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1028340

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Abingdon Green
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether the House Authorities were consulted on the decision to close College Green to the public; and whether broadcasters using the Green pay the House.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2019 answer text <p>Yes, Black Rod was consulted on the closure of College Green. The Green is owned by the House of Commons but day to day access is delegated by the Clerk of the House to Black Rod. Current policy is to allow public access to the Green to enable the public to pass through on the paths or to use it as a recreational space. It is also longstanding policy also to allow the media to use the Green for the contemporaneous news reporting of events within Parliament. Broadcasters are not charged to use the Green as is it considered to be in Parliament’s and the national interest that they should be facilitated to report on Parliament. As the Green is owned by the House of Commons, the question of charging would be a matter for them, not the House of Lords.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 03/01/2019 14:05:35 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1025364

registered interest
date	14/12/2018
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	NHS: Negligence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 13 December (HL12091), how much of their total spend on clinical negligence legal defence costs in (1) 2016–17, and (2) 2017–18, was used for (a) NHS Resolution services, and (b) external solicitors including disbursements.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS Resolution has advised that the figures provided for legal defence costs in my Written Answer of 13 December were for external solicitors including disbursements.</p><p>NHS Resolution has provided the following table which shows its own administration costs for dealing with clinical negligence claims in 2016/17 and 2017/18.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Admin Costs £000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>11,634</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>9,982</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 20/12/2018 12:38:26 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1024861

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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	NHS: Negligence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken forward planning or modelling to estimate the cost of clinical negligence claims in the period to 2020–21.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service organisations and independent sector providers of NHS care in England.</p><p>NHS Resolution annually reviews and updates five-year forecasts for the cost of clinical negligence following an actuarial review of activity and key assumptions that underpin those costs, e.g. claims inflation, claims volumes. These key assumptions are published in the organisation’s Annual Report and Accounts. Clinical negligence costs relate to four indemnity schemes operated by NHS Resolution: Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST), which covers NHS providers of secondary health care, and the Existing Liabilities, Ex-Regional Health Authorities, and the Department of Health and Social Care’s Clinical schemes, all of which relate to legacy organisations.</p><p>The cost of clinical negligence claims covered by the figures in this response are damages, claimant legal costs, defence legal costs, and NHS Resolution’s administration costs. The costs reported here do not include costs incurred locally by NHS providers in dealing with claims, such as their own administration costs.</p><p>NHS Resolution’s Statement of Net Expenditure estimates costs of clinical negligence at £11.7 billion in its 2020-21 accounts. This the total of the two dimensions in relation to “costs” in the context of Government budgeting:</p><p>- Department Expenditure Limit costs – these are the costs of settling claims during the financial year and the administration of those claims. This is estimated to be £2.6 billion for 2020-21; and</p><p>- Annually Managed Expenditure costs – this is the change in the value of the liability arising from clinical negligence claims, both from those that have been received, and those that are expected to be received in relation to incidents up to 31 March 2021. This is estimated to be £9.1 billion for 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>The costs for 2020-21 have been estimated on the basis of the current personal injury discount rate of minus 0.75%. However, once the Civil Liability Bill becomes law, the Lord Chancellor is expected to review the rate promptly. The figures provided here may therefore, change as a result. NHS Resolution will also review its five-year forecasts again following the production of its 2018-19 Annual Report and Accounts, and any changes in the underpinning actuarial assumptions are likely to result in revised projections. The figures quoted should therefore be considered as broad estimates based on the latest available information and subject to change in the future.</p><p>Notes:</p><p>The Department Expenditure Limit costs are lower than the £3.2 billion costs for CNST only reported by the National Audit Office in their report <em>Managing the costs of clinical negligence in trusts</em>, published in September 2017. The £3.2 billion represents the 2016 forecast for CNST based on a personal injury discount rate of 2.5%. Actuarial reviews of assumptions undertaken by NHS Resolution in 2017 and 2018 have resulted in favourable movements in key assumptions.</p><p>The figures provided do not include claims brought against general practitioners, who are covered by separate indemnity arrangements through medical defence organisations and for which data is not centrally available.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 20/12/2018 12:30:07 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1024862

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Speeches
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the protocols governing the redaction of parts of ministerial speeches that appear on Government departments' websites.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Individual government organisations publish speeches to GOV.UK. The Government Digital Service, part of Cabinet Office provides guidance on how speeches should be presented. This guidance is published in content design guidance on GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/content-types#speech). GOV.UK supports both ‘draft text’ and ‘speaking notes’, neither of which are verbatim records of ministerial speeches.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/12/2018 14:35:00 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1023641

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Regional School Commissioners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to make the work of Regional School Commissioners open to the public.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The work of Regional School Commissioners (RSCs) is open to the public.</p><p> </p><p>The RSCs decision-making framework, attached, is published online and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/577885/RSC_decision_making_framework_December_2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/577885/RSC_decision_making_framework_December_2016.pdf</a>.</p><p>This framework describes their roles, responsibilities and parameters<em>.</em> It clarifies the core functions of RSCs and gives further detail on the decisions they might take in different scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>All decisions made by RSCs are made on the advice (and challenge) of headteacher boards (HTBs) at regular monthly meetings. During each HTB meeting, a meeting note of all the decisions is taken and later published on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>Following my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State’s undertaking at the last National Association of Head Teachers conference in May 2018, the Department for Education has implemented a number of HTB transparency measures. These measures include a restructuring of the HTB information content on GOV.UK so that information about these boards is more accessible and easier to find. This can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/headteacher-boards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/headteacher-boards</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also published a schedule of future HTB meeting dates and it is publishing draft agendas of these meetings. This will ensure that members of the public know in advance, when and what will be discussed at HTB meetings.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also published blank HTB meeting preparation templates. These give members of the public an idea of the types of data and information that feed into the decisions that RSCs make.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 18/12/2018 17:15:17 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL12196_RSC_decision_making_framework_December_2016.pdf title HL12196_RSC_decision_making_framework
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1023642

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they give to "orphan" schools, pending their adoption by another academy sponsor; and how many of those schools are currently awaiting adoption.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>When an academy transfers from one trust to another, it will receive support from either the preferred incoming trust or, where a new sponsor has yet to be identified, another expert provider. Regional Schools Commissioners are responsible for brokering this support, which could come from, for example, a teaching school or a National Leader of Education. Alongside this, grant funding may be available to support the transfer</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 19/12/2018 12:47:25 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1023643

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many multi academy trusts have been obliged to give up some or all of their schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>In the financial year 2017-18, 255 academies moved trust. Of these, 62 (24%) were due to intervention.</p><p>A trust transfer may be initiated by the department because of concerns about the academy or the academy trust responsible for it, for example: performance, finance, leadership and governance or safeguarding.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 19/12/2018 12:47:39 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1023644

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the difference in their definition of (1) a Free School, and (2) an Academy School.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>An academy is a school or educational institution run by an academy trust that has a funding agreement with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. They are established and run in accordance with the Academies Act 2010. All free schools are academies.</p><p> </p><p>All free schools are new institutions. In 2010, the government established the free schools programme where proposers apply directly to the department to open a new academy known as a free school. In addition, Section 6A of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 requires that, where a local authority thinks there is a need for a new school in its area, it must seek proposals to establish an academy. Since 2015, schools opening through this process have also been called free schools.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 19/12/2018 12:49:04 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1023646

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to provide extra funding for schools to assist with the increase in the Teachers' Pension Scheme contribution rate to 23.6 per cent from September 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The department intends to fund state-funded schools, Independent Special Schools and Non-maintained Special Schools for the additional costs associated with changes to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for financial year 2019-20, and will be consulting to understand the effects on other sectors. Funding from 2020-21 onwards will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 20/12/2018 17:08:20 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1020566

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
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	NHS: Negligence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of clinical negligence cases result in a legal action being (1) issued, and (2) decided by the courts; and, in the cases decided by a court, in what proportion the claimant fully, or partially, succeeds.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL12113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service organisations and independent sector providers of NHS care in England.</p><p>NHS Resolution has provided the following information which is based on information for clinical negligence cases resolved in 2017-18.</p><p>Of the 11,896 clinical negligence cases that were resolved in 2017-18:</p><p> </p><p>- 3,845 (32.4%) had proceedings issued;</p><p>- 76 of the 3,845 cases went to trial (representing around 2% of those clinical negligence cases where proceedings had been issued); and</p><p>- 28 of the 76 cases that went to trial in 2017-18 resulted in the claimant being successful (i.e. the claimant was awarded damages in 37% of cases).</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Proceedings may need to be issued in claims where there are no substantive issues in dispute but the court’s approval of the settlement is required (for cases where the claimant lacks capacity – e.g. minors).</p><p>- A claim is defined as successful where the claimant is awarded damages.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Resolution is unable to report on whether or not a claimant is partially successful – a claim is either successful or not. It should be noted that, in most cases, the claimant does not receive everything that was claimed for given the nature of clinical negligence litigation. The extent to which the final award is a departure from what was claimed for depends on an array of factors that impact on each party’s view of the risks inherent in pursuing the issue(s) to trial.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 19/12/2018 12:41:27 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey