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1645200

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2023
	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	Methadone
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the cost to the NHS of prescribing the heroine substitute drug methodone in (1) 2005, (2) 2010, (3) 2015, and (4) 2020.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL8530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>Information on the cost to the NHS of prescribing methadone is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 29/06/2023 11:31:02 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1642796

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will change the conditions on which Universal Infant Free School Meal grants are made to ensure that the grants are expended solely on improving the quality of school meals to meet their child obesity targets.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL8273
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>Universal Infant Free School Meals (UIFSM) are funded through a direct grant to schools. To recognise the pressures facing schools, the Department announced an £18 million increase to the per-pupil funding rate for UIFSM to support with costs around food, transport and staff wages.</p><p>UIFSM helps to improve children’s education, boost their health and save parents around £400 a year. There are no plans to change the conditions in which these grants are made. The Department is continuing to review funding in order to ensure that schools continue to be able to provide healthy and nutritious meals in school. The funding for the free school meal (FSM) factor is increasing in line with the latest available GDP deflator forecast when the New Funding Formula (NFF) was published in July 2022.</p><p>Schools receive their provisional allocations for UIFSM in June based on the final allocation of the previous academic year. Schools receive a subsequent allocation of revenue funding in early summer, adjusted either up or down to reflect actual number of meals taken. This is calculated using an average taken from the October and January Censuses.</p><p>Local Authorities can decide whether they should top up the UIFSM allocation from their general maintenance and improvement budgets in the light of local circumstances, as they would do in any other year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 22/06/2023 16:00:02 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1586004

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	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	Mental Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to use more trained therapists to ease the backlog of NHS patients with mental health problems.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL5596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2023 answer text <p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan we are committed to transforming and expanding mental health services in England by 2023/24 so that an additional two million people can get the mental health support that they need. This commitment is backed by our plans through the NHS Long Term Plan to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 professionals, including more trained therapists to provide more people with National Health Service talking therapies, by 2023/24.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/02/2023 11:36:02 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1581393

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	School Meals: Sugar
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will revise school meal food standards to ensure that guidelines on children's recommended maximum daily sugar intake are displayed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL5125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The standards for school food are set out in the Requirements for School Food Regulations 2014. The Regulations ensure that schools provide children with healthy food and drink options, and make sure that children receive the energy and nutrition they need across the school day. The Standards define the foods and drinks that must be provided, those which are restricted, and those which must not be provided. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar, including high sugar foods and confectionery, are restricted.</p><p>The current standards provide a robust yet flexible framework to ensure that pupils in England continue to receive high-quality and nutritious food, that builds healthy eating habits for life.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 06/02/2023 17:51:09 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1550117

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Crime Prevention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Home Office Introducing Public Health Measures Impact Assessment 2019, published on 4 July 2019, which found that the Cardiff Model for violence reduction would cut the costs of violence by £858 million over 10 years if five per cent of Community Service Partnerships implemented it, what plans they have to extend its use throughout (1) England, and (2) Wales.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL4144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Cardiff Model is a multi-agency approach to violence prevention that relies on the strategic use of information and data from health and law enforcement services to improve policing and community violence prevention initiatives. The Government recognises the benefits of using the Cardiff Model to tackle serious violence and have adopted the approach across a number of policies and projects.</p><p>For example, the Serious Violence Duty will commence on the 31<sup>st</sup> January 2023 and will be rolled out across England and Wales. Introduced through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, the Serious Violence Duty will require a range of specified authorities, such as the police, local government, youth offending teams, health and probation services, to work collaboratively, sharing data and information to analyse the local problem, and put in place a strategy to prevent and reduce serious violence within their local communities, through existing partnership structures where possible.</p><p>The proactive sharing of data between health and law enforcement, as set out in the Cardiff Model, has also been adopted and built upon by our Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) who also seek to incorporate data from wider multi-agency partners to generate new insights into violent crime trends and drivers. As of this financial year, we now have 20 VRUs operating in the 20 police force areas worst affected by serious violence. Effective data sharing is a key priority for VRUs, and the Home Office closely monitors progress against this.</p><p>The Government also encourages all Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) to meet the expectation to work with local hospitals to implement the sharing of appropriate health data to tackle serious violence, as detailed in the 2018 Serious Violence Strategy for England and Wales.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/12/2022 13:01:03 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1549692

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to review the proposed new alcohol duty bands, and (2) to increase the top band, so that the reforms will increase the yield to the Exchequer rather than reduce it, as presently forecast.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL4088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The next steps of the Alcohol Duty Review announced in the Growth Plan will continue as planned and will take effect from 1 August 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms are intended to improve the current system by making it simpler, more economically rational and less administratively burdensome on businesses.</p><p> </p><p>The Government welcomed further views on aspects of Small Producer’s Relief and Draught Relief in a technical consultation which closed on 18 November 2022, to ensure stakeholders continue to be able to contribute to the reforms. The Government will respond to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 14/12/2022 11:53:32 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1546633

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	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	Sugar: Consumption
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish the fourth and final report from their Sugar Reduction Programme.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL3839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The fourth progress report, <em>Sugar reduction – industry progress 2015 to 2020: Including the final report for foods included in the programme and the latest data for drinks included in the Soft Drinks Industry Levy and juices and milk based drinks on the sugar reduction programme</em> was published on 1 December. A copy of the report is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 20/12/2022 16:27:32 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name Sugar-reduction-and-reformulation-progress-report-2015-to-2020.pdf title Sugar reduction programme report
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1544692

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Exports
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to return the level of exports from to UK to countries in the EU to the exports level prior to the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL3640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>The EU is a vital export destination for British businesses, with exports to the EU totalling £298 billion in the 12 months to the end of June 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s refreshed Export Strategy helps businesses at every stage of exporting and our Export Support Service is a single point of access digital enquiry service, assisting business in trading with the EU. In addition, the Department for International Trade has around 300 trade experts across Europe, including a dedicated Trade Commissioner for the continent, and we will have facilitated almost 500 activities and events to support UK exporters between April 2022 and March 2023.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 02/12/2022 14:14:11 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1522670

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	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	Artificial Sweeteners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for promoting the use of Stevia as an alternative to processed sugar.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL2622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is aware that some businesses use artificial or other non-caloric sweeteners, including Stevia, to lower the sugar content of their products. It is an individual business decision to decide if and how the product is used, subject to legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2623 question first answered 07/11/2022 12:25:08 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1522671

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	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	Artificial Sweeteners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what further steps they will take to encourage the greater use of Stevia in food and drink as a replacement for processed sugar.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL2623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is aware that some businesses use artificial or other non-caloric sweeteners, including Stevia, to lower the sugar content of their products. It is an individual business decision to decide if and how the product is used, subject to legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL2622 question first answered 07/11/2022 12:25:08 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe