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date	29/11/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Heart Diseases: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people aged under 40 die of undiagnosed heart conditions each week in England.
tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
tabling member printed	Sir Michael Fallon
uin	116035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:33:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ116035.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon

797251

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University of Bath: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Ministers and the Higher Education Funding Council for England plan to investigate the decision-making process at the University of Bath which led to an "exit package" being paid to the Vice-Chancellor; what was the total value of that package; and whether they consider this was consistent with the proper and efficient use of public funds.
tabling member printed	Lord Adonis
uin	HL3683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The government expects the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to look into issues related to value for money with regard to English higher education institutions. HEFCE has investigated the governance process at the University of Bath which led to the Vice-Chancellor being awarded their most recent salary increase. On the 20 November 2017 it published a report, containing recommendations relating to that governance process. The university has agreed to respond to those recommendations by 15 December 2017.</p><p>Separately, the university’s governing body has agreed the retirement arrangements for the Vice-Chancellor. The university issued a press release on 28 November, confirming the details of the exit package.</p><p>We understand that HEFCE is currently considering whether it should investigate the governance processes concerned with the Vice-Chancellor’s retirement.</p><p>The government’s determination to ensure that students and the taxpayer receive value for money from the higher education sector underpin the reforms we are making through the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. The Office for Students (OfS) will become the regulator for the sector in 2018. The OfS has a statutory duty to have regard to the need to promote value for money in the provision of higher education by English higher education providers.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 12/12/2017 12:13:40 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3743 label Biography information for Lord Adonis

797252

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Rail Franchise
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they received from Stagecoach Group and Virgin Rail Group, or their subsidiaries, prior to the publication of their Command Paper Connecting people: a strategic vision for rail (Cm 9519) on 29 November concerning the East Coast franchise; and whether they will publish those representations, including notes of meetings and conversations between ministers, officials and executives at Stagecoach Group and Virgin Rail Group, or their subsidiaries.
tabling member printed	Lord Adonis
uin	HL3684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>We regularly meet and work closely with all our franchisees and their owning groups. Stagecoach Group and Virgin Rail Group are no exceptions.</p><p> </p><p>We are in discussions with Virgin-Stagecoach to ensure the needs of passengers and taxpayers will be met in the short term whilst laying the foundations to bring forward the reforms in full under a long-term competitively procured contract.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 13/12/2017 12:46:02 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3743 label Biography information for Lord Adonis

797253

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to extend NHS England's new Starting Well: A Smile4Life Initiative beyond the 13 areas in which it is initially being dleivered.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>NHS England’s Starting Well programme will work in 13 high needs areas to reach children most at risk of tooth decay who are not currently seeing a dentist. Alongside this, NHS England is also developing a complementary Starting Well Core offer, a commissioning approach designed to facilitate increased access and early preventive care for young children.</p><p> </p><p>The offer will be made available in 2018, with NHS England commissioners making local decisions on use based on their assessment of need locally.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 12/12/2017 12:46:52 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

797254

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to use any of the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to fund preventative oral health programmes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The government has already confirmed that, in England, we will invest the revenue during this parliament on giving school-aged children a better and healthier future, including programmes to reduce obesity and encourage physical activity and balanced diets.</p><p> </p><p>Improving children’s oral health is a priority for this government. Public Health England is leading a wide ranging multi-agency programme focused on improving children’s oral health, and NHS England’s Starting Well programme will run in thirteen high needs areas to improve access to dental services for children known to be at greater risk of dental disease and who are not currently being seen by a dentist.</p><p>The Department of Health and NHS England are also testing a new NHS dental contract which supports the longer term aim for all care to have a preventative focus.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/12/2017 15:09:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

797255

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar: Sales Promotions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to limit the availability of high sugar products (1) in supermarket price promotions, and (2) at the point of sale.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Key measures in our world-leading childhood obesity plan, launched in August 2016, include the soft drinks industry levy and sugar reduction and wider reformulation programme, which will encourage the food and drink industry to reduce the amount of sugar in products popular with children.</p><p> </p><p>Monitoring of progress by Public Health England (PHE) towards achieving the 20% sugar reduction by 2020 will be achieved through the use of sales weighted average sugar levels and reviewing changes in product sales towards lower or no added sugar products. If businesses over-promote high sugar products, they will be less likely to achieve the sales weighted average sugar level per 100 grams for the 20% reduction.</p><p> </p><p>PHE will publish a detailed assessment of progress against delivering the 5% sugar reduction for the first year of the programme in March 2018. We will use this to determine whether sufficient progress has been made and whether alternative levers need to be considered.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 12/12/2017 12:48:15 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

797256

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Health: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publiish the next Child Dental Health Survey.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The national Child Dental Health Surveys are undertaken every 10 years and the next survey is due to be undertaken in 2023. The last survey for England, Wales and Northern Ireland took place in 2013 and the findings were published in March 2015. A copy of the <em>Children’s Dental Health Survey 2013: </em><em>Executive Summary</em> is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 12/12/2017 12:46:09 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name Childrens Dental Health Survey 2013-Executive Summary.pdf title Children's Dental Health Survey 2013
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

797257

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish the next Adult Dental Health Survey.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>No decisions have been taken yet on the timing of the next Adult Dental Health Survey.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 12/12/2017 12:47:15 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

797258

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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	Garden Communities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 14 November (HL Deb, col 1928), how many of the proposed new garden cities, towns and villages will be located in the Oxford-Cambridge corridor.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL3690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is already, through our garden cities, towns and villages programme, supporting garden towns at Bicester, Didcot and Aylesbury and a garden village close to Eynsham. Decisions are still being made on the location of the five new garden towns which the government committed to supporting at Autumn Budget.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 07/12/2017 17:23:45 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

797259

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Agriculture: Qualifications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to (1) devise, and (2) introduce, a qualification in agriculture at (a) GCSE, and (b) A-Level.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL3691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The government has introduced a number of recent changes to GCSEs and A levels in England that will affect schools in the coming years. We know that extensive changes need time to settle in to schools, and that school leaders will want stability to bring in the new qualifications. Therefore, at the present time, there are no plans to introduce any further GCSEs or A levels beyond those to which the government has already committed.</p><p> </p><p>There are vocational qualifications currently available in this subject, such as City &amp; Guilds Level 2 Technical Certificate in Agriculture and IMI Level 3 Extended Diploma in Land-based Engineering Technology (VRQ<em>)</em>. As part of our reforms to technical education, we are establishing a common framework of 15 technical education routes that encompass all employment-based and college-based training. The Agriculture, Environment and Animal Care route will be rolled out in September 2022.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 13/12/2017 17:41:37 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford