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1189707

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date	21/04/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Floods: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what arrangements they have made to assist people whose houses were damaged by recent flooding and are now required to remain in those houses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and what further steps they intend to take to mitigate any future difficulties experienced by such people.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL3225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>To assist households impacted by the February severe weather incidents, the Government activated the Flood Recovery Framework, a comprehensive package of support measures to support local recovery.</p><p>This package includes the Community Recovery Grant, a one-off £500 hardship grant, available to eligible flooded households. Those households are also able to receive a 100% Council Tax rebate (for a minimum of three months); rebates will apply to the flooded property and any temporary accommodation those households are required to move into. In addition, the DEFRA sponsored Property Flood Resilience scheme makes available grants of up to £5,000 to eligible flooded households to improve the resilience of those properties against future flooding incidents.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 05/05/2020 15:18:32 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

1189708

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
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	Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the names of the members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies that have been providing them with advice on the COVID-19 pandemic; whether they intend to publish the minutes of the meetings of that Group since 14 January; and if so, where they intend to publish those minutes.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL3226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>SAGE is not a membership body. HMG has not published the names of SAGE participants in line with advice from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure and standard procedure for COBR meetings, to which SAGE gives advice.</p><p>HMG will be publishing the names of those participants, who give their consent to this, in the coming days. This will allow for transparency on who is contributing to the science advice being given to the Government.</p><p>In line with its usual approach, HMG will publish the minutes of relevant SAGE meetings once SAGE stops convening on this emergency. In addition, the evidence which has been used to inform SAGE advice will be published in the coming weeks where appropriate. Papers relating to SAGE will be published on the Gov.uk website.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 05/05/2020 16:05:27 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

1183483

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	M5
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to develop the M5 as a growth corridor; and whether they have asked the National Infrastructure Commission to consider such a proposal.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL2386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p>Government has no plans at present to develop the M5 as a growth corridor. However, this strategic corridor is important for the economies of the Midlands Engine and the Western Gateway.</p><p>We have supported growth through a number of key projects which include: the recent announcement of £219million Housing Infrastructure Fund to improve Junction 10 in Gloucestershire; £12.19million Local Growth Funding to improve the junction 25 at Taunton; and also the creation of 2 Enterprise Zones, Gravity at junction 23 near Bridgwater and at the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone at junction 29.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 23/03/2020 16:30:45 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

980172

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Intercountry Adoption
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 Agnew of Oulton on 7 February (HL5080), which local authorities in England have given a clear commitment to amend the Schools Admission Code to give children adopted from overseas the same entitlement for priority school admission as those adopted from care in England, as set out in the letter from the Minister for School Standards; and in which local authorities this is now the practice.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>In December of last year the department announced that when the opportunity arises, we intend to amend the School Admissions Code to require admission authorities to give children adopted from state care outside of England, highest priority for admission into school.</p><p> </p><p>Any changes to the School Admissions Code will require a full statutory process, including a public consultation and parliamentary scrutiny. They must be considered in the context of competing pressures on the parliamentary timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Until such time as we are able to make the relevant changes to the Code, we have asked admission authorities to use their current flexibilities in setting their own admission arrangements, to grant internationally adopted children second highest admissions priority in their oversubscription criteria.</p><p> </p><p>School admission arrangements are agreed locally and we do not collect information on them. Consequently, the information requested on which admission authorities have adopted these changes, is not held centrally and we have not made an assessment of the changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL10442 HL10443 question first answered 12/10/2018 13:17:54 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

980173

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Intercountry Adoption
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will provide a detailed timetable for the legislative changes required to amend the School Admission Code in respect of children adopted from care overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL10442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>In December of last year the department announced that when the opportunity arises, we intend to amend the School Admissions Code to require admission authorities to give children adopted from state care outside of England, highest priority for admission into school.</p><p> </p><p>Any changes to the School Admissions Code will require a full statutory process, including a public consultation and parliamentary scrutiny. They must be considered in the context of competing pressures on the parliamentary timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Until such time as we are able to make the relevant changes to the Code, we have asked admission authorities to use their current flexibilities in setting their own admission arrangements, to grant internationally adopted children second highest admissions priority in their oversubscription criteria.</p><p> </p><p>School admission arrangements are agreed locally and we do not collect information on them. Consequently, the information requested on which admission authorities have adopted these changes, is not held centrally and we have not made an assessment of the changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL10441 HL10443 question first answered 12/10/2018 13:17:54 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

980174

registered interest
date	01/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Intercountry Adoption
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any changes by Westminster local authority to its School Admission Code in respect of children adopted from care overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL10443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>In December of last year the department announced that when the opportunity arises, we intend to amend the School Admissions Code to require admission authorities to give children adopted from state care outside of England, highest priority for admission into school.</p><p> </p><p>Any changes to the School Admissions Code will require a full statutory process, including a public consultation and parliamentary scrutiny. They must be considered in the context of competing pressures on the parliamentary timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Until such time as we are able to make the relevant changes to the Code, we have asked admission authorities to use their current flexibilities in setting their own admission arrangements, to grant internationally adopted children second highest admissions priority in their oversubscription criteria.</p><p> </p><p>School admission arrangements are agreed locally and we do not collect information on them. Consequently, the information requested on which admission authorities have adopted these changes, is not held centrally and we have not made an assessment of the changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL10441 HL10442 question first answered 12/10/2018 13:17:54 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

873048

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Social Media: Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have held in the last year with Facebook and other social media companies about online grooming of children; and with what outcomes.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL6727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has been working closely with tech companies and tackling online grooming as a form of child sexual exploitation is a priority for the Home Secretary.</p><p> </p><p>To address the progress of what social media companies are doing about online grooming, the Home Secretary visited the US in February 2018 and November 2017 and met with social media companies to discuss what they are doing to prevent child sexual abuse material on their platforms.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Facebook are a member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance Board. The Board meets bi-annually, and most recently launched the Global Threat Assessment on 14<sup>th</sup> February 2018, highlighting the changing nature of the online threat to children.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/04/2018 14:54:10 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

712597

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	PAYE
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the average per capita annual PAYE receipts in each of the last five years, broken down by electoral division in the 23 June 2016 referendum.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>Analysis of income tax liabilities by region is published in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) statistics table 3.15 – “Income and tax by Parliamentary Constituency”, which is available on the gov.uk website[i].</p><p> </p><p>This liabilities table relates to income tax whether collected through PAYE or another mechanism (such as Self-Assessment). Furthermore, the liabilities table excludes Class 1 National Insurance Contributions which are collected through PAYE.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold information on all PAYE receipts broken down by parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-and-tax-by-parliamentary-constituency-2010-to-2011</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/04/2017 14:57:45 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name table3-15final.pdf title Table 3.15
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman