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709505

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date	08/03/2017
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	Inland Waterways: 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 adequacy of the Environment Agency's budget to maintain its navigable waterways.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL5912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>As a navigation authority, the Environment Agency is responsible for over 1,000km of inland waterways. It takes its stewardship role very seriously and works closely with those who use our waterways.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the 2015 Spending Review, the Environment Agency’s capital settlement from Defra was £13m to invest over the next four years. This funding will enable the Environment Agency to prioritise the investment across England’s waterways focusing on those assets which will benefit the most.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this capital investment, the Environment Agency will continue to invest the £9m per annum income collected via registration charges from waterway users. This is complemented by further Environment Agency annual investment; for 2017/18 this will be £3.6m. In total, this is sufficient to maintain navigable waterways for 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency is reviewing the future costs required to run and maintain these waterways as part of the potential transfer of its navigation responsibilities and assets to the Canal &amp; River Trust. As part of this process the Environment Agency will engage with both users and Defra on the future investment needed to maintain navigable waterways.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/03/2017 16:54:25 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

709506

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Canal and River Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect the Canal and River Trust to assume responsibility for the Environment Agency's navigable inland waterways.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL5913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s long-term aim is to transfer the Environment Agency’s navigations to the Canal &amp; River Trust. We are open to sensible and serious proposals from both the Environment Agency and the Canal &amp; River Trust and I understand that they have been working well together to develop options. I await their proposals with interest.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/03/2017 16:55:02 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

709507

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Peers: ICT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what arrangements for IT training have been made for Members of the House in the last three years; and how that training is accessed.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf.</p><p>Previously Parliamentary ICT, and now the Digital Service, has provided IT training and coaching for Members. Training is provided on request and can be accessed via the Support Desk, Drop-in Centre, Digital Support Online and Head of Member Services. More specifically, to enhance the service for Members, since October 2015 the Digital Service has employed an IT coach with a primary focus on House of Lords Members.</p><p>Over the course of the last year, the Digital Service received and acted upon 92 requests for training from House of Lords Members.</p><p>Since the Digital Service was created, it has recruited 13 User Engagement Officers and Leads, and appointed a third party training contract, to ensure sufficient end-user training and coaching is offered and available for the rollout of new and updated member services, including Microsoft Office 365 and Skype for Business. The Digital Service is also planning on recruiting additional staff to strengthen the facilitation and delivery of IT coaching to customers.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 20/03/2017 15:18:06 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

709508

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Peers: ICT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether he has any plans to improve the repair and maintenance regime for desktop computers issued to Members of the House.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf.</p><p>All Digital Service supplied desktop computers for House of Lords Members are covered by a 3 year manufacturer’s warranty for hardware faults and are repaired or replaced accordingly. Beyond the 3 year warranty the Digital Service will repair or replace the equipment if it fails. The Digital Service provides 24 hour support. Digital Service support staff resolve 92% of calls logged within 24 hours. The Digital Service has established a new Live Services team with a new structure for front-line support. This has a focus on continual learning and upskilling and includes more specialist support, which will deliver a number of operational improvements and efficiencies to the support customers receive.</p><p>All Digital Service issued IT equipment comes with a lifecycle of 4 years, after which equipment is available for replacement. The replacement and repair policy will be reviewed by the Services Committee during 2017.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 20/03/2017 15:18:56 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

709509

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Peers: ICT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether he intends to obtain feedback from Members of the House who have requested repairs to their parliamentary IT equipment; if so, whether the results of that feedback will be published; and if so, how often.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf.</p><p>Every logged call with the Support Desk results in a “closure” email, inviting the customer to leave feedback about the service received from the Digital Service. During the period 13<sup>th</sup> March 2016 to 13<sup>th</sup> March 2017, Lords Members raised 4,217 tickets via the Support Desk. Questionnaires were issued to the originator of each closed ticket. Of the 402 questionnaires completed by Lords Members, 85.8% of respondents rated the service a 7 on a scale from 1 to 7, with 7 being the highest score. The total average score from all respondents was 6.79.</p><p>Performance statistics are reviewed and discussed on a fortnightly basis at the Digital Service’s Senior Management Team meetings, and annual performance statistics are published in the Digital Service Business Plan available on the intranet.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 20/03/2017 15:19:54 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

709510

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Free Movement of People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 28 February (HL5522), whether they intend to remove from the UK those EU citizens who are residing in the UK otherwise than in accordance with the Free Movement Directive.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL5917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>Under EU law, EU nationals who wish to stay in the UK for longer than three months can only do so if they are exercising a Treaty right. This means that they must be a jobseeker, worker, self-employed, self-sufficient or a student. The Free Movement Directive (2004/38/EC) requires students and self-sufficient persons to have comprehensive sickness insurance and sufficient resources to support themselves and their families to not become a burden on the UK’s social assistance system.</p><p>At present the UK remains in the EU, and as such, EU nationals continue to be subject to the rights and responsibilities set out in existing legislation which governs the exercise of free movement in the UK. EU nationals that do not meet the requirements of the Free Movement Directive are not lawfully resident in the UK and may be liable to removal.</p><p>However, because it is relatively straight forward to rectify and establish a right to reside in the UK, longstanding Home Office practice is not to seek the removal of EU nationals solely because they do not have comprehensive sickness insurance but have otherwise met the requirements under EU law.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 27/03/2017 10:33:41 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

709511

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
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	Hungary: Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of Hungary about the law under which any asylum seeker will be automatically detained.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have made no representations to the Hungarian government since their parliament adopted amendments to its asylum laws on 7 March. The UK respects Hungary's right to determine its own asylum system in line with international law. We continue to monitor the situation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 23/03/2017 15:54:36 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

709512

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what procedures are in place to ensure that applications for the grant or renewal of a firearm or shotgun certificate which are submitted correctly and in time are renewed within the recognised timeframe in order to avoid the certificate holder committing an offence.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Shrewsbury
uin	HL5919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Under the Firearms Act 1968, firearm and shotgun certificate administration is a matter for the chief officer of police for the area in which the applicant lives. The time taken to process a firearm or shotgun application can vary between forces as the respective chief officer must take into account the need to manage risk and ensure public protection in their respective force area.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst Section 7 of the Firearms Act 1968, allows the police to issue a temporary permit for the continued possession of firearms and ammunition, the use of this power was not used consistently by police forces. The Government has therefore taken steps to assist forces with the administration of the firearms licensing system through changes made under the Policing and Crime Act 2017. Section 131 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 automatically extends the validity of firearm and shotgun certificates past their expiry date for a limited period of up to eight weeks where a timely application for renewal has been made prior to the expiry of the certificate. This will give police the extra time needed to complete outstanding checks without this impacting on a licence holder’s activities through the expiry of the certificate prior to renewal. This provision will be implemented later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Any requests for compensation by licence holders whilst their renewal applications are being considered is a matter for them to raise with the police.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect data centrally on the performance of individual forces in respect of firearms licensing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5920 HL5921 HL5922 question first answered 20/03/2017 15:46:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2147 label Biography information for The Earl of Shrewsbury

709513

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what procedures are in place to issue temporary firearm, shotgun or coterminous certificates when renewals are not completed within the recognised timeframe.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Shrewsbury
uin	HL5920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Under the Firearms Act 1968, firearm and shotgun certificate administration is a matter for the chief officer of police for the area in which the applicant lives. The time taken to process a firearm or shotgun application can vary between forces as the respective chief officer must take into account the need to manage risk and ensure public protection in their respective force area.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst Section 7 of the Firearms Act 1968, allows the police to issue a temporary permit for the continued possession of firearms and ammunition, the use of this power was not used consistently by police forces. The Government has therefore taken steps to assist forces with the administration of the firearms licensing system through changes made under the Policing and Crime Act 2017. Section 131 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 automatically extends the validity of firearm and shotgun certificates past their expiry date for a limited period of up to eight weeks where a timely application for renewal has been made prior to the expiry of the certificate. This will give police the extra time needed to complete outstanding checks without this impacting on a licence holder’s activities through the expiry of the certificate prior to renewal. This provision will be implemented later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Any requests for compensation by licence holders whilst their renewal applications are being considered is a matter for them to raise with the police.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect data centrally on the performance of individual forces in respect of firearms licensing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5919 HL5921 HL5922 question first answered 20/03/2017 15:46:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2147 label Biography information for The Earl of Shrewsbury

709514

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what procedures are in place financially to compensate certificate holders who are obliged to lodge their firearms with a registered firearms dealer due to a late renewal of their certificate.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Shrewsbury
uin	HL5921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Under the Firearms Act 1968, firearm and shotgun certificate administration is a matter for the chief officer of police for the area in which the applicant lives. The time taken to process a firearm or shotgun application can vary between forces as the respective chief officer must take into account the need to manage risk and ensure public protection in their respective force area.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst Section 7 of the Firearms Act 1968, allows the police to issue a temporary permit for the continued possession of firearms and ammunition, the use of this power was not used consistently by police forces. The Government has therefore taken steps to assist forces with the administration of the firearms licensing system through changes made under the Policing and Crime Act 2017. Section 131 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 automatically extends the validity of firearm and shotgun certificates past their expiry date for a limited period of up to eight weeks where a timely application for renewal has been made prior to the expiry of the certificate. This will give police the extra time needed to complete outstanding checks without this impacting on a licence holder’s activities through the expiry of the certificate prior to renewal. This provision will be implemented later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Any requests for compensation by licence holders whilst their renewal applications are being considered is a matter for them to raise with the police.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect data centrally on the performance of individual forces in respect of firearms licensing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL5919 HL5920 HL5922 question first answered 20/03/2017 15:46:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2147 label Biography information for The Earl of Shrewsbury