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1700726

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date	15/04/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Belfast Agreement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the informal implementation group for the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement set up with Sinn Féin is still in existence; and when it last met.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The group to which the Noble Baroness refers no longer exists.</p><p>Relevant documents relating to this issue are freely accessible in the National Archives at Kew, to which the Noble Baroness might wish to refer. The Government takes seriously its obligations under the Public Records Act 1958.</p> answering member printed Lord Caine question first answered 24/04/2024 13:46:36 answering member 4581 label Biography information for Lord Caine
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1545507

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Cancer: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish their 10 Year Cancer Plan.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>Following a call for evidence for a new cancer plan earlier this year, we received more than 5,000 responses. Further information will be available in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 05/12/2022 13:04:58 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1366308

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend (1) to launch, and (2) to chair, a partnership forum on behalf of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; and if so, who will be the members of that forum.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>On the 1 October the Department launched the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities to work in partnership with national and local Government, the National Health Service, the voluntary sector, industry and the wider public health system to improve health outcomes and disparities. We are currently in the process of establishing governance and advisory structures to engage wider partners and stakeholders across the public health system. Further information will be made available in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 16/11/2021 17:55:06 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

1191950

registered interest
date	30/04/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of the relaxation of regulations for supporting vulnerable children, they plan to consult charities working with vulnerable children to help assess the impact of these changes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>We have taken a number of steps to ensure the safety of vulnerable children during the COVID-19 outbreak, including ensuring that vulnerable children can continue to attend education and childcare settings that are closed to the majority of children.</p><p>The vast majority of statutory duties remain unchanged. However, in light of the current pressures COVID-19 is bringing on social care services, and the risk of such pressures increasing, we have reviewed our regulations to allow some temporary and limited flexibility, to enable children's services to continue to support vulnerable children in the most effective and safest way during the outbreak. Our starting point has been to make minimal changes to ensure the safe functioning of children’s social care during COVID-19.</p><p>Amendments have been made to provide for extra flexibility in some circumstances, but this should only be used when absolutely necessary, with senior management oversight, and must be consistent with the overarching safeguarding and welfare duties that remain in place. The amendments will remain in place only for so long as needed.</p><p>The duties of local authorities and providers to report their decision-making remains the same. Ofsted inspections continue where there are safeguarding concerns, and new Regional Education and Children’s Teams (REACTs) are working around the country to improve our understanding about the risks facing these children.</p><p>The REACTs are co-ordinating our work with local authorities, minimising the burden on the sector while we continue to support councils to deliver safe, effective services. Ofsted has redeployed HM Inspectors to provide on-the-ground, practical support to local authorities, and we have refocused the work of intervention commissioners and advisers to target support to local authorities in need.</p><p>The department continues working with a wide range of stakeholders and the sector to ensure the right support is available for frontline services during this crisis. The regulatory changes will be kept under continuous review and will expire on 25 September 2020 unless extended.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge grouped question UIN HL3744 HL3745 HL3746 HL3748 question first answered 14/05/2020 16:38:44 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

797315

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time between the request for transfer of an unaccompanied minor under the National Transfer Scheme and the new local authority receiving that child.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>We are grateful to the local authorities who continue to support to unaccompanied asylum seeking children, including those who have participated in the National Transfer Scheme (NTS).</p><p>Data on the NTS can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663577/UKVI_Asylum_Transparency_data_Q3_2017.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663577/UKVI_Asylum_Transparency_data_Q3_2017.ods</a></p><p>The average waiting time to transfer unaccompanied children through the NTS varies according to the individual circumstances involved.</p><p>The number of unaccompanied children awaiting transfer through the scheme is fluid, depending on asylum intake, the number of transfer requests by local authorities and the number of transfers completed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL3744 HL3745 HL3746 question first answered 08/12/2017 12:49:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

649384

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Rwanda: Droughts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to provide food aid to those affected by the drought in Eastern Rwanda.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for International Development is assisting households affected by drought in Eastern Rwanda through our pre-existing agricultural support programme. Our social protection programme also provides direct support to the most vulnerable people in Rwanda, including those affected by the drought. We will continue to engage with the Government of Rwanda and other partners to monitor the food security situation in Eastern Rwanda and assess if further support is required.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/12/2016 17:34:23 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

429497

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: National Insurance Contributions
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 additional costs to the NHS of the introduction of the single state pension in April 2016, which will remove the national insurance rebate currently received by NHS employers offering final salary schemes.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Spending Review has announced that National Health Service funding will rise by £3.8 billion in real terms in 2016-17 and by £8 billion in real terms by 2020-21, compared to 2015-16. It is estimated that changes to the state pension, from April 2016, will cost the NHS £1.1 billion.</p><br /><p>This funding will enable the NHS to meet a range of cost pressures, including increased costs for NHS employers of the introduction of the single state pension.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 01/12/2015 15:24:01 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

170251

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence-based analysis they have conducted to establish the vulnerability of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers to modern submarine threats.
tabling member printed	Lord Chidgey
uin	HL3747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2014 answer text <p>Comprehensive threat and survivability analysis was conducted by Defence Science and Technology Laboratories during the design phase of the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers. The output of this analysis is periodically reviewed and updated with input from Defence Intelligence Services and the Maritime Warfare Centre, and used to inform continued development of the operating procedures and war-fighting doctrine for the QEC.</p><p> </p><p>I am withholding further details of this analysis and its conclusions as disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever grouped question UIN HL3748 question first answered 23/12/2014 15:06:29 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	50 label Biography information for Lord Chidgey