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93699

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Romanians and Bulgarians have sought social security benefits that were inaccessible before 1 January 2014; and how many such nationals are currently in receipt of child benefit.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL2128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government does not record the nationality of the claimant receiving social security benefits including child benefit.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 20/10/2014 14:29:56 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

93425

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Government Departments: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) permanent, and (2) non-permanent, members of staff have been employed by the Northern Ireland Office since 1 January 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The figures for permanent and non-permanent staff employed by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) since 1 January 2014 are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Permanent Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Non-Permanent Staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>January 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>February 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>April 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>June 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>July 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>September 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These figures are for Home Civil Servants only who are employed directly to work in the core NIO. In addition, the NIO also has 51 members of staff who are employed by the Northern Ireland Civil Service but are seconded to the NIO.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 20/10/2014 11:28:56 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

93435

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nationality: Somalia
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 Taylor of Holbeach on 9 July (HL396), whether the new Somali constitution drafted in 2012 is now in force; and, if so, whether it contains an article prohibiting the withdrawal of citizenship if a Somali becomes a citizen of another country.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL2101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The question of whether the new Somali constitution, drafted in 2012, is now in force is subject to ongoing litigation proceedings. A hearing took place recently and a decision is awaited, which we expect will clarify the position.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/10/2014 14:26:08 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

92770

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they support the principles in the Luxembourg Rail Protocol; and when they will ratify it.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL2006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government supports the principles in the Luxembourg Rail Protocol which it believes would be advantageous to the UK and European rail industry, and will ratify the Protocol once the procedures around the European Union acceding to it have been concluded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 16/10/2014 14:21:05 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

92772

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Maryam Rajavi
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, following the United States removal of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) from the list of foreign terrorist organisations and a French court’s dismissal of terrorism and financial misconduct charges, they will lift the bar on Maryam Rajavi visiting the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL2008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office do not routinely comment on individual cases. The Home Office has obligations in law to protect this information. This case is also subject to ongoing legal proceedings.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/10/2014 14:27:02 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

92786

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) women, and (2) black and minority ethnic people, have been appointed to advertised posts for direct entry to senior ranks of the police service.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL2022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Of the 10 superintendents who are expected to begin their superintendent training next month four (40%) will be women and two (20%) will be from an ethnic minority background. This is significantly more representative than the current make up of the superintendent rank of which 24% are women and 4% are from an ethnic minority background.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/10/2014 10:42:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

92377

registered interest
date	06/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
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 impact of the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme on small and medium-sized biopharmaceutical enterprises.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) was agreed with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. It did not include the exemption from certain requirements for companies with health service sales of between £5 million and £25 million a year that were a feature of the 2009 PPRS. However companies with sales of health service medicines of less than £5 million a year (not counting global sales) are exempt from making any payments under the 2014 PPRS scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The PPRS benefits businesses making new medicines. A company that develops and brings a new medicine (new active substance) to the market from 1 January 2014, does not have to make PPRS payments to Government on the sales of these new medicines for the lifetime of the 2014 scheme. This particularly helps companies which only have new, innovative medicines in their portfolio.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to ensuring that the United Kingdom is a world leading place for life science research and investment through the Strategy for UK Life Sciences. The Department has assessed the impact of the PPRS and does not believe that there will be any significant impact on research and development investment in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1940 HL1941 question first answered 16/10/2014 14:45:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

92378

registered interest
date	06/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the protection afforded to small and medium-sized enterprises with sales between £5 million and £25 million under the previous Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme has not been carried forward into the new scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) was agreed with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. It did not include the exemption from certain requirements for companies with health service sales of between £5 million and £25 million a year that were a feature of the 2009 PPRS. However companies with sales of health service medicines of less than £5 million a year (not counting global sales) are exempt from making any payments under the 2014 PPRS scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The PPRS benefits businesses making new medicines. A company that develops and brings a new medicine (new active substance) to the market from 1 January 2014, does not have to make PPRS payments to Government on the sales of these new medicines for the lifetime of the 2014 scheme. This particularly helps companies which only have new, innovative medicines in their portfolio.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to ensuring that the United Kingdom is a world leading place for life science research and investment through the Strategy for UK Life Sciences. The Department has assessed the impact of the PPRS and does not believe that there will be any significant impact on research and development investment in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1939 HL1941 question first answered 16/10/2014 14:45:21 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

92379

registered interest
date	06/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme
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 impact of the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme on future research and development investment by small and medium-sized biopharmaceutical enterprises.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) was agreed with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. It did not include the exemption from certain requirements for companies with health service sales of between £5 million and £25 million a year that were a feature of the 2009 PPRS. However companies with sales of health service medicines of less than £5 million a year (not counting global sales) are exempt from making any payments under the 2014 PPRS scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The PPRS benefits businesses making new medicines. A company that develops and brings a new medicine (new active substance) to the market from 1 January 2014, does not have to make PPRS payments to Government on the sales of these new medicines for the lifetime of the 2014 scheme. This particularly helps companies which only have new, innovative medicines in their portfolio.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to ensuring that the United Kingdom is a world leading place for life science research and investment through the Strategy for UK Life Sciences. The Department has assessed the impact of the PPRS and does not believe that there will be any significant impact on research and development investment in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1939 HL1940 question first answered 16/10/2014 14:45:21 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

92380

registered interest
date	06/10/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government in how many cases customer complaints regarding the application and assessment process of the Access to Work scheme have led to reconsideration of the decision made.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Access to Work does not publish data on Service delivery performance as such data is collated for Management information only and therefore not subject to the assurance required to share with stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>No formal assessment of awareness has taken place but all Jobcentre Plus staff learn about the Access to Work programme as part of their extensive training. In addition, all relevant sections of DWP guidance signpost staff to additional information about Access to Work. Access to Work staff also deliver either face to face or telephone based learning sessions for Jobcentre Plus colleagues on request.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work aims to make the application process accessible to all service users. Officials are currently engaging with Deaf users, disabled people's organisations and other experts to ensure that Access to Work has the best possible customer service so that we can help as many Deaf, and other disabled, people to fulfill their potential in the workplace as possible.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1943 HL1944 question first answered 20/10/2014 13:15:08 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath