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1353139

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date	06/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	New Hall Prison: Pregnancy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) women, and (2) trans men, were known to be pregnant in New Hall Prison for the first two quarters of 2020.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>We do not hold this pregnancy data for the requested time period or format. This data would need to be collected by individual prisons at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>As part of our fundamental review of policy relating to pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to two in prison, we committed to providing national pregnancy data in the future. The ‘HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2020 to March 2021’ was published on 29 July 2021 and this contains the latest published figures relating to pregnant prisoners. This data is, however, provided as a national snapshot. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021</a></p><p>Further information on the review, including our findings and resulting reforms regarding data collection, can be found in our summary report published in July 2020:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf" target="_blank">Review of operational policy on pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL2437 HL2438 question first answered 15/09/2021 16:59:56 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1353140

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Drake Hall Prison: Pregnancy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) women, and (2) trans men, were known to be pregnant in Drake Hall Prison for the first two quarters of 2020.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>We do not hold this pregnancy data for the requested time period or format. This data would need to be collected by individual prisons at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>As part of our fundamental review of policy relating to pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to two in prison, we committed to providing national pregnancy data in the future. The ‘HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2020 to March 2021’ was published on 29 July 2021 and this contains the latest published figures relating to pregnant prisoners. This data is, however, provided as a national snapshot. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021</a></p><p>Further information on the review, including our findings and resulting reforms regarding data collection, can be found in our summary report published in July 2020:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905559/summary-report-of-review-of-policy-on-mbu.pdf" target="_blank">Review of operational policy on pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL2436 HL2438 question first answered 15/09/2021 16:59:56 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1351680

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prevent Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) individuals identifying as Muslim, and (2) organisations representing Muslims, have engaged in consultations or submitted evidence for the Independent Review of Prevent.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2021 answer text <p>The Independent Review of Prevent is currently ongoing. The Reviewer, William Shawcross, is independent, so we cannot provide any specific details of his engagement activities to date, nor can we predetermine the findings of the Review. However, he published details of his methodology for the Review on 23 March 2021. His Ways of Working can be found here: Independent Review of Prevent: ways of working -</p><p>The Independent Review of Prevent, led by William Shawcross, will gather and analyse a range of information to underpin robust, evidence-based findings and recommendations on the government’s strategy for supporting people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism.</p><p>William Shawcross will submit his report to the Home Secretary on 30 September 2021. His report, with the Government’s response to his recommendations, will be laid in the Houses of Parliament by 31 December 2021.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2356 question first answered 02/09/2021 15:48:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Guidance.pdf title Independent Review of Prevent - Ways of working
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1351681

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prevent Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the report of the Independent Review of Prevent will provide a breakdown of the number and religious affiliation of individuals and organisations that gave evidence to the Review, including how many were funded by, or affiliated with, the Prevent Strategy.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2021 answer text <p>The Independent Review of Prevent is currently ongoing. The Reviewer, William Shawcross, is independent, so we cannot provide any specific details of his engagement activities to date, nor can we predetermine the findings of the Review. However, he published details of his methodology for the Review on 23 March 2021. His Ways of Working can be found here: Independent Review of Prevent: ways of working -</p><p>The Independent Review of Prevent, led by William Shawcross, will gather and analyse a range of information to underpin robust, evidence-based findings and recommendations on the government’s strategy for supporting people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism.</p><p>William Shawcross will submit his report to the Home Secretary on 30 September 2021. His report, with the Government’s response to his recommendations, will be laid in the Houses of Parliament by 31 December 2021.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2355 question first answered 02/09/2021 15:48:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Guidance.pdf title Independent Review of Prevent - Ways of working
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1349338

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
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	Carbon Capture and Storage: Planning Permission
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 Greenhalgh on 16 July (HL1706), whether the Environment Agency takes any legal account of CO2 emissions when issuing permits; and whether any local authority has "supported the transition to a low carbon future" by requiring carbon capture technology as part of planning permission.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2021 answer text <p>On the UK's exit from the European Union all relevant EU environmental legislation became part of UK law. This includes the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) which prescribes much of the permitting requirements the Environment Agency delivers through permits issued to installations in England, under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (EPR).</p><p>The UK no longer participates in the EU Greenhouse Gas Trading System (EU ETS) Directive and has established its own emissions trading scheme. The same framework applies, and the ETS explicitly and directly seeks to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The Environment Agency is the regulator in England for the ETS and for other climate change regulatory frameworks which may also apply to certain activities, whether they require permits or not. These include Climate Change Agreements and the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme.</p><p>Where an installation's emissions of greenhouse gases are subject to the ETS (which, given the larger scale of IED activities, is likely), the IED prohibits the Environment Agency from setting emission limit values in the environmental permit under EPR. Instead, emissions of greenhouse gases are regulated via the ETS which requires operators to obtain separate ETS permits, to monitor and report all their greenhouse gas emissions and to surrender allowances for every tonne of carbon dioxide, or equivalent, emitted (one allowance is equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide).</p><p>The Environment Agency seeks to limit direct and indirect emissions of carbon dioxide and many other greenhouse gases via its EPR permitting approaches for all relevant activities, whether subject to IED or not. Examples include requirements on energy efficiency and resource efficiency (including water, energy and waste) by requiring applicants of such activities to scale and assess the impact of their emissions on global warming (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/assess-the-impact-of-air-emissions-on-global-warming" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/assess-the-impact-of-air-emissions-on-global-warming</a> and attached to this answer), with the intent of reducing their emissions by selecting the best available techniques and processes to control their emissions.</p><p>The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that the planning system should support the transition to a low carbon future, including by supporting renewable and low carbon energy and associated infrastructure. Local Planning Authorities should consider this when considering whether to grant planning permission. Where relevant, this can include considering the appropriateness of carbon capture technologies.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 04/08/2021 12:51:15 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park attachment 1 file name Assess the impact of air emissions on global warming - GOV.UK.pdf title Assess impact of air emissions on global warming
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1348895

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Nuclear Power Stations: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their baseline assumption of 160 years for the lifetime of a new nuclear power station, as set out in the Environment Agency guidance on sea level rise, is measured from the expected date of completion of the power station.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2021 answer text <p>The effects of climate change, including sea level rise, are considered and adapted to throughout the lifetime of nuclear power stations from design and construction, through operation and on to decommissioning.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s robust regulatory framework is designed to accommodate changes in science and expert guidance, whilst ensuring appropriate assessment of the specific operating lifetime of individual stations.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the National Policy Statement sets out the siting framework and criteria (including flood and coastal erosion risks), all stations will require planning permission and environmental permits from the Environment Agency and safety licensing from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (the ONR) throughout their lifetime. This will require strong evidence from licence holders to demonstrate that the effects of climate change have been thoroughly evaluated and can be managed over the lifetime of stations.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency and the ONR would not allow a site to be built or to operate if they judged that it was not safe to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 02/08/2021 13:50:19 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1348896

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Flood Control: Coastal Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they regard the UK Climate Projections 18 (UKCP18) as an (1) up-to-date, and (2) reliable, tool for the future planning of sea defences; and what assessment they have made of the International Panel on Climate Change's revisions to its high emissions scenario which underpin UKCP18.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2021 answer text <p>Sea level rise projections for the UK were updated in 2018 with the release of latest UK climate projections (UKCP18, Met Office, 2018). The UKCP18 projections for time mean sea level rise around the UK improve on the previous generation of climate projections (UKCP09) through improved understanding of the components of sea level rise (as demonstrated by a better agreement between models and observations) and the inclusion of ice sheet dynamics (Palmer et al., 2018).</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency has used the UKCP18 marine projections to derive allowances for sea level rise out to 2125 for each of the six river basin districts in England, based on the 70th and 95th percentiles from Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5. These allowances can be found in ' Flood risk assessments: climate change allowances' and are intended to help ensure that new development adequately addresses the future risk of sea level rise. The marine projections are also used to inform sea level rise allowances in Flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies: climate change allowances.</p><p> </p><p>There is a lot of uncertainty around the absolute upper limit of sea level rise this century but the science can provide low likelihood high end scenarios, called H++ scenarios, which can be used in planning. Such a scenario was produced as part of UKCP09. No probability is assigned to these but a range from 0.93 to 1.9 m was considered to be physically plausible and cannot be ruled out (Met Office, 2009). This scenario was designed to encourage people to think about the limits to adaptation from sea level rise. While the marine projections from UKCP18 include ice sheet dynamics, there is still uncertainty around the full range of contributions from ice-sheet melt (in particular from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet), and the assessment of literature available at the time of writing UKCP18 indicated that the H++ scenarios from UKCP09 can still be used alongside the UKCP18 marine projections when considering plausible extreme scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency currently allows for a full range of future climate (up to and including the 95th percentile of the high emission RCP 8.5 case) in its sea level rise allowances, extended beyond the end of the century, as well as considering the H++ scenarios where appropriate. While these are conservative estimates, using all of the best-available data allows for the uncertainty inherent in climate modelling, the rapid rate of sea level rise we have seen in recent years and the plausible extreme scenarios currently outside of the probabilistic models. The Environment Agency regularly assesses the suitability of climate allowances as and when further information becomes available.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency considers the UKCP18 climate projections to be a reliable and up-to-date dataset to inform future planning for climate impacts, while recognising that uncertainties remain, particularly in future emissions and ice sheet dynamics. The Environment Agency accounts for climate change through the application of allowances when designing and constructing sea defences, using a range of climate change scenarios, including a 4°C rise in global temperatures by 2100. The Environment Agency provides guidance to flood risk management authorities, developers and local planning authorities on how to account for climate change in new flood and coastal risk management schemes and development. In July 2020, the Environment Agency updated this guidance to account for future sea level rise and on 20 July 2021 updated the guidance to account of future increases in peak river flows.</p><p> </p><p>The Met Office will continue to assess the science of sea-level rise as part of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, including examining the implications of the next IPCC assessment. It is not possible to comment on the content of the next IPCC assessment ahead of its publication. However, we do note that the model assessment exercise on which the IPCC assessment is based, called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), used a range of emission scenarios including one with a similar level of radiative forcing to RCP8.5.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 03/08/2021 13:18:15 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1348897

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Incinerators: Recycling
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 Goldsmith of Richmond Park on 6 October 2020 (HL 8373), (1) whether the "further monitoring" provided an accurate picture of incinerator capacity planned between now and 2025, (2) how that compares with levels of residual waste, and (3)  what impact it will have on national recycling rates.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2021 answer text <p>We are currently assessing planned incinerator capacity against expected future residual waste arisings so we can understand what future incineration capacity may be required following implementation of key commitments in the Resources and Waste Strategy. A further assessment of residual waste treatment capacity needs, updating the details included in the Resources and Waste Strategy, will be published in coming months.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 03/08/2021 13:20:42 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1347037

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Energy Charter Treaty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of attempts to reform the Energy Charter Treaty to remove any barriers to phasing out carbon fuels.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The UK supports the process to modernise the Energy Charter Treaty in a way that helps the global clean energy transition, such as the right for States to regulate to reach emissions reduction targets and a stronger focus on climate security issues. We are currently in discussions with Treaty partners over proposals to phase out investment protection for fossil fuels.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 27/07/2021 11:42:51 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1347038

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
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	Energy Charter Treaty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had, if any, with the EU about leaving the Energy Charter Treaty.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has had no discussions with the EU on leaving the Energy Charter Treaty.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 27/07/2021 12:04:01 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb