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date	11/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the net additional spending available for revenue and capital expenditure to the Northern Ireland Executive, excluding the money from the Confidence and Supply Arrangement of June 2017, following the Chancellor of Exchequer’s Budget statement on Wednesday 11 March.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL2514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>As a result of UK Government decisions at this Budget, the Northern Ireland Executive’s Barnett-based resource budget will increase by over £70 million and its capital budget by over £130 million in 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>This is on top of the £430 million of additional funding for 2020-21 provided at Spending Round 2019. All these additional Barnett consequentials are separate to the funding agreed by the Government in the financial annex to the Confidence and Supply Agreement.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/03/2020 14:51:54 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

777502

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Chernobyl
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there are any pastures in upland Wales and England still rendered unsuitable for grazing as a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear plant fire.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones
uin	HL2514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency has advised that there are no restrictions remaining on grazing in upland areas of England and Wales as a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Between 1986 and 2012 restrictions and routine monitoring of sheep in certain upland areas of the UK were in place to protect food safety. The Board of the FSA agreed the lifting of the last of the restrictions with effect from 1 June 2012, following a review of the evidence and public consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 08/11/2017 16:01:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	530 label Biography information for Lord Jones

607582

registered interest
date	21/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Nationality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 12 October (HL Deb, col 1889–90), whether schools are required, as part of the school census, to provide information on pupils' nationality, and whether schools will suffer any adverse consequences if they fail to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL2514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes guidance for schools on administering the school census. As stated in the guidance (section 5.3.5) the requested information on nationality is as declared by the parent or guardian. The parent or guardian may decline to provide this information to the school without consequences. In such a case, the school would record this as ‘refused’ to meet its statutory duty to make a return.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance is available on the Government’s website, <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>, by searching for ‘School census 2016 to 2017: guide for schools and LAs’.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 04/11/2016 14:54:38 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

420539

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to publish data on the number of claims and awards of Short Term Benefit Advances and Universal Credit Short Term Advances.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Truro
uin	HL2514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for UC therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future. These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 15/10/2015 15:59:15 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4271 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Truro

101692

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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	Eritrea
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 recent events in Eritrea, and of the impact of those events on the number of refugees seeking refuge in Western Europe.
tabling member printed	Lord Chidgey
uin	HL2514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>We remain deeply concerned by the political situation in Eritrea and the impact on migration in Western Europe. Although the number of claims has increased, the profile of Eritrean asylum claims seen by the Home Office has not changed significantly. Our Ambassador regularly monitors events in Eritrea and works closely with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, through whom we receive monthly updates on migration. We also support multilateral initiatives to tackle illegal migration such as the African Union-EU Khartoum process. The last meeting was on 13-16 October 2014.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 05/11/2014 15:54:17 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	50 label Biography information for Lord Chidgey