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682654

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date	01/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Uganda
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many LGBT asylum seekers from Uganda have been held in UK detention centres in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for Official Statistics has established common standards to ensure a coherent and trustworthy service to the user of statistics.</p><p><br> Home Office officials are continuing to review and assess information on the number of people claiming asylum where sexual orientation may form the basis of the claim, in order to ensure that any statistics produced meet the principles on both assured methodology and quality (ensuring statistical methods are consistent with scientific principles) and governing user needs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5159 HL5160 HL5161 question first answered 09/02/2017 14:00:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

682655

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Uganda
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the average length of detention of LGBT people seeking asylum from Uganda in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for Official Statistics has established common standards to ensure a coherent and trustworthy service to the user of statistics.</p><p><br> Home Office officials are continuing to review and assess information on the number of people claiming asylum where sexual orientation may form the basis of the claim, in order to ensure that any statistics produced meet the principles on both assured methodology and quality (ensuring statistical methods are consistent with scientific principles) and governing user needs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5158 HL5160 HL5161 question first answered 09/02/2017 14:00:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

682656

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Uganda
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many LGBT people seeking asylum from Uganda have been refused leave to remain in the UK during the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for Official Statistics has established common standards to ensure a coherent and trustworthy service to the user of statistics.</p><p><br> Home Office officials are continuing to review and assess information on the number of people claiming asylum where sexual orientation may form the basis of the claim, in order to ensure that any statistics produced meet the principles on both assured methodology and quality (ensuring statistical methods are consistent with scientific principles) and governing user needs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5158 HL5159 HL5161 question first answered 09/02/2017 14:00:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

682657

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Uganda
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many LGBT people seeking asylum have been deported to Uganda during the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for Official Statistics has established common standards to ensure a coherent and trustworthy service to the user of statistics.</p><p><br> Home Office officials are continuing to review and assess information on the number of people claiming asylum where sexual orientation may form the basis of the claim, in order to ensure that any statistics produced meet the principles on both assured methodology and quality (ensuring statistical methods are consistent with scientific principles) and governing user needs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5158 HL5159 HL5160 question first answered 09/02/2017 14:00:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

682658

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ensure that providers of NHS specialised services comply with the terms of the service specifications published by NHS England.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The service specification compliance process has two core components:</p><p> </p><p>- Each service specification will contain a set of quality indicators. The indicators will include clinical outcome metrics (these will also become the specialised service quality dashboard for that service), structure and function metrics and patient experience metrics. The indicators are being developed as a phased approach and in conjunction with the six programmes of care; and</p><p> </p><p>- Submission of data to Quality Dashboards. 35% of the services are currently covered by a quality dashboard with an agreed development programme to extend this to 80% between 2017 - 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Providers are required to submit data against the quality indicators on an annual basis and the quality dashboards on a quarterly basis via the Quality Surveillance Information System portal.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 09/02/2017 17:53:28 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

682659

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the proposals for a budget impact threshold being adopted by NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), how they intend to maintain guarantees regarding access within 90 days to NICE-approved medicines.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>Patients will continue to have a right in the National Health Service Constitution to drugs and treatments recommended in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Constitution right reflects the legal requirement on NHS commissioners to fund drugs and treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance, normally within three months of publication of final guidance from NICE. There is provision for NICE to extend the timescale for the introduction of the funding requirement where there are significant barriers to implementation within the standard three month timescale. The proposed budget impact threshold that has recently been subject to public consultation is intended in part to clarify the circumstances in which it is appropriate to extend the timescale for implementation of NICE’s technology appraisal recommendations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 09/02/2017 17:51:46 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

682660

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Syria: Diplomatic Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they are giving to restoring the UK's diplomatic representation in Damascus at a level below ambassadorial.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL5164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to re-establish a diplomatic presence in Damascus in the current circumstances.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 08/02/2017 15:49:35 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

682661

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
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	Greenhouse Gas Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will support the proposal by the EU Committee of the Regions to establish locally determined contributions and regionally determined contributions to the greenhouse gas emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL5165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2017 answer text <p>Under the Paris Agreement countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rises, it is then up to countries to plan how they will meet this. The EU and its Member State contribution to the Paris Agreement is a -40% reduction in domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Individual Member State targets to deliver this overall commitment are currently being negotiated.</p><p>UK greenhouse gas emission targets under the EU framework and our domestic Climate Change Act cover the whole of the UK. Devolved Administrations and Local Authorities also already have their own emissions targets and ambitions, and with wider actors in the UK, have an important role to play in contributing to UK emissions reductions.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/02/2017 14:19:07 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

682662

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance: Supported Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the plans outlined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Spending Review to cap the amount of rent that Housing Benefit will cover in the social sector to the relevant Local Housing Allowance (LHA), whether they will ensure that ring-fenced funding for local authorities will meet the shortfall between LHA rates and the cost of provision of supported housing.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL5166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>In his Written Ministerial Statement to the House of Commons on 15<sup>th</sup> September 2016 the Secretary of State confirmed that the new funding model will ensure that the supported housing sector will be funded at the same level it would have otherwise been in 2019/20, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social sector rents.</p><p>An online consultation on this new model seeking the views of the sector was launched on 21<sup>st</sup> November 2016 and will run until 13<sup>th</sup> February 2017 and can be accessed from the Gov.UK website.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL5167 question first answered 09/02/2017 13:04:03 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

682663

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance: Supported Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the plans outlined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Spending Review to cap the amount of rent that Housing Benefit will cover in the social sector to the relevant Local Housing Allowance (LHA), what assessment they have made of the impact of the proposed application of the cap on supported housing providers based in those parts of the country where there is a significant gap between LHA rates and the cost of provision.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL5167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>In his Written Ministerial Statement to the House of Commons on 15<sup>th</sup> September 2016 the Secretary of State confirmed that the new funding model will ensure that the supported housing sector will be funded at the same level it would have otherwise been in 2019/20, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social sector rents.</p><p>An online consultation on this new model seeking the views of the sector was launched on 21<sup>st</sup> November 2016 and will run until 13<sup>th</sup> February 2017 and can be accessed from the Gov.UK website.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL5166 question first answered 09/02/2017 13:04:03 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb