of the UN, International Financial Institutions and the private sector. On 26 November, the Prime Minister announced at least £1 billion for Syria’s reconstruction. We anticipate that we would allocate reconstruction funds against a plan agreed between a new, inclusive Syrian government and the international community, once the conflict has ended.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 15/12/2015 16:51:46 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3689 label Biography information for Lord Rana

433795

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Energy: Job Creation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make an estimate of the number of UK jobs that would be created if contracts in the energy sector supply chain were awarded to UK firms.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	18532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A report on 'The size and performance of the UK low carbon economy’ published by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills contains estimates of the number of jobs supported by the low carbon sectors across the UK. [1] The report estimates in 2013 there were 460,600 jobs supported by these sectors, comprising 269,800 people employed by firms operating directly in the sector, with a further 190,800 jobs supported in the supply chain.</p><br /><p>Activity in the oil and gas industry supports jobs directly (those working immediately in the sector), and indirectly (those working in the supply chain), plus others supported in unrelated industries as a result of the direct and indirect workers spending their incomes on goods and services. Oil and Gas UK’s 2014 report estimated 450,000 jobs across the whole economy, comprising:</p><br /><ul><li>36,000 employed directly</li><li>200,000 in the supply chain</li><li>112,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy (induced jobs)</li><li>100,000 jobs in related export industries</li></ul><br /><p>Oil and Gas UK updated their analysis in 2015, giving a total of 375,000 jobs across all these areas.</p><br /><p>The investment driven by the government will support thousands of new jobs across the energy sectors. For example, Hinkley Point C will provide a vital boost for the national and local economy – expected to support 25,000 jobs, with at least 5,000 people from Somerset expected to work directly on the project, providing a £40 million boost to the local economy every year. EDF expects that more than 60% of the value of construction work on HPC will go to UK-based businesses.</p><br /><p>Work is ongoing between the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills regarding support for jobs in the energy sector. Wherever possible we want to see UK firms completing supply chains and exporting around the world.</p><p><br></p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> BIS (March 2015), The Size and Performance of the UK Low Carbon Economy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-carbon-economy-size-and-performance</a> </em></p><p><br></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/12/2015 15:22:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 34155 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck