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715496

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date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend that rural proofing will be applied to the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL6457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is aware of <em>Rural proofing: practical guidance to assess impacts of policies on rural areas</em>, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>All Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) build on the Five Year Forward View to present an overall strategy for their geographic footprint and identify the three to five key priorities required to realise their vision. This should take account of specific challenges facing each area, which could include a dispersed, rural population.</p><p> </p><p>STPs have been in the public domain for several months. Partner organisations within each area are engaging both rural and urban communities on their plans and, where required by law, consulting on service change.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to provide ongoing support to each STP area. In September 2016, they published <em>Engaging Local People: A guide for local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans</em>, which set out how STP areas should reach out to stakeholders in their areas. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is exploring ways to better adapt health provision for rural areas. For example, the vanguard covering Morecambe Bay Health Community is improving healthcare in a geographically isolated area by using a high definition telemedicine link between a general practitioner (GP) surgery in Millom and the accident and emergency (A&amp;E) department in Barrow-in-Furness. This means when GPs can seek a second opinion as to whether a patient needs intensive treatment or can be treated in the community – they can call through and have an A&amp;E specialist examine the patient. This means that over the 1,000 square miles that Morecambe Bay covers, patients can have access to expert opinion without having to travel further than their nearest GP.</p><p> </p><p>On 31 March, <em>Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View</em> was published by NHS England. The document outlined a 10-point care and efficiency plan which will further contribute to improving the health outcomes of those living in rural areas. A copy of this document is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name engag-local-people-stps.pdf title Engaging Local People 2 file name NEXT-STEPS-ON-THE-NHS-FIVE-YEAR-FORWARD-VIEW.pdf title Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View question first answered 06/04/2017 11:02:39 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

715497

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
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	Agriculture: Apprentices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 7 March (HL Deb, col 1246), whether the trebling of agricultural apprenticeships from 6,000 to 18,000 is a target for (1) the whole period to 2020, or (2) each year until and including 2020.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL6458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment is to treble the number of apprenticeships in food, farming and agri-tech. This means increasing the number of annual starts to 18,000 by 2020. The number of starts in the most recent full year for which statistics are available (2015 -2016) was 7,160.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/04/2017 13:00:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

715498

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
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	Fly-tipping
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by the Earl of Courtown on 8 March (HL Deb, col 1357), whether, following a successful prosecution by the Environment Agency for fly-tipping, landowners will receive recompense for costs incurred in having rubbish removed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL6459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>Where a person is convicted of an offence under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (the ‘fly-tipping’), section 33B (2) of that Act provides that “loss or damage resulting from the offence” in section 130 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 specifically includes costs incurred or to be incurred by a relevant person in removing the waste deposited or disposed of in or on the land; taking other steps to eliminate or reduce the consequences of the deposit or disposal; or both.</p><p> </p><p>A “relevant person” is defined for these purposes in section 33B (3) as including the occupier of the land and the owner of the land.</p><p> </p><p>A court can order the person convicted of fly-tipping to pay compensation to the occupier or owner of the land in respect of costs incurred or to be incurred in removing the waste and/or associated clean-up costs. Whether a court would in any particular case make such an order will depend on the nature of the case, any other form of punishment to which the offender is to be sentenced, and the financial means of the offender to pay. Once a compensation order is made the courts have a role in enforcing that order to ensure that monies are paid. This is reflected in the sentencing guideline. The application of the guideline is a matter for the court to decide. A copy of this document will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/04/2017 11:08:44 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

715499

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
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	Fly-tipping
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by the Earl of Courtown on 8 March (HL Deb, col 1357), whether they will give further consideration to providing compensation to landowners in relation to large-scale commercial dumping of waste on private land.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL6460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government is not currently considering providing compensation to landowners in relation to large-scale commercial dumping of waste on private land.</p><p> </p><p>Fly-tipping is unacceptable whether it occurs on public or private land. However, fly-tipping on private land is a difficult issue. Local authorities are not under any legal obligation to clear fly-tipped waste from private property, so this responsibility falls to the landowner. Some authorities may offer a clearance service but they are likely to charge for this. If, following an investigation, a conviction is secured then the court can award compensation which covers the costs of clearance of waste to the landowner.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/04/2017 11:44:49 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

715513

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	VAT
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 cumulative effect of changes to laws and regulations relating to VAT on (1) small and medium-sized enterprises, (2) charities, and (3) churches.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL6474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government assesses the impact on businesses and civil society organisations of each change in VAT law and publishes these assessments in Tax Information and Impact Notes. This does not assess cumulative effects.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/04/2017 13:30:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

715514

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment
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 cumulative effect of changes to laws and regulations relating to employment on (1) small and medium-sized enterprises, (2) charities, and (3) churches.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL6475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>All such legislation and its associated impacts can be found on the Legislation.gov.uk website. Individual impact assessments will detail the expected impacts including, where relevant, those accruing to charities and churches. A Small and Micro Business Assessment is also mandatory within an impact assessment for most domestic measures that regulate business and come into force after 31 March 2014.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 07/04/2017 13:30:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson