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date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether proposed changes to who can object to school admissions arrangements will have a disproportionate effect on parents from low income backgrounds.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL4783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Where the Schools Adjudicator determines that a school’s admission arrangements do not comply with the School Admissions Code, the admission authority has a statutory duty to revise its admission arrangements to give effect to the Adjudicator’s decision within two months of the decision or by 28 February following the decision, whichever is sooner, unless an alternative timescale is specified by the Adjudicator.</p><p>The Government expects admission authorities to comply fully and Department for Education officials always follow up cases where admission authorities are required by the Adjudicator to take action.</p><p>An Adjudicator’s decision is binding and enforceable by the Secretary of State.</p><p>The Department of Education is not proposing any changes to who can submit objections to the Schools Adjudicator in relation to school admission arrangements.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL4782 question first answered 01/02/2018 16:14:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

824042

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to prevent grammar schools opening annexes within another local authority area; and if so, what plans they have to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL4784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The legislative ban on opening new grammar schools remains in place, however, the law allows the expansion of existing schools.</p><p> </p><p>Grammar schools, like all other types of schools, are able to propose an expansion of their school site. Any proposal to expand onto a satellite site in another local authority area, would need to demonstrate that it would be a genuine expansion and would not constitute a new school.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 30/01/2018 16:22:38 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

824043

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to prevent grammar schools opening within local authorities where grammar schools do not currently exist; and if so, what plans they have to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL4785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Current legislation prohibits the establishment of new grammar schools, so it would not be possible for a grammar school to open in a local authority where grammar schools do not exist.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 30/01/2018 16:15:09 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

824045

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Licences: EU Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to enable UK citizens who are resident in another EU member state and who have exchanged their UK driving licence for a licence in that state to exchange their current licence for a UK licence on the same conditions as their original UK licence.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL4786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>UK citizens living in an EU Member State who have exchanged their driving licence in that country can apply for a UK licence if they return to the UK. Provided they meet requirements including residency and medical standards, they can be granted a licence with the same entitlements.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 30/01/2018 13:35:33 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

824046

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Speed Limits: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there has been a reduction in road traffic deaths in the first year of operation of a 20mph limit in those London boroughs that have reduced their speed limit from 30mph.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on road traffic deaths in London boroughs is not collected by the Department for Transport in the form requested, because the Department does not hold information on which London boroughs have implemented 20mph limits, nor when the limits were installed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not conducted any specific research into levels of pollution produced by a new 20mph limit in the relevant London boroughs. The air quality plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations in the Greater London Urban Area published in July 2017 provides details of measured nitrogen dioxide concentrations in London between 2001 and 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL4788 question first answered 30/01/2018 13:37:55 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

824047

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Speed Limits: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken any research into the level of pollution produced by a new 20mph limit in the London boroughs that have reduced the speed limit from 30mph; and, if so, what that research shows.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on road traffic deaths in London boroughs is not collected by the Department for Transport in the form requested, because the Department does not hold information on which London boroughs have implemented 20mph limits, nor when the limits were installed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not conducted any specific research into levels of pollution produced by a new 20mph limit in the relevant London boroughs. The air quality plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations in the Greater London Urban Area published in July 2017 provides details of measured nitrogen dioxide concentrations in London between 2001 and 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL4787 question first answered 30/01/2018 13:37:55 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead