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437041

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date	10/12/2015
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	Climate Change
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what studies they are undertaking into the slowing of the Gulf Stream and the subsequent impact on climate change and extreme weather patterns in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL4507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Natural Environment Research Council is currently funding two research programmes to detect changes in the Gulf Stream and to investigate how these changes might affect the weather of the North Atlantic (RAPID-AMOC and ODYSEA). DECC co-funds, with Defra, the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme which, amongst many other research activities, uses climate models to understand the observed fluctuations in the Gulf Stream, to predict future changes, and to assess the impact that present and future changes may have upon European weather and climate.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 16/12/2015 14:03:46 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

437043

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Decorations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether any decision has been made about the introduction of the new Long Service medal proposed by the Secretary of State for Defence in March.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>I can confirm that officials are currently working on the eligibility criteria for a new Long Service Medal. Details will be made available in 2016.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 16/12/2015 16:34:03 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

437046

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers: Military Aircraft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether embarked carrier air squadrons will follow the "all of one company" rule and operate under the same harmony rules.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <br /><br /><p>When necessary to deliver the carrier strike programme, embarked jointly manned F-35B air squadrons will operate to the same harmony guidelines.</p><br /><p>Deck qualifications will not be affected by harmony rules.</p><br /><p><br></p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4513 question first answered 16/12/2015 16:36:04 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

436562

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Public Health: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment has been undertaken to ensure that reductions in the public health budget do not negatively affect those who share protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gould of Potternewton
uin	HL4396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government reached its decisions on implementing reductions in the 2015/16 local authority public health grant after giving full consideration to its duty under the Equality Act 2010 (the public sector equality duty, or PSED). The Government’s response to a public consultation exercise, published on 4 November 2015, contains an equality analysis of the options for making the saving. A copy is attached.</p><br /><p>Final decisions on the distribution of the grant in 2016/17 have not yet been taken, but again will be made in the light of the PSED. Government decisions on the quantum of the grant have taken account of the PSED. Local authorities are responsible for identifying local needs and priorities for public health interventions, and for making decisions on local spending. Local authorities are themselves subject to the PSED.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 16/12/2015 13:30:18 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Local Authority public health grant allocations 201516.pdf title Local Authority Public Health Allocation
tabling member	3573 label Biography information for Baroness Gould of Potternewton

436568

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Tax
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 8 December (HL3988), what is the expected difference, in each county, between an increase of two per cent of the council tax levied by counties in two-tier areas, and the same increase in total if levied by both the counties and all the districts in each of those counties.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The flexibility is not being offered to districts, and so we have not calculated figures for a hypothetical difference. Councils, including non-metropolitan districts, can set any council tax increase they like. If the increase is above the threshold approved by the House of Commons, they must obtain the consent of their local electorate in a referendum.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/12/2015 16:28:00 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

436580

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to produce a national strategy plan for the health and care of older prisoners.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL4414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The health and social care needs of older prisoners will continue to be managed through health needs assessments (HNAs). HNAs address these needs on a prison-by-prison basis, reflect the diverse health needs of prisoners, including older prisoners, and identify the health needs which inform health commissioning in that establishment.</p><br /><p>Public Health England, NHS England and the National Offender Management Service commission individual HNAs in all prisons in England on a regular basis, as part of the commissioning timetable.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 16/12/2015 14:04:19 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

436592

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have discussed, or have any plans to discuss, with the government of Israel, the impact of exit permit restrictions on inhabitants of Gaza and the West Bank who seek medical treatment elsewhere.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>While we have not discussed this issue with the Israeli authorities, we remain deeply concerned about restrictions on freedom of movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Our Ambassador in Tel Aviv raised the issue of freedom of movement with Israeli National Security Advisor Cohen on 2 November. Our Consul-General to Jerusalem also raised this issue with the Mayor of Jerusalem on 28 October.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 16/12/2015 14:00:35 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

436593

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
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	Egypt: Gaza
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to discuss with the government of Egypt the risk of salt-water infiltration into the agricultural land of the Gaza Strip resulting from the newly-constructed anti-tunnel canal.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text We are aware of the construction of the anti-tunnel canal and of reports of a potential risk of salt-water infiltration into agricultural land in the surrounding area. We will continue to monitor the situation. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 16/12/2015 14:24:41 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

436599

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
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	District Heating
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made any assessment of the cost of energy bills to people served by District Heating Networks.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL4433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>In March 2015 DECC published a report by AECOM titled ‘An Assessment of the Costs, Performance, and Characteristics of UK Heat Networks’. The report included a review of the prices charged to final customers by a representative sample of heat networks (7 in total). The average heat price was found to be 6.43p/kWh but with a wide range of 4.64 to 9.88 p/kWh reflecting differences in network design, construction, commissioning and operation. On average this is less than the modelled cost of gas central heating in flats and terraced houses when boiler ownership costs are included (7.22 to 10.24p/kWh).</p><br /><p>The Government is aware that costs to the consumer can vary and achieving cost savings is dependent on the quality of the individual network. DECC has supported industry development of a technical code of practice for heat networks, and worked closely with industry and consumer groups on the development of Heat Trust, an independent consumer protection scheme that launched in November 2015. There are also plans to launch an on-line cost comparator tool in 2016 to allow a consumer to assess their charges against gas central heating. This greater transparency of heat charges is complemented by the billing information requirements in the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 15/12/2015 15:48:46 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

436031

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
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	Genocide
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 Anelay of St Johns on 7 December (HL4065), whether they are in the process of submitting evidence of genocide against Yazidis and Assyrian Christians to international courts, and if so, which ones; when the international courts last declared a genocide to have taken place; and when the international courts last initiated a trial for genocide, and against whom.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>We are not submitting any evidence of possible genocide against Yezidis and Christians to international courts, nor have we been asked to.</p><br /><p>The most recent occasion on which an international court found genocide to have occurred was on 10 June 2010, when the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted several of the accused in the Prosecutor v. Popović et al. case for either committing, conspiracy to commit, or aiding and abetting, genocide in and around Srebrenica and Žepa in 1995. These convictions were subsequently upheld by the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY on 30 January 2015.</p><br /><p>The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) initiated a trial against Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, two former Khmer Republic senior officials, which remains ongoing, and includes charges of genocide against the Cham and Vietnamese people. Evidence relating to the genocide charges began being heard on 7 September 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 16/12/2015 14:05:36 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool