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747344

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government against whom a worker earning £11,500 can claim if they discover that their employer has used a workplace pension scheme operating on a Net Pay basis for auto-enrolment, in order to recover the 25% taxpayer bonus they could have received in a Relief at Source scheme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not collect data on the number of workers earning less than the personal allowance who are also members of pension schemes that operate a net pay system. The Government does not hold employee level data on employees enrolled in net pay pension schemes, as such schemes are not obliged to report pension contributions to HM Revenue and Customs. The Government does not, therefore, hold information on the value of tax reliefs paid out to employees in net pay schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The latest official analysis of the eligibility of workers for automatic enrolment was published on 13 October 2016 in ‘Workplace Pensions: Update of analysis on Automatic Enrolment’. Information on age and earnings breakdowns for all workers can be found in table 3a on page 6.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This guidance covers the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax. Provided an employer has selected a qualifying pension scheme for automatic enrolment, they have complied with their automatic enrolment duties with respect to scheme choice.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL320 HL322 HL323 question first answered 11/07/2017 15:55:57 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

732093

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Marine Conservation Areas there are in UK waters; and whether they have a target for the number of those areas.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>There are a total of 297 Marine Protected Areas in UK waters. This includes 87 Marine Conservation Zones (Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas in Scotland) and 210 Marine Protected Areas set up under the Birds and Habitats Directives.</p><p>We aim to consult on the third tranche of Marine Conservation Zones in English waters in Spring 2018, with designations in Spring 2019. There is no target number of sites. The objective is to complete our contribution to the international ecologically-coherent network of Marine Protected Areas in the North East Atlantic by including a representative range of the species and habitats in our seas.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/07/2017 13:35:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

731081

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff members are from (1) EU member states other than the UK, and (2) countries outside the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.</p><p>As of 31 March 2017, latest data available, there are now 61,934 (headcount) European Union nationals (excluding the United Kingdom), or 5.2% employed in the NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups. There are 75,450 other overseas nationals, or 6.4% employed in the NHS. 80,822 NHS staff records do not contain nationality data, with people either choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 04/07/2017 15:50:03 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

731014

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Suspicious Activity Reports are outstanding on the Elmer Database.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	uin	HL28
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>There are 2.11 million suspicious activity reports (SARs) on the Elmer database. These SARs remain on the system either as result of ongoing activity from a law enforcement agency, or because the SAR is within the six year period for which data can be held on Elmer, in line with the ECHR and Data Protection legislation. In 2015/16 the UKFIU received over 400,000 SARs. Each SAR may include detail of the activities of a number of persons, and it is therefore not possible to determine how many nominal subjects are within the database.</p><p> </p><p>Following the House of Lords European Union Committee Inquiry into Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism in July 2009, and the Information Commissioner’s review of the ELMER database in 2010, the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has implemented the Retention and Deletion policy for Suspicious Activity Reports. This sets the following criteria for the removal of SARs:</p><p> </p><p>o If definitive feedback is received from law enforcement end users that states a SAR is not connected with criminality, that SAR is deleted.</p><p>o Otherwise, the retention period for SARs is six years from the date of submission. After that time they are automatically deleted from the SARs database (ELMER) and other derivative systems, on a rolling daily deletion programme.</p><p>o When a SAR is deleted, an audit record showing the SAR Unique Reference Number (URN), date of creation and date of deletion is retained for all SARs. This record contains no personal data, but is used to confirm, if necessary, that a SAR has been submitted.</p><p>o There are occasions when, after six years, a SAR still forms part of an on-going case, investigation or appeal and is entirely the responsibility of the end user to ensure that copies of the required SARs are transferred to the investigating agency’s ‘case record’. The data control responsibility for those records is then transferred from the NCA to that agency.</p><p> </p><p>The UKFIU has access to the entire Elmer database, which includes ‘sensitive’ SARs such as those submitted on terrorism, integrity and some politically exposed persons.</p><p> </p><p>SARs are only directly available to agencies with officers with powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act, or under the Terrorism Act (for terrorist finance), and only with officers who have an accreditation enabling them to see SARs. All such access is governed by user agreements at both an agency and individual level. For other organisations to qualify for access to the non-sensitive version of ELMER, they must accept the terms of ‘The Organisation Agreement for Direct Access to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)’ which sets the objectives, responsibilities and conditions within which both the NCA and the end user must comply.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL29 HL30 question first answered 05/07/2017 14:53:31 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

731049

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many UK registered charities have been closed since 2008 following suspicion of funding activities outside their approved charitable purposes; and how many of those were suspected of funding groups linked to terrorism.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL57
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>In England and Wales the information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. Charity regulation is a devolved matter in Scotland and Northern Ireland. I have asked the Charity Commission to reply. Please see attached letter.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 05/07/2017 13:30:00 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde attachment 1 file name 20170623 WPQ HoL Lord Alton 57132.pdf title Kenneth Dibble to Lord Alton Letter
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

746656

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many UNESCO World Heritage sites there are in the UK;  and where those sites are.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>There are 31 World Heritage Sites for which the UK has responsibility. These are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Blaenavon Industrial Landscape</p><p>Blenheim Palace</p><p>Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church</p><p>Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd</p><p>City of Bath</p><p>Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape</p><p>Derwent Valley Mills</p><p>Dorset and East Devon Coast</p><p>Durham Castle and Cathedral</p><p>Frontiers of the Roman Empire</p><p>Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast</p><p>Gorham’s Cave Complex</p><p>Gough and Inaccessible Islands</p><p>Heart of Neolithic Orkney</p><p>Henderson Island</p><p>Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda</p><p>Ironbridge Gorge</p><p>Lake District</p><p>Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City</p><p>Maritime Greenwich</p><p>New Lanark</p><p>Old and New Towns of Edinburgh</p><p>Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s church</p><p>Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal</p><p>Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew</p><p>Saltaire</p><p>St Kilda</p><p>Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites</p><p>Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey</p><p>The Forth Bridge</p><p>Tower of London</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 11/07/2017 15:08:08 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

746643

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many cases of (1) Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, and (2) fabricated or induced illness, have been prosecuted against parents of children diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome in each year since 2010 for which figures are available; how many of those cases were successful; how many were withdrawn; and how many resulted in an acquittal.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	uin	HL274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Munchausen's syndrome by proxy and fabricated or induced illness are not of themselves criminal offences so cannot be prosecuted as such. They may, however, be of relevance to criminal offences which can be prosecuted.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of prosecutions where Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy or fabricated or induced illnesses may have been relevant. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 10/07/2017 14:14:57 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

746081

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many infrastructure related incidents have occurred on the East Coast Main Line during the last six months which have led to passenger trains being delayed by more than 60 minutes; and what finance is being made available to Network Rail to address those incidents during Control Period 5 and Control Period 6.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
	uin	HL223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold the information requested regarding the number of infrastructure related incidents on the East Coast Main Line.</p><p> </p><p>In Control Period 5, Network Rail plan to spend £3 billion (in 2012-13 prices) on maintaining and renewing the London and North East Route, which includes the East Coast Main Line. The planned spend for Control Period 6 will be finalised later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 11/07/2017 15:41:41 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

746086

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many key workers need accommodation in London; and what is the average gap between their earnings and the cost of owning their own homes.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McGregor-Smith
	uin	HL228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of key workers that need accommodation in London is not centrally collected.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics publish data on housing affordability in England and Wales. These show that the ratio of median house price to median gross annual (where available) workplace-based earnings in 2016 was 7.72 in England, and 11.98 in London. The ratio of lower quartile house price to lower quartile gross annual (where available) workplace-based earnings in 2016 was 7.16 in England, and 12.76 in London.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 11/07/2017 13:05:12 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4554 label Biography information for Baroness McGregor-Smith

746106

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many mental health patients in England were sent away from their local area for treatment in each of the past three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
	uin	HL248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Out of Area Placement (OAP) definition was agreed in October 2016. The latest data published on OAPs covers the period from 17 October 2016 to 30 April 2017. During that time 4,153 OAPs have been recorded as starting in England.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 11/07/2017 15:00:59 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley