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450615

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date	04/02/2016
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	Trade Missions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what joint trade missions have been undertaken by the UK and the Republic of Ireland since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Since 2010, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and Enterprise Ireland have organised a joint trade mission to the Singapore Air Show in February 2014.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Government is committed to helping UK business succeed overseas, including in the Republic of Ireland where UKTI is represented and is actively promoting trade and investment between our two countries.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 23/02/2016 12:30:02 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450619

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date	04/02/2016
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	Languages: Higher Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will take steps to encourage the Higher Education Funding Council for England to continue supporting language study, in particular by maintaining the Year Abroad subsidy.
tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
uin	HL5920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government will be writing to the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) shortly setting out its funding for the coming year. The HEFCE Board will make decisions on funding for universities and colleges in light of the Government’s letter. The Government continues to recognise the importance of language study and the value of studying abroad. Approximately 220,000 students have benefitted from the Erasmus Programme.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 29/02/2016 13:10:56 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

450629

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Middle East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what special education programmes are being provided for those Iraqis and Syrians who have reached the UK since 2012, broken down into those for (1) children, (2) young people, and (3) adults.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL5930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Asylum seekers and those granted refugee status or humanitarian protection have access to free state schooling. Those granted refugee status have immediate access to student support for higher education courses.</p><p>Local authorities in England are responsible for providing additional educational support, such as English language training.</p><p>Where schools need to provide additional support for English as an Additional Language (EAL) pupils the funding arrangements enable local authorities to allocate a proportion of their funding to schools on the basis of the number of pupils in each school who have EAL and who have been in the school system for a maximum of three years.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/02/2016 16:42:56 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

450638

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date	04/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Records
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 Bridges of Headley on 3 February (HL4852), whether they aim to release the official records from 1987 relating to the ban on the publication of <i>Spycatcher</i> that year; and if not, when they expect those records will be released to the National Archives under the 20-year rule.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL5939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>As set out in my answer to the noble Lord on 3 February, the Cabinet Office is actively reviewing its remaining 1987 and 1988 files and is seeking to complete this work as quickly as possible. It would be premature to comment about what will be released until this work is complete.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 22/02/2016 12:24:34 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill