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60528

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date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Probation Service for England and Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the budgeted annual expenditure of the National Probation Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The total probation budget for 2014-15 is £804 million. This includes the first two months of the financial year, during which services were provided by the probation trusts. As well as operational delivery, the probation budget includes provision of corporate services to support the new operating model.</p><p> </p><p>The budget figureis based on an initial assessment of operational and business needs and may vary within the financial period. The costs associated with high-risk offenders fall within a number of budget items and do not constitute a separate category.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL118 question first answered 18/06/2014 17:07:49 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

60529

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Probation Service for England and Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the National Probation Service budget has been allocated for the management of high-risk cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The total probation budget for 2014-15 is £804 million. This includes the first two months of the financial year, during which services were provided by the probation trusts. As well as operational delivery, the probation budget includes provision of corporate services to support the new operating model.</p><p> </p><p>The budget figureis based on an initial assessment of operational and business needs and may vary within the financial period. The costs associated with high-risk offenders fall within a number of budget items and do not constitute a separate category.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL117 question first answered 18/06/2014 17:07:49 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

60530

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the event of a rise in the anticipated costs of community rehabilitation companies emerging from the bidding process, the Secretary of State will delay the process; and, if so, what estimated impact on the National Probation Service would trigger such a decision.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Transforming Rehabilitation Programme is opening up the market to a diverse range of new providers, so that we can harness the best that the private and voluntary sectors has to offer to reduce reoffending. We are on track to award and mobilise Payment by Results (PbR) contracts for offender rehabilitation services across England and Wales by 2015. Bids to run the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) have yet to be submitted, but are expected by the end of June 2014. We currently have strong, competitive bidder interest across all Contract Package Areas, and we do not expect rising costs to be an issue.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 18/06/2014 15:11:31 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

60532

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Economic Situation
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 time taken for the United Kingdom economy to return to recovery in comparison to other leading countries; and what they consider to be the reasons for the differences in those timescales.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>UK GDP fell 7.2% between the first quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009. Of the G7 economies Japan was the only one that had a deeper recession, and the depth of UK recession was almost twice that of the US.</p><p>Thanks to the government's long term economic plan, since the trough of the recession the UK has grown faster than France, Italy, Spain and the euro area as a whole. In the year to the first quarter of 2014 the UK grew faster than any other G7 economy, the deficit has fallen by over a third as a share of GDP since 2009-10 and there are more people in work than ever before. But the job is not yet done and the biggest risk now to the recovery would be abandoning the plan that is delivering a brighter economic future.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 17/06/2014 15:41:06 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

60535

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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	Sudan: South Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Liberation and Justice Movement in Sudan has been involved in South Sudan; and if so in what capacity and on what side.
tabling member printed	Lord Ashcroft
uin	HL124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>We are not aware of any reports that suggest that the Liberation and Justice Movement in Sudan has been involved in the conflict in South Sudan.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 17/06/2014 14:50:08 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	2568 label Biography information for Lord Ashcroft

60536

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Medals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any gallantry awards other than the Victoria Cross and the George Cross can be awarded posthumously.
tabling member printed	Lord Ashcroft
uin	HL125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>All military and civilian gallantry awards may be awarded posthumously.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 16/06/2014 17:04:08 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	2568 label Biography information for Lord Ashcroft

60537

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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	Diego Garcia
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 Warsi on 25 April 2013 (WA 447– 48), with regard to the use of Diego Garcia for rendition flights, what is the latest situation in relation to such flights.
tabling member printed	Lord Ashcroft
uin	HL126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Aside from the two cases of rendition through Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory) in 2002, there have been no other instances in which US intelligence flights landed in the UK, our overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies, with a detainee on board since 11 September 2001.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 17/06/2014 14:49:43 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	2568 label Biography information for Lord Ashcroft

60540

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Thameslink Line: Rolling Stock
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 13 May (WA 493), what is the amount of the annual charge used to calculate the net presentvalue of the Thameslink rolling stock project and the number of diagrammed multiple units and diagrammed vehicles to be provided.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The aggregate net present value for the supply and maintenance of the new Thameslink trains (including the provision of depots) is £2.8 billion in 2014 prices. Cross London Trains Ltd will lease 1140 vehicles as 115 trains, consisting of 55 12-car units and 60 8-car units, to the Thameslink operator to support an assumption of 109 diagrams. The final number of diagrams to be operated will be determined through the planning process for the December 2018 timetable.</p><p> </p><p /><p /> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 18/06/2014 13:06:13 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

60541

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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	Sudan
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 Sudan regarding the arrest of the National Umma Party leader al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Minister for Africa, my Hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Mr Simmonds), wrote to Professor Ibrahim Ghandour, adviser to the Sudanese President, urging al-Sadiq al-Mahdi's release. The Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development, my Hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Ms Featherstone), also raised this issue with the Foreign Minister of Sudan on 20 May. Following the arrest, the British Embassy in Khartoum issued a statement expressing our concerns and highlighting that such actions undermine the President of Sudan's initiative for a National Dialogue. We have made clear that the process for National Dialogue needs to be inclusive and this can only be achieved if senior political and community figures are able to speak freely.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 17/06/2014 14:48:45 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

60542

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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	Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what efforts they have made to support press freedoms in Sudan; and what role they consider such freedoms can play in the promotion of the National Dialogue process.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Freedom of expression and an independent media are vital components of a genuinely open and transparent National Dialogue process. Our Embassy in Khartoum regularly raises this in discussions with the Sudanese Authorities, and jointly with the British Council is funding the Thompson Foundation programme to build capacity for Sudanese journalism. Examples include media training and a sponsored visit to London by Sudanese newspaper editors. During his visit to Sudan in January the Minister for Africa, my Hon Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Mr Simmonds), met Sudanese journalists and editors and stressed to senior members of the Sudanese government the importance of open democratic space and respect for fundamental freedoms.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 17/06/2014 14:48:05 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool