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1580463

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date	24/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Freedom of Information
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they provide to schools and Local Education Authorities on their application of the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and in particular with regard to any parent's request to access information on Relationships and Sex Education curricula delivered by external contractors and providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL5022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>Schools are responsible for what is taught in Relationship, Health and Sex Education (RHSE) lessons, including anything taught by external providers. Schools should agree reasonable requests from parents to view curriculum materials. We would expect schools to avoid entering into any agreement that seeks to prevent them from ensuring parents can be made properly aware of the materials that are being used to teach their children. The department will soon be writing to schools to clarify this.</p><p>Regarding Government providing advice on the application of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, local authorities and schools are public authorities in their own right for the purposes of the FOIA. This means that they must make their own decisions on how they should respond to specific FOIs they receive, including any from parents requesting access to information on Relationships and Sex Education curricula delivered by external contractors and providers. Accordingly, the department does not advise schools or local authorities on the responses that they should provide to such requests.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office makes guidance on the application of the FOIA available to all public authorities. This guidance is available at: <a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-freedom-of-information/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-freedom-of-information/</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 09/02/2023 14:58:59 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1579910

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prevent Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the Shawcross Review on the Prevent counter terrorism strategy.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The Independent Review of Prevent has been received by the department. The Government is now reviewing the recommendations in their entirety and will publish the Independent Reviewer's report and the Government’s response in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 06/02/2023 18:24:21 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1579911

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Contact Orders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support mediation in disputes that would otherwise require grandparents to apply for Contact Orders in order to have access to their grandchildren.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government understands the difficulties that some grandparents face in continuing relationships with their grandchildren following disputes arising from parental separation or divorce, and that grandparents often play an important role in children’s lives and can provide stability in families. We are also committed to supporting families to resolve private family law matters outside of court where appropriate to ensure that matters are resolved earlier, before conflict becomes entrenched.</p><p>Unless there is a valid exemption, any party seeking to apply for a child arrangements order must first attend a Mediation Information &amp; Assessment Meeting.</p><p>We have also put in place a mediation voucher scheme for up to £500 financial assistance to help families resolve certain private law children matters outside of court. This support is not limited to parents and grandparents are eligible for support with the costs of mediation under this scheme too.</p><p>The government is exploring further measures to support parents and wider family members to resolve these matters outside of court and will announce proposals in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 11:57:06 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1569095

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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	Tourette's Syndrome: Education and Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the provision of (1) health, and (2) education, services for children and young people with Tourette’s Syndrome.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is taking a number of steps at the national level to improve provision for children and young people with Tourette’s syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England has supported an 85% expansion in the clinical psychology training intake over the past three years. This expansion model is expected to achieve a growth of 2,520 additional psychologists in the National Health Service workforce by 2025. Clinical psychologists are well placed to develop new services and undertake further bespoke development to respond to the needs of patients with Tourette’s syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Department for Education published the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Alternative Provision Green paper in March 2022, setting out proposals to improve the system of support for children with SEND or who benefit from alternative provision. These include new national standards and a more inclusive mainstream school system, with more targeted support and intervention for children when they are younger, which will raise standards nationwide for all pupils, including those with Tourette’s syndrome.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 14/02/2023 15:42:04 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1569096

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing Council for England and Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to assess the efficacy of the Sentencing Council.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Sentencing Council is an independent non-departmental public body. Section 119 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 sets out that the Council must provide the Lord Chancellor with an annual report on the exercise of its functions, and that the Lord Chancellor must lay a copy before Parliament. The Ministry of Justice also regularly reviews performance to provide assurance that the Council is fulfilling its statutory functions. In addition, a tailored review of the Council was published in 2019 which made a number of operational recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness, which have been implemented.</p><p>The 2021/22 Annual Report can be found here: <a href="https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/item/sentencing-council-annual-report-2021-22/" target="_blank">https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/item/sentencing-council-annual-report-2021-22/</a>.</p><p>The 2019 tailored review of the Sentencing Council can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tailored-review-of-the-sentencing-council" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tailored-review-of-the-sentencing-council</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 11:56:13 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1569097

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the efficacy of the practice of deporting foreign national offenders at the conclusion of their custodial sentences, where appropriate.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>Our priority will always be to keep the British public safe. That is why foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them and more than 12,200 have been removed since January 2019.</p><p>We make every effort to ensure that a foreign national offender’s removal by deportation coincides, as far as possible, with their release from prison on completion of sentence, however we can face significant and complex challenges when seeking to deport them to their country of origin.</p><p>That is why the Nationality and Borders Act makes provisions to streamline the appeals process by introducing an expanded one stop process aimed at reducing the extent to which people can frustrate removals through sequential or unmeritorious claims, appeals or legal action. The Act makes it easier and quicker to remove FNOs and those with no right to be in the UK, it extends the period an FNO can be removed from prison under the early removal scheme (ERS) from a maximum of 9 months to 12 months, providing the minimum requisite period has been served</p><p>We remain resolute in our commitment to deport those who would abuse our hospitality.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 06/02/2023 17:12:35 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough