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436031

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date	08/12/2015
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	Genocide
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 Anelay of St Johns on 7 December (HL4065), whether they are in the process of submitting evidence of genocide against Yazidis and Assyrian Christians to international courts, and if so, which ones; when the international courts last declared a genocide to have taken place; and when the international courts last initiated a trial for genocide, and against whom.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>We are not submitting any evidence of possible genocide against Yezidis and Christians to international courts, nor have we been asked to.</p><br /><p>The most recent occasion on which an international court found genocide to have occurred was on 10 June 2010, when the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted several of the accused in the Prosecutor v. Popović et al. case for either committing, conspiracy to commit, or aiding and abetting, genocide in and around Srebrenica and Žepa in 1995. These convictions were subsequently upheld by the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY on 30 January 2015.</p><br /><p>The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) initiated a trial against Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, two former Khmer Republic senior officials, which remains ongoing, and includes charges of genocide against the Cham and Vietnamese people. Evidence relating to the genocide charges began being heard on 7 September 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 16/12/2015 14:05:36 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

436032

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Mental Health Taskforce report on a new five-year national strategy for mental health will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL4328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Mental Health Taskforce is finalising its recommendations and supporting analysis to ensure these are robust. Their report is due to be published by NHS England in the New Year.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/12/2015 16:42:37 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

436033

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Audit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the legal requirements for auditing school budgets in local authority schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Scheme for Financing Schools statutory guidance requires local authorities to set out the financial relationship between them and the schools they maintain. The scheme contains a provision which places schools within an internal audit regime determined by the authority, and the authority’s external audit regime.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 21/12/2015 16:57:41 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436034

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role local authorities and school governors have in agreeing annual school budgets.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Maintained schools receive a delegated budget from their local authority. Local authorities are required to maintain a scheme for financing schools that sets out the framework for the financial relationship between them and the schools they maintain. This requires that the school’s formal annual budget plan must be approved by the governors. This approval is undertaken on the basis that the budget is being used for the purposes of the school.</p><br /><p>Under the scheme for financing schools, a local authority’s responsibilities are to review schools’ budget plans; to carry out high level monitoring of school budgets; to agree a deficit reduction programme with schools in deficit; to challenge excess surplus balances held by schools without good reason; to intervene in schools for which there are financial concerns.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/12/2015 13:39:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436035

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps an academy school is legally required to take if it has a budget deficit.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>An academy trust is required by its funding agreement with the Secretary of State to balance its budget from each academy financial year to the next. Where the board of trustees of an academy is formally proposing to set a deficit budget for the current financial year, which it is unable to address after unspent funds from previous years are taken into account, it must notify the Education Funding Agency (EFA) within 14 days.</p><br /><p>The EFA may issue a trust with a Financial Notice to Improve (FNtI) in cases of a deficit or projected deficit, setting out the actions it requires the trust to take. The trust must comply with all the terms of the FNtI which would include a requirement to implement a recovery plan to secure financial stability.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 21/12/2015 16:55:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436036

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Maintained Schools: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether governors of maintained schools are allowed to agree a budget deficit.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Governors are responsible for agreeing the budget of a school under the arrangements set out in their Local Authority’s Scheme for Financing Schools, which may preclude any planning for deficits; or it may allow schools to plan for deficits only in certain approved circumstances.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 14/12/2015 14:48:25 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name Scheme_for_Financing_Schools_August_2015_published.pdf title Scheme for Financing Schools
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436037

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
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 what assessment they have made of (1) which UK terrestrial broadcasters produce annual original homemade content for children, and (2) how much those broadcasters spend annually on such content.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom’s 2015 report into the future of public service broadcasting included an assessment of the amount of UK originated Children’s television programming by the public service broadcasting channels.</p><p>In 2014, the BBC spent £84 million on children's television programming. The combined spend of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 was £3 million.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/12/2015 13:27:54 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436038

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	European Union: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of Article 2, section 1(b)(xiv) of EU Regulation 235/2014 and the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education, what action they have taken, and what action they plan to take, ahead of the EU Referendum to ensure that (1) active and engaging European and EU citizenship education is integrated into every primary and secondary school's curriculum, and (2) training for specialist citizenship teachers is included in initial teacher education, and in teachers' continuing professional development.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>Schools are aware of their duties regarding impartiality and treatment of political issues. Sections 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996 require maintained schools to prevent political indoctrination and secure the balanced treatment of political issues. The new national curriculum includes an improved programme of study for citizenship education at key stages 3 and 4, which is organised around core knowledge and democracy, government and how laws are made and upheld. Pupils are also taught about local, regional, and international governance, and about the United Kingdom’s relations with the rest of Europe, the Commonwealth, the United Nations, and the wider world.</p><p>The Government does not prescribe initial teacher training (ITT) content. However, all ITT courses must ensure that trainee teachers can meet the Teachers’ Standards. This sets clear expectations and defines the minimum level of practice expected of teachers in England. The standards require all teachers and trainees to have secure knowledge of relevant subject and curriculum areas and demonstrate a critical understanding of developments in them. Ofsted inspects the quality of ITT against the Teachers’ Standards and no trainee can be recommended for qualified teacher status (QTS) until they have met the Standards in full at the appropriate level. Schools and headteachers are best placed to determine which development activities will be most beneficial for their schools and we expect them to lead on the development of their teachers.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 21/12/2015 16:56:55 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436039

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
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	Council Tax
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to ensure that local authorities with a low council tax base are not disadvantaged in relation to authorities in more affluent areas by the new power to raise council tax by 2 per cent in order partially to offset cuts in social care following the Comprehensive Spending Review.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises that councils have varying capacity to raise money through council tax. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government set out, in the provisional local government finance settlement 2016-17, proposed changes to rebalance support, including to those authorities with social care responsibilities, by taking into account the main resources available to councils. In particular, he published illustrative allocations for the extra funding we are providing to local authorities for adult social care through the improved Better Care Fund: these allocations directly take into account the council tax-raising capacity of authorities.</p><p>I refer the noble Lord to information accompanying the Oral Statement made on 17 December, Official Report, Column 2238-2239 (attached).</p><p>Further details are available on the Government website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/council-tax-in-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/council-tax-in-2016-to-2017</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486708/Core_spending_power_supporting_information.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486708/Core_spending_power_supporting_information.xlsx</a></p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/12/2015 16:02:53 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 1269269.docx title Column 2238 -2239
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

436040

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Tower Hamlets
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 Nash on 8 December (HL3697), what is the name of the new school; whether that school is a free school; and what involvement, if any, the New Schools Network had in founding that school.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
uin	HL4336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>We cannot yet confirm which school the Commercial Road site will be developed for as the latest wave of applications is currently being assessed. Whether the entire site will be used will depend on the type of school approved.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 14/12/2015 15:03:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty