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715498

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	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	Fly-tipping
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by the Earl of Courtown on 8 March (HL Deb, col 1357), whether, following a successful prosecution by the Environment Agency for fly-tipping, landowners will receive recompense for costs incurred in having rubbish removed.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL6459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>Where a person is convicted of an offence under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (the ‘fly-tipping’), section 33B (2) of that Act provides that “loss or damage resulting from the offence” in section 130 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 specifically includes costs incurred or to be incurred by a relevant person in removing the waste deposited or disposed of in or on the land; taking other steps to eliminate or reduce the consequences of the deposit or disposal; or both.</p><p> </p><p>A “relevant person” is defined for these purposes in section 33B (3) as including the occupier of the land and the owner of the land.</p><p> </p><p>A court can order the person convicted of fly-tipping to pay compensation to the occupier or owner of the land in respect of costs incurred or to be incurred in removing the waste and/or associated clean-up costs. Whether a court would in any particular case make such an order will depend on the nature of the case, any other form of punishment to which the offender is to be sentenced, and the financial means of the offender to pay. Once a compensation order is made the courts have a role in enforcing that order to ensure that monies are paid. This is reflected in the sentencing guideline. The application of the guideline is a matter for the court to decide. A copy of this document will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/04/2017 11:08:44 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

715499

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	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	Fly-tipping
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by the Earl of Courtown on 8 March (HL Deb, col 1357), whether they will give further consideration to providing compensation to landowners in relation to large-scale commercial dumping of waste on private land.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL6460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government is not currently considering providing compensation to landowners in relation to large-scale commercial dumping of waste on private land.</p><p> </p><p>Fly-tipping is unacceptable whether it occurs on public or private land. However, fly-tipping on private land is a difficult issue. Local authorities are not under any legal obligation to clear fly-tipped waste from private property, so this responsibility falls to the landowner. Some authorities may offer a clearance service but they are likely to charge for this. If, following an investigation, a conviction is secured then the court can award compensation which covers the costs of clearance of waste to the landowner.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/04/2017 11:44:49 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

715497

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	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	Agriculture: Apprentices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 7 March (HL Deb, col 1246), whether the trebling of agricultural apprenticeships from 6,000 to 18,000 is a target for (1) the whole period to 2020, or (2) each year until and including 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL6458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment is to treble the number of apprenticeships in food, farming and agri-tech. This means increasing the number of annual starts to 18,000 by 2020. The number of starts in the most recent full year for which statistics are available (2015 -2016) was 7,160.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/04/2017 13:00:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

714757

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation: Security
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, before introducing the ban on the carriage of personal electronic devices in cabins on certain flights, what assessment they made of (1) the additional risk of lithium battery fires in aircraft holds, and (2) the safety implications of implementing a ban on lithium batteries being transported in any part of the aircraft.
	tabling member printed	Lord Balfe
	uin	HL6377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The International Civil Aviation Organisation Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air (and the International Air Transport Association Dangerous Goods Regulations) detail the conditions for the carriage of consumer Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) containing lithium ion/metal batteries by passengers and crew. Carriage within checked/hold baggage is permitted with the devices switched off and packed such that they are afforded suitable protection from damage and inadvertent operation.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has provided further advice to air carriers on the procedures to be followed in relation to the carriage of devices containing lithium batteries in the hold of an aircraft. With assurance that these procedures are in place and that passengers are complying with the operators’ safety instructions, the CAA’s assessment is that the safety risk in relation to this issue can be managed.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/04/2017 12:29:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4302 label Biography information for Lord Balfe

715496

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend that rural proofing will be applied to the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL6457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is aware of <em>Rural proofing: practical guidance to assess impacts of policies on rural areas</em>, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>All Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) build on the Five Year Forward View to present an overall strategy for their geographic footprint and identify the three to five key priorities required to realise their vision. This should take account of specific challenges facing each area, which could include a dispersed, rural population.</p><p> </p><p>STPs have been in the public domain for several months. Partner organisations within each area are engaging both rural and urban communities on their plans and, where required by law, consulting on service change.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to provide ongoing support to each STP area. In September 2016, they published <em>Engaging Local People: A guide for local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans</em>, which set out how STP areas should reach out to stakeholders in their areas. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is exploring ways to better adapt health provision for rural areas. For example, the vanguard covering Morecambe Bay Health Community is improving healthcare in a geographically isolated area by using a high definition telemedicine link between a general practitioner (GP) surgery in Millom and the accident and emergency (A&amp;E) department in Barrow-in-Furness. This means when GPs can seek a second opinion as to whether a patient needs intensive treatment or can be treated in the community – they can call through and have an A&amp;E specialist examine the patient. This means that over the 1,000 square miles that Morecambe Bay covers, patients can have access to expert opinion without having to travel further than their nearest GP.</p><p> </p><p>On 31 March, <em>Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View</em> was published by NHS England. The document outlined a 10-point care and efficiency plan which will further contribute to improving the health outcomes of those living in rural areas. A copy of this document is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name engag-local-people-stps.pdf title Engaging Local People 2 file name NEXT-STEPS-ON-THE-NHS-FIVE-YEAR-FORWARD-VIEW.pdf title Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View question first answered 06/04/2017 11:02:39 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

717232

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Housing: Greater London
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their most recent assessment of the financial implications for London borough councils of housing families without access to public funds, and what plans they have to make additional funds available to these authorities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2017 answer text <p>Our 2015 Spending Review took account of the costs to councils of supporting families with no recourse to public funds, and set out a sustainable basis for local authorities to discharge their functions. Councils in England will receive more than £200 billion for local services over this Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/04/2017 12:54:52 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

715514

	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	Employment
	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 cumulative effect of changes to laws and regulations relating to employment on (1) small and medium-sized enterprises, (2) charities, and (3) churches.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
	uin	HL6475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>All such legislation and its associated impacts can be found on the Legislation.gov.uk website. Individual impact assessments will detail the expected impacts including, where relevant, those accruing to charities and churches. A Small and Micro Business Assessment is also mandatory within an impact assessment for most domestic measures that regulate business and come into force after 31 March 2014.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 07/04/2017 13:30:32 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

715513

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT
	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 cumulative effect of changes to laws and regulations relating to VAT on (1) small and medium-sized enterprises, (2) charities, and (3) churches.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
	uin	HL6474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government assesses the impact on businesses and civil society organisations of each change in VAT law and publishes these assessments in Tax Information and Impact Notes. This does not assess cumulative effects.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/04/2017 13:30:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

717231

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness: Greater London
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment have they made of the affect on homeless families from London of being housed significant distances outside the capital away from their friends and families.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities must secure accommodation within their own district so far as is reasonably practicable. Where it is not possible to secure accommodation within their district and an authority has secured accommodation outside their district, the authority is required to take into account the distance of that accommodation from the district of the authority. Authorities should try to secure accommodation that is as close as possible to where an applicant was previously living. Councils must also take into account the impact a change in location would have on a household, including the possible disruption to peoples’ jobs and children’s schooling.</p><p>The Department collects data on the number of out of district placements, by local authority, under the interim duty to accommodate whilst making enquiries etc. and under the duty to secure temporary accommodation whilst awaiting settled accommodation. This is available in (attached)Table 775 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/04/2017 11:34:35 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 170406 Copy of Statutory_Homelessness_and_Prevention_and_Relief_Live_Tables_201612- HL6532.xls title Table 775
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

714921

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	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, with reference to paragraphs 2.8, 2.9 and 3.17 of the minutes of 9 March 2017 of the Licence Committee of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, regarding the follow-up of children born following pronuclear transfer between embryos, who is responsible for the follow-up programme in NHS England; what health, genetic and epigenetic parameters are to be measured; what assessment they have made of the potential for long-term medical problems to only become evident after five years of age; whether they intend to conduct follow-ups beyond five years of age; and whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the full documented processes that are in place setting out how follow-ups will be carried out.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL6409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that the guidance on the follow up of any children born following mitochondrial donation is set out in paragraph 33.33 in Guidance Note 33 of the Authority’s code of practice. This requires the centre to have a documented process setting out how children born from mitochondrial donation will be followed up, where the patients have consented to follow-up. These should include long-term medical follow-up of the children born. A copy of Guidance Note 33 is attached.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has agreed funding of £8 million over five years for an evaluative commissioning programme of mitochondrial donation, working closely with the partner organisations such as the Wellcome Trust.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 06/04/2017 10:57:08 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name CoP_June_2016_GN33.pdf title Guidance Note 33
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool