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164220

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Quality Commission
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment has been made by the Care Quality Commission of proposals in the Deregulation Bill to create a statutory duty for the Commission to consider economic growth when carrying out their functions.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL3050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects health and adult social care services in order to ensure they provide people with safe, compassionate, high quality care. The effect of the Deregulation Bill is that regulators, including the CQC, will have regard to economic growth and ensure regulatory action is necessary and proportionate. CQC, as an arms-length body of the Department, is able to brief Parliamentarians on how it carries out its functions, including the new duty to have regard to economic growth.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3051 HL3052 question first answered 03/12/2014 15:54:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

164221

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Quality Commission
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will instruct the Care Quality Commission to brief parliamentarians on the impact of proposals in the Deregulation Bill to create a statutory duty for the Commission to consider economic growth when carrying out their functions.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL3051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects health and adult social care services in order to ensure they provide people with safe, compassionate, high quality care. The effect of the Deregulation Bill is that regulators, including the CQC, will have regard to economic growth and ensure regulatory action is necessary and proportionate. CQC, as an arms-length body of the Department, is able to brief Parliamentarians on how it carries out its functions, including the new duty to have regard to economic growth.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3050 HL3052 question first answered 03/12/2014 15:54:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

164222

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Quality Commission
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they will ensure that proposals in the Deregulation Bill to create a statutory duty on the Care Quality Commission to consider economic growth when carrying out its functions will not impact on the protection of the public.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL3052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects health and adult social care services in order to ensure they provide people with safe, compassionate, high quality care. The effect of the Deregulation Bill is that regulators, including the CQC, will have regard to economic growth and ensure regulatory action is necessary and proportionate. CQC, as an arms-length body of the Department, is able to brief Parliamentarians on how it carries out its functions, including the new duty to have regard to economic growth.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3050 HL3051 question first answered 03/12/2014 15:54:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

164224

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Rare Diseases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with NHS England about improving the process involved in assessing medicines used for treating rare diseases as described in the recent Genetics Alliance UK Patient Charter <i>Patients and Priorities of NHS England's commissioning of medicines for rare diseases</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
uin	HL3054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is considering the recommendations in the Patient Charter which was published by Genetic Alliance UK on 21 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with stakeholders to review the process through which it develops commissioning policies. NHS England is also considering whether it may be appropriate to reduce the usual 12-week consultation period where a technology affects a very small number of patients who have been actively engaged in developing a commissioning policy and whose views have been taken into account during that development.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 04/12/2014 12:16:24 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

164233

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Counterfeit Manufacturing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to stop the sale of counterfeit goods online in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL3063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>This Government takes Intellectual property (IP) crime very seriously and is working closely with law enforcers and rights holders to tackle criminality, including the sale of counterfeit goods online. We recently announced an additional £3 million investment in the police IP crime unit (PIPCU), securing its future until 2017. PIPCU is an operationally independent law enforcement unit dedicated to tackling serious and organized IP crime affecting physical and digital goods.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Intellectual Property Office continues its coordinating role to ensure that industry, Government and law enforcement share intelligence, and that collaborative operations result in arrests. All this activity is supported by a range of education programmes and a government/private industry partnership to provide IP training to enforcement officers and brand representatives to help them tackle issues arising from counterfeit products.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2014 16:03:29 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

164234

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: ICT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they are making to the financial services industry to ensure that the information technology infrastructure is fit for purpose.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL3064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p><strong>Responsibility for information technology infrastructure in the UK finance sector is primarily for the firms themselves. The Financial Authorities have a role to play in supporting, coordinating and driving change to improve the operational resilience of the sector.</strong><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>In addition to on-going supervisory oversight of technology risk within firms by the Authorities, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) jointly launched, in October 2014, a review of firms’ critical infrastructure and technology resilience. The review </strong><strong>focuses on the most significant UK retail deposit-taking organisations and is expected to conclude in mid-2015.</strong> <strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 05/12/2014 14:59:57 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

164238

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 20 November (HL Deb, col GC 231), which and how many businesses lobbied them to repeal restrictions on the sale of liqueur confectionary to children under the age of 16, and when such discussions took place.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL3068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government was not lobbied for the repeal of age-restricted sales of liqueur confectionery to children. The proposal to repeal the offence of selling liqueur confectionery to those under 16 years of age was developed following the Red Tape Challenge consultation which was led jointly by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office. A simplification of age-restricted sales was identified as a strong theme amongst responses, however no responses</p><p>specifically asked for this repeal. This repeal was developed as one of a number of proposals in the Deregulation Bill aimed at simplifying legislation related to age-restricted sales.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/12/2014 15:23:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

164239

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the arguments advanced by industry interests for the repeal of restrictions on the sale of liqueur confectionary to children under the age of 16; and what benefits they foresee will accrue for children from taking such actions.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL3069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The proposal to repeal the offence of selling liqueur confectionery to those under the age of 16 was developed following the Government’s consultation on the Red Tape Challenge.</p><p>Under the ‘Dangerous and restricted goods’ strand of the Retail Theme respondents were asked to comment on possible areas of deregulation in 24 separate acts, of which the Licensing Act 2003 was one. The desire for a simplification of age restricted sales was identified as a strong theme amongst responses, though the proposal to deregulate the sale of liqueur confectionery was not specifically referenced in the consultation. Retailers currently have to comply with a variety of regulations across a range of age-restricted products, and this proposal is one of a number of proposals in the Deregulation Bill aimed at simplifying legislation related to age-restricted sales.</p><p>The purpose of this repeal is to remove unnecessary burdens from businesses. There is no evidence to suggest that children consume liqueur confectionery for the purposes of intoxication and we do not expect this to change as a result of this repeal.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/12/2014 15:26:32 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

164240

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why clause 55 of the Deregulation Bill was not subject to or part of the public consultation on the Bill as reported by the Cabinet Office in its published guide to the Bill.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL3070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published a guide titled ‘Policy Guide to the Deregulation Bill’. The document states that the proposal to repeal the offence of selling liqueur confectionery to those under the age of 16 was not part of the Government’s public consultation on the Alcohol Strategy which took place from November 2012 to February 2013.</p><p>The proposal to repeal the offence of selling liqueur confectionery to those under the age of 16 was developed following the Government’s consultation on the Red Tape Challenge. The method of crowd sourcing was used to generate the Red Tape Challenge proposals; this involved a public consultation led jointly by the department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office, to ask businesses and members of the public for their views on deregulating in a wide range of areas of regulated activity.</p><p>Under the ‘Dangerous and restricted goods’ strand of the Retail Theme respondents were asked to comment on possible areas of deregulation in 24 separate acts, including the Licensing Act 2003. Whilst the policy proposal to deregulate the sale of liqueur confectionery was not specifically referenced in the consultation, the deregulation of age-restricted items was identified as a strong theme.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 01/12/2014 12:44:12 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

164241

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will hold a public consultation on clause 55 of the Deregulation Bill and also publish the views on it of the Chief Medical Officer, Public Health England, the British Medical Association and the Children's Commissioner for England and Wales.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL3071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government maintains a close dialogue with a range of stakeholders on a range of alcohol issues. We have not received direct representations from the Chief Medical Officer, Public Health England, the British Medical Association and the Children’s Commissioner for England and Wales on the issue of liqueur confectionery. We welcome input from all interested stakeholders on an ongoing basis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 01/12/2014 12:44:45 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe