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175352

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date	22/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are putting in place to help infants schools that are struggling to provide universal free school meals due to overstretched equipment or logistical problems.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>We have provided substantial support to help schools deliver this policy. We have already allocated £150 million capital funding to universal infant free school meals and are now providing an additional £24.5 million for individual school projects to ensure that the meals provided are of high quality, and particularly that all schools are able to offer hot meals.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some smaller schools may face particular challenges and have therefore allocated a further £22.5 million transitional funding in 2014-15 to help schools with 150 pupils or fewer to implement the policy. Each qualifying small school received a minimum of £3000.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the £1.2 billion in general capital funding for school maintenance and improvements made available to local authorities this year.</p><p> </p><p>We have also set up an implementation support service, staffed by school food experts, which schools can contact for advice and support to help them overcome any issues they encounter. This service will continue to be available to schools until the end of 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 27/01/2015 15:29:53 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

175356

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	Satellite Broadcasting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have for satellite broadcasters to pay retransmission fees for the programmes they broadcast from terrestrial television.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government will be publishing a consultation document in due course examining the current balance of payments between broadcasters and platforms and the prominence of PSBs on Electronic Programme Guides. The Connectivity, Consumers &amp; Content strategy paper set out the Government’s ambition for “zero net fees”, and a lot of progress has been made towards reaching that goal. However we want to examine whether the amount of regulation around these transactions is really necessary, to ensure broadcasters can deliver the highest quality content, at the best possible price, to the widest possible audience.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/01/2015 14:46:57 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

174926

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the expected shortfall of school places by 2023 they consider to be due to net migration between 1997 and 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL4305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this data.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 27/01/2015 15:30:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

174931

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to exempt special education and disability services from the 2004 European Union Procurement Directives and the Children and Families Act 2014; what plans they have to reduce bureaucratic procedures for authorities and schools trying legally to place children with special needs; and what plans they have to safeguard the principle of parental choice within their special educational needs and disability policies.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The EU Directive 2014/24 on Public Procurement replaces the previous Directive (2004/18). The Department for Education will be implementing the 2014 Directive through new Public Contracts Regulations, on which we consulted last year. The Directive and the Regulations will raise the financial threshold above which EU wide procurement for social, health and educational services must take place and will introduce a new ‘light touch regime’ for procurement of these services. These measures will reduce the current burden on local authorities and schools. The Crown Commercial Service will shortly issue guidance to local authorities. This guidance will cover the interaction between public procurement and user choice. The new Regulations will continue to allow for the preferences of parents/carers and young people which is an integral feature of the Education, Health and Care Plan process set out in the Children and Families Act 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 27/01/2015 12:22:18 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

174935

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	British Transport Police
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 Kramer on 19 January (HL4148), whether British Transport Police officers regularly patrol outside the boundaries of rail stations where people make onward journeys.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL4314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The British Transport Police (BTP) does not routinely patrol these areas. However, it does carry out policing beyond the railway when called upon to do so by Home Office forces or when engaging in multi-agency policing operations with a wider footprint than a rail location or when required to do so when responding to a spontaneous incident requiring an immediate police response.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the BTP works in close partnership with local Home Office policing teams, Council Street Wardens and transport organisations to share intelligence and plan patrol strategies, and on the design and execution of police operations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 27/01/2015 14:04:22 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

174952

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Wind Power
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of electricity was generated from wind farms in the week ending 18 January 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL4331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>During the week ending 18 January 2015, 12 per cent of electricity in Great Britain was generated from wind farms. This data is made available by National Grid and only refers to wind which is operationally metered, i.e. around two-thirds of the installed wind capacity in Great Britain.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 27/01/2015 15:16:35 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

174953

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Wind Power
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to review the current rate of subsidy offered to suppliers of energy generated from wind farms.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL4332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>There are currently three mechanisms through which wind farms can seek support: the renewables obligation (RO), contracts for difference (CFD) and the small-scale feed-in tariff (FIT).</p><p>No further comprehensive banding review is planned for the RO scheme. The last review, which reported in July 2012, set support rates through to the RO’s closure to new generation on 31 March 2017. The first allocation round for CFDs is currently underway. It is our intention that established technologies (such as onshore wind) will have to compete on price in an auction in order to secure a contract for support, meaning that only the most cost-effective projects will be built and so CFDs will represent better value for money than the RO. EU state aid clearance for the FIT requires a review of the scheme every three years. The next periodic review is scheduled to take place later this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 28/01/2015 14:08:02 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

174957

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Shaker Aamer
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Prime Minister spoke personally to President Obama during his visit to Washington in January 2015 to seek the release of British resident Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL4336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister discussed Mr Aamer’s case with President Obama in Washington on 16 January. As the White House spokesperson subsequently confirmed, the President made clear that he understood why Mr Aamer’s case is of great interest to the United Kingdom, and committed to prioritise it, while making that sure any action taken is consistent with US national security.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 26/01/2015 17:40:29 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

174959

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	Parliament: Correspondence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees how many items of correspondence were received in the Palace of Westminster in 2014; and, of those, what proportion was received in the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL4338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>In total, 2,234,763 items of mail were received in the Palace of Westminster in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Administration does not count which House each item goes to but estimates that approximately 25 per cent (558,691) of these items were destined for the House of Lords. These figures do not include parcels, courier items or internal mail.</p> answering member printed Lord Sewel question first answered 28/01/2015 13:50:37 answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

174964

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Licensing Laws
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take steps to reduce late night drunkenness and disorderly behaviour in public places by encouraging local and licensing authorities to order the closure of public houses and clubs where clients cause such a disturbance and place demands on public services.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
uin	HL4343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Minister for Crime Prevention wrote to chief executives of local authorities in England and Wales and Police and Crime Commissioners in December about the Government’s recent actions to enable local authorities to address alcohol harms. The Minister encouraged the use of a number of powers including the early morning alcohol restriction order (EMRO) which enables local councils to restrict the sale of alcohol in the early hours and the closure power in the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. This can be used if the local authority or police have reason to believe that the use of premises has, or is likely to, result in nuisance to members of the public or disorder nearby. Licensing authorities also have the power to review a premises licence if they or a responsible authority (which includes the police, health bodies and environmental health authorities) have evidence that a premises' activities undermines one of the four licensing objectives (the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, the prevention of public nuisance and the protection of children from harm). The Government also lowered the evidence threshold so that a review of a premises licence can be undertaken where it is 'appropriate' rather than 'necessary' for the promotion of the licensing objectives.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 27/01/2015 16:16:29 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton