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1723114

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: North of England
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the provision of public lavatories in the station upgrade proposals of the TransPennine Route Upgrade programme between Manchester and Leeds.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>There are no plans to make any further provision of public lavatories as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade programme inherited from the previous Government. Public lavatories will be replaced where the programme modifies or removes public lavatories at stations to facilitate works.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 30/07/2024 11:07:12 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1670111

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 26 October (HL10766), how much money has been spent to date on the Manchester leg of HS2.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>Information related to the spend to date on HS2, including Phase 2b Western Leg, was provided in the most recent Parliamentary Report published in November 2023.</p><p> </p><p>To date, £0.7bn (2019 prices) has been spent on the Phase 2b Western Leg of the HS2 Programme. This funding was used to prepare the Phase 2b Western Leg Bill. Following the Network North announcement, Government is now considering options to repurpose this Bill in order to deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport remains committed to providing regular updates to Parliament on the progress of the Programme with a further update expected in Spring 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 22/11/2023 14:58:33 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1462928

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to replace the fuel duty with a levy that charges motorists based on the miles they drive.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The government has committed to ensuring that motoring tax revenues keep pace with the changes brought about by the switch to electric vehicles, whilst keeping the transition affordable for consumers.</p><p> </p><p>All taxes are kept under review.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 24/05/2022 14:32:50 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1315018

registered interest
date	17/05/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Trade Marks: Maladministration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the event of an erroneous trademarking of a trade name by the Intellectual Property Office, they may reverse the trademarking without the need for further legal action by any aggrieved party.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>The IPO’s examiners undertake a stringent examination of any trade mark application before it is accepted for registration, which includes a search of current trade marks. Once accepted, all applications are published for a 2-month window where anyone can lodge observations or launch a legal opposition.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone can submit observations to the IPO and outline reasons why they believe a trade mark should not be registered from the date the application is made until it is registered. This IPO does not charge for this service. The IPO will then consider whether the mark has been accepted in error and can reopen the examination phase if there are grounds to do so.</p><p> </p><p>There are more formal legal routes to oppose a trade mark application or invalidate an existing trade mark registration. Whilst these are formal legal processes, the IPO’s Tribunal service is set up to be a low cost and accessible service.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 01/06/2021 11:06:42 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

1170133

registered interest
date	13/01/2020
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	NHS: Negligence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the NHS has paid out, in total, for clinical negligence claims in each of the last ten years for which figures are available; what were the five main reasons for such claims; and what strategy the NHS has for reducing the number of such claims.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service organisations and independent sector providers of NHS care in England.</p><p>The amount the NHS has paid out, in total, for clinical negligence claims in each of the last 10 financial years for which figures are available is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Paid £’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>786,991</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>863,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1,277,372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1,258,881</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,192,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,169,587</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,488,455</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1,707,167</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2,227,542</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2,359,866</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The five main reasons for the above claims by frequency are:</p><p>- Failed / Delay to Treatment;</p><p>- Failed / Delay to Diagnosis;</p><p>- Intra-Operative Problems;</p><p>- Inappropriate Treatment; and</p><p>- Inadequate Nursing Care.</p><p> </p><p>Our ambition is for the NHS to be the safest healthcare system in the world. We have thoroughly overhauled the infrastructure underpinning healthcare quality and safety in the last decade to minimise harm. <em>The NHS Patient Safety Strategy: Safer culture, safer systems, safer patients</em>, published in July 2019, and <em>Safer Maternity Care: The NHS Maternity Safety Strategy – Progress and Next Steps</em>, published in November 2017, set out the comprehensive approach to continuously improve safety. Copies of the strategies are attached.</p><p>The NHS Resolution five-year strategy <em>Delivering fair resolution and learning from harm</em>, published in 2017, describes how the organisation is contributing to improved safety and tackling clinical negligence costs. NHS Resolution is committed to learning from claims and is working directly with trusts to share learning and best practice across the NHS to drive safety improvement. This will help to minimise the potential of clinical errors that could lead to harm and possible future claims. A copy of the strategy is attached.</p><p>The Department is also working intensively with the Ministry of Justice, other Government Departments and NHS Resolution to tackle the continued year-on-year-rises in clinical negligence costs which are eating progressively into resources available for front-line care. While there are no simple solutions and the work is still ongoing, good progress has been made in developing our understanding of all the drivers of cost and exploring ways forward.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name 190708_Patient_Safety_Strategy_.pdf title NHS Patient Safety Strategy 2 file name Safer_maternity_care_-_progress_and_next_steps.pdf title Safer Maternity Care 3 file name NHS-Resolution-Our-strategy-to-2022-1.pdf title NHS Resolution Strategy question first answered 27/01/2020 12:15:56 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1151643

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hammersmith Bridge: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council that the Council will not pay for the repairs to Hammersmith Bridge, whether they intend to contribute to the cost of the repairs; and what discussions they intend to have with (1) Transport for London, and (2) Hammersmith and Fulham Council, about those bodies' contribution to those repairs.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Caithness
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>Transport in London is devolved and the maintenance of London’s roads is a matter for Transport for London (TfL) and the London Boroughs. The Department has not received a formal request for funds from either the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham or TfL for the repair of Hammersmith Bridge. Should such a request be made, we would consider it with respect to other funding requests, and in view of the devolution settlement for London.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 31/10/2019 14:21:11 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3310 label Biography information for The Earl of Caithness

746649

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assistance they have given following the Nepal earthquake of 2015, both directly and through voluntary organisations; and how that compares to assistance given by other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK government is the second largest Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) contributor to the 2015 Nepal earthquake response, after Japan. The UK Government pledged £70m at the June 2015 International Conference for Nepal’s Recovery, which has been followed by a five year £83m reconstruction programme. We provided over 250,000 people with emergency shelter; over 200,000 people with winter including clothes, blankets and mattresses; and over 2000 hours of helicopter operations to reach communities inaccessible by road. Our assistance was provided via humanitarian delivery partners, including the use of volunteers by Voluntary Service Overseas, the Nepal Red Cross and the Nepal Scout Association.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 11/07/2017 16:51:36 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

521031

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nepal: Earthquakes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they intend to take to protect the Golan Heights from further Israeli settlement expansion, discriminatory policies against the native Syrian population, and the extraction of natural resources from the area.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government regards the Golan Heights – along with East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza – as Occupied Territory. We continue to call on Israel, as the Occupying Power, to uphold its obligations under international law in the Occupied Territories, including abiding by UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981). We have been clear that Israel must comply with its obligations under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 06/06/2016 11:46:52 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

348508

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Ilois: Resettlement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking on the possible resettlement of the Chagos Islands; which departments are conducting this work; and whether they will publish any further conclusions they reach on the feasibility and costs of resettlement by those exiles and their descendants who wish to return.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the Written Ministerial Statement of 24 March 2015 made by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (James Duddridge), which I repeated the same day in the House of Lords, (HLWS440).</p><p>Further work building on the independent KPMG Feasibility Study is now underway to seek to clarify fundamental uncertainties around the likely costs, ongoing liabilities and potential demand for resettlement. This is being led by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in close collaboration with the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development, and we will explain our conclusions to interested parties in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/06/2015 13:18:01 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

61502

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many, and which, local authorities have made representations to the Department for Education asking it to legislate to extend the power to outsource children's social work functions, including child protection, under the Children and Young Persons Act 2008.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Formal representations concerning outsourcing of social care functions, potentially including child protection, have been made by Staffordshire, Kingston, and Richmond local authorities. In addition a number of informal discussions on this topic have taken place with other local authorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/06/2014 16:06:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch