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228686

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date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Geothermal Power: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 18 March (HL5377), what action they are taking to progress discussions with the government of Germany following their letter to that government last year; and how many meetings between United Kingdom and German officials have taken place on this subject since then.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>DECC officials, working closely with Cornwall County Council, continue to engage with their German counterparts to explore research options for the potential testing of geothermal resources. The main exchanges have been through email correspondence and by telephone.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 23/03/2015 17:02:55 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

228688

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
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 Supreme Court judgment of 1 March regarding the benefits cap.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL5870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We welcome the Supreme Court ruling that the benefit cap is lawful. The Court decided that the benefit cap does not breach the European Convention on Human rights and does not unlawfully discriminate against lone parents.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/03/2015 13:42:44 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

228701

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Unidentified Flying Objects: Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Provost and Security Services conducted an investigation into sightings of unidentified flying objects in West Wales during 1977.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL5883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Any files relating to the West Wales sighting in 1977 will be held by the National Archives. Consequently, the Ministry of Defence holds no information on this incident.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 23/03/2015 17:24:58 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

228704

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Channel Tunnel: Fires
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 Kramer on 16 March (HL5636) whether the likely cause of the fire in the Channel Tunnel in January was an aerial on a lorry coming into contact with the overhead electric power equipment; and whether they consider that the fire could have been avoided if the lorry had been conveyed in a closed wagon.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL5886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>It would be premature to make any judgements around the causes of the fire until the independent statutory investigations by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and its French counterpart, BEA-TT have been completed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 23/03/2015 13:55:51 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

228362

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Baroness Kramer on 17 March (HL Deb, col 994), when they will complete their consideration of the Law Commission's review of taxi legislation published in May 2014; and when it will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL5832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>I do not have an estimated date for completion or publication of the response to the Law Commission work. Responding to the Law Commission will be a matter for the next Government.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 23/03/2015 13:00:14 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

228383

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Mesothelioma
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their latest estimate of the expected deaths from mesothelioma over the next 25 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL5853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Based on the latest projections of annual mesothelioma deaths by the Health and Safety Executive, the best estimate is that there will be around 53,000 mesothelioma deaths in Great Britain over the 25-year period 2013-2037.</p><p> </p><p>The statistical model used suggests an uncertainty range of 49,000 to 58,000 deaths on that estimate. However, the true uncertainty range may be wider as longer-range predictions are reliant on assumptions about asbestos exposures that cannot currently be fully validated.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/03/2015 13:42:15 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

227966

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Sudanese people they assess to have been displaced or to have fled from Blue Nile or South Kordofan to Ethiopia or South Sudan.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has a record, as of 28 February 2015, of 233,000 refugees from Sudan in South Sudan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are a further 36,000 refugees from Sudan in Ethiopia.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 23/03/2015 15:16:37 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

227972

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving under Influence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many deaths in the United Kingdom have resulted from drink driving in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL5787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Transport only holds information on reported personal-injury accidents on public roads (including footways) in Great Britain, which became known to the police.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of deaths in Great Britain in accidents involving at least one driver with illegal blood alcohol content in each year since 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>95% Cl lower<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Number of deaths<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>95% Cl upper<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>290</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>1. Estimates are rounded to the nearest ten.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>2. Upper and lower range for fatalities based on the 95% confidence interval</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>3. Figures for 2013 are provisional</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>These figures are produced from breath tests carried out by the police following accidents and information from coroners in England and Wales and procurators fiscal in Scotland about drivers who died in accidents. Due to complexity of the information from post-mortems and accidents where at least one driver did not stop, there is a considerable uncertainty about precisely which accidents involved drivers who were over the drink drive limit. As a result, the number of deaths is an estimate and the exact figure is unknown.</p><p> </p><p>The figures in the table provide the best estimate of deaths and the upper and lower confidence interval represent the range in which we are 95% confident the exact figure falls.</p><p> </p><p>Years with overlapping confidence intervals do not have statistically significant differences in the number of deaths. Therefore the number of deaths has been broadly the same each year from 2010 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>The figures for 2013 are provisional estimates. Final figures for 2013 will be released in August 2015 alongside a first estimate for 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 24/03/2015 13:25:05 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

227973

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the needs and rights of refugee and asylum-seeking children, as set out in Article 22 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, are being met in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL5788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>In line with its international obligations, the UK grants protection to those who need it. Our domestic law provisions apply to children from overseas when they are in the UK. These, and our own policies, ensure that they receive the same protection and access to services as any other child permanently or temporarily deprived of his or her family environment for whatever reason, as set out in Article 22 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. When it is in the best interests of the child concerned, the UK endeavours to trace the families of unaccompanied asylum seeking children. The UK would comply, where appropriate, with any request from the United Nations, or from an organization affiliated to the United Nations, on these matters.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/03/2015 14:35:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

227984

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Police Service of Northern Ireland
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 efficacy of the use of water cannons by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and of the arrangements under which they were deployed.
tabling member printed	Lord Rogan
uin	HL5799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The use of water cannons is an operational matter for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 23/03/2015 14:01:57 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
tabling member	2478 label Biography information for Lord Rogan