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157069

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date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the average fine levied by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last five years in (1) the United Kingdom, and (2) each region of the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL3014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Gangmasters Licensing Authority, which operates in accordance with the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004, has no legal power to impose fines. That power rests with the courts.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL3015 HL3016 question first answered 27/11/2014 12:55:55 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

157070

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total amount of fines levied by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL3015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Gangmasters Licensing Authority, which operates in accordance with the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004, has no legal power to impose fines. That power rests with the courts.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL3014 HL3016 question first answered 27/11/2014 12:55:55 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

157071

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many fines were levied by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority in each of the last five years in (1) the United Kingdom, and (2) each region of the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL3016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Gangmasters Licensing Authority, which operates in accordance with the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004, has no legal power to impose fines. That power rests with the courts.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL3014 HL3015 question first answered 27/11/2014 12:55:54 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

156556

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Health Services: Overseas Aid
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 Northover on 21 October (HL2052), what proportion of spending on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria can be qualified as supporting research and development for new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The estimated proportion of spend in the 2012/13 financial year, which is the most recent year for which we have figures, is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><strong>Research as a % of bilateral plus Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria spend</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Malaria</strong></td><td>8%</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TB</strong></td><td>4%</td></tr><tr><td><strong>HIV</strong></td><td>3%</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 02/12/2014 15:10:13 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

156557

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	West Africa: Ebola
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which United Kingdom non-governmental organisations the Department for International Development has supported in response to the ebola epidemic; and how much money has been given to each of those organisations.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK is leading the international response to Ebola in Sierra Leone, and we are working closely with a wide range of UK and International NGOs to contain and combat the outbreak. Given the shifting nature of the epidemic and the evolving international response, payments to NGOs are under constant review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To date, our support to UK NGOs includes disbursement of £13.5million to the British Red Cross; £5million to Save the Children; £3.6 million to World Vision; £2.1million to UK Med, £50,000 to Riders for Health and £52,000 to Map Action.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will make further disbursements to UK NGOs as needed throughout the Ebola crisis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 27/11/2014 17:56:33 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

156558

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Tuberculosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they are doing to support the development of a new tuberculosis treatment regimen.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government is a strong supporter of research to develop new tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimens and has funded the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) since 2005. The TB Alliance has three TB treatment regimens in late stage clinical development and will soon launch one of those into a registration study. In addition the TB Alliance is adapting existing regimens so that they can be used for children with TB.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 27/11/2014 14:44:30 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

100069

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	Eurasian Economic Union
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 likely political and economic impact of the Eurasian Economic Union being launched on 1 January 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK and EU continue to engage directly with the individual countries that form the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Not all members have devolved the relevant trade competences to the Union and not all are World Trade Organisation members. This creates incompatibilities in EU-EEU negotiations that can only be addressed with the individual EEU member states.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/11/2014 17:17:53 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

92812

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Non-governmental Organisations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which United Kingdom-based development and non-governmental organisations have received more than £1 million from the Department for International Development per year for each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Details of disbursements to UK based Civil Society Organisations (including Non-Governmental Organisations) made by the Department for International Development are available in tables that are too large in size to print in the Official Report. Details are made available online and will be placed in the Library of the House and provided to the Noble Baroness.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover attachment 1 file name 2012 2013.xlsx title Details of disbursements 2012 2013 2 file name 2011 2012.xls title Details of disbursements 2011 2012 3 file name 2010 2011.xlsx title Details of disbursements 2010 2011 question first answered 27/10/2014 17:56:40 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

92813

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the impact of the provision of housing on treatment completion for vulnerable populations in the United Kingdom suffering from (1) hepatitis B, and (2) hepatitis C.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England has not made any formal assessment of the impact of the provision of housing on treatment completion for vulnerable populations in the United Kingdom suffering from hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our estimates of the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B and C infection in the UK population are 180,000<sup>1</sup> and 214,000[2] respectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Studies of hepatitis B and C in the UK homeless population are limited but a recent survey of people who inject drugs found that those who had ever been homeless were more likely to have antibodies against hepatitis C (42%) than those that were in stable accommodation (34%)<sup>3</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]Department of Health. (2002a) Getting ahead of the curve: a strategy for combating infectious diseases (including other aspects of health protection). A report by the Chief Medical Officer.London</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2Hepatitis C in the UK, Annual Report 2014 Public Health England.</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337115/HCV_in_the_UK_2014_24_July.pdf</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>3Health Protection Agency, Health Protection Scotland, National Public Health Service for Wales, CDSC Northern Ireland, CRDHB. Shooting Up: Infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom 2008. London: Health Protection Agency, October 2009.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/10/2014 11:27:52 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

92814

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to implement a national outreach service for diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV and diabetes for areas with high health inequalities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department through NHS England has a legal duty to have regard to reducing health inequalities and this will be reflected in any assessment for the potential development of national services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Diagnosing, treating and preventing transmission of TB among under-served groups will prevent transmission of infection to the wider population and reduce health and social inequalities. Public Health England and NHS England will launch the Collaborative TB Strategy for England 2015-2020 this year. The strategy sets out the improvements that need to be achieved across 10 key evidence based areas of action to reduce TB in England, and the mechanisms by which these should be delivered. One of the key evidence based areas of action is to reduce incidence of TB in under-served populations by providing specific and targeted outreach interventions (informed by proven models such as “Find &amp; Treat” in London). These include specific services for active case finding for TB of the lungs among homeless people and those attending substance misuse services, use of mobile X-ray units (MXUs) with incentives for people to have chest X-rays, enhanced case management and return to service interventions to prevent loss to follow up.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>There are a number of actions being taken to improve access to HIV testing and reduce late diagnosis, especially in areas with high inequalities. These include the Terrence Higgins Trust to manage a national HIV Prevention Contract which the Department funds; information PHE publishes on rates of late HIV diagnoses by LA, socio-demography, and risk group; and joint PHE and DH approaches to increase HIV testing through funding a national home-sampling service that resulted in a large number of the most at-risk getting tested for HIV.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning diabetes services, so they would decide, depending on local needs and circumstances, whether an outreach service was appropriate. The NHS Health Check plays an important role in reducing the risk of diabetes and identifying people earlier who have the disease and plays a key role in tackling health inequalities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/10/2014 11:35:23 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie