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date	09/04/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	River Stour: Insecticides
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the annual treatment of the River Stour in Dorset to prevent infestations of the Blandford Fly is effective; and what is their assessment of the risks of that treatment, if any, to (1) human, (2) animal, and (3) plant life.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL15157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>Local monitoring by General Practitioners of the incidence of bites in the 1990s showed a decline. Whether this was due to the annual treatments cannot be proved conclusively.</p><p> </p><p>Dorset Council is undertaking a trial into the effectiveness of a biocidal product against the Blandford Fly. The Health and Safety Executive’s assessment of the product in question, conducted as part of providing an authorisation for its use, concluded that the risks for humans, non-target animals and the wider environment were acceptable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 24/04/2019 14:26:07 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

433125

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have a policy about the number of children a family or individual should have; and if so, what it is.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not have a policy on the number of children a family or individual should have.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 14/12/2015 14:45:19 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

385336

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 24 June (HL540), whether they plan to make such assessments in future; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Although data regarding claimant nationality is not currently recorded on benefit payment systems, Universal Credit will record such data, when EEA nationals are able to claim. The Department has no plans to make specific assessments regarding Polish nationals when such data becomes available. However, we will continue to monitor EEA nationals’ access to benefits more generally.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has made clear that further steps are needed to reform welfare to reduce the incentives which have led to mass immigration from the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:59:13 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

381624

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether Polish citizens of working age settled in the United Kingdom are more or less likely to claim benefits than the national average.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Specific assessments of the number of Polish benefit claimants as a proportion of the working age population are not available.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/06/2015 14:50:25 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten