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1700716

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date	15/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of speeding up delivery times for the Fleet Solid Support ships.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The approved In-Service Date for the first Fleet Solid Support ship is 2031. The Royal Navy expects to manage RFA Fort Victoria's operational status as necessary to maintain solid support ship availability during the capability transition period. Should opportunities arise that will expedite these timelines, then the Department will consider those in a value for money context.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 29/04/2024 12:30:18 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1546237

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Taxation
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 effect of recent tax changes on the supply of homes in the private rented sector.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting the rental market.</p><p> </p><p>On 23 September, the Government announced an increase in the nil-rate threshold of Stamp Duty Land Tax from £125,000 to £250,000 for all purchases of residential property. At Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that this measure will end on 31 March 2025 as part of the Government’s commitment to fiscal responsibility. It will remain in place until then to boost transactions by reducing the upfront costs of purchasing homes, including in the private rented sector, and support the hundreds of thousands of jobs and businesses reliant on the property industry.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all tax policy under review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 12/12/2022 17:21:34 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

1366784

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children in England currently receive free school meals.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2021 answer text <p>Free school meal (FSM) eligibility criteria is a devolved policy. In England, under the benefits-based criteria, 1.7 million of the most disadvantaged pupils are eligible for and claiming a free school meal. An additional 1.3 million infant aged children can also access a free, healthy and nutritious meal at lunchtime, following the introduction of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy in 2014.</p><p>Under the benefits-based criteria, to be eligible to receive FSMs, a pupil or their parent must be in receipt of specific welfare benefits and must make a claim to the school for FSMs. The criteria are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals</a>.</p><p>Schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time. Beyond that, billions of pounds of welfare assistance is in place to support families and children. Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak and during the period in which schools were largely closed, the department funded around £450 million supermarket vouchers through the National Voucher Scheme. Since November 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions has put in place funding to support vulnerable households across the country. The latest fund is the DWPs £500 million Household Support Fund to help families and individuals with essentials over the coming months as the country continues its recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak. This fund will allow local authorities to directly help the hardest-hit families and individuals with daily needs such as food, clothing and utilities.</p><p>The recent Budget also confirmed the continuation of the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, with an investment of over £200 million per year. Operated through local authorities and taking place in schools and community venues across England, national delivery began at Easter 2021 and has run across the summer and will run in the Christmas holidays. It supports disadvantaged pupils and their families with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new skills, providing physical activity, nutritional education, and supporting socialisation and well-being. Local authorities are required to operate against the core HAF objectives including the provision of food that meets the school food standards but have freedom to determine the delivery approach, for example working with local partners, businesses and supermarkets.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL3822 HL3823 HL3824 question first answered 17/11/2021 14:49:03 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1193284

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Remand in Custody
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners were held on remand for non-violent offences in (1) January, (2) February, (3) March, and (4) April.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2020 answer text <p>In answering this question we have interpreted ‘violent’ as ‘Violence Against The Person’.</p><p> </p><p>The table below therefore provides information on the total numbers of prisoners that were held on both pre-trial and post-conviction remand for offences excluding those in the ‘Violence Against The Person’ offence group on 31 January, 29 February and 31 March 2020. It has not been possible to provide this information for April because the data will not be available until the end of July 2020 when the next Offender Management Statistics Quarterly will be published.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Remand prison population (excluding (alleged) “Violence Against The Person” offence group), as at 31 January to 31 March 2020; England &amp; Wales</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>31-Jan-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29-Feb-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31-Mar-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total 'non-violent' remand population</strong></p></td><td><p>7,622</p></td><td><p>7,709</p></td><td><p>7,589</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Data sources and quality</strong></p><p>The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p><strong>Source:</strong> PQ HL 3825 (Ministry of Justice; DASD-JSAS)</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 20/05/2020 12:47:55 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

800438

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of former staff of NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts who moved to employment with a wholly owned subsidiary of those Trusts who have opted to come out of the NHS Pension Scheme in return for higher wages.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Any compulsorily transferred staff would have their pay, terms and conditions protected under Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment legislation and have continued access to the NHS Pension Scheme under the Government’s New Fair Deal guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/12/2017 16:21:02 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

651844

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Radio Frequencies
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 Ashton of Hyde on 17 November (HL3043), whether a contingency plan for the Programme Making and Special Events sector exists; if not, when they will start to draft a contingency plan; and which stakeholders will be consulted as the contingency plan is compiled.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>Analysis has shown that enough spectrum has been made available for PMSE to meet all demand. It is, therefore, up to industry to decide how they work within the constraints of the allocated spectrum and to plan their events accordingly.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 12/12/2016 14:42:56 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

431562

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Small Businesses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking in response to data published by the European Commission in its 2015 Annual Report on European SMEs, which found that access to finance and finding customers are some of the greatest issues faced by SMEs in the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Cotter
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The European Commission’s Annual Report on European SMEs 2014/15 found that, access to finance for SMEs across the EU has decreased in importance with only 13% (down from 15% in 2013) citing it as the most pressing problem in 2014 behind a number of other issues. The UK’s SME Finance Monitor also found that 79% of SME loan and overdraft applications were successful in the 18 months to 2015 Q2, up from 67% in Q4 2013.</p><br /><p>The Government continues to take steps to improve access to finance. The British Business Bank, for example, is supporting £2.4 billion of finance to over 40,000 smaller businesses, and participating in a further £3.3 billion of finance to small mid-sized businesses, as of the end of June. In addition, the implementation of measures in the Small Business and Employment Act 2015 will require the largest banks to refer customers who have been declined finance to alternative providers via designated platforms.</p><p>The report also highlights that finding customers remains a problem for SMEs but that this is relatively less problematic than in previous years. We are supporting SMEs by providing advice on a range of issues through Growth Hubs, which join up local resources; the My Business Support Tool which helps businesses find the support they need quickly; and the Business Support Helpline.</p><br /><p>Government has made public contract opportunities easier to find by making them all accessible on an improved single online portal. The Contracts Finder contains current public sector contracts (above £10,000 in Central Government and £25,000 in the wider public sector) and a forwardpipelineof potential contract opportunities up to 2020.</p><br /><p>Of the 50,000 plus businesses that make up the customer base of UK Trade &amp; Investment, some 90% are SMEs.</p><br /><p>UKTI provides tailored help for SMEs, including: working out which markets suit their business; identifying export opportunities; introducing them to key contacts and setting up business meetings; and helping firms exhibit their goods and services at trade fairs.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/12/2015 16:56:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3786 label Biography information for Lord Cotter

170878

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why in England applicants have been unable to sit the Life in the United Kingdom citizenship test in Welsh or Scots Gaelic since 2013.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>We introduced a new version of the Life in the UK test in 2013, but there was no change to our policy on offering the test in Welsh or Scottish Gaelic. Demand for tests in these languages is very low and we have no record of any requests outside Wales or Scotland.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 05/01/2015 15:34:34 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno