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1127236

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date	16/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Casualties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many members of the British Armed Forces have (1) been injured, and (2) died, while on (a) training exercises, and (b) combat duty, in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL15789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>Between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2018, 23 UK Armed Forces personnel have died on training or exercise. There were a further 17,403 UK Armed Forces personnel injured in 21,822 incidents.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2018, 15 UK Armed Forces personnel have died whilst on combat duty, of which one was due to hostile action. 506 UK Armed Forces personnel were injured on combat duty, of which 28 were battle injuries.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows the data broken down by the last five calendar years:</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/05/2019 13:12:48 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL15789 - Lord Alderdice.docx title Nos of UK AF injured or killed on trg or exercises
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice

1127239

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Arts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the growth of (1) the creative industries, and (2) the design sector, relative to the UK economy as a whole across the last decade.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL15792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>DCMS have published figures setting out the growth of the creative industries in relation to the rest of the economy for the period 2010 - 2017. These are available on the government website (2017 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates-2017-gva" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates-2017-gva</a>).</p><p>In 2017 the gross value added (GVA) of the creative industries was £101.5 billion, up from £66.3 billion in 2010. This represents a 53.1% increase, compared to the 29.7% increase in the rest of the economy over the same period. When viewed as a percentage of the UK’s entire GVA, the creative industries now make up 5.5% of the UK’s total GVA, a 53.1% increase since 2010.</p><p>DCMS measure the design sector under the broader category of &quot;design and designer fashion&quot;. In 2017 these sectors contributed £3.95 billion to the economy, up from £1.97 billion in 2010. This represents a 100.6% increase and in 2017 these sectors contributed 0.2% of the UK’s GVA.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 29/05/2019 14:50:31 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde attachment 1 file name DCMS_Sectors_Economic_Estimates_2017__provisional__GVA.pdf title DCMS Sectors 2017
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1127241

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Arts
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 the Creative Industries Sector Deal to date.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL15794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>The Creative Industries Sector Deal, published in March 2018, announced a £150m package of measures to encourage growth across the lifecycle of the creative industries, delivered in partnership between government and industry through the Creative Industries Council.</p><p>Evaluation measures have been established to monitor progress and assess the full economic impact when the multiple programmes that make up the Sector Deal move from delivery to completion.</p><p>Although implementation is still in the early stages, the Sector Deal is progressing well with the successful commencement of the main commitments. This includes the launch of the £80m Creative Industries Clusters Programme, including nine Research and Development partnerships led by universities across the UK, the £20m Cultural Development Fund supporting five creative clusters, the £14m Creative Careers Programme raising awareness of careers across the creative industries, the £4m Creative Scale-Up investment readiness programme aimed at increasing the investability of scaling creative industries businesses, and £16m for four Audience of the Future immersive technology demonstrator projects.</p><p>Projects are progressing to different timescales over the coming 2-3 years. We expect a clearer picture of impact to emerge as implementation continues and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms begin to report.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 29/05/2019 13:35:10 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1127246

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics
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 decision by San Francisco to ban the use of facial recognition technology by local agencies due to its alleged unreliability.
tabling member printed	Lord Evans of Weardale
uin	HL15799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>It is right to debate the use of new technologies in democratic societies. It is clearly a decision for the San Francisco City Board of Supervisors whether its agencies should use facial recognition technology.</p><p>Facial recognition has the potential to play an important role in the detection and prevention of crime, and the police here have commissioned independent reviews of its effectiveness.</p><p>Facial recognition is a fast evolving area of technology with the potential to streamline identity verification and authentication processes across Government and the private sector. When used in the appropriate setting and context, it has proved to be a very reliable and accurate tool. Its performance is dependent on a number of variables, from the quality of the images, environmental factors, the specific algorithm used, the thresholds or risk profile applied and many other factors. Possible matches produced by live facial recognition systems are always checked by a human operator before deciding what, if any, action to take.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/05/2019 13:37:40 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4348 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Weardale

1127248

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	UNRWA: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that aid programmes of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the UN system in general have long-term sustainability.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL15801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The UK supports a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the UK Government believe that the only way to achieve a lasting solution for refugees is a negotiated solution to the conflict.</p><p> </p><p>In the interim, the UK is a leading donor to UNRWA and will provide up to £80m over the next two years. This will help to provide essential services, including healthcare and education, for millions of Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also acted to ensure the long-term sustainability of the UN system in general by supporting the Secretary General’s reform agenda, including the Funding Compact which is being discussed at ECOSOC in New York in late May.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is committed to getting the best value for the UK taxpayers’ money in our aid programmes. We work closely with our UN partners to ensure programmes deliver the best development outcomes and value for money.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 30/05/2019 12:52:46 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

1127254

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
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 14 May (HL15405), whether they will name the three Home Office officials who were convicted in open court of criminal offences in connection with their official duties.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL15807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office withheld the names of staff members to ensure that it did not breach statutory and data protection obligations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 31/05/2019 10:34:29 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

1127257

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	British Steel: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in extending credit to British Steel, they took into account (1) the management of the borrower, (2) the value for money provided by Greybull Capital in respect of their management charges and other related party transfers, and (3) the use of a capital structure by British Steel that requires interest payments to Greybull parties based offshore.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL15810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer I gave to him on 10 May 2019 to Question HL15469.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 29/05/2019 15:49:41 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1127258

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
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 Keen of Elie on 10 May (HL15362), if such data on the waiting times for appeal hearings on Personal Independence Payment claims are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost, how they determine whether (1) claims are being dealt with in a timely manner, and (2) the resources allocated to deal with appeals are adequate to meet the backlog of appeal claims.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL15811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) closely monitors waiting times. However, HMCTS does not keep data on waiting times within the specific and localised timeframes cited in the earlier question, answered on 10 May (HL15362), to which this question refers – namely, (1) up to six months, (2) six to 12 months, (3) 12 to 24 months, and (4) over 24 months. Information about volumes and waiting times for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals is published by the Ministry of Justice in the Tribunals and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics Quarterly. HMCTS receives a bi-annual forecast of expected appeals from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and that informs our resourcing plans as well as informing judicial recruitment. Additional fee-paid judicial office holders have been recruited: 250 judges across the First-tier Tribunal, 118 disability qualified members and up to 232 medical members. In addition, more PIP appeals are being listed per session and case-management “triage” sessions have been introduced, with the aim of reducing the time taken for appeals to reach final determination. All these measures will increase the capacity of the tribunal, with the aim of reducing waiting times for appellants.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/05/2019 11:15:22 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1127259

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Office for Disability Issues: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are currenty employed directly by the Office for Disability Issues; and how many people were employed by the Office for Disability Issues at the end of each calendar year since its inception in 2005.
tabling member printed	Lord Shinkwin
uin	HL15812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>On 9 May 2019 the current number of staff in Office for Disability Issues is 16.</p><p>The numbers of staff in preceding years was;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1 Jan 2019</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan 2018</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan 2017</p></td><td><p>13.65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan 2016</p></td><td><p>20.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information not available between April 2012 to December 2015 as the ODI data was subsumed into that of a larger team.</p><p> </p><p>For 2010 to 2012 figures are available for end of financial year only</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2011</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2010</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prior to March 2010 no information is available due to the ODI data being subsumed into that of a larger team.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 30/05/2019 12:50:52 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4557 label Biography information for Lord Shinkwin

1127260

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Employment: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their command paper Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability, Cm 9526, published November 2017, what progress they have made on the commitment to establish a voluntary reporting framework; which data sets employers are reporting; and how many employers have adopted this reporting framework.
tabling member printed	Lord Shinkwin
uin	HL15813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>We have worked with large employers and expert partners to develop a voluntary reporting framework to support organisations to record and voluntarily report information on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. This framework was published on 22<sup>nd</sup> November 2018 and is aimed at large employers with 250 or more employees. The framework encourages employers to report what steps they are taking to support their disabled employees and employee health and wellbeing as well as the percentage of individuals within their organisation with a disability or a long-term physical or mental health condition. Government are working with partners to actively promote the framework and to monitor and review its effectiveness.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 30/05/2019 12:51:49 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4557 label Biography information for Lord Shinkwin