Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label attachment file name file name title title
tabling member	label

Search

723741

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2017
	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	Productivity
	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 productivity of UK workers in comparison with workers in (1) other EU member states, and (2) the US.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL6783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces comparisons of UK productivity with the G7 countries and some, but not all, EU member states. ONS statistics show output per hour worked in the UK was 15.9% below the average for the rest of the G7 advanced economies in 2015; 22.7% below that in France; 26.7% below Germany and 22.2% below the USA.</p><p>Please see attached tables for full details.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 26/04/2017 13:40:47 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name productivity-tables-HL6783.pdf title Productivity statistics
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

658702

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Medical Treatments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that patient groups and patients are consulted on decisions made regarding new treatments as part of NHS England's prioritisation process for investing in specialised services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>NHS England involves patients, patient groups and the public at numerous stages of the process for developing clinical commissioning policies and service specifications that may be subject to a process of relative prioritisation.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical policies and service specifications are developed by Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs), which are advisory groups and include patients and patient representatives in their membership. Draft clinical policies and service specifications undergo a process of testing with registered stakeholders before they are submitted for a full public consultation. The CRG will consider the outcome of stakeholder testing and public consultation before submitting the final proposed document to NHS England for the purpose of relative prioritisation.</p><p> </p><p>Recommendations on the relative prioritisation of new investments in specialised services are made by the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, which is independently chaired and which includes patient and public voice representatives in its membership. ​</p><p><em> </em></p><p>NHS England held a public consultation on <em>Developing a method to assist investment decisions in specialised commissioning </em>between April and May 2016. NHS England’s response to the consultation can be found attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 19/12/2016 15:53:58 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name prioritisation-method-cons-response.pdf title CONSULTATION RESPONSE
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

670135

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	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	Fuels: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent studies they have undertaken into retail petrol and diesel price differences across the nations and regions of the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Quin
	uin	HL4464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government believes that a competitive market is the best way to keep prices low. Retail fuels markets are subject to UK competition law under the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not collect statistics by the nations or the regions of the UK but it does publish weekly UK statistics retail petrol and diesel prices: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>. On 9 January 2017 the average retail price for petrol and diesel was 118.0 pence per litre and 121.3 pence per litre respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The AA publishes data on regional retail petrol and diesel price differences across the UK: <a href="http://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/driving-costs/fuel-prices" target="_blank">http://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/driving-costs/fuel-prices</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL4464 - weekly_fuel_prices.xlsx title Weekly fuel prices 2 file name december-2016.pdf title AA report 3 file name AA fuel-prices.pdf title AA website grouped question UIN HL4465 question first answered 23/01/2017 15:35:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	518 label Biography information for Baroness Quin

670137

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	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	Fuels: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have about retail petrol and diesel price differences across the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Quin
	uin	HL4465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government believes that a competitive market is the best way to keep prices low. Retail fuels markets are subject to UK competition law under the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not collect statistics by the nations or the regions of the UK but it does publish weekly UK statistics retail petrol and diesel prices: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>. On 9 January 2017 the average retail price for petrol and diesel was 118.0 pence per litre and 121.3 pence per litre respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The AA publishes data on regional retail petrol and diesel price differences across the UK: <a href="http://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/driving-costs/fuel-prices" target="_blank">http://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/driving-costs/fuel-prices</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL4464 - weekly_fuel_prices.xlsx title Weekly fuel prices 2 file name december-2016.pdf title AA report 3 file name AA fuel-prices.pdf title AA website grouped question UIN HL4464 question first answered 23/01/2017 15:35:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	518 label Biography information for Baroness Quin

715531

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	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	Productivity
	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 beneficial effects of good leadership and psychological wellbeing upon productivity and output in the national economy.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Dundee
	uin	HL6492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published a number of reports on Gov.uk, which complement the broader academic literature on this subject. These reports can be found on GOV.UK.</p><p>Firstly, the report “Leadership and Management in the UK - the Key to Sustainable Growth” was published in 2012. This summarised the key evidence and set out the benefits of business investment in leadership and management skills.</p><p>The research report “Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?” was published in October 2014. The analysis suggested that well-being is also positively associated with workplace financial performance, labour productivity and the quality of output or service.</p><p>Most recently, the research report, “Leadership and management skills in small and medium-sized businesses” was published in 2015. The research suggested that entrepreneurship skills and leadership skills were most consistently and strongly associated with good management practice and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name 12-923-leadership-management-key-to-sustainable-growth-evidence.pdf title Leadership & management skills development report 2 file name bis-14-1120-does-worker-wellbeing-affect-workplace-performance-final.pdf title Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance 3 file name bis-15-204-leadership-and-management-skills-in-sme.pdf title Leadership and management skills in SMEs question first answered 07/04/2017 13:17:48 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2735 label Biography information for The Earl of Dundee

657380

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 17 October (HL2340) and 5 December (HL3452), whether any members of the expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) shared private and confidential correspondence with members of the HFEA Executive that had not been submitted to the Authority as part of any formal calls for evidence; and if so, what were the particular circumstances that necessitated giving weight to any material not intended for publication.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the Expert Panel has met on four occasions over the past four years. On each occasion a formal call for evidence was issued. With regard to the most recent report, the Panel received confidential correspondence on particular issues. Panel members were able to share private correspondence with the Secretariat that supports the Panel, where relevant. Where any evidence has influenced the reports it has been cited.</p><p>The HFEA has also advised that it approached John Zhang, following the publication of the abstract from the October 2016 American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, entitled “First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome”. A copy of the abstract is attached. The Panel also interviewed Prof. Zhang to further understand the methods used. The Panel’s report references the Zhang work.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4015 question first answered 20/12/2016 15:21:45 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Zhang abstract ASRM Oct 2016 (1).pdf title ZHANG ABSTRACT
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

657381

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 17 October (HL2340) and 5 December (HL3452), whether members of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) expert panel approached John Zhang or were approached by him, and when any such contact was first made; and to what extent, if any, the recent recommendations of the HFEA expert panel were influenced by the John Zhang's unpublished data referred to in the journal <i>Nature</i> on 10 November.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the Expert Panel has met on four occasions over the past four years. On each occasion a formal call for evidence was issued. With regard to the most recent report, the Panel received confidential correspondence on particular issues. Panel members were able to share private correspondence with the Secretariat that supports the Panel, where relevant. Where any evidence has influenced the reports it has been cited.</p><p>The HFEA has also advised that it approached John Zhang, following the publication of the abstract from the October 2016 American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting, entitled “First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome”. A copy of the abstract is attached. The Panel also interviewed Prof. Zhang to further understand the methods used. The Panel’s report references the Zhang work.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4014 question first answered 20/12/2016 15:21:45 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Zhang abstract ASRM Oct 2016 (1).pdf title ZHANG ABSTRACT
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

749969

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	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	HIV Infection: Drugs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what negotiations they have undertaken with other members of Euratom to continue the work of the Joint European Torus project at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy after 2018; and what result they hope to achieve.
	tabling member printed	Lord Teverson
	uin	HL654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the UK continues to lead the world in fusion research [1]. We have taken action to secure the future of the Joint European Torus (JET) facility by guaranteeing the UK’s share of JET costs until the end of 2020.This underwriting of UK JET costs aims to provide the certainty needed to secure the extension of the JET contract and minimise the uncertainty around the future of this world class facility. The relevant Written Ministerial Statement can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-06-27/HCWS13/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-06-27/HCWS13/</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> A 2016 independent review by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) found the UK fusion research programme to be ‘of world-class quality, in facilities, people and impact’.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/07/2017 11:51:11 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name WMS 27.06.17 on JET - HCWS13.pdf title WMS on JET 27.06.17 HCWS13
	tabling member	3789 label Biography information for Lord Teverson

718216

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	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	Coal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the energy consumed in the UK is generated by coal.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL6716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>In 2016, 9.1 per cent of UK electricity generation was from coal<sup>(1)</sup> (30.7 TWh coal-fired generation of 338.6 TWh total generation).</p><p> </p><p>Source: Energy Trends table 5.1, March 2017, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends</a></p><p> </p><p>(1) Figures for 2016 are provisional. Final figures for 2016 will be published in the 2017 Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), on 27<sup>th</sup> July 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Electricity - HL 6716.pdf title Energy Trends section 5: electricity 2 file name Table 5.1. Fuel used in electricity generation and electricity supplied.xls title Fuel used in electricity generation and electricit question first answered 24/04/2017 14:33:03 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

707551

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2017
	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	Government Departments: Copyright
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to encourage government departments to adhere to copyright licensing rules.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
	uin	HL5774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>Each Department is responsible for its own licensing adherence.</p><p> </p><p>The National Archives, in collaboration with the Intellectual Property Office and the Government Digital Service, has recently issued simple new guidance to civil servants on the duties associated with copyright belonging to the Crown or to third parties: <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/copyright-and-re-use/crown-copyright/" target="_blank">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/copyright-and-re-use/crown-copyright/</a></p><p> </p><p>This joins The National Archives’ existing guidance at: <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/crown-copyright-an-overview-for-government-departments.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/crown-copyright-an-overview-for-government-departments.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The cross-sector guidance issued by the Intellectual Property Office also provides an introductory framework for government: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/copyright" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/copyright</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Attachment to HL5774.docx title Cross Sector Guidance 2 file name Second attachment to HL5774.docx title Guidance to civil servants 3 file name Third attachment to HL5774.pdf title National Archives guidance question first answered 16/03/2017 13:00:41 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty