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1041222

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date	14/01/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Voting Rights: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether Irish citizens’ will retain their right to vote in certain UK elections after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL12804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The rights of Irish citizens to vote in UK elections will remain unaffected after the UK leaves the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>The long standing eligibility of Irish citizens who are resident in the UK to register for and vote in elections in the UK is a result of the historical and close political ties between the two countries and is currently enshrined in the Representation of the People Act 1983. The reciprocal arrangement on voting rights between the United Kingdom and Ireland is entirely separate to membership of the European Union.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 22/01/2019 12:15:18 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

1041252

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to tackle the increase in demand for children's social care in (a) London and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	208300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>Across government, we are tackling the problems that cause children to be in need in the first place. This includes better supporting those with alcohol-dependent parents and the introduction of landmark legislation for those affected by domestic abuse, preventing young people being drawn into serious violence. The government have also provided unprecedented investment in early years education, support for children and young people’s mental health and the Troubled Families programme to achieve improvement for families with multiple, high-cost problems.</p><p>At Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor announced an extra £410 million to address pressures on adult and children social care services. This builds on the £200 billion government has already made available to councils up to 2020 to provide services in the best interests of local residents, including those for children and young people.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor also announced at Autumn Budget £84 million over 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families. This is in addition to the almost £270 million the Department for Education has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been over 25 programmes in local authorities in London and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/01/2019 16:57:30 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1041260

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help employers to ensure that apprenticeships provide an effective route into permanent employment for adults diagnosed with autism.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	208304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>We are improving access to apprenticeships for people with learning difficulties or disabilities. For example, we have introduced legislation which allows the minimum English and maths requirements for apprenticeships to be adjusted to entry level 3 for a defined group of people with a learning difficulty or disability. This change will allow more people to benefit from the opportunities available through apprenticeships and work.</p><p>Our Pacesetter project is working with local partners to test our policy approaches and deliver tangible progress towards growing numbers of apprentices with learning difficulties or disabilities. Pacesetters include councils, a school and the learning disability charity Mencap, who have themselves hired a number of apprentices with learning difficulties or disabilities.</p><p>The Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network has been developed to provide insight and guidance on best practice in how to make sure that apprenticeships are undertaken by people from a diverse range of backgrounds, and all members make a commitment themselves to increasing diversity when they join. The network aims to inspire and influence the behaviour of other employers to attract, recruit and support more people from underrepresented groups into apprenticeships. This includes people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBT+, women in science, technology, engineering and maths and members of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. For example, Health Education England, working with members including Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, have a supported apprenticeship scheme focussing particularly on learners with autism. The National Autistic Society has been invited to attend the network’s next meeting.</p><p>Our funding system is intended to encourage the take-up and likely completion of apprenticeships by particular groups, including people with learning difficulties or disabilities. The system is also intended to recognise where additional support is necessary, through extra funding where the costs of supporting an apprentice are higher, and making sure that these costs are met by government and not by the employer.</p><p>Our communications and guidance products aim to encourage employers to hire apprentices with a learning difficulty or disability and to demonstrate to people with learning difficulties or disabilities, such as autism, that apprenticeships are an option for them.</p><p>We have integrated the Department for Work and Pensions’ Disability Confident campaign into the apprenticeship recruitment service so that the Disability Confident logo is displayed on apprenticeship vacancies for campaign-registered employers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/01/2019 17:17:44 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1038903

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Port of Ramsgate: Dredging
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what level of subsidy they are providing, or plan to provide, towards the cost of dredging work in the harbour area of Ramsgate.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL12740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Infrastructure work is necessary to enable the port to resume Ro-Ro services. Thanet Council is in discussion with both the Department and Seaborne Freight to finalise the funding arrangements for the infrastructure works at the port, and vital dredging work has already started.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 22/01/2019 16:17:47 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1038947

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Prime Minister’s Office file PREM 19/3076, whether the UK is legally obliged to supply Saudi Arabia with aircraft parts under the Al Yamamah arms deal.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	207274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Al Yamamah programme concluded at the end of 2006 and HMG commitments under that agreement have been completed. Follow on in-service support for the Tornado and Hawk fleets is now undertaken through the Saudi British Defence Cooperation Programme.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 22/01/2019 11:44:43 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1038744

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	World Bank: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make any representations to the government of the United States about the appointment of a new President of the World Bank, following the resignation of the current President, Jim Yong Kim, three years before the end of his term, in view of calls for an open, transparent and merit-based process.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL12711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK strongly supports an open, transparent and merit-based process for selection of the next President of the World Bank Group. We will engage with all World Bank Group shareholders, including the United States, during this process.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/01/2019 17:38:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1037618

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Nurses: Apprentices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of apprentices training to become registered graduate nurses.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL12672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is fully committed to increasing the number of nursing apprenticeships. In support of this, we have developed a complete apprentice pathway from entry level nursing associate to postgraduate advanced clinical practice in nursing. This will support people from all backgrounds to enter a nursing career in the National Health Service.</p><p>In the 2017/18 academic year, there have been 300 apprenticeship starts recorded for the standard ‘registered nurse’ and 1,420 apprenticeship starts recorded for the standard ‘nursing associate’.</p><p>We are working closely with employers and Health Education England to make sure that the NHS is fully supported to recruit apprentices, both in nursing and in a range of other occupations and in doing so ensure the NHS has a workforce that is reflective of the population it serves.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 22/01/2019 16:02:39 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1037838

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Business Plans: Disasters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the level of support for customers who lost goods and possessions in the Shurgard fire in Croydon on New Year’s Eve, what assessment the Government has made of the adequacy of requirements on businesses to plan for major disasters and support affected customers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	206372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, contracts entered into by a trader and a consumer where a trader agrees to carry out a service, such as storing their goods, have to be carried out with reasonable care and skill. Traders are prohibited from including a term in the contract which limits its liability when carrying out that service.</p><p> </p><p>For free information and advice on their rights, consumers should contact the Citizens Advice consumer service on 03454 04 05 06 (www.citizensadvice.org/).</p><p> </p><p>Whilst we do not place any requirements on businesses to plan for emergencies, we do encourage businesses to be prepared and the Cabinet Office provides good practice guidance on the actions they can take on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-emergencies/preparing-for-emergencies</p><p>In addition, the Cabinet Office publishes the National Risk Register which contains further information and resources to help individuals, businesses and communities to plan for specific emergencies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-of-civil-emergencies-2017-edition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/01/2019 12:12:39 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1037948

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) initial conviction and (b) sentence or penalty was in the road traffic cases overturned under Section 142 of the Magistrates Court Act 1980 as a result of manipulation of forensic testing.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	206414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 206411 206412 question first answered 21/01/2019 18:22:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 94851 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1038015

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of the appeal procedure in 2018 against first-instance decisions was for (a) all nationalities, (b) Syrian appellants, (c) Afghan appellants and (d) Iraqi appellants.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	206300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The average clearance time, in weeks, from receipt to disposal of an appeal in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) between January and September 2018, the latest period for which data are available, was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>42 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Syrian nationals<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>38 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Afghan nationals<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>32 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iraqi nationals<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>22 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>These data are Management Information taken from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Listing and case management of appeals is a function of the independent judiciary and each appeal is dealt with based on its own individual facts .</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of issues that can influence overall case length and these include adjournments and postponements, evidential factors (which may vary according to the country to which the application relates), the ease of gathering evidence, time taken to obtain expert reports where required and availability of up to date country guidance where relevant.</p><p> </p><p>Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal more than halve from 64,800 to 31,500 between July 2016 and September 2018. The average duration has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 39 weeks in the period July to September 2018.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/01/2019 18:14:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas