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1718120

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
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	Biosecurity: Import Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following recent press reports, whether the rate of biosecurity checks on goods arriving from the EU at some ports has in practice been "set to zero" to minimise disruption, despite businesses now being charged for all relevant consignments of goods imported into the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>No, the implementation is happening. The first milestone - health certificates - happened on 31 January 2024. Physical and documentary checks began on April 30th. Medium and high-risk goods posing the greatest biosecurity risk are being prioritised as check levels are scaled up in a sensible and controlled way.</p><p> </p><p>We have not simply copied the EU model but taken the extra time to bring in an effective and innovative system with much lower burdens on business and much less disruption to trade.</p><p> </p><p>Traders should continue to follow the published guidance which sets out BTOM inspection rates.</p><p> </p><p>DEFRA will gradually increase changes in controlled stages to balance biosecurity risk and maintain trade flows whilst minimising disruption at the border.</p><p> </p><p>This will allow the level of goods inspected at the border to be operationally manageable over the introductory stages.</p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 23/05/2024 09:52:50 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1718121

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Import Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when their planned Border Target Operating Model will be implemented.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>The implementation of the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) is well underway in accordance with the published timeline (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-border-target-operating-model-august-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-border-target-operating-model-august-2023</a>). The first two major milestones were introduced respectively on 31 January 2024 and 30 April 2024, while the last milestone, which requires Safety and Security (S&amp;S) declarations for EU imports, is scheduled to be implemented on 31 October 2024.</p><p>We will announce a date for physical checks on EU and Irish Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) goods imports on the West Coast of Great Britain shortly. In order to provide traders time to prepare, we can confirm that these checks will not be introduced before Spring 2025.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 24/05/2024 13:31:17 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1714000

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
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 real-world representativeness of the CO2 emissions and fuel or energy consumption values of new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles, as required by the Article 12(1) of EU Regulation 2019/631.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department is considering how to collect real-world CO<sub>2</sub> emissions data, including consulting on whether such data should be captured through the MOT, and will continue to engage with interested parties as the methodology is finalised. The data collection methodology must be finalised before the first annual report can be produced.</p><p>The Department will assess real-world representativeness of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and fuel or energy consumption values, once the methodology for collecting real-world data has been agreed with industry and subsequently introduced into law.</p><p>The Department is considering how fuel and energy consumption data could inform amendments to type approval testing procedures and certificates for petrol and diesel cars and light commercial vehicles. Specifically on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the Department intends to update the calculation procedure for their carbon dioxide emissions to respond to the widely recognised gap in their real-world emissions performance compared to official approval values. This will be consulted on in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower grouped question UIN HL4108 HL4109 question first answered 02/05/2024 14:48:16 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1714001

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
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 use of fuel and energy consumption data to ensure that CO2 emissions and fuel or energy consumption values remain representative of real-world emissions over time for manufacturers of new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles, as required by EU Regulation 2019/631.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department is considering how to collect real-world CO<sub>2</sub> emissions data, including consulting on whether such data should be captured through the MOT, and will continue to engage with interested parties as the methodology is finalised. The data collection methodology must be finalised before the first annual report can be produced.</p><p>The Department will assess real-world representativeness of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and fuel or energy consumption values, once the methodology for collecting real-world data has been agreed with industry and subsequently introduced into law.</p><p>The Department is considering how fuel and energy consumption data could inform amendments to type approval testing procedures and certificates for petrol and diesel cars and light commercial vehicles. Specifically on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the Department intends to update the calculation procedure for their carbon dioxide emissions to respond to the widely recognised gap in their real-world emissions performance compared to official approval values. This will be consulted on in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower grouped question UIN HL4107 HL4109 question first answered 02/05/2024 14:48:16 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1714002

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish their first annual report on how the real-world emissions gap will be addressed for the period 2021 to 2026, as required by EU Regulation 2019/631 on setting performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department is considering how to collect real-world CO<sub>2</sub> emissions data, including consulting on whether such data should be captured through the MOT, and will continue to engage with interested parties as the methodology is finalised. The data collection methodology must be finalised before the first annual report can be produced.</p><p>The Department will assess real-world representativeness of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and fuel or energy consumption values, once the methodology for collecting real-world data has been agreed with industry and subsequently introduced into law.</p><p>The Department is considering how fuel and energy consumption data could inform amendments to type approval testing procedures and certificates for petrol and diesel cars and light commercial vehicles. Specifically on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the Department intends to update the calculation procedure for their carbon dioxide emissions to respond to the widely recognised gap in their real-world emissions performance compared to official approval values. This will be consulted on in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower grouped question UIN HL4107 HL4108 question first answered 02/05/2024 14:48:16 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1713298

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the safety equipment installed on smart motorways has a high failure rate.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Smart motorways operate using a range of safety systems and are designed not to be reliant on one single piece of roadside technology for safe operation.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways has worked hard to deliver a significant improvement in the performance of stopped vehicle detection (SVD), with all schemes now meeting performance requirements.</p><p>In their annual safety report published in December 2023, the ORR confirmed that SVD technology is now meeting performance requirements for detection rate, detection time, and false detection. The ORR will continue to monitor SVD performance closely.</p><p> </p><p>Further, National Highways is investing more than £300m to maintain roadside technology and improve its performance during Road Period 2 (2020-2025). This includes £105m targeted at improving its systems and technology on All Lane Running (ALR) sections of smart motorway. Roadside technology on ALR smart motorways is given high priority.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways has well-rehearsed contingency plans for both planned and unplanned outages. These include lowering speed limits, increasing patrols by its traffic officers, enhanced monitoring of CCTV, and using pre-positioned vehicle recovery to speed up attendance and clearance of stranded vehicles.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 08/05/2024 14:51:30 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1701982

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Energy Supply
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are taking steps (1) to ensure that maritime infrastructure projects, including shoreside electrical power, can speedily connect to the National Grid, (2) to build infrastructure for shoreside electrical power at UK ports to help decarbonise shipping, and (3) to enable cruise ships to connect to shoreside electrical power when docked at UK ports to assist them in reducing emissions in port.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL3897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>On 22 November 2023, the Government published the Connections Action Plan (jointly with Ofgem) and the Transmissions Acceleration Plan. These reforms will speed up connections to the grid and the build of new transmission infrastructure in Great Britain. This may help unlock and speed up investment in new maritime infrastructure projects in Great Britain that are reliant on upgrades to the grid, including shore power projects.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the government announced £29.5m of R&amp;D funding will be allocated to shore power projects at the Port of Aberdeen, Atlantic and Peninsula’s Falmouth Port and Portsmouth International Port under the Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure R&amp;D competition. As well as helping to reduce shipping emissions at these locations, including from cruise ships that call at their shore power enabled berths, these demonstration projects will also provide valuable evidence to inform future industry investment, research, and policy and regulation development.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 29/04/2024 13:11:23 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1701983

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: Passenger Ships
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many tourists visit England each year (1) on a cruise ship, and (2) to go on a cruise holiday; and what percentage of all tourists these numbers represent.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL3898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>Our data on cruise passengers do not include a breakdown of passengers by nationality. The table below shows the total number of passengers arriving in the UK on international cruises between 2018 and 2022.</p><p>Total Passenger Arrivals on International Cruises:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total Passengers (in thousands)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2,208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1,994</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 01/05/2024 11:09:16 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1697679

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	P&O Ferries: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with P&O Ferries regarding the wages currently paid to its staff, following reports that those are below the National Minimum Wage; why the provisions of the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 have not yet been implemented; and when they expect that to happen.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL3472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>We welcome P&amp;O Ferries’ recent commitment to working towards the requirements of the Seafarers’ Charter, joining Britanny Ferries, Condor, DFDS and Stena Line in doing so. Officials have begun technical discussions with the company about compliance with the Charter, which requires paying seafarers an equivalent to the UK National Minimum Wage throughout their engagement.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 27/03/2024 15:23:33 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1697699

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Future of Flight Action Plan, published on 18 March, when they anticipate that the British Standards Institute will report on recommended performance standards for uncrewed aircraft systems for testing in operational non-segregated airspace environments known as ‘temporary reserved areas’.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL3473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2024 answer text <p>It is within the Action Plan for CAA to start an Uncrewed Traffic Management (UTM) sandbox this year to allows testing in non-segregated airspace environments.</p><p> </p><p>Any recommended performance standards for uncrewed aircraft system testing will need to meet the expectations of the CAA, to ensure that all airspace users meet the necessary safety requirements.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 02/04/2024 15:32:00 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson