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1059182

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date	11/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Interserve
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the performance, and (2) the future of Interserve in the delivery of services commissioned by them or public bodies.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL13572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The various contracting authorities, such as individual departments, manage their contracts with Interserve including monitoring of performance against each contract.</p><p>The Cabinet Office monitors the financial health of all of our strategic suppliers, including Interserve, and have regular discussions with the company’s management. Interserve announced on 06 February 2019 that it had agreed the key commercial terms of its deleveraging plan with its lenders, bonding providers and Pension Trustee. We welcome this announcement and recognise that it is a key milestone for the company in delivering the long term plan that it set out in 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 19/02/2019 17:38:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1059184

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Interserve
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the current (1) number, and (2) value of contracts between Interserve and (a) government departments, (b) local authorities, and (c) other public agencies.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL13573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>Details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 and wider public sector contracts above the value of £25,000 are published on Contracts Finder.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/02/2019 12:09:22 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1059186

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Natural Gas: Storage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the closure of the Rough gas storage facility, how many days’ worth of natural gas can now be stored in the UK, based on the UK’s average daily consumption.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL13575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK currently has a total gas storage capacity of 2.5 billion cubic metres (bcm), in the form of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) stored at terminals (1.2bcm) and gas stored underground (1.3bcm)[1].</p><p> </p><p>Based on the average daily demand (209 million cubic metres/day)<sup>1</sup>, the UK’s total gas storage capacity is equivalent to 12 days of average demand (6 days from LNG stocks, and 6 days from underground storage).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <em>Capacity and demand data sources: </em><a href="https://www.nationalgridgas.com/data-and-operations/transmission-operational-data" target="_blank">https://www.nationalgridgas.com/data-and-operations/transmission-operational-data</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 20/02/2019 13:13:40 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1059189

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	Parliamentary Session
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Leader of the House when she expects the current session of Parliament to end.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL13578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>A date for the prorogation of the current session has not yet been set. The length of the first session was extended to give Parliament more time to consider the crucial legislation relating to Brexit.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 20/02/2019 11:32:10 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1059190

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to consult on their plans for a UK Shared Prosperity Fund and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL13579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of reassuring local areas on the future of local growth funding once we have left the European Union and providing clarity on UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). We will consult widely on the Fund, providing all interested parties with an opportunity to convey their views. This will inform decisions on the design and quantum of the UKSPF, which are due to be made at Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 18/02/2019 15:54:19 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

1059208

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cancer: Diagnosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were diagnosed with cancer in the last year for which records are available, broken down by cancer type and Cancer Alliance area.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL13595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p>Dear Baroness Jolly,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were diagnosed with cancer in the last year available, broken down by cancer type and cancer alliance area <strong>(HL13595)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) in collaboration with Public Health England publishes the number of cancer diagnoses registered in England in each calendar year, as part of its Cancer Statistics Registrations, England release. The latest available cancer incidence data is available for 2016 and was published by ONS in June 2018[1].</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 attached provides the number of cancer registrations in 2016 for each cancer type that we normally publish, for each of the nineteen cancer alliance areas in England. These figures are for all ages and both sexes combined. A copy has been placed in the House of Lords Library.</p><p> </p><p>While ONS does not hold cancer registrations data for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, similar figures are published by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry[2], the Scottish Cancer Registry[3] and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit[4], respectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/final2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/final2016</a></p><p>[2]<a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/" target="_blank">http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/</a></p><p>[3]<a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/" target="_blank">http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/</a></p><p>[4]<a href="http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home" target="_blank">http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/02/2019 11:31:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name HL13595 - Table 1 (3).xlsx title UKSA Response - Table 1
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1059212

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Air Pollution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the forthcoming Environment Bill and all other relevant environmental legislation enshrines legally binding provisions to meet air quality standards, set out by the World Health Organization.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL13598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The draft Environment Bill, published in December last year, would place the 25 Year Environment Plan on a statutory footing by establishing a new statutory cycle of environmental planning, monitoring and reporting. The Government also committed to exploring the inclusion of additional targets for environmental improvement within this cycle.</p><p> </p><p>In the Environment Bill policy paper, also published in December last year, we reaffirmed that improving air quality is a key part of our plan to leave the environment in a better state than we found it.</p><p> </p><p>In our Clean Air Strategy, published in January this year, we set out our ambition to reduce people’s exposure to fine particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) and committed to setting a new, ambitious, long-term target to reduce people’s exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub>. We also committed to publishing a report this year examining what action would need to be taken to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) PM<sub>2.5</sub> annual mean guideline level of 10μg/m<sup>3</sup>, and we will use this evidence to inform the target which we set.</p><p> </p><p>The actions in the Strategy will reduce concentrations of PM<sub>2.5</sub> for everyone, resulting in a halving of the number of people living in areas with annual mean concentrations of PM<sub>2.5</sub> above the WHO’s guideline level of 10μg/m<sup>3</sup> by 2025, compared with 2016.</p><p> </p><p>We are the first major economy to set out ambitions based on the WHO’s PM<sub>2.5</sub> targets, and our Clean Air Strategy was welcomed by the WHO’s Director General as “an example for the rest of the world to follow.”</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 19/02/2019 14:06:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

1059214

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Investment: Property
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the risk balance of portfolios of open-ended property funds are not, and will not be, distorted by favouring redeeming investors.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL13600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is operationally independent from Government. The question has been passed on to the FCA. The FCA will reply directly to Lord Myners by letter. A copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/02/2019 12:39:08 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1059215

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Honours Forfeiture Committee
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions the Honours Forfeiture Committee met in each of the last eight calendar years; and when that committee last met.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL13601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>Prior to 2017, the Forfeiture Committee met to consider cases on an ad-hoc basis, or by correspondence as business required. The Committee now only meets formally and in person. Since 2017 has met on three occasions, and it last met in September 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/02/2019 13:53:44 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1059217

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Clubs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the establishment of the Future High Streets Fund to support and fund local areas’ plans to make their high streets and town centres fit for the future, whether they will consider providing similar assistance to local football clubs to ensure such clubs can continue to benefit their communities; and whether they will work alongside the football authorities to this end.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL13603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>At last Budget the government announced a £675 million Future High Streets Fund to help improve infrastructure and access to high streets, put historic buildings back to use and make town centres fit for the future.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time, the government recognises the important social and wellbeing benefits local football clubs can bring to their communities. Through our partnership with the FA and the Premier League in the Football Foundation Charity, we are investing more money than ever before into creating the facilities across the country that can be used for local community use.</p><p> </p><p>New Local Football Facility Plans for every Local Authority in England are being worked up over the next 12 months. These plans will identify the places where investment in facilities is needed the most.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 20/02/2019 11:32:40 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry