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1201040

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how long on average it takes for an applicant to receive a grant of probate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Soley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>Probate timeliness data up to March 2020 are due for publication on 25th June 2020.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 22/06/2020 16:19:52 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	160 label Biography information for Lord Soley

1201065

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	Sports: Drugs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Anti-Doping Rule Violations hearings have taken place since 17 March.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>The National Anti-Doping Panel has heard three cases of Anti-Doping Rule Violations via videoconference since 17 March 2020, which is in line with what the Panel usually hears.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 22/06/2020 11:20:00 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

1201046

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 tests have been dispatched for each day since postal distribution began.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/07/2020 16:06:14 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1201064

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	Sports: Drugs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many UK registered athletes are currently selected for inclusion in UK Anti-Doping out-of-competition testing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>There are currently 561 athletes registered on UKAD’s National Registered Testing Pool and Domestic Testing Pool, with an approximate 50/50% split between the two pools. These athletes are required to provide their Whereabouts via the Anti-Doping Administration Management System to enable out-of-competition testing.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Whereabouts Failures for the current period will be reported in the next Quarterly Testing Reports, likely to be published in mid-July on UKAD’s website.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL5394 question first answered 22/06/2020 10:44:47 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

1201020

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Coroners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many deceased persons are currently being held by coroners in England awaiting registration of death.
	tabling member printed	Lord Leigh of Hurley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice collects statistics on deaths reported to coroners on an annual basis but does not have details of deaths that are under investigation. The Office of National Statistics publishes the number of registered deaths but does not distinguish between deaths referred to coroners and other deaths so it is not possible to determine the average waiting time.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL5384 question first answered 23/06/2020 09:55:07 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4295 label Biography information for Lord Leigh of Hurley

1201091

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Islamic State: Unmanned Air Vehicles
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many drone strikes British Armed Forces have carried out against Isil this year in (1) January, (2) February, (3) March, (4) April, and (5) May.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2020 answer text <p>This year, United Kingdom Armed Forces have recorded the following numbers of weapon release events from Reaper remotely piloted aircraft against Daesh targets:</p><p>January - 0</p><p> </p><p>February - 0</p><p> </p><p>March - 0</p><p> </p><p>April - 1</p><p> </p><p>May - 6</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 18/06/2020 13:13:27 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1201026

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many grants of asylum were granted in (1) 2017, (2) 2018, and (3) 2019; and what was the breakdown of nationality of those granted asylum in each of those years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5391
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release). Data on the number of grants of asylum are published in tables Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement’ (attached) datasets, and are broken down by nationality and type of grant (asylum, humanitarian protection, discretionary leave etc.) for all requested years.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’ (attached). The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.</p><p> </p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’ (https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance).</p><p> </p><p>Annex A (attached) provides the published data from Asy_D02. The data relate to grants made at initial decision and include main applicants only. The pivot table can be used to show data on nationality.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement datasets.xlsx title Asylum applications, initial decisions 2 file name Asylum summary tables.xlsx title Asylum summary tables 3 file name HL5391 Annex A.xlsx title Annex A question first answered 22/06/2020 11:36:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

1201042

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	Social Rented Housing: Construction
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many homes were built for social rent in England (1) in each of the last five years for which figures are available, and (2) in 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>The number of social rent completions for 2009-10 and each of the last five years for which there are available data, including new build, can be found in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Social Rent, of which:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>33,491</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9,331</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,798</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,895</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,679</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,287</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Build</p></td><td><p>30,396</p></td><td><p>8,464</p></td><td><p>6,066</p></td><td><p>5,296</p></td><td><p>5,597</p></td><td><p>5,320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acquisitions</p></td><td><p>2,786</p></td><td><p>867</p></td><td><p>684</p></td><td><p>596</p></td><td><p>1,058</p></td><td><p>956</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Known</p></td><td><p>309</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This information, broken down by tenure and whether the units are new build and acquisitions, is published in Live Table 1009 which can be found (attached) here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a></p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 22/06/2020 16:21:57 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
	tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1201090

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many officials from the Ministry of Defence were members of the Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre in (1) 2018, (2) 2019, and (3) 2020.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2020 answer text <p>The following number of Ministry of Defence officials were members of the Counter Proliferation &amp; Arms Control Centre in 2018, 2019 and 2020.</p><p>2018: 9</p><p>2019: 10</p><p>2020: 10</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 12/06/2020 09:31:02 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1201061

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	UK Anti-doping: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many out-of-competition tests UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has undertaken since the decision to reduce the UKAD testing programme as a result of COVID-19 was announced on 17 March.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) publishes its doping test figures on a quarterly basis to preserve the integrity of the test allocation process and ensure the “no advance notice” testing principle is protected. Therefore, UKAD’s figures for the in- and out-of-competition tests it has carried out since 17 March 2020 are only partially available.</p><p> </p><p>Testing figures for Q4 of 2019/20, which covers January-March 2020, have been published on UKAD’s website. According to this report, the domestic and international Anti-Doping Testing Programme carried out 2,512 tests during this period. Testing figures for Q1 of 2020/21, which covers April-June 2020, will be published after the period is complete.</p><p> </p><p>Athletes are not required to declare in advance of tests if they, or anyone they are living with, are at higher risk from, or clinically extremely vulnerable to, COVID-19. UKAD has asked athletes and National Governing Bodies to provide this information to help their planning, however does not have plans to make this publicly available.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL5393 question first answered 22/06/2020 11:17:07 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name 2019 20 Q4 Quarterly Report.pdf title UK National Anti-Doping Programme Results
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan