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657417

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to the Written Answer by the Chairman of Committees on 8 April 2014, which museums or related institutions have received encaustic tiles from the Palace of Westminster.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL4049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>Following the decision by the Administration and Works Committee in the Lords and the Administration Committee in the Commons that in cases where encaustic tiles from the Palace of Westminster cannot be re-used elsewhere, some of these should be donated to museums or related institutions, encaustic tiles have been donated to the Tile Trail in Stoke on Trent; to a recycled mosaics project to commemorate the pottery works in Stoke on Trent; and to St Augustine’s Church in Ramsgate.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 19/12/2016 14:12:45 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

657397

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Pancreatic Cancer: Research
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the five-year survival rate for patients suffering from pancreatic cancer, what funding has been provided for research into pancreatic cancer since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL4030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds and supports research into all aspects of human health. Spend on research funded directly by NIHR is categorised by Health Research Classification System (HRCS) categories, including ‘cancer’. There are no HRCS health sub-categories, such as for pancreatic cancer.</p><p> </p><p>The NIHR invested £745 million in cancer research from 2010-11 to 2015-16 (see table below). This figure includes investment in the NIHR Liverpool Pancreatic Biomedical Research Unit, which carries out research into pancreatic cancer and other pancreatic diseases.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cancer research</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£100,901</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£104,104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£133,239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£129,893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£134,715</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£142,433</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£745,285</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Medical Research Council (MRC) spend on research into pancreatic cancer since 2011-12 is provided below. No directly comparable figure is available for 2010-11.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Pancreatic Cancer Research</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£0.37 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£1.11 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£1.66 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£2.22 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£2.66 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To provide context, in 2015, the MRC’s overall expenditure on cancer research was £90.3 million (calendar year figure, source: National Cancer Research Institute). This figure includes a broad portfolio of site-specific and general underpinning cancer research, some of which will be relevant to research into pancreatic cancer, as it is often the case that research relevant to one site may also have implications for other forms of cancer.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2016 13:53:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

657382

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Countries: Tax Avoidance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the appeal in Luxembourg of Antoine Deltour against his conviction in June for theft, what steps they are taking to protect whistleblowers who expose companies’ aggressive tax avoidance schemes when those schemes are organised in conjunction with the governments of other EU member states.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harries of Pentregarth
	uin	HL4016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 ensures that workers who raise concerns of wrongdoing to their employer or a relevant external body (by making what is known as a ‘protected disclosure’) and suffer detriment as a result may seek redress through an Employment Tribunal.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to information on tax avoidance and evasion HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) gathers information from a number of sources including whistle-blowers. Any information which is provided to HMRC is treated as confidential and details of the individual providing the information will not be divulged, without consent, except where compelled by law.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not offer immunity from prosecution within the UK or in a third country where that country’s legislation is at odds with UK Legislation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 21/12/2016 12:36:09 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3813 label Biography information for Lord Harries of Pentregarth

657381

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 17 October (HL2340) and 5 December (HL3452), whether members of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) expert panel approached John Zhang or were approached by him, and when any such contact was first made; and to what extent, if any, the recent recommendations of the HFEA expert panel were influenced by the John Zhang's unpublished data referred to in the journal <i>Nature</i> on 10 November.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the Expert Panel has met on four occasions over the past four years. On each occasion a formal call for evidence was issued. With regard to the most recent report, the Panel received confidential correspondence on particular issues. Panel members were able to share private correspondence with the Secretariat that supports the Panel, where relevant. Where any evidence has influenced the reports it has been cited.</p><p>The HFEA has also advised that it approached John Zhang, following the publication of the abstract from the October 2016 American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, entitled “First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome”. A copy of the abstract is attached. The Panel also interviewed Prof. Zhang to further understand the methods used. The Panel’s report references the Zhang work.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4014 question first answered 20/12/2016 15:21:45 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Zhang abstract ASRM Oct 2016 (1).pdf title ZHANG ABSTRACT
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

657380

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 17 October (HL2340) and 5 December (HL3452), whether any members of the expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) shared private and confidential correspondence with members of the HFEA Executive that had not been submitted to the Authority as part of any formal calls for evidence; and if so, what were the particular circumstances that necessitated giving weight to any material not intended for publication.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the Expert Panel has met on four occasions over the past four years. On each occasion a formal call for evidence was issued. With regard to the most recent report, the Panel received confidential correspondence on particular issues. Panel members were able to share private correspondence with the Secretariat that supports the Panel, where relevant. Where any evidence has influenced the reports it has been cited.</p><p>The HFEA has also advised that it approached John Zhang, following the publication of the abstract from the October 2016 American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, entitled “First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome”. A copy of the abstract is attached. The Panel also interviewed Prof. Zhang to further understand the methods used. The Panel’s report references the Zhang work.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4015 question first answered 20/12/2016 15:21:45 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Zhang abstract ASRM Oct 2016 (1).pdf title ZHANG ABSTRACT
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

657411

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Office for Budget Responsibility
	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 Young of Cookham on 12 December (HL3687), whether they have made a separate assessment of the accuracy of the forecasts for the economy and public finances made by the Office for Budget Responsibility since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL4044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 requires the Non-executive members of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to commission an external review every five years, to examine the content and quality of the reports published by the OBR. To this end, the Page review was published in September 2014. HM Treasury published its own review of the OBR in 2015, building on evidence from the Page review.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 21/12/2016 12:33:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

657399

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	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 Williams of Trafford on 9 December (HL3756), whether they will create a process whereby people outside the Home Office can directly feed back and challenge Prevent training when it is considered to be straying beyond a remit of safeguarding people from becoming involved in terrorism, such as by identifying anti-fracking protesters as extremists.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	uin	HL4032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>Prevent is about safeguarding vulnerable people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. This cannot be done by Government alone, and training in Prevent plays a vital part in empowering people to safeguard those who need our help. Prevent training is kept under continued review. Those who receive training are encouraged to provide feedback on all aspects of it.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/12/2016 15:34:56 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

657390

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
	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 Williams of Trafford on 11 November (HL2633), whether the amount that an international student applying for a visa to study in the UK would need to have available in order to demonstrate that they have sufficient funds to cover living expenses has changed since the replacement of maintenance grants with loans for UK home students.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL4024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2017 answer text <p>An international student studying in the UK must demonstrate that they have:</p><p>• £1,265 per month for living costs if they are studying in London for the majority of their study (more than 50% of study time);</p><p>• £1,015 per month for living costs if they are studying outside London, or anywhere else in the UK, for the majority of their study (more than 50% of study time).</p><p>In most cases, an international student will need to show that they have money for their living costs for each month of their course, up to a maximum of nine months. The amount of funds that international students must demonstrate for living costs were raised in November 2015 in line with the combined maximum maintenance loan and grant available to English students living away from home starting courses in September 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL4023 question first answered 09/01/2017 13:11:40 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

657396

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Harassment
	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 Chisholm of Owlpen on 6 December (HL3463), whether they will establish a cross party commission with representatives from national and local government to create an action plan to reduce the incidence of threatening behaviour against those holding public office.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL4029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>We note the issue raised and will continue to consider whether any appropriate steps need to be taken in light of any developments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 20/12/2016 16:44:30 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

657403

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	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	Social Services: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, assuming current prices and that all English local authorities with adult social care provisions make two per cent increases in the council tax precept, how much will be raised in total for adult social care in England (1) in the first year of operation, and (2) for all years of operation up to and including the financial year 2019–20.
	tabling member printed	Lord Warner
	uin	HL4036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2016 answer text <p>The social care precept created in the 2015 Spending Review works by giving local authorities the flexibility to raise council tax in their area by up to 2 per cent above the existing threshold. If all local authorities used this to its maximum effect it could help raise nearly £2 billion a year by 2019-20. In 2016-17 144 out of 152 (95 per cent) adult social care authorities took up the precept raising £382 million extra for social care this year. The core spending power tables published alongside the Local Government Finance Settlement provide set out estimates of how much each council might raise in later years, and an explanatory note sets out the assumptions that these are based on.</p><p /> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/12/2016 15:02:09 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner