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1051973

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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	Poultry Meat: Overseas Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) support the UK poultry meat industry in key trade developments, and (2) ensure that future poultry meat imports meet Britain's welfare and production standards.
tabling member printed	Lord Selkirk of Douglas
uin	HL13303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is determined to get the best deal for the UK in our negotiations to leave the EU, including for our world-leading poultry sector.</p><p> </p><p>Significant work is already underway to ensure that UK exporters can maintain access to EU markets after March 2019. The Government is seeking continuity for our existing EU free trade agreements as we leave the European Union. The Government is also actively working with trading partners to promote the concept of regionalisation to minimise the impact on UK exports due to any future outbreak of avian influenza in poultry.</p><p> </p><p>The UK imports a wide range of produce from around the world, all of which already meet our high standards of food safety and animal and plant health. We have no reason to believe that other third countries cannot meet our high standards, and this will be a condition for any market access granted as part of future trade agreements. Any future trade agreements must work for UK consumers, farmers, and businesses.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/02/2019 14:26:39 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	802 label Biography information for Lord Selkirk of Douglas

1051974

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospices: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to compensate hospices in order to ensure that the recent NHS pay rise and proposed pension changes do not adversely impact those hospices' ability to fund activities.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Leigh
uin	HL13304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>In July 2018 the Department set out eligibility criteria for non-National Health Service organisations to apply for additional funding to implement the Agenda for Change (AfC) deal in 2018/19. The criteria requires non-NHS organisations, including hospices, to provide NHS services and employ existing and new staff on the AfC contract. In addition, that the NHS services they provided are funded by the Hospital and Community Health Services or Public Health Grant funding. Funding is linked to the direct costs of implementing the entire AfC pay deal which includes pay and non-pay reforms, not just headline pay.</p><p>For the final two years of the deal, 2019/20 and 2020/21, funding has been provided to NHS England as part of the Long Term Plan. While we cannot intervene in local contracting arrangements, we expect that commissioners and hospices will want to engage in conversations about how extra funding for the final two years of the deal might be passed on, on a similar ‘something for something’ basis which applies to directly employed NHS staff.</p><p>In addition to the long-term funding settlement for the NHS, HM Treasury committed to providing extra funding to meet the costs to the NHS arising from the ongoing actuarial valuation of the NHS Pension Scheme. Work is ongoing to ensure the additional cost to participating employers, including hospices, is appropriately funded. Discussions are underway with NHS England and NHS Improvement to determine the optimum method for distributing this funding to NHS commissioners and service providers. Arrangements will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2019 11:56:24 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2509 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Leigh

1051976

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospices: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they intend to provide to hospices as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Leigh
uin	HL13305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS England recognises that children’s palliative and end of life care has not kept pace with growth in clinical care cost or inflation. NHS England’s hospice grant programme currently provides £11 million a year for children’s hospices, helping to provide care and support to children and their families close to home in their final days.</p><p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, subject to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) providing match funding, additional funding will be available each year for children’s palliative and end of life care services, with NHS England’s contribution increasing by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. Therefore, if this is matched by CCGs, total funding will increase over the next five years to £25 million a year by 2023/24.</p><p>NHS England has also commissioned Hospice UK to undertake an evaluation of the cost effectiveness of hospice-led interventions in the community. Although there many such care models across England, there is insufficient data on what the most effective approaches are, making it difficult for CCGs to confidently commission these services. This project will examine hospice-led initiatives that appear to be having a positive impact on where people are cared for as well as where they die. The final results are expected for publication shortly.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2019 11:54:46 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2509 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Leigh

1051977

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of NHS staff, per region in England, are citizens of other EU member states; and what assessment they have made of the impact of Brexit on those employees.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Leigh
uin	HL13306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the percentage of HCHS staff that are known to have an EU27 nationality in England and by Health Education England region, as at 31 October 2019, headcount.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Percentage of HCHS staff with an EU27 nationality</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education East Midlands</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education East of England</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Wessex</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North West London</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education South London</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North Central and East London</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North East</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North West</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education West Midlands</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education South West</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>These figures are based on nationality data held on the Electronic Staff Record. It is self-recorded, so can differ from an individual’s citizenship or immigration status.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the over 63,000 European Union nationals that work in the National Health Service not only stay in the United Kingdom after we leave the EU, but feel welcomed and encouraged to do so. Part of this commitment is mitigating against any potential impact that EU exit might have on EU citizens in the UK. To help achieve this, the Home Office has opened the public testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme. All EU nationals are eligible to apply to the scheme’s public testing phase. Furthermore, to help facilitate as many applications as possible, the Prime Minister announced on 21 January 2019 that, as of 30 March 2019, all applications to the settlement scheme will be free. Additionally, where individuals have applied, or do apply, before that date, and are charged an application fee, then this fee will be refunded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2019 11:58:24 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2509 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Leigh

1051978

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Inequalities in England Post-2010 Strategic Review
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 social and economic determinants of health inequalities identified by the Marmot Review, Fairer Society, Healthy Lives, published in 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Leigh
uin	HL13307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>Fairer Society, Healthy Lives - the Marmot Review - provided a comprehensive analysis of the state of health inequalities in England, their causes, and evidence-based recommendations for action on social determinants of health. These are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These conditions are, in turn, shaped by political, social and economic forces.</p><p>The Marmot Review concluded there is a social gradient in health whereby the lower a person’s social position, the worse his or her health with people in more deprived areas having shorter lives and fewer years lived ‘in good health’ than those in less deprived areas. The Government has fully assessed the report, and it continues to inform our approach to reducing health inequalities which is now underpinned by legal duties.</p><p>Public Health England monitors the indicators on the social and economic determinants of health, identified by the Marmot Review, in its wider determinants of health web tool. In addition, through its Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to all major programmes and every local area setting out specific measurable goals and mechanisms to reduce inequalities over the next five and 10 years. The NHS will also take action to cut smoking in pregnancy, provide outreach to homeless people and help people with severe mental illness find and keep a job.</p><p>The Mission in the Ageing Society Grand Challenge, announced by the Prime Minister last year, is to ensure that people can enjoy at least five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035, while narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest.</p><p>This underpins the Department’s prevention vision published in November 2018 - Prevention is better than cure: our vision to help you live well for longer. In it, the Secretary of State for Health sets out our mission to improve healthy life expectancy so that, by 2035, we are enjoying at least five extra years of healthy, independent life, whilst closing the gap between the richest and poorest. A copy of the report is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 13/02/2019 12:00:37 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name Prevention_is_better_than_cure_5-11.pdf title HL13307 attached report
tabling member	2509 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Leigh

1051979

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements
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 length of time that will be required to conclude new global trade deals after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>Our priority is to be in a position to begin formal negotiations with key partners after we leave the EU, and to then make progress towards substantive deals, so long as such deals work for the whole of the UK. We have consulted on our first four potential free trade agreements (FTAs), with Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). We will publish the government’s response to these consultations before any negotiations begin.</p><p> </p><p>Trade agreements vary in shape, scope and form. There is no “average” timeframe for a deal. For example, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada took seven years to negotiate, the China-Switzerland FTA took two, but the USA-Jordan FTA negotiations only four months. The government is clear that its objective is to negotiate the best possible free trade agreements for the whole of the UK. Necessarily, this will take different amounts of time to conclude with different partners.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead question first answered 13/02/2019 13:52:06 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1051981

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks: Cybersecurity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help encourage banks to boost their cybersecurity in order to protect customers from online fraud.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Financial Authorities (HM Treasury, the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority, and the Financial Conduct Authority) work together to assess, test and improve the operational resilience, including cyber resilience, of the UK financial sector. The financial sector also benefits from a dedicated team within the National Cyber Security Centre, who work closely with the Financial Authorities, and law enforcement where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2018, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority published a joint Discussion Paper on an approach to improve the operational resilience, including cyber resilience, of firms and financial market infrastructures.</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Authorities have a single mechanism, the Authorities Response Framework, to coordinate a response to incidents affecting the finance sector. The Financial Authorities regularly exercise cyber incident response frameworks with the sector to assess their effectiveness and identify improvements. The Bank of England held a sector resilience exercise (SIMEX18) in November 2018 which tested the joint response by public authorities and industry to a simulated disruption.</p><p> </p><p>It has also been made easier for customers to report fraud or cybercrime to law enforcement. Action Fraud is the UK’s reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, providing a central point of contact for information about fraud and financially motivated internet crime.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/02/2019 12:13:38 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1051982

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to prioritise imports of medicine in their post-Brexit trading arrangements, in the event of a no-deal scenario.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>DHSC are working closely with life sciences industry and the NHS to make detailed plans to ensure continued access to medicines and devices in all scenarios.</p><p>We are working with industry to reroute supplies that make use of freight capacity acquired by Government. Medicines and medical products will be prioritised within this additional capacity to ensure that the flow of all these products will continue unimpeded after 29 March 2019. In addition, we are working with pharmaceutical companies to ensure that there is a minimum of six weeks additional supply of medicines in the UK, over and above existing business-as-usual buffer stocks.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 13/02/2019 11:52:59 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1051983

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: USA
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to implement more flexible trading standards to secure a bilateral trade deal with the United States in the (1) food, (2) agriculture, (3) health, and (4) technology sectors.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is preparing for an ambitious programme of trade negotiations and enhanced market access, including potentially opening formal negotiations for a new free trade agreement with the US. We have conducted a 14-week long public consultation on a potential future trade agreement with the US and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p><p>There is substantial complementarity between the UK and US economies, notably on trade in services. We have been clear that any future trade agreements must work for UK producers, businesses, and consumers, and uphold the UK’s high levels of food safety, animal welfare standards, and environmental protection.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead question first answered 13/02/2019 14:13:42 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1051984

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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	Venezuela: Politics and Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they are providing to enable Juan Guaidó to become the interim President of Venezuela.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL13312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>We are working closely with EU partners, regional organisations such as the Lima Group and like-minded international partners to ensure a peaceful resolution to the current crisis and a return to democracy. We urge all Venezuelans to recognise Juan Guaido as the constitutional interim President of Venezuela until new presidential elections that are free and in accordance with international democratic standards are held.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/02/2019 13:10:23 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley