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758549

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date	07/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surrogacy: Lone Parents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Remedial Order relating to the Human Fertility and Embryology Act 2008 which will allow single people to apply for parental orders following a surrogacy arrangement will be laid; and whether it will apply to both single male applicants and single female applicants.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL1420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Drafting work on the remedial order is ongoing, which we currently estimate will be laid in the autumn session of Parliament.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The order would apply equally to male and female applicants.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 19/09/2017 15:21:52 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

758550

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation
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 impact of litigants in person on the court system.
tabling member printed	Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
uin	HL1421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Information on numbers of litigants in person is not held centrally.</p><p>Unrepresented parties have always been a feature of the civil and family justice system. Since 2015, the Government has invested £5 million of funding to support litigants in person through a range of measures designed to provide additional information, support and guidance.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is currently considering the planned post-implementation review of recent legal aid reforms. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL1423 question first answered 19/09/2017 12:59:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4206 label Biography information for Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

758551

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to launch a post-implementation consultation on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
tabling member printed	Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
uin	HL1422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor is currently considering the planned post-implementation review of recent legal aid reforms. We will make an announcement in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 19/09/2017 12:58:03 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4206 label Biography information for Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

758552

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation
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 increasing numbers of litigants in person since the reforms contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into effect.
tabling member printed	Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
uin	HL1423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Information on numbers of litigants in person is not held centrally.</p><p>Unrepresented parties have always been a feature of the civil and family justice system. Since 2015, the Government has invested £5 million of funding to support litigants in person through a range of measures designed to provide additional information, support and guidance.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is currently considering the planned post-implementation review of recent legal aid reforms. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL1421 question first answered 19/09/2017 12:59:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4206 label Biography information for Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

758553

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
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 main recommendations put forward by the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster in its report of September 2016; and when they intend to bring forward a motion for both Houses to debate and decide how the restoration and renewal works should progress.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stowell of Beeston
uin	HL1424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is grateful for the valuable work conducted by the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster and has considered the recommendations in its report carefully. It intends to bring forward a motion in both Houses to debate this important matter in the Autumn.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 14/09/2017 15:45:51 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston

758554

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Education: Overseas Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) EU, and (2) non-EU, overseas students are taking technical, professional and vocational courses in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL1425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on the nationality of Further Education students.</p><p> </p><p>Students will be eligible for Education and Skills Funding Agency funding if they are a citizen of a country within the European Economic Area (EEA) and have been resident in the EEA for at least three years prior to the start of learning and are ordinarily resident in England.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/09/2017 11:40:12 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

758555

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students: Entry Clearances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many international students with Tier 4 visas gained qualifications in the last academic year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL1426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold information on how many students with a Tier 4 visa gain qualifications each year.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects data on those gaining HE qualifications by country of domicile. This shows that in the academic year 2015/16 there were just over 150,000 higher education qualifications obtained at UK Higher Education Institutions by students living in non-EU countries immediately prior to them commencing their studies. Not all these students would have required Tier 4 visas to study in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/09/2017 15:13:28 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

758556

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many international students left the UK without (1) accessing work experience, or (2) gaining a qualification, in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL1427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 15:28:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

758557

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Electric Vehicles: Batteries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the proportion of used electric vehicle batteries that are recycled; and what proportion of such batteries they aim to be recycled following the end of conventional petrol and diesel car and van sales.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL1428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 ban the disposal of automotive and industrial batteries to landfill and place a responsibility on battery producers to recycle their batteries. It is therefore estimated that all automotive and industrial batteries are recycled.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans for amendments to the Regulations, though we will continue to monitor the market.</p><p> </p><p>These requirements remain in place whether the vehicle relies on an electric or conventional power supply.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL1429 question first answered 20/09/2017 15:15:41 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

758558

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Electric Vehicles: Batteries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assistance is available for the sustainable disposal or recycling of used electric car batteries; and what additional assistance will be provided to account for rising demand ahead of the end to sales of conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL1429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 ban the disposal of automotive and industrial batteries to landfill and place a responsibility on battery producers to recycle their batteries. It is therefore estimated that all automotive and industrial batteries are recycled.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans for amendments to the Regulations, though we will continue to monitor the market.</p><p> </p><p>These requirements remain in place whether the vehicle relies on an electric or conventional power supply.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble grouped question UIN HL1428 question first answered 20/09/2017 15:15:41 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn