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1692598

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date	28/02/2024
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	Peatlands: Environment Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether payments to farmers in England to rewet upland peat are sufficient (1) to offset management costs and provide income to the farmers, and (2) to ensure levels of restoration activity that are consistent with short-term and long-term targets.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayman of Ullock
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>Payment rates are based on the income forgone and costs to the farmer. In January, we announced that we were increasing the payment rate for rewetting moorland peat in Countryside Stewardship from £25 to £181 per hectare. This significant increase will ensure appropriate payment to farmers as well as incentivising rewetting of vitally important peatland.</p><p> </p><p>The Nature for Climate Peatland Grant scheme has provided £35 million of funding to financially commit us to restoring approximately 27,000 hectares of peatland. This scheme is funding a significant proportion of our short-term target of restoring 35,000 hectares by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Environmental Land Management schemes will help us meet our longer-term target to restore 280,000 hectares of peatland by 2050. In particular, the Landscape Recovery scheme will provide successful projects with funding to support large-scale peatland restoration. Payments made to land managers under Landscape Recovery projects will be benchmarked against rates paid for similar activities under existing Government schemes, such as Countryside Stewardship, to ensure payments to farmers are appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 11/03/2024 16:02:54 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

1535327

registered interest
date	24/10/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Honours
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether, and if so when, resignation honours lists will be published following the resignations of (1) Boris Johnson, and (2) Liz Truss.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>It is a long-standing convention that individuals can be nominated for an honour in recognition of their public and political service, and that Prime Ministers can draw up a ‘Dissolution’ or ‘Resignation’ List (after a general election or when resigning from office). This has been the case under past governments from across the political spectrum.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to speculate on any possible Resignation Honours Lists which is a matter for both former Prime Ministers and the current Prime Minister.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 26/10/2022 15:54:17 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1358389

registered interest
date	04/10/2021
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	Additional Restrictions Grant
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the funding allocated to local authorities under the Additional Restrictions Grant Scheme had been spent by 31 July.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>All data on Government allocations and Local Authority payments of the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) is available at GOV.UK. As at the last date of publishing, 29 August 2021, Local Authorities had received £2,023,461,804 in ARG funding, and overall had reported to us as having spent £1,710,673,774.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 18/10/2021 14:35:49 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1187377

registered interest
date	23/03/2020
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	Supermarkets: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to relax temporarily Sunday trading hours to prevent overcrowding and allow key workers to purchase shopping at supermarkets.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2020 answer text <p>Supermarkets have developed a range of approaches to accommodate key workers and address overcrowding, within the existing statutory framework. The Government is also temporarily relaxing competition law to allow the retailers to share information and collaborate over the management of supplies and opening hours. The Government is speaking to retailers regularly to ensure supply to key workers and others is maintained.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 03/04/2020 10:45:29 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

782416

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the total train delays in 2016–17 resulted from incidents over which the railway network and operators had no control; and how much total time delay occurred as a result of such incidents.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2017 answer text <p>Incidents over which the rail industry had no control (for example vandalism, trespass, fatalities, disorder on trains and severe weather) accounted for approximately 16% of all delay minutes in the year 1<sup>st</sup> April 2016 – 31<sup>st</sup> March 2017. Over the same time period, such incidents caused approximately 2.85 million delay minutes to the rail industry.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 14/11/2017 14:45:47 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

625820

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are penalised for breaches of targets set out in the NHS Constitution and pledges on waiting times, and Acute Hospital Trusts (AHTs) are not penalised for the same breaches; and if so, whether this represents differing treatment of CCGs and AHTs by NHS England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Shephard of Northwold
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>National Health Service clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are not directly penalised for each breach of NHS Constitution waiting time commitments, or the associated operational standards. However, access to Quality Premium scheme funding, which CCGs can earn in addition to their normal allocations for achieving specific improvements in care or outcomes, is partially dependent on each CCG’s performance against waiting times standards. More broadly, NHS England is supported by legislation in exercising formal powers of direction if it is satisfied that a CCG is failing or at risk of failing to discharge its functions. The NHS Standard Contract provides for financial sanctions against acute hospital trusts for breaching waiting time operational standards.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England issues planning guidance annually, the latest of which is<em> NHS Operational Planning and Contracting Guidance 2017-2019</em>. This sets out the waiting time standards, other operational standards and quality requirements that providers of NHS healthcare services are expected to meet in order to deliver the rights and pledges in the NHS Constitution. Copies of the Guidance and the NHS Constitution are attached.</p><p> </p><p>These requirements are set out in the NHS Standard Contract that must be used by CCGs for all contracts with hospital providers of NHS healthcare services. The Contract sets out the consequences of breaches of the waiting time standards and other requirements by hospital providers. For waiting time standards, this consequence is in the form of a financial sanction.</p><p> </p><p>However, from 2016-17, the operation of contractual sanctions for poor performance against waiting time standards has been suspended where a hospital provider is receiving funding from the Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), and meets certain other specified conditions, including the agreement of performance trajectories with NHS Improvement and NHS England. These arrangements are arranged at avoiding ‘double jeopardy’ for hospital providers within scope of the STF. If they fail to achieve their agreed performance trajectories, these hospital providers will face withdrawal of an element of their STF funding by NHS Improvement, but will not face application of the normal contractual sanctions by their commissioners.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name The NHS Constitution for England.pdf title NHS Constitution 2 file name NHS-operational-planning-guidance-201617-201819.pdf title NHS Operational Planning Guidance question first answered 09/11/2016 17:10:39 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	132 label Biography information for Baroness Shephard of Northwold

422792

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Eritrea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to call upon all European Union member states to uphold the principle of non-refoulement for refugees from Eritrea.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>We have updated our country information and guidance on Eritrea. This takes into account the UN Commission of Inquiry’s report as well other sources reporting on the human rights situation. The revised documents, covering illegal exit and national service, were published on 9 September and are available on the Gov.uk website. They recognise that there are human rights challenges in Eritrea – particularly around the national service programme – but, as with all asylum applications, stress the need to consider each claim on its individual merits.</p><p>All EU Member States have a responsibility to respect the principle of non-refoulement. We are confident that our European partners understand and apply this, whether to Eritrea or anywhere else. We are in regular discussions with our EU counterparts – individually and via the European Asylum Support Office – to discuss various aspects of asylum policy and practice.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL2838 question first answered 02/11/2015 15:54:41 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

155381

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Middle East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to ensure that disabled people and women are regularly consulted about their specific needs and the needs of their children when provision is made for refugees and displaced people from Syria and Iraq.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>All UK aid partners responding on the ground in Syria and in refugee hosting countries target the most vulnerable individuals caught up in conflict – particularly women, children, people with disabilities and the elderly. Programmes are designed in close collaboration with disabled people and their families to ensure due consideration of their particular needs and all new DFID projects must demonstrate compliance with the International Development Gender Equality Bill.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 24/11/2014 16:05:51 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton