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448784

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 21 December 2015 (HL4603 and HL4606), whether they plan to investigate the activities of the group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in providing the secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smoking and Health and the use of public grants for lobbying activities in the light of the fact that the Department of Health has received 90 items of correspondence from the APPG originating from a postal or email address belonging to ASH in the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL5564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for lobbying purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The Section 64 grant must be spent in delivering the the agreed project outputs set out in the grant award letter and it does not fund secretariat support for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is required to retain information relating to Section 64 grants for six years. The full amount of the grant was spent for each year that a grant was provided to ASH in the past six years.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5565 question first answered 09/02/2016 15:52:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

438507

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 8 December (HL3846), how much grant the Department of Health will provide to Action on Smoking and Health in the current financial year, and whether they will place a copy of any grant application and award letter in the Library of the House.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL4603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department will provide a grant of £150,000 to Action on Smoking and Health in the 2015/16 financial year. This grant is awarded under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act 1968.</p><br /><p>A copy of the signed award letter, including the detailed deliverables of the grant, has been attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:42:12 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Redacted final signed grant award letter ASH 2015-16 2.pdf title ASH Reward Letter
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

516410

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Lobbying
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 24 February (HL6112), what processes the Department of Health has reviewed in the light of the guidance issued by the Cabinet Office on 6 February; what changes they have made, including in respect of individual contracts; and what are the details of each contract subject to such changes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL8048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s current policy already clearly states that grants will not be awarded if there is any indication within the application that some or all of any funding awarded will be used to support political activities. This condition is reinforced by a standard terms within the Grant Award letter.</p><p>In light of the draft implementation guidance issued by Cabinet Office on 6 February, the Department has engaged with relevant internal and external stakeholders to prepare for the mandatory implementation of the Cabinet Office guidance from 1 May 2016.</p><p>As announced on 27 April the introduction of the clause has been paused, pending a review of the representations made, and to give further time to consider any necessary adjustments to the wording of the clause, or the policy on its implementation.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office are continuing to consider the comments of all interested parties, ahead of the introduction into grant agreements of the clause aimed at protecting taxpayers' money from being wasted on government lobbying government.</p><p>The draft implementation guidance has been withdrawn, along with the go-live date of 1 May 2016. Further details will be announced in due course, including a revised implementation date and the Department will be working towards the revised timetable once it is received.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 04/05/2016 12:31:03 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

448785

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each year in which a grant was provided to the group Action on Smoking and Health, how much (1) was spent against the original grant, (2) constituted underspend, and (3) was returned to the Department of Health.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL5565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters. The Department has made clear that none of this funding is to be used for lobbying purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The Section 64 grant must be spent in delivering the the agreed project outputs set out in the grant award letter and it does not fund secretariat support for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is required to retain information relating to Section 64 grants for six years. The full amount of the grant was spent for each year that a grant was provided to ASH in the past six years.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL5564 question first answered 09/02/2016 15:52:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

515922

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for any grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health in each of the last five years, how much was awarded in one financial year and spent in a subsequent one.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL7988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department has received an application for grant funding from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) for the 2016-17 financial year. The application process is iterative to ensure the final objectives are in line with Departmental aims and the application that the Department currently holds is a draft application. Draft applications for grant funding are not published.</p><p> </p><p>There was no underspend of the grant awarded to ASH in 2015-16 and, in each of the last five years, the funding has been spent in the relevant financial year.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL7986 HL7987 question first answered 04/05/2016 12:34:41 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

449238

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health for 2015–16 relates to activities to be delivered beyond the end of the financial year; and, as the grant conditions stipulate that such activities must be delivered prior to that day, whether they will investigate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL5748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The proposed budget estimates received from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) for each of the last five years for a Section 64 grant is attached. Commercially sensitive information has been redacted.</p><p> </p><p>As the agreed project outputs make clear, the 2015-16 Section 64 grant funding awarded to ASH will be spent in the current financial year, including work relating to preparation for legislation coming into force later in 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 16:31:01 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL5747-5748-LordNaseby-attachment.pdf title ASH Budget estimates
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

222808

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services and Public Health Act 1968
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which organisations, in each of the last five years, have received funding under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968; and whether they will set out the name and amount of funding given to each organisation and any attached conditions or restrictions on its use.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL5149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>Tables have been attached which provide information on awards made under Section 64 of the Health and Public Health Act 1968 for the financial years 2010-11 to 2014-15 in relation to the following;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Innovation, Excellence and Service Development Fund;</p><p> </p><p>- Strategic Partner Programme;</p><p> </p><p>- Financial Assistance Fund;</p><p> </p><p>- Children’s Hospice and Hospice at Home Grants;</p><p> </p><p>- Homeless Hospital Discharge Fund (HHDF); and</p><p> </p><p>- Other grants awarded under Section 64 outside the main schemes (for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15 only).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on Section 64 grants made outside the main schemes for the years 2010-11 to 2012-13 is not available in the format requested from central records and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Standard conditions are included in the award letters for all Section 64 grants. These are reviewed on a regular basis. The current standard template used for grant awards made under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 has also been attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to the standard terms and conditions of award, individual grant awards may include additional conditions. These are not collated centrally and would require examination of every grant awarded during the last five years. Therefore this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL5149 Annex A Section 64 Awards financial years 2010-11 to 2014-15.xlsx title Section 64 Awards 2 file name HL5149 Annex-B-Award-Letter-Template.doc title Section 64 Award Letter question first answered 05/03/2015 16:39:06 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

449237

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the budget estimate in relation to the projects to be delivered in the 2015–16 grant application from the group Action on Smoking and Health and all other budget estimates received by the Department of Health in each of the last five years from that organisation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL5747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The proposed budget estimates received from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) for each of the last five years for a Section 64 grant is attached. Commercially sensitive information has been redacted.</p><p> </p><p>As the agreed project outputs make clear, the 2015-16 Section 64 grant funding awarded to ASH will be spent in the current financial year, including work relating to preparation for legislation coming into force later in 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 11/02/2016 16:25:34 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL5747-5748-LordNaseby-attachment.pdf title ASH Budget estimates
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

432077

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of all audits undertaken or commissioned by the Department of Health into Action on Smoking and Health.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL3850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>In financial year 2012/13, the Department grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968) was included in a sample of grants that was reviewed in an internal audit of the grant management arrangements of the Department. The audit included visits to the charities that formed part of the sample to test the information they provided to the Department and to garner their views on how the Department engaged with them. ASH was included in the work because its grant fulfilled the sample criteria.</p><p>The internal audit was not a review of the organisation and the way that it operated, its focus was on the Department grant management. It found that, at the time, there were satisfactory arrangements in place in the Department. The audit report did not raise any adverse comments about ASH or include any recommendations in relation to them. It is not normal practice to place copies of Internal Audit reports in the Library.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:33:22 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

452166

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to review the grant awarded to the organisation Action on Smoking and Health in the current financial year in the light of the announcement by the Cabinet Office on 6 February in relation to charity funding.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL6113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters, including a specific clause in the grant award letter which makes explicit that the award has been made under the provisions of Section 64 and may not be used for lobbying.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 24/02/2016 13:09:47 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby