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1657625

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	World Expo: Osaka
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the staffing costs for the UK pavilion at the Osaka Expo 2025.
tabling member printed	Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
uin	HL9802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>Requirements for staffing the UK pavilion are still being scoped and therefore estimated costs are not currently known.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 22/09/2023 13:26:13 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	4702 label Biography information for Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

1657626

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	World Expo: Osaka
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when construction of the UK pavilion for the Osaka Expo 2025 will (1) commence, and (2) be completed.
tabling member printed	Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
uin	HL9803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>Construction for the UK pavilion in Osaka will commence in early 2024. Construction will be completed ahead of the Expo opening on 13 April 2025.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 22/09/2023 13:25:27 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	4702 label Biography information for Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

1657627

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	World Expo: Osaka
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many businesses they expect to participate in the UK pavilion at the Osaka Expo 2025.
tabling member printed	Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
uin	HL9804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>UK Government will be working with as many British businesses as possible to showcase the UK across Japan and the Asia Pacific region, as well as promote foreign direct investment in the UK. This work is on-going; the total number of businesses that will be involved is not yet confirmed.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 22/09/2023 13:25:14 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	4702 label Biography information for Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

1657629

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	World Expo: Osaka
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much they estimate will be spent by each department on organising the UK pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025; and how much funding they estimate will be provided by (1) UK businesses, and (2) other organisations, to support the organisation of the UK pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025.
tabling member printed	Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
uin	HL9806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade is organising the UK Pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025 on behalf of His Majesty's Government. The Department's estimated total budget for delivering the UK's presence is £58.39m. This is funded from contributions from existing budgets.</p><p>Significant additional funding is being sought from the private sector to offset costs to the taxpayer. This work is in train - it is not therefore possible to accurately estimate private sector funding levels at this point.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 22/09/2023 13:26:31 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	4702 label Biography information for Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

1659259

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	UN General Assembly
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government on what grounds the Prime Minister has decided not to attend the UN General Assembly this month.
tabling member printed	Earl Russell
uin	HL9994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government delegation to the UN General Assembly High Level Week on 18-22 September will be led by the Deputy Prime Minister, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary, myself Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon as Minister of State for the UN, Minister Mitchell as Minister for Development and Minister Stuart as Minister for Net Zero. Building on the significant announcements made by the PM at the G20 in New Delhi, the UK delegation will show how these, and other UK priorities can be advanced through multilateralism as we work alongside a wide range of countries, ahead of major Artificial Intelligence and food security summits in the UK later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/09/2023 13:30:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4983 label Biography information for Earl Russell

1659264

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel in relation to the use of force in the death of Mr Ameed al-Jaghoub on 21 August.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Southwark
uin	HL9999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>Our sympathies are with Ameed al-Jaghoub and his family. While we have not discussed this specific incident with the Israeli Government, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank and Gaza is too high. In our dialogue with the Israeli authorities, whilst we have recognised their legitimate need to deploy security measures to address violence, we remind them that such deployments are done to minimise tension and use appropriate force. When there have been accusations of excessive use of force, we have advocated swift, transparent investigations. Israel must abide by its obligations under international law, and we have a regular dialogue with Israel on legal issues relating to the occupation. As the occupying power, we urge Israel to fulfil its responsibilities, including ensuring the protection of the civilian population. I, (Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon), made this clear most recently in a meeting with the Israeli chargé d'affaires on July 4.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/09/2023 13:30:51 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4345 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Southwark

1659269

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Africa: Climate Change
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what financial support they are providing to countries in Africa to help combat climate change on that continent.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL10004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The UK is working closely with African partners to fight climate change, boost resilience and help those whose lives are most impacted. The UK supports initiatives, such as contributing towards the African Development Bank's Climate Action Window (£200 million) and South Africa's Just Energy Transition ($1.8 billion). At the Africa Climate Summit (4-6 September) the Minister for Climate and the Environment, The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, reaffirmed the Government's commitment to spend £11.6 billion on international climate finance, with approximately 40 per cent of this being spent on Africa. Minister Mitchell also announced projects worth £49 million to help African countries manage the impact of climate change and improve the lives of women, farmers and at-risk communities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/09/2023 13:29:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1659858

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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	Respite Care: Carers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper, published on 1 December 2021, what progress they have made on their delivery of the £25 million fund in support of unpaid carers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pitkeathley
uin	HL10049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government is finalising its plans for how we will deliver up to an additional £25 million that we committed to in People at the Heart of Care to support unpaid carers and hopes to share plans shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 22/09/2023 13:26:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3179 label Biography information for Baroness Pitkeathley

1659869

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the (1) current, and (2) future, levels of the capital budget allocated to each of the devolved nations.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>The 2021 Spending Review set the largest annual block grants, in real terms, of any spending review settlement since the devolution Acts. Those settlements are still growing in real terms over the three-year spending review period, despite inflation being higher than expected.</p><p> </p><p>The Spending Review 2021 settlement provided £41 billion per year for the Scottish Government (£6 billion of which is capital funding), £18 billion per year for the Welsh Government (£3 billion capital) and £15 billion per year for the Northern Ireland Executive (£2 billion capital).</p><p> </p><p>On top of record spending review settlements, the devolved administrations are receiving an additional £4 billion over the next two years through the operation of the Barnett formula (largely from Autumn Statement 2022 and Spring Budget 2023): £1.8 billion for the Scottish Government, £1.4 billion for the Welsh Government and £0.8 billion for the Northern Ireland Executive. £1.8 billion of this has been allocated to their capital budgets (£0.8 billion for the Scottish Government, £0.7 billion for the Welsh Government and £0.3 billion for the Northern Ireland Executive). The devolved administration’s budgets are not set beyond the current spending review period.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 22/09/2023 13:34:28 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1659878

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	District Heating
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which technologies are most appropriate for gas-based District Heating Schemes (DHS) to adopt in order to contribute to national decarbonisation targets; what estimate they have made of the approximate cost of the transition by DHS to low-carbon heat; and what methods of financing could be used to support this transition.
tabling member printed	Lord Whitty
uin	HL10069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>Heat networks can use a variety of low-carbon heat sources, for example large heat pumps, industrial waste heat and geothermal. No one solution will be appropriate for every DHS - a mix of technologies will support heat decarbonisation. <br> <br>Whilst the capital cost of many of these low-carbon sources is higher than gas combustion technologies there are a range of private financing options. The Government has itself invested £288m in the decarbonisation of heat networks through the Green Heat Network Fund. <br> <br>Longer term the Government intends to introduce Heat Networks Zoning by 2025 to further grow the number of low-carbon heat networks across England and in ‘Powering Up Britain’ the Government committed to outlining a clear approach to price rebalancing by the end of 2024, to lower the running costs of these lower-carbon technologies.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 22/09/2023 13:29:05 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	2444 label Biography information for Lord Whitty