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1688313

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date	07/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of completing the first phase of HS2; and what is the projected completion date.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>As set out in the Network North command paper, for the historic Phase 1 scope DfT officials have estimated a provisional range of £45 billion to £54 billion.</p><p>Given these cost assessments were made before the decision was taken to cancel Phase 2, the Department has asked HS2 Ltd to consider the revised scope of the project and provide an action plan on how it will deliver this at the lowest reasonable cost. We will be able to provide more information in due course.</p><p>Delivery remains on track for the initial high-speed services between Old Oak Common in west London and Birmingham Curzon Street by 2029 to 2033. An updated delivery-into-service range for services to Euston will be provided in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 14/02/2024 15:38:51 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1505809

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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	Community Diagnostic Centres: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding was allocated at the start of this financial year for NHS diagnostic centres; and how much of this funding has since been diverted to other NHS services.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2022 answer text <p>The Spending Review in 2021 provided £2.3 billion in capital funding for diagnostic services over the next three years. The majority of this funding will be allocated increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) to 160 by March 2025 and to expand planned elective diagnostic services. In 2022/23, £900 million has been allocated to the CDC programme and to increase capacity for imaging, endoscopy, lung and mammography screening and improving digital diagnostics. The capital allocation has not been diverted to other services. Revenue funding may be lower than originally envisaged in order to meet the cost of the 2022/23 National Health Service pay settlement.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 26/09/2022 12:02:05 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1349350

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the (1) guidance, and (2) duty being placed on colleges, to review local skills provision includes guidance on advancing race equality in further education.
tabling member printed	Lord Woolley of Woodford
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2021 answer text <p>Draft statutory guidance makes clear that in carrying their reviews, the governing bodies of colleges will need to ensure that they comply with their existing statutory obligations, including those related to equality law, under the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge grouped question UIN HL2282 question first answered 29/07/2021 14:51:07 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	4722 label Biography information for Lord Woolley of Woodford

1183191

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
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	4G
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 reliability of 4G in the UK compared to EU countries.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government announced on 9 March that it had agreed a deal with the mobile network operators to deliver the Shared Rural Network programme. This will see Government and industry jointly invest to increase 4G mobile coverage throughout the UK to 95% geographic coverage by end-2025. Coverage is based on Ofcom’s definition of good quality 4G coverage, which is the minimum signal strength required to deliver a 90-second telephone call and a download speed of at least 2Mbit/s, 95% of the time.</p><p>The Shared Rural Network is underpinned by legally binding coverage commitments from each operator to have reached at least 90%, which will be assessed in 2026. Ofcom will regularly report on coverage improvements towards this goal through its Connected Nations report.</p><p>Exact site deployment plans will be managed by the operators themselves in order for them to best deliver the agreed coverage outcomes. However, we expect that consumers will feel the benefit of the programme long before its conclusion and the operators will consult with communities as roll out plans become clearer.</p><p>While the biggest improvements in coverage arising from the Shared Rural Network will be in Scotland and Wales, there will be improvements across all four nations. 4G geographic coverage in England is currently 97% from at least one operator and 81% from all four operators. As a result of the programme, this will increase to 98% coverage from at least one operator, and 90% from all four by end-2025.</p><p>The Shared Rural Network will help close the digital divide between urban and rural areas by improving mobile coverage in largely rural areas across the whole of the UK. The programme is not directly aimed at improving coverage in dense inner-city areas such as the West End of London which, typically, have good 4G coverage from all four operators, and it will remain a commercial decision for operators to decide whether to improve coverage in such areas.</p><p>We are aware of the European Commission’s Digital Economy and Society Index report 2019, which compares 4G coverage of homes across Member States. The report, available via the following link, <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/desi" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/desi</a> suggests that in 2018, based on an average of operator coverage, there was 98% 4G coverage of UK homes. This compared to 95% for France, and an EU average of 94%. The Shared Rural Network will help to improve our European standing by providing additional coverage to 280,000 premises.</p><p>While the vast majority of commercial rollout of 5G services will be delivered by industry and according to their own timeframes, government is committed to being a world leader in 5G technology and providing a 5G signal to a majority of the population by 2027. The Government is investing in a nationally coordinated programme of 5G testbed facilities and application trials to help achieve this, and has allocated £200 million from the National Productivity Investment Fund to the 5G Programme, which launched in 2017 and will run until March 2022.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL2278 HL2279 HL2280 HL2281 HL2282 HL2350 question first answered 16/03/2020 16:31:57 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

773568

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the families of children believed to have suffered serious adverse reactions to human papilloma virus vaccinations are treated with the same levels of dignity and respect accorded to families whose children have other medical conditions.
tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>Anyone suffering ill health deserves access to appropriate clinical investigation and care, and to be treated with dignity and respect. This is an important responsibility of doctors and other healthcare providers.</p><p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency takes every report of a suspected adverse reaction seriously and has closely evaluated the safety of the human papillomavirus vaccine since the vaccination programme was introduced in the United Kingdom in 2008. All reports, including any submitted by patients and their families, are kept under continual review to identify potential new risks.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 01/11/2017 12:47:48 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

600530

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
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	Energy: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to fill senior management vacancies on the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) has recently restructured its senior management team following a voluntary exit scheme and has filled all vacancies within the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) senior team.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/10/2016 13:26:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

419210

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood Cancer
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what the Department of Health is doing to prioritise the availability of treatments for rare blood cancers, such as multiple myeloma.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>Ensuring that the National Health Service is able to support the availability and use of effective medicines for cancers, including rare blood cancer, is a key priority.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cancer 52, an organisation which specifically represents patients with rarer cancers, was represented on the independent Cancer Taskforce. The Taskforce published its report, <em>Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A Strategy for England 2015-2020</em>, in July, and made many recommendations relevant to rarer and blood cancers, focussing in particular on improving access to diagnostic testing, including fast, direct general practitioner access to key blood tests, and increasing patient access to the most advanced treatments. NHS England, Public Health England and other healthcare organisations are now considering the detail of the individual recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Earlier in 2015, NHS England consulted on the principles and process by which it makes investment decisions in specialised services, which address the issue of rarity. The outcome of future investment decisions taken by NHS England will be published in accordance with the new process. NHS England’s response to the consultation is attached, and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/key-docs/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/key-docs/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to drug treatments for blood cancers, NHS England also commissions blood and bone marrow transplantation in accordance with its current published policy. A revision of the policy is planned during 2015-16 to be implemented during 2016-17. The current published policy is attached, and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/b04-p-a.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/b04-p-a.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is developing guidelines for the treatment of multiple myeloma and these are currently subject to public consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name nhse-respns-publictn-17-06-15.pdf title NHS England consultation response 2 file name b04-p-a (1).pdf title Transplantation policy April 2013 question first answered 22/09/2015 10:22:16 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

100077

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	Pakistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the position of Ms Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of four sentenced to death in Lahore under Pakistan's blasphemy laws; and whether they intend to make representations to the government of Pakistan.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text We are concerned to hear that a Pakistan court has upheld the imposition of the death penalty in the case of Asia Bibi. We support the EU's recent statement of concern and hope that the verdict will be overturned on appeal. We regularly raise at the highest levels the misuse of blasphemy laws in Pakistan both against Muslims and against religious minorities. We have consistently pressed the Government of Pakistan on the issue of the death penalty and expressed our principled opposition to it in all cases. We will continue to raise these issues. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/11/2014 17:14:45 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten