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1355137

registered interest
date	13/09/2021
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Facilities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker why House of Commons staff are able to bring guests into House of Lords facilities while Members of the House of Lords are currently not allowed to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2021 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chair of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf. Currently access for non-passholders is limited to one guest per member or full staff passholder and those guests must have a business need. This is the same in both the House of Commons and House of Lords. Committees can bring in non-passholders as required. Catering venues in the Lords are applying usual access arrangements within the limits of these restrictions.</p> answering member printed Lord Touhig question first answered 17/09/2021 13:36:29 answering member 542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1354429

registered interest
date	09/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether consideration of summer term born children was a factor used in the GCSE and A Level teacher-assessed examinations.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2021 answer text <p>This year, pupils and students were awarded grades determined by their teachers. Teacher assessed grades allowed results to be based on the knowledge students acquired as a result of what they had been taught, recognising the variability in teaching that some young people experienced.</p><p>As is the case in years in which exams have gone ahead, students’ grades this year were not adjusted to take account of their birthday.</p><p>Awarding organisations provided assessment materials, guidance, and training to support centres to make fair, consistent, and evidence-based decisions which are without bias. Ofqual also published information for centres about making objective judgements this year, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-for-centres-about-making-objective-judgements" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-for-centres-about-making-objective-judgements</a>. Centres set out how they would ensure objectivity in their centre policies, which were then reviewed by exam boards. Schools, colleges, and exam boards also undertook internal and external checks to help maximise fairness for students, no matter their background.</p><p>Where students required reasonable adjustments and access arrangements, these should also have been in place when evidence was generated. Where they were not, centres should have taken that into account when coming to their judgement.</p><p>Teachers, schools and colleges did an excellent job in using their collective experience to assess students in 2021. These grades reflect students’ hard work in a hugely challenging year.</p><p>Whatever month of the year a child is born, schools are dedicated to providing for the needs of each child to help prepare them for a successful education. Teachers understand that children have different starting points when beginning school and are trained to adapt their teaching to suit an individual child’s strengths and needs and provide extra support where necessary. Despite this, no child is required to start school until they reach compulsory school age, which for a summer born child is a full academic year after they could first have been admitted to school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 24/09/2021 11:19:08 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1353648

registered interest
date	07/09/2021
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	Anti-social Behaviour: Young People
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 use of Mosquito devices that emit high level sounds to deter loitering in public places, particularly those where young people gather.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2021 answer text <p>Acoustic anti-loitering devices commonly known as Mosquito devices are widely available for purchase and use in commercial, domestic and public settings as a means of preventing potential anti-social behaviour.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 21/09/2021 15:41:21 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1353649

registered interest
date	07/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many students have been paid to defer their university course for 12 months; and what the total amount of money spent is.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>Throughout this year’s admissions cycle, we have encouraged providers to do everything they can to enable students who wish to enter higher education this year to do so. In a small number of cases, providers have seen more students meet the terms of their offers than they have capacity to accommodate, and these providers have agreed alternatives with these students, which may include a place on another course or an incentivised deferral. We do not record the number of students who have accepted incentivised deferrals at providers: this is a private arrangement between the provider and the individual student. In any year, some students choose to defer for a number of reasons.</p><p>The latest data for the admissions cycle (as at 28 days after A level results day) show that the total number of English students accepted has increased compared with 2020 and 2019, with both deferrals and non-deferrals increasing. The proportion of successful English applicants deferring this year is 0.7 percentage points greater than in 2019.</p><p>No funding has been provided by the government for incentivised deferrals. Rather, we have provided funding to increase capacity so that more students can take up their places this year, making available up to £10 million in additional grant funding to higher education providers through the Office for Students to help them to increase capacity in medical, dental, nursing, science, technology, engineering, maths, and other high-cost subjects. The government has also provided funding to provide incentives to students to switch from oversubscribed providers to providers with capacity in medicine and dentistry.</p><p>Alongside this, we have worked with universities, Health Education England, the Medical Schools Council and the General Medical Council to assess and agree how many additional places on medical and dentistry courses could be provided. Students who held a firm or insurance offer at an oversubscribed medical or dental school were contacted by their current university about a £10,000 incentive to change schools under the 2021 Medical School Student Incentivised Transfer Scheme. Students were given the opportunity to transfer to an alternative university which has space and to receive a financial incentive to do so. Participation in the scheme was entirely optional. This has supported more than 80 students to move from oversubscribed medical and dental schools to those which had additional capacity.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 22/09/2021 11:31:57 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1353650

registered interest
date	07/09/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Plagiarism
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 growth of essay mill companies during the COVID-19 pandemic; and whether this growth has caused an increase in students cheating.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>The government has consistently made it clear that using essay mill services is unacceptable. We have worked with the higher education sector to clamp down on essay mills and to support students who might be targeted by these services. We have also committed to supporting a legislative solution to criminalise essay mill companies.</p><p>Essay mills are online entities operating across the globe and it is difficult to determine exactly how many are currently in operation – the Office for Students (OfS) recently estimated this figure could be close to 1,000[1]. The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning and assessment appears to have led to a recent increase in the number of websites targeting their services at students in the UK.</p><p>We have challenged companies from the technology sector to identify how anti-cheating software can tackle the growth of essay mills, and we have worked alongside the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), Universities UK and the National Union of Students to produce guidance for providers on how to combat the threat of ‘contract cheating’ and guidance for students to make them better aware of the consequences of contract cheating, sending a clear message that these services are not legitimate.</p><p>The OfS has published information and guidance for providers and students, and the QAA has also published a series of guides to support providers to secure academic standards, and to support student achievement during the pandemic. This includes QAA guidance for providers on how to assess digital delivery with integrity.</p><p>We expect educational institutions to do everything in their power to prevent students being tempted by these companies and to detect and address cheating.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/blog/trouble-at-mill-protecting-students-from-contract-cheating/" target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/blog/trouble-at-mill-protecting-students-from-contract-cheating/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 22/09/2021 11:30:37 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1347053

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	District Councils: Liverpool
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Liverpool City Council: Best Value inspection report by Max Caller CBE, published on 24 March, which recommended that single-member district council wards be implemented in Liverpool for 2023, whether they intend to proceed with the district council elections in that city in 2022 with the existing ward arrangements.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>On 10 June, the Secretary of State announced via a Written Ministerial Statement his intention to make an Order using his powers in the Local Government Act 2000 providing for whole council elections from 2023. He confirmed that the Order would postpone for one year the May 2022 elections of one third of Liverpool City Councillors and their extend terms of office accordingly. The announcement can be viewed (attached) here:<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-statements%2Fdetail%2F2021-06-10%2Fhcws84&amp;data=04%7C01%7CGriffith_Turnock%40communities.gov.uk%7Cdffe6771e3bc4a2f2be308d9485e65fc%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637620392534155908%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=slLMEH1UsfNWj%2BRXIwy0xeRgCymSDwN2TtQVU2fVQHs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-06-10/hcws84</a></p><p>In this announcement, the Secretary of State also clarified that he had directed the Council to consider and consult upon a new submission to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), as part of the current boundary review, to include consideration of a proposal to reduce the number of Councillors to those consistent with elections on the basis of predominantly single member wards; that is single member wards across the whole Council area save where the LGBCE consider a multi member ward is essential to balance their statutory duties of delivering electoral equality, reflecting interests and identities of local communities, and of promoting effective and convenient local government. The new warding arrangements following the boundary review will be in place ahead of the 2023 elections.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 27/07/2021 12:00:18 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh attachment 1 file name Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament - HL2042.pdf title Written Statement
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1346577

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the announcement of £60 million funding to support 20 museums of which 16 are based in London, what assessment they have made of the need to protect national heritage outside of London.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>Regional sites will benefit considerably from this £60 million investment in our national cultural infrastructure, irrespective of where their headquarters happen to be located. Of the 100 projects this Fund will support, over a third are based wholly outside London and the South East. For historic reasons there is a cluster of older, more expansive estates in London that require particular care and attention, but this is not at the expense of other regions, with projects funded across the North West, South West, North East, Yorkshire, and others. In fact, every single one of the multi-site organisations has received funding for one or more of its regional sites.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Regional organisations have been further boosted by our Museums Estates and Development Fund (MEND) worth over £18 million, available exclusively to non-national accredited museums for maintenance projects. Throughout the pandemic, this Government has supported locally-accessible culture and heritage across the entire nation, with 70 per cent of awards from our £2 billion Culture Recovery Fund to date going to save thousands of organisations outside of London.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 19/07/2021 15:17:56 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1344467

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Recycling: Urban Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the recycling rates of (1) London, and (2) the core cities of England; and what steps they are taking to improve the rates of the poorest performing cities.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>The most recent annual publication of waste statistics shows the ‘household waste’ recycling rate for the 2019/20 financial year:</p><p> </p><ul><li>London Region - 33.5%</li><li>Birmingham City Council - 23.6%</li><li>Manchester City Council MBC - 40.4%</li><li>Leeds City Council MBC - 38.2%</li><li>Bristol City Council – 47.1%</li><li>Liverpool City Council – 23.6%</li><li>Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council MBC – 40.2%</li><li>Nottingham City Council – 26.2%</li><li>Sheffield City Council – 31.7%</li></ul><p> </p><p>Recycling rates for 2020/21 for local authorities in England are not yet available. Recycling rates for 2019/20 were published on 3 March 2021. An ad hoc set of provisional results covering April 2020 to June 2020 was published on 12 May 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to increasing both the quality and quantity of materials collected for recycling and making recycling easier for everyone. The Environment Bill, which is currently progressing through Parliament, introduces legislation that will require all collectors of waste to collect a core set of materials from households, businesses, and other organisations such as schools. The core set will be plastic, glass, metal, paper and card, food and garden waste (for household only). By collecting the same core set of materials there will be less confusion among householders and businesses about what they can put in their recycling bins. As a result, the amount of materials that local authorities collect for recycling will increase.</p><p> </p><p>We want to work closely with local authorities to help them improve their recycling performance. We plan to provide guidance and examples of good practice.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 20/07/2021 16:42:50 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1344468

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
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 number of hospitalisations and deaths from COVID-19 before restrictions would need to be implemented again.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2021 answer text <p>Our approach has always been focused on data, not dates, in determining whether it is safe to proceed. In order to pass the tests and proceed with Step 4, we will need to be confident that easing will not lead to a surge in infections that could put unsustainable pressure on the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>However, we have seen time and time again that the virus is unpredictable, and circumstances can change. We know there are risks ahead, not only from new variants, but also seasonal changes in transmission. We will continue to monitor the data closely and take action if needed to keep the public safe and prevent unsustainable pressure on the NHS.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 05/08/2021 11:54:24 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1343478

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will list all of the organisations in England that will benefit from the £60 million national heritage investment announced on 3 July; and how much funding each organisation will receive.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The DCMS Press Release published on 3 July lists the twenty organisations set to benefit from this latest investment, as well as the sums awarded, and can be found online: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/60-million-to-protect-our-national-heritage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/60-million-to-protect-our-national-heritage</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 12/07/2021 15:12:25 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey