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62429

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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	Sri Lanka
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Sri Lanka about the attacks on Muslims on 15 June by Buddhists in Aluthgama; and what information have they received from the government of Sri Lanka about its plans to halt the sectarian violence.
tabling member printed	Baroness Brinton
uin	HL367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>We continue to raise our concerns about the recent communal tensions and the significant surge in attacks against members of religious minority groups in Sri Lanka including those of 15 June, with the Sri Lankan authorities. Our High Commissioner to Colombo has met Muslim community representatives to discuss their concerns. The Head of the EU Delegation has raised recent developments with the Sri Lankan Defence Secretary. The EU delegation has released a statement in agreement with EU Heads of Mission in Sri Lanka condemning the violence and have called on the Sri Lankan government to uphold law and order.</p><p>Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa and other senior Sri Lankan Ministers have visited the area affected by violence, and the army and police have been deployed to those areas. President Rajapaksa has also urged restraint and pledged that those responsible for the violence would be held to account. We continue to watch the situation closely.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 25/06/2014 15:49:07 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	4241 label Biography information for Baroness Brinton

62431

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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	Gender Recognition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle employment discrimination amongst transgender people.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to advancing equality for transgender people and ending discrimination in the workplace. The Equality Act 2010 provides protection from discrimination because of gender reassignment in employment.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2011 the Government published <em>Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward</em>; and in December 2011 <em>Advancing transgender equality: a plan for action</em> both of which set out the actions to be taken across Government to enhance equality for transgendered individuals. Actions included the Department for Work and Pensions and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs improving the experiences of transgender people seeking work. These include providing employers with help on employing transgender people and ensuring training is available to Jobcentre Plus staff on the specific challenges faced by transgender people.</p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 25/06/2014 13:59:22 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

61920

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Unpaid Fines
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what value of fines remained unpaid at the end of financial years 2009–10, 2010–11 and 2011–12 (1) in total, and (2) with respect to fines issued in that financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Howard of Rising
uin	HL338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>We have answered this question on the basis that it relates to HMRC penalties.</p><p> </p><p>1) 2009-10 £0.5 billion</p><p>2010-11 £1.5 billion</p><p>2011-12 £1.5 billion</p><p> </p><p>Fines and Penalties that remain unpaid are included as receivables and are reported in both the Resource Accounts and Trust Statement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2) It is not possible to state the value of fines issued in each of the financial years. The question is very broad in scope and covers the majority of the business of the Department. Some data is held in electronic systems and some in paper files, and records are not kept centrally of the value of fines issued across the Department and across all obligations.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 26/06/2014 15:12:28 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	3674 label Biography information for Lord Howard of Rising

61926

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the detailed breakdown of the £7,250,000 so far incurred by the special administration process in relation to Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The £7,250,000 incurred by the special administration process at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust relates to the period when the trust special administrators (TSAs) were appointed in April 2013, to the point at which the Secretary of State announced his decision to accept the TSAs' proposals in February 2014.</p><p> </p><p>We are informed by Monitor that the total figure of £7,250,000 can be broadly broken down as follows:</p><p>- Cost of the TSAs and supporting team to run the Trust - £2,000,000;</p><p>- Cost of solution development - £3,600,000; and</p><p>- Cost of stakeholder engagement and consultation - £1,650,000.</p><p> </p><p>Monitor has estimated the total cost of the special administration process will be £12 to £15 million. This was first announced as part of its decision to accept the TSAs' final proposals on 16 January 2104 and re-stated in an announcement on 13 March 2014. This includes the £7,250,000 and £250,000 expenses incurred up to the point of the Secretary of State's decision.</p><p> </p><p>The remainder of the estimated total cost consists of costs incurred in the period leading up to the dissolution of the trust. These are the cost of continuing to employ a team to run the trust, and the cost of implementing the recommendations set out in the TSAs' Final Report.</p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that an original budget for the remaining costs was agreed at approximately £7,000,000.</p><p> </p><p>That total figure of £7,000,000 can be broadly broken down as follows:</p><p>- Cost of the TSAs and supporting team to run the Trust - £1,500,000;</p><p>- Cost of delivering the transaction - £2,100,000; and</p><p>- Cost of splitting the Trust - £3,400,000.</p><p> </p><p>The team running the trust will be required to remain in place up to the point at which the trust is dissolved.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL345 question first answered 26/06/2014 15:49:22 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

61927

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the detailed breakdown of the estimated £12 to £15 million total cost of the special administration process in relation to Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The £7,250,000 incurred by the special administration process at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust relates to the period when the trust special administrators (TSAs) were appointed in April 2013, to the point at which the Secretary of State announced his decision to accept the TSAs' proposals in February 2014.</p><p> </p><p>We are informed by Monitor that the total figure of £7,250,000 can be broadly broken down as follows:</p><p>- Cost of the TSAs and supporting team to run the Trust - £2,000,000;</p><p>- Cost of solution development - £3,600,000; and</p><p>- Cost of stakeholder engagement and consultation - £1,650,000.</p><p> </p><p>Monitor has estimated the total cost of the special administration process will be £12 to £15 million. This was first announced as part of its decision to accept the TSAs' final proposals on 16 January 2104 and re-stated in an announcement on 13 March 2014. This includes the £7,250,000 and £250,000 expenses incurred up to the point of the Secretary of State's decision.</p><p> </p><p>The remainder of the estimated total cost consists of costs incurred in the period leading up to the dissolution of the trust. These are the cost of continuing to employ a team to run the trust, and the cost of implementing the recommendations set out in the TSAs' Final Report.</p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that an original budget for the remaining costs was agreed at approximately £7,000,000.</p><p> </p><p>That total figure of £7,000,000 can be broadly broken down as follows:</p><p>- Cost of the TSAs and supporting team to run the Trust - £1,500,000;</p><p>- Cost of delivering the transaction - £2,100,000; and</p><p>- Cost of splitting the Trust - £3,400,000.</p><p> </p><p>The team running the trust will be required to remain in place up to the point at which the trust is dissolved.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL344 question first answered 26/06/2014 15:49:21 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

61934

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Human Rights
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make available to Parliament their assessment of the impact of the stronger regulatory powers available to the Care Quality Commission since 2008 on the provision of human rights-compatible care to service users, including the evidence on which that assessment is based, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Human Rights in its report Legislative Scrutiny: Care Bill (11th Report, Session 2013–14, HL Paper 121).
tabling member printed	Lord Low of Dalston
uin	HL352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (2008 Act) all providers of regulated activities have to register with the CQC and meet a set of requirements of safety and quality. As the CQC is a public authority it has a legal obligation in relation to protecting, respecting and fulfilling people's rights under the Human Rights Act 1998 (1998 Act).</p><p>If a provider fails to meet these requirements the CQC has a wide range of enforcement powers that it can use to protect patients and service users from the risk of poor care.</p><p>The CQC has advised that it has taken the following published enforcement action during the financial year 2013-14.</p><p>- The CQC undertook two urgent cancellations of providers' registration;</p><p>- The CQC undertook 53 cancellations of providers' registration;</p><p>- The CQC imposed a condition on a provider on 45 occasions;</p><p>- The CQC varied a provider's condition of registration on 13 occasions;</p><p>- The CQC undertook an urgent variation of a provider's conditions of registration on 13 occasions;</p><p>- The CQC imposed 1,269 warning notices on providers and 18,408 compliance actions on providers; and</p><p>- The CQC issued over 500 fixed penalty notices.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC monitors and inspects health and social care providers under regulations which stipulate that providers must deliver care and treatment to people with due regard to their age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, race, cultural and linguistic background and disability (Regulation 17).</p><p> </p><p>Where services do not meet standards for Regulation 17, the CQC sets compliance actions and monitors whether providers have taken action to meet the standard. If they have not, the CQC may take enforcement action. Between 1 October 2012 and 30 September 2013, the CQC found 48 services did not comply with Regulation 17, leading to enforcement action. This enforcement action is set out in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Enforcement action around Regulation 17 in 2012-13</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Acute hospitals</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mental health hospitals/hospitals for</p><p>people with a learning disability</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General practitioners</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dentists</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care homes</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home care agencies</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other social care services</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The CQC's consultation <em>‘A New Start'</em>, in June 2013 on how it regulates, inspects and rates services included a section on how Human Rights would be protected by changes to its regulatory model. To accompany the consultation, the CQC produced a draft document entitled, ‘Equality and Human Rights Duties Impact Analysis (decision making and policies)', to give more detail about the impact of the proposed changes on equality and human rights and how they would promote equality and human rights for people who use health and social care services.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC also consulted on its approach to human rights as part of a broader consultation on changes to regulation of care services. The CQC explained its proposed strategy for delivering on its commitment to promote equality, diversity and human rights in its regulatory work; to provide detail about what the strategy will mean in practice; and to receive feedback from important stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC held the consultation between 9 April 2014 and 4 June 2014. The CQC will respond to the results of the consultation in September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation can be found at the following web link:</p><p> </p><p>www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20140406_our_human_rights_approach_public_consultation_final.pdf</p><p> </p><p>In January 2014 the CQC published ‘Equality Counts', a report providing information about equality in its workforce and for people who are affected by its regulatory policies and practices. The CQC will use the information in this report to drive its work in promoting equality and human rights, both in its regulatory functions and as an employer. The CQC will continue to develop its new approach to ensure equality in different types of health and social care services.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 25/06/2014 12:54:27 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3803 label Biography information for Lord Low of Dalston

61935

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
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	Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Palestinian Authority about the alleged kidnapping of Israeli teenagers on 12 June.
tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
uin	HL353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right Hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Mr Robertson), discussed this with Palestinian Prime Minister Hamdallah and other government officials on 18 June, during his visit to the region. Mr Robertson expressed his concerns over the kidnapping, welcomed President Abbas's condemnation of it and was briefed on Palestinian security co-operation with the Israelis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 25/06/2014 15:35:21 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

61937

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
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	Iran
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to make representations to the government of Iran about the events in Evin Prison on 17 April; and, if so, when.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government was disturbed by reports of physical violence against political prisoners in Evin prison on 17 April 2014. We have been concerned about prison conditions in Iran for some time and set out our views formally in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 2014 Human Rights report. The UK has been a strong supporter of the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran, Dr Shaheed, and successfully lobbied for the extension of his mandate in 2014.</p><p>In March, Dr Shaheed reported that conditions for prison inmates range from poor to inhumane, access to medical services is often limited, and hygiene and nutrition are poor. The UK works closely with international human rights bodies and partners to encourage Iran to engage seriously on human rights issues. The UK's non-resident Charge d'Affaires also raised human rights with a range of Iranian government officials during his visit to Iran in March.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 25/06/2014 14:18:27 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

61938

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
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	Iran
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make representations to the government of Iran for an independent international inquiry into the events at Evin Prison in Tehran on 17 April.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government was disturbed by reports of physical violence against political prisoners in Evin prison on 17 April 2014. We have been concerned about prison conditions in Iran for some time and set out our views formally in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 2014 Human Rights report. The UK has been a strong supporter of the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran, Dr Shaheed, and successfully lobbied for the extension of his mandate in 2014.</p><p>In March, Dr Shaheed reported that conditions for prison inmates range from poor to inhumane, access to medical services is often limited, and hygiene and nutrition are poor. The UK works closely with international human rights bodies and partners to encourage Iran to engage seriously on human rights issues. The UK's non-resident Charge d'Affaires also raised human rights with a range of Iranian government officials during his visit to Iran in March.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 25/06/2014 15:34:02 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

61940

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
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	Israel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to G4S about the legal implications of its remaining involvement with the Israeli Prison Service until 2017, in the light of Article 76 of the 4th Geneva Convention and its application to the detention of Palestinians.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The UK considers that Israel's detention of Palestinian prisoners within Israel is contrary to Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and have clearly stated this position to Israeli officials. We have also made clear our concerns about Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees in meetings with G4S. International law does not impose direct obligations on corporations. However, the Government encourages British companies to show respect for human rights in their operations in the UK and internationally.</p><p>In September 2013, we launched the UK Action Plan based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This is voluntary guidance which British businesses can consult on doing business in Israel and OPTs, but ultimately it is the decision of an individual or company concerned.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 25/06/2014 15:34:52 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd