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	registered interest
	date	24/05/2023
	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	Highly Protected Marine Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend the number of Highly Protected Marine Areas; and what is their timetable for the associated consultation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL8089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2023 answer text <p>In February 2023 the Government announced it would designate three Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) in English Waters before 6th July 2023. The Government will begin exploring additional HPMAs this year. Any future sites would be subject to consultation as required by the Marine and Coastal Access Act.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 31/05/2023 12:50:53 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1233926

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase access to online learning for all university students.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL8089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The government is aware of the disproportionate impact that the COVID-19 outbreak will have on some students and it has already been working closely with the Office for Students (OfS), the regulator of registered higher education providers in England, so higher education providers can draw upon existing funding to provide hardship funds and to support disadvantaged students affected by COVID-19.</p><p>As a result of this flexibility, providers were able to use OfS student premium funding worth around £23 million per month for April to July this year. From August, providers have also been able to use £256 million for the current academic year towards student hardship funds, including for the purchase of IT equipment. We have also allocated £100 million to support remote education, which has enabled the provision of routers and laptops to vulnerable students, prioritising care-leavers, including those at university.</p><p>We expect that higher education providers will be open for the autumn term, combining online teaching and in-person tuition in ways that they consider appropriate and in line with public health advice. On 10 September, the government issued updated guidance to the higher education sector on reopening campuses and buildings.</p><p>The government’s expectation is that quality and academic standards must be maintained, and the OfS has made it clear that all higher education providers must continue to comply with registration conditions relating to quality and standards, which set out requirements to ensure that courses are high quality, that students are supported and achieve good outcomes, and that standards are protected.</p><p>The OfS has published information and guidance for providers and students, and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has also published a series of guides to support providers to secure academic standards and to support student achievement during the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State of Education, has commissioned Sir Michael Barber, the Chairman of the OfS, to lead a review to consider how to enhance the quality of digital teaching and learning and the opportunities that digital education presents for universities in the medium and long term. The review is expected to report in spring 2021 and will also explore how higher education institutions can ensure that all students have access to a high-quality digital teaching and learning experience.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 25/09/2020 10:33:02 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

908927

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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	Israel: Borders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by the Minister of State for the Middle East on 15 May (HC Deb, col 138) confirming the Government’s support for Israel’s right to defend its borders, what they consider Israel’s borders to be.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL8089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK is clear that we support Israel's right to defend its borders from attack. We distinguish between the State of Israel within the 1948 armistice lines and the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. We are also clear that the permanent borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state should be based on pre-1967 lines with equal land swaps to reflect the national, security, and religious interests of the Jewish and Palestinian peoples. The final status of these borders must be determined by the parties as part of a negotiated two-state solution.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/06/2018 11:46:07 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

516577

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Eritrea
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of Eritreans who challenged an initial asylum refusal won their appeal in (1) 2013, (2) 2014, and (3) 2015.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL8089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Figures on asylum appeal determinations by country of nationality are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. The following table gives the proportion of determined asylum appeals from Eritrean nationals that were allowed in each year, from 2013 to 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Proportion of determined asylum appeals from Eritrean nationals that were allowed, 2013 to 2015</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appeals determined for Eritrean nationals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appeals allowed for Eritrean nationals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of appeals that were allowed for Eritrean nationals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p><strong>36%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p><strong>44%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>562</p></td><td><p>452</p></td><td><p><strong>80%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Table notes:</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(1) Source: table as_14, <em>Immigration Statistics </em>October to December 2015, Home Office</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(2) HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) (formerly the Tribunals Service Immigration and Asylum (TSIA)), consists of the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FTTIAC and UTIAC). This replaced the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on 15 February 2010. All figures for appeals determined are cases dealt with by Immigration Judges at the AIT or FTTIAC.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(3) Figures exclude dependants.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(4) The appeals allowed figures may include a small number of cases where the asylum application was granted at initial decision, but later appealed against. This may be due to the circumstances of the grant (i.e. discretionary leave/UASC leave rather than asylum).</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(5) Data for 2015 are provisional and subject to update.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics, October to December 2015, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 04/05/2016 13:47:37 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead