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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

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

228352

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who owns any profits accrued from academy schools and chains investing their cash reserves.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL5822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Single academies and multi-academy chains retain any surplus they make within the legal entity of the academy trust. Under charity law academy trustees must act in the best interests of the trust and ensure all funds are properly managed and applied to the trust’s charitable objects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Academy trusts must use all of their assets, including their cash reserves, in accordance with their charitable objects as set out in their articles of association. This includes the advancement of education and provision of recreation facilities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cash reserves are disclosed in academy trusts’ annual accounts which EFA requires trusts to publish on their websites. These accounts are also published by the Department on its school performance tables webpage and are filed at Companies House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL5823 HL5824 question first answered 24/03/2015 13:48:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

228353

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the cash reserves held by academy schools and chains can be used for non-educational purposes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL5823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Single academies and multi-academy chains retain any surplus they make within the legal entity of the academy trust. Under charity law academy trustees must act in the best interests of the trust and ensure all funds are properly managed and applied to the trust’s charitable objects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Academy trusts must use all of their assets, including their cash reserves, in accordance with their charitable objects as set out in their articles of association. This includes the advancement of education and provision of recreation facilities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cash reserves are disclosed in academy trusts’ annual accounts which EFA requires trusts to publish on their websites. These accounts are also published by the Department on its school performance tables webpage and are filed at Companies House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL5822 HL5824 question first answered 24/03/2015 13:48:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

228354

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how parents of children attending academy schools can access details of any cash reserves being held by the school.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL5824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Single academies and multi-academy chains retain any surplus they make within the legal entity of the academy trust. Under charity law academy trustees must act in the best interests of the trust and ensure all funds are properly managed and applied to the trust’s charitable objects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Academy trusts must use all of their assets, including their cash reserves, in accordance with their charitable objects as set out in their articles of association. This includes the advancement of education and provision of recreation facilities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cash reserves are disclosed in academy trusts’ annual accounts which EFA requires trusts to publish on their websites. These accounts are also published by the Department on its school performance tables webpage and are filed at Companies House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL5822 HL5823 question first answered 24/03/2015 13:48:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

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

228369

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps have been taken to ensure that the new Home Office guidance issued in February, Asylum Policy Instruction: Sexual identity issues in the asylum claim, is implemented by all government representatives.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Following publication of the Home Office guidance, a communication was sent to all relevant parts of the Home Office alerting them to it and advising them of its main issues. Subsequently, a communication was issued to the main caseworking areas offering them awareness raising sessions with policy officials to support their understanding of the guidance. Sessions took place in the immigration office at Becket House on 19 March and further sessions are planned around the country in April. Sessions also took place in Harmondsworth and Yarl’s Wood in advance of the publication of the guidance. In light of the new instruction, and following the report of the investigation by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, John Vine, into the Home Office’s handling of asylum claims made on the grounds of sexual orientation, an internal review of training needs and training materials will be conducted during April and May. <br><br>Within the existing 5-week mandatory Foundation Training Programme for all new asylum decision makers, a 1-day module provides skills on handling asylum applications submitted on the grounds of sexual orientation. This helps trainees to interview people sensitively and effectively, identify effective and ineffective questions, use country of origin information effectively, make fair and defensible decisions and identify what may constitute persecution in sexual orientation claims. It is designed to enable decision makers to make well informed and legally sound decisions. <br><br>This course was designed and first rolled out to asylum decision makers in 2011 and has continued to be updated in line with policy changes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5840 question first answered 24/03/2015 14:56:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

228370

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps have been taken to improve training to Home Office civil servants on LGBTI asylum issues, particularly so that stereotyping does not appear in interview questions, following the report of the investigation by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, John Vine, into the Home Office’s handling of asylum claims made on the grounds of sexual orientation, published in October 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Following publication of the Home Office guidance, a communication was sent to all relevant parts of the Home Office alerting them to it and advising them of its main issues. Subsequently, a communication was issued to the main caseworking areas offering them awareness raising sessions with policy officials to support their understanding of the guidance. Sessions took place in the immigration office at Becket House on 19 March and further sessions are planned around the country in April. Sessions also took place in Harmondsworth and Yarl’s Wood in advance of the publication of the guidance. In light of the new instruction, and following the report of the investigation by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, John Vine, into the Home Office’s handling of asylum claims made on the grounds of sexual orientation, an internal review of training needs and training materials will be conducted during April and May. <br><br>Within the existing 5-week mandatory Foundation Training Programme for all new asylum decision makers, a 1-day module provides skills on handling asylum applications submitted on the grounds of sexual orientation. This helps trainees to interview people sensitively and effectively, identify effective and ineffective questions, use country of origin information effectively, make fair and defensible decisions and identify what may constitute persecution in sexual orientation claims. It is designed to enable decision makers to make well informed and legally sound decisions. <br><br>This course was designed and first rolled out to asylum decision makers in 2011 and has continued to be updated in line with policy changes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5839 question first answered 24/03/2015 14:56:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

228371

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps have been taken to ensure that statistical data concerning asylum claims made on grounds of sexual identity are accurately recorded, as recommended by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, John Vine, in his investigation into the Home Office’s handling of asylum claims made on the grounds of sexual orientation, published in October 2014; and when such data will be released.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the basis of an asylum claim is not usually recorded but the Home Office has made arrangements to record this data for cases made on the basis of sexuality on our Case Information Database. This process still requires significant further development. Once we are satisfied with the quality of the data we will be in a position to release this.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/03/2015 14:27:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven