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date	06/09/2023
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	Rivers and Seas and Oceans: Microplastics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve methods to measure the amount and types of microplastic and microfibres in rivers, lakes, seas and their sediments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL9926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2023 answer text <p>Defra intends to publish a report that it commissioned on improving the sampling and analytical protocols to determine the quantities, loads and types of microplastics in surface waters and sediments, later this year. Following this, working with the Environment Agency, Defra will consider the approaches to sampling surface waters and sediments to develop provisional standard operating procedure guidelines that will be used to improve sampling, processing and analysing of microplastics in river waters and sediments.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 15/09/2023 12:16:57 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

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date	03/11/2020
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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Dynamic CO-CIN report to SAGE and NERVTAG (recent cases) and the Dynamic CO-CIN report to SAGE and NERVTAG (all cases), published on 29 September, that illustrated inpatient proportion and onset occurrence of hospital acquired COVID-19 since March, what criteria they used to assess (1) the ethical issues, and (2) the clinical safety of vulnerable communities, when deciding to continue to discharge patients into care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL9926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>The Department, working with Public Health England and the National Health Service, continue to closely monitor the emerging domestic and international evidence, and keep our policies under continuous review. Throughout the pandemic, it has continued to be our priority to ensure that people are discharged safely from hospital to the most appropriate place and that they receive the care and support they need.</p><p>All individuals must be tested, and receive their result, prior to discharge from hospital to a care home. Building on the commitments of the Adult Social Care Winter Plan, we are working with the Care Quality Commission and the NHS to ensure that anyone testing positive is discharged to a designated setting that is assured to be able to provide safe care. No care home should be forced to admit an existing or new resident to the care home if they do not feel they can provide the appropriate care.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 15/01/2021 13:18:43 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

967427

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date	04/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Curriculum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the annual percentage change in the number of teaching hours for (1) art and design, (2) music, (3) drama, (4) design and technology, (5) history, and (6) geography at key stage 3 in state secondary schools in England in each year from 2010 to 2017.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury
uin	HL9926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>As the total number of hours taught to key stage 3 year groups varies each year, the percentage of time spent teaching each of the subjects requested has also been provided for context. The figures shown in the attached table cover teaching in years 7, 8 and 9.</p><p>Information on subjects taught at key stage 3 is collected from a large sample of schools, this is then weighted and grossed to provide national totals. The percentage of schools returning this information each year has been provided for context.</p><p> </p><p>Schools have the freedom to decide how to teach the curriculum, but must make sure it is broad and balanced, offering a range of subjects to help pupils progress through acquiring knowledge, understanding and skills.</p><p> </p><p>Traditionally GCSEs are two year courses of study that pupils start in year 10. The new national curriculum and reformed GCSEs are designed so that key stage 3 plays an important role in preparing pupils for natural progression to GCSEs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL9925 question first answered 18/09/2018 15:12:08 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Hl9925_HL9926_Hours_by_subject_KS3.pdf title Hl9925_HL9926_Hours_by_subject_KS3
tabling member	3699 label Biography information for Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury