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1121605

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date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
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 positive impact of face-to-face meetings between ex-offenders and National Probation Service officials; how many such meetings there have been, in England and Wales, in each of the last 12 months; and what steps they intend to take to (1) reduce supervision by telephone, and (2) increase face-to-face meetings, for ex-offenders.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL15256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The impact of face-to-face meetings between ex-offenders and National Probation Service (NPS) officials is not formally assessed. Both NPS and Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) staff use their professional judgement to determine the required frequency and most appropriate form of supervision.</p><p>Remote supervision should not be used as the only means by which an offender is supervised, which is why we have recently amended CRC contracts to ensure all offenders under supervision in the community are offered face-to-face contact with their Responsible Officer at least once a month. Data on this measure will be published on 24 April 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 29/04/2019 16:28:25 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1121606

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date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Sugar
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what additional support, funding, and guidance they intend to provide to schools to (1) limit the availability of sugar products in schools, and (2) become sugar-free.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL15257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>This government wants pupils to be healthy and well nourished. We encourage a healthy balanced diet and healthy life choices through school funding, legislation and guidance. The attached School Food Standards provide the legislative framework to ensure schools provide children with healthy food and drink options.</p><p> </p><p>On 18 August 2016, the government published its plan for action (attached) to significantly reduce childhood obesity by supporting healthier choices.</p><p> </p><p>One of the commitments in the plan was to update the School Food Standards. The School Food Standards regulate the food and drink provided at both lunchtime and at other times of the school day, including, for example, breakfast clubs, tuck shops, mid-morning break, vending machines and after school clubs. The standards severely restrict foods high in fat, salt and sugar, as well as low quality reformed or reconstituted foods. They ensure that pupils always have healthy options for their school lunch.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with Public Health England to update the regulations. This will focus on reducing sugar consumption and will be supported by detailed guidance to caterers and schools. More detail will follow shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL15257_School_Food_Standards.pdf title hl15257_School_Food_Standards 2 file name HL15257_Childhood_obesity_plan.pdf title HL15257_Childhood_Obesity_A_Plan_for_Action question first answered 29/04/2019 16:16:50 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1121614

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	CCTV
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to roll-out CCTV in areas which have high violent crime rates, including of knife crime.
tabling member printed	Lord Selkirk of Douglas
uin	HL15265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>While most public space CCTV systems are owned, monitored and managed by local authorities, the Government has supported local initiatives to inform the effective deployment of CCTV and is supportive of police and local authorities’ use of CCTV in helping to prevent and tackle serious violence. This is consistent with the focus of the Serious Violence Strategy, in using all available tools and techniques to respond to recent rises in serious violence. Since the launch of the Strategy in April 2018, we have, amongst a raft of activities, launched a £22m Early Intervention Youth Fund which is already supporting 29 projects in England and Wales, a national knife crime media campaign - #knife free; a new National County Lines Co-ordination Centre to tackle this violent and exploitative criminal activity; and the Offensive Weapons Bill to strengthen legislation on firearms, knives and corrosive substances.</p><p>On 2 October 2018 the Home Secretary announced further important measures including a consultation on new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence, a new long term £200 million Youth Endowment Fund, and an Independent Review of Drug Misuse</p><p>Most recently, on 13 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that an additional £100 million, including £80 million of new funding from HM Treasury, for serious violence in 2019/20 to help the police’s immediate response to the rise in knife crime, and to support investment in Violence Reduction Units, bringing together a range of agencies including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach in preventing serious violence altogether. It is important that we recognise that greater law enforcement on its own will not reduce serious violence and that we must continue to focus on prevention and early intervention alongside this.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/04/2019 16:05:10 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	802 label Biography information for Lord Selkirk of Douglas

1121615

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date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	CCTV: Scotland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for the Scotland Office on 9 May 1996 (HC27914) in which the Minister stated that about £4 million was made available to fund CCTV for the subsequent three years to reduce crime and fear of crime in Scotland, what assessment they have made of the impact of this funding in leading to an increase in detection and deterrence of crime and to a substantive reduction in crime.
tabling member printed	Lord Selkirk of Douglas
uin	HL15266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Evidence shows that CCTV can have a significant impact in deterring offenders and reducing overall crime. There has been no government assessment of the impact of this specific funding, which was made available to Scotland in 1996.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/04/2019 16:14:54 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	802 label Biography information for Lord Selkirk of Douglas

1121640

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Council of Europe Development Bank
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to join the Council of Europe Development Bank.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL15270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has no plans to join the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB). The CEB focuses its operations in 22 target countries in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, including the Balkans. The UK already has the tools to achieve our development objectives in these geographies in an effective way that represents value for money for the UK tax payer. For example, we work bilaterally through the joint DFID-FCO Good Governance Fund and have a multilateral footprint through our capital share in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 29/04/2019 16:38:32 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig