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446675

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage or require maintained secondary schools to prepare young people, whilst they are still at school, for their probable future role as parents.
tabling member printed	Lord Northbourne
uin	HL5331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>This Government believes that schools are best placed to make decisions about the education of their pupils. Teachers can cover parenting skills in personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education lessons. The non-statutory programme of study for PSHE includes the roles and responsibilities of parents, parenting skills, the value of family relationships, and the impact of separation, divorce and bereavement on families.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/01/2016 14:20:23 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3201 label Biography information for Lord Northbourne

446502

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Collective Worship
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to review the legal requirements that apply to daily acts of collective worship in school assemblies.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not plan to change the requirements for a daily act of collective worship. It is for schools to tailor their provision to suit the needs of their pupils, and parents can choose to withdraw their children from all or any part of collective worship.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/01/2016 14:06:08 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

446503

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support they make available for stand-alone academies facing budget deficits and the possibility of becoming bankrupt.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>Academy trusts are required to set balanced budgets each year, and it is the trustees’ responsibility to manage the funding for their school effectively and appropriately.</p><p>Where stand-alone academy trusts are facing genuine financial difficulties, there are a number of ways they can access support to help them return to financial stability. These include:</p><ul><li>Accessing the recently launched suite of tools and information designed to improve financial health and efficiency within schools</li><li>Working with the Education Funding Agency (EFA) to agree a recovery plan to identify savings and ensure value for money</li><li>In the most serious cases, the EFA may agree to provide an advance of funding that is repayable over an agreed timeframe</li><li>If appropriate, working with Regional Schools Commissioners to consider joining a multi-academy trust</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 25/01/2016 16:52:42 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

445760

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many road traffic accidents in which a dog was injured were reported to the police in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL5170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport collates information on animals identified as carriageway hazards in reported personal injury road accidents. However, information on the kind of animal involved in accidents is not collected.</p><br /><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving animals<sup>1</sup> in the carriageway, in Great Britain, 2012 – 2014<sup>2</sup>, is shown in the following table.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Accidents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>804</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>734</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>692</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ol><li>Excludes ridden horses</li><li>Data for 2015 is published summer 2016.</li></ol><br /> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/01/2016 13:07:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

445790

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islam
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 11 January (HL4752 and HL4753) and 18 January (HL4957), whether they regard as matters of concern in countering extremist ideologies the preaching and teaching of Wahhabism in mosques and Muslim education bodies in Britain, and funding from overseas for that teaching.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL5200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>We consider any vocal or active opposition to our fundamental values as extremist, whatever guise these are expressed under. This includes when religions are hijacked by those wishing to promote extremism. As my rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister said in July last year “extremist ideology is not true Islam”.</p><p>Because of these concerns our Government has taken significant steps to counter extremism. We published our Counter Extremism Strategy in October 2015 which sets out a range of measures to deal with the broad challenge of extremism. We have placed a duty on specified authorities to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being radicalised. This includes schools, colleges and universities. It is also why the Prime Minister recently commissioned a review into the funding of extremism in the UK, including funding from overseas.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 25/01/2016 17:42:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

445801

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
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 what powers local authorities have to intervene regarding safeguarding concerns at an academy school.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>Under the Children Act 1989, local authorities are under a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people within their area by providing a range and level of services appropriate to those children’s needs. This is regardless of the type of educational provision.</p><p>Section 47 of the same act requires the local authority to investigate whether action should be taken by them to safeguard or promote the welfare of children suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm.</p><p><em>The statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015) and Keeping children safe in education (2014) </em>clarifies the core legal requirements for individuals and organisations to keep children safe. The guidance applies in its entirety to all schools. Schools have responsibilities to notify the local authority if there are safeguarding concerns about individual children or recruitment issues linked to individual staff. Statutory guidance also sets out how all schools are expected to cooperate with the local safeguarding children board to ensure that safeguarding practice across the area is joined up and robust.</p><p>If a local authority has concerns about the general adequacy of statutory safeguarding arrangements in place in a particular academy, they may notify the academies regulator, i.e. the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which can seek compliance, or Ofsted, which has powers to inspect safeguarding arrangements. In such circumstances, the EFA will take appropriate action to check that the academy’s arrangements are compliant with its statutory responsibilities. The EFA may also notify Ofsted of any concerns or evidence it has about an academy’s apparent failure to operate adequate safeguarding arrangements.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/01/2016 14:05:48 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

445802

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the legal requirements to have a governing body for (1) a maintained school, and (2) an academy school, and whether a school of either kind can abolish its governing body.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>Section 19 of the Education Act 2002 requires every maintained school to have a governing body, constituted in accordance with regulations.</p><p>Under the Academies Act 2010, an academy is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is therefore required under the Companies Act 2006 to have members and a board of trustees or directors.</p><p>It is not possible for a maintained school to abolish its governing body or an academy trust to abolish its board of trustees, however, it is possible for a group of schools to be governed by one governing body or academy trust.</p><p>When two or more maintained schools federate they operate under a single governing body, but each school remains a separate legal identity. In a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), individual academies do not have a separate legal identity and are all under the control of the trust board. Whether the board establishes local governing boards for each academy, and the range of functions delegated to any such boards, are both a matter for the board to determine – but in all cases the board remains accountable for the academies in the MAT.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/01/2016 14:08:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

445318

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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	Mohamed Nasheed
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to press the government of the Maldives for the unconditional release of former President Mohamed Nasheed for medical treatment in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), visited the Maldives on 17 and 18 January. He met key members of the Maldives government, including President Yameen and reiterated our call for the release of all political prisoners. The UK welcomed the Maldivian government’s decision on 18 January to allow former President Nasheed to travel overseas for medical treatment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 25/01/2016 15:39:13 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

445319

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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	Maldives: Human Rights
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 human rights situation in the Maldives, and what consideration they are giving to immediate targeted sanctions by the UK and at a EU level on senior officials and key supporters of the government of the Maldives, including freezing assets and travel bans.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The UK is concerned about the decline in respect for democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the Maldives. The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), visited the Maldives on 17 and 18 January and expressed these concerns to President Yameen and other key members of the Maldivian government including Foreign Minister Dunya.</p><p>We will continue to apply pressure through a range of bilateral and multilateral means to bring about the positive changes we all want to see in the Maldives.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 25/01/2016 15:40:29 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

445334

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Mature Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the resource cost charge in England of (1) full-time fee loans in higher education, (2) full-time maintenance loans in higher education, (3) part-time fee loans in higher education, and (4) adult further education fee loans, for those aged 24 and over who are studying on Level 3 and 4 courses.
tabling member printed	Baroness Sharp of Guildford
uin	HL5098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>We estimate that the Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) charge for full time tuition fee and maintenance loans, and part time fee loans, is between 20% and 25%.</p><br /><p>We estimate that the Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) charge for Advanced Learner Loans is around 40%. BIS is collecting data on learners as it emerges and based on this data we regularly review and update the RAB charge estimate for Advanced Learner Loans.</p><br /><p>These estimates take into account the changes to student finance and the new HM Treasury discount rate used to value the student loan book announced at Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015. We will update our estimates in summer 2016 and publish these at the same time as BIS accounts.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 25/01/2016 13:12:53 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	2113 label Biography information for Baroness Sharp of Guildford