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226457

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date	10/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft: Air Traffic Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to place a contract to implement Project Marshall.
tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
uin	HL5579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The contract to implement Project Marshall was placed on 28 October 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 12/03/2015 17:05:30 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

226458

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	USA
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have published, or intend to publish, the Statement of Intent regarding Enhanced Co-operation on Carrier Operations and Maritime Power Projection which was signed by the Secretary of State for Defence and the United States Secretary of Defense in January 2012.
tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
uin	HL5580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The document referred to was placed in the Library of the House on 2 February 2012 in response to an answer given in the House of Commons by the then Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology (Peter Luff) on 1 February 2012 (Official Report, column 649W) to the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 12/03/2015 17:05:07 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

225739

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	DNA
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they consider to be the evidential consequences of the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that DNA samples can only be retained for up to a maximum of two years under certain circumstances; and whether DNA profiles provide a sufficient basis to initiate a prosecution in the absence of an actual sample.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL5509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Under the new regime relating to DNA samples introduced by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, DNA samples must normally be destroyed once a DNA profile has been derived from them, or six months after they have been taken, whichever period is shorter. Profiles are compared with existing subject and crime scene profiles held on the DNA database. If there is a match between profiles, this could form part of the prosecution evidence in a case; however, an individual cannot be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence alone. Therefore the destruction of samples will not normally affect the initiation of a prosecution. If a person is charged with an offence and disputes that a profile used in evidence was derived from a sample taken from them, and the sample has been destroyed, the police have the power to take another sample.</p><p>In the exceptional circumstance that a sample is required for disclosure as evidence under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, it is not required to be destroyed until after any proceedings have been completed.</p><p>The Government will consider carefully any court rulings which may have an implication for the policy outlined above.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/03/2015 15:50:08 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

225769

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
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 Northover on 4 August 2014 (HL1061), when they received the report of the feasibility study commissioned by the Government Equalities Office; and why the report has not yet been published.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We received a final copy of the report in January 2015, and its findings are currently under consideration. We will publish it as soon as we are in a position to do so.</p> answering member printed Baroness Garden of Frognal question first answered 12/03/2015 15:48:41 answering member 3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

225778

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Service Broadcasting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to publish a consultation concerning broadcast retransmission fees in relation to public sector broadcasters.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL5542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department intends to consult in the near future although no date has been formally set as yet.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/03/2015 12:30:26 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

225780

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many personal independence payments have been claimed since introduction; how many of those claims have been processed; and, of those, how many are being paid to recipients of the disability living allowance which preceded personal independence payments.
tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
uin	HL5544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The requested information is in the table below. These statistics are available from the Personal Independence Payment statistics home page and will next be updated on 18 March 2015.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Personal </strong><strong>Independence</strong><strong> Payment (PIP) claims registered, cleared and awards in payment – at </strong><strong>31 October 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All PIP claims registered, of which:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>669,200</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New claims</p></td><td><p>592,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reassessment Claims</p></td><td><p>76,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All PIP claims cleared, of which:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>382,000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong>New claims</p></td><td><p>352,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong>Reassessment claims</p></td><td><p>29,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All PIP awards in payment, of which:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>207,500</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong>New Claims</p></td><td><p>184,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong>Reassessment claims</p></td><td><p>23,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>Source, DWP statistical release, published 17 December 2014 and Stat-Xplore.</p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>Figures are for claims from people under the normal rules and special rules for those who are terminally ill.</p><p>“Reassessment claims” are claims to PIP from those who were entitled to Disability Living Allowance.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 11/03/2015 15:17:32 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

225398

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of asylum seekers being detained under powers in the Immigration Acts, what access they have to statutory, free and independent forms of advocacy on an individual basis, excluding legal representation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL5474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>All asylum applicants are directed to a range of sources of advice and support offered by non-governmental organisations. However we consider that statutory access to free and independent forms of advocacy is best delivered through providing the asylum applicant with the opportunity to consult a legal representative at his or her own, or public expense (in accordance with provision made by the Legal Aid Agency) or otherwise. This could be a barrister, solicitor or adviser; all however must be qualified to provide advice under Section 84 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to ensure that the advice offered is of the sufficient quality.</p><p>Safeguards exist for those entering detention through the Detention Duty Advice scheme which was set up by the Legal Aid Agency to provide access to legal advice in detention centres. The scheme provides free legal advice under legal aid for people held in immigration detention, who cannot afford a fee-paying private legal adviser or who are no longer represented by a duty solicitor.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/03/2015 15:58:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

225401

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Nepal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what conditions a Nepalese man must meet to obtain a three-month tourist visa to visit the United Kingdom if he is married to a woman who is a British citizen resident in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL5477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>All visit visa applications, regardless of nationality, are carefully considered in accordance with the Immigration Rules. Visitors must demonstrate that they are genuinely visiting the UK for a period of less than six months and intend to leave the UK at the end of their proposed visit. Applicants must satisfy our decision-makers that they have strong social and economic ties to their home country as well as adequate funds to cover the cost of their travel to and stay in the UK without taking employment or accessing public funds.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/03/2015 15:50:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

225402

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Sleeping Rough: Veterans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2 March (HL Deb, col 6), why Lord Wallace did not answer the question asked relating to veterans sleeping rough.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL5478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>DCLG’s Rough Sleeping Statistics England – Autumn 2014 statistical release provides a single night snapshot and does not provide information on the demographics of rough sleepers. However, the Greater London Authority’s CHAIN (Combined Homeless and Information Network) database in London shows that, in 2013/14, 3% (145) of people seen rough sleeping who are from the UK had served in the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally. There is a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation. The initiatives help a wide range of single homeless people including military veterans.</p><p> </p><p>StreetLink has helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or faced the prospect of doing so. By using Streetlink the public can help connect rough sleepers to the local services available so they can get the help they need to get them off the streets. Since 2012, StreetLink has made nearly 24,500 rough sleeping referrals to councils to investigate, leading to 10,500 rough sleepers being found and connected with local services of which nearly 2,000 resulted in them finding accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We have also supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector, ensuring rough sleepers are found quickly and that they do not spend more than one night on the street.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness. Thirty-four projects, working across 168 local authorities, will provide support for up 22,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is helping single homeless people find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £14 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people since it started in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced protection to ensure that former and current Service personnel are not disadvantaged in accessing social housing because of the disadvantages of military life. We have changed the law by regulation so that seriously injured personnel and former members of the Armed Forces with urgent housing needs must always be given high priority for social housing by local authorities. We have also made sure that serving personnel and those who have recently been discharged do not lose their qualification rights because of the requirement to move from base to base. Additionally, we have issued statutory guidance strongly encouraging local authorities to give sympathetic consideration to prioritising the needs of all former Service personnel, for example through the use of local preference criteria and local lettings policies.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations publish their own statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5436 HL5437 question first answered 12/03/2015 15:08:26 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

225408

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
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	National Parks
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to make their decision on the future boundaries of the Lake District and West Yorkshire national parks before the forthcoming general election.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL5484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Following the public enquiry into Natural England’s proposals to extend the boundaries of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, the inspector’s report has been submitted to Defra and is now being considered. The Secretary of State will issue her decisions in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 11/03/2015 17:22:11 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd