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1141942

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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	Nepal: Visits Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any serving Prime Minister of the UK has visited Nepal; what plans the Prime Minister has, if any, to visit that country; and, if there are no such plans, why not.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL17486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom and Nepal are long time partners. The two countries have enjoyed diplomatic relations for over 200 years, by far the longest formal relationship Nepal has with any country. Today the relationship is broad, vibrant and diverse and marked by mutual respect. Although no serving British Prime Minister has visited Nepal, the governments enjoy frequent Ministerial visits in both directions. The Government was delighted to welcome Prime Minister Oli of Nepal to London in June; his visit included a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister May, an audience with His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and a dinner at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. At this early stage, the Prime Minister’s travel plans are yet to be confirmed.</p><p>​</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 01/08/2019 15:12:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

1141943

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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	Balkans: Unemployment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have (1) commissioned, or (2) supported, any study into the causes of unemployment among skilled young people in (a) Kosovo, (b) Albania, (c) Bosnia-Herzegovina, and (d) any other states of the Western Balkans.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL17487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2019 answer text <p>​The Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office commissioned a Joint Analysis of Conflict and Stability (JACS) in 2017 (refreshed in 2019) for the Western Balkans. A JACS is a strategic assessment used to strengthen cross-government approaches to tackling conflict and instability overseas. The analysis covered youth unemployment as well as migration and &quot;brain-drain&quot;. In addition, the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office has commissioned analysis on 'The Cost of Youth Emigration from Serbia' and analysis by the British Council for the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF).</p><p>Through the CSSF, the Government funds the following projects to help tackle unemployment in the Western Balkans:</p><ul><li><p>21st Century Schools; which will provide training to children in over 4,500 schools, to improve digital literacy and core skills across the Western Balkans.;</p></li><li><p>a project supporting employment and social services for vulnerable youths in Albania; and</p></li><li><p>in North Macedonia working jointly with the National Youth Council and IT Chamber of Commerce to support digital skills training to young people in return for community work.</p></li></ul> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL17488 HL17489 HL17490 HL17491 question first answered 07/08/2019 14:56:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

1141950

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Alliances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which Ministers have attended discussions within the Five Powers Defence Arrangement in the last five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Taylor of Bolton
uin	HL17494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Ministry of Defence Ministers have attended the following meetings to discuss the Five Powers Defence Arrangements (FPDA).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Meeting</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Minister</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>FPDA Defence Ministers Meeting</p></td><td><p>Malaysia</p></td><td><p>Secretary of State (Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>FPDA informal breakfast at the annual Shangri La Dialogue</p></td><td><p>Singapore</p></td><td><p>Secretary of State (Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon MP)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>FPDA informal breakfast at the annual Shangri La Dialogue</p></td><td><p>Singapore</p></td><td><p>Secretary of State (Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon MP)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>FPDA Defence Ministers Meeting</p></td><td><p>Singapore</p></td><td><p>No ministerial attendance due to the UK General Election</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>FPDA informal breakfast at the annual Shangri La Dialogue</p></td><td><p>Singapore</p></td><td><p>Secretary of State (Rt Hon Gavin Williamson MP)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>FPDA informal breakfast at the annual Shangri La Dialogue</p></td><td><p>Singapore</p></td><td><p>Secretary of State (Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 02/08/2019 12:11:02 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	407 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Bolton

1141952

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Merchant Shipping: Security
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 join a United States-led shipping coalition after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL17496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The UK is part of ongoing conversations with international allies, including the US on how best we can ensure maritime security in the Gulf and protect freedom of navigation. This is not connected to the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>Freedom of navigation is in every nation's interest; it is unacceptable to illegally seize a ship going about legitimate business in an internationally recognised shipping lane. Any action we take will be aimed at ensuring freedom of navigation is maintained.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work for stability in the region with the international community, and to uphold the international rules that protect us all.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 02/08/2019 12:11:18 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1141953

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: EU Action
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of EU plans for a Digital Services Act after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL17497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Member States have not yet been consulted on EU plans for a Digital Services Act. We look forward to seeing the details of this proposal when it is published.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2019 12:13:28 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1141954

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Business
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage more UK companies to automate decision-making through artificial intelligence technology.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL17498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Artificial intelligence and automation present enormous opportunities for our economy. Some studies suggest that artificial intelligence could add 10% to the UK GDP by 2030. Other studies highlight the benefits that artificial intelligence and automation could bring to specific sectors.</p><p> </p><p>For example, the independent “Made Smarter” review, published in October 2017, estimated that digital technologies, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and additive manufacturing, could add £455bn to the UK manufacturing economy over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>For that reason, under our modern Industrial Strategy, we have taken the following steps to support automation where and when it is appropriate and is for the betterment of society:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£558m of the £1.7bn Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is related to automation;</li><li>Investment across UKRI partners for robotics, autonomous systems and AI for physical systems since 2014 totals £366m and has attracted a further £153m leverage from private sector or other public bodies;<br></li><li>The AI Sector Deal, published in April 2018, is worth up to£950m and is already delivering pioneering skills and data initiatives to create the jobs and markets of tomorrow; <br></li><li>Government is backing Made Smarter as our key industrial digitalisation programme, including through up to £121m investment into the Made Smarter digital manufacturing challenge to increase manufacturing productivity by up to 30%;</li><ul><li>In addition, Government is investing £20m into the Made Smarter North West pilot for adoption of digital technology, which includes robotics and automation;</li><li>Growth Hubs provide an important one stop shop for businesses seeking to improve their productivity. The £20m Made Smarter North-West Pilots will engage 3,000 SME manufacturers across the north west to improve their productivity, administered through Growth Hubs; and <br></li></ul><li>The UK’s Catapult network helps bridge the gap between businesses and the expertise of the UK’s world-class research in automation. In August 2018, Government committed a further £780m over the next 5 years, which will be match funded with over £1.5bn in industry R&amp;D.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2019 12:13:54 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1141955

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any relationship between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils attending a school and the likelihood of that school receiving a good or outstanding Ofsted rating; and what steps they intend to take as a result of any such assessment.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL17499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The department has not conducted an assessment of the relationship between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils attending a school and its likelihood of being rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding.</p><p>Schools are allocated additional funding, in the form of the pupil premium, for pupils on roll who are classed as disadvantaged. Pupils are classed as disadvantaged through having been registered for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years, being looked after or having left care through adoption or other specified routes. Schools have flexibility over the ways in which they use this funding to improve the attainment and other outcomes of their disadvantaged pupils and these can include measures to improve the quality of teaching received by those pupils. Ofsted will also consider how leaders and governors spend the pupil premium, their rationale and the intended impact, as part of school inspection.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 02/08/2019 12:16:04 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1141956

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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	Mental Illness: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that referrals to child mental health units from primary schools for pupils aged 11 and under have risen by almost 50 per cent in the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL17500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2019 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made as comparable data is not available at a national level.</p><p>Referral data for children and young people’s mental health services is published by NHS Digital in the Mental Health Services Dataset since 2017. This shows that in 2017/18 there were 259,615 new referrals to children and young people’s mental health services for people aged 0-18 and 381,528 new referrals for the same in 2018/19.</p><p>The number of providers supplying data has increased in 2018/19 and so a direct comparison between the two years is not possible.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/08/2019 11:38:28 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1141957

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the drugs approved by NICE to treat HER2+ breast cancer; and what assessment they have made of the efficacy of such drugs.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL17501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for making recommendations for the National Health Service on whether drugs and other treatments represent a clinically and cost effective use of NHS resources.</p><p>NICE has recommended the following drugs for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer: trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla) for treating HER2-positive advanced breast cancer after trastuzumab (Herceptin) and a taxane; pertuzumab (Perjeta) with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and docetaxel for treating HER2-positive breast cancer; pertuzumab (Perjeta) for the neoadjuvant treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer; and pertuzumab (Perjeta) for adjuvant treatment of HER2-positive early stage breast cancer.</p><p>NHS commissioners are legally required to fund drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance. It is for clinicians to decide on the most appropriate treatment for an individual patient based on their clinical judgement and in discussion with the patient.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL17502 question first answered 25/07/2019 16:45:03 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

1141958

registered interest
date	24/07/2019
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	Pertuzumab
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice they provide to clinicians for the use of Pertuzumab rather than Herceptin for the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL17502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for making recommendations for the National Health Service on whether drugs and other treatments represent a clinically and cost effective use of NHS resources.</p><p>NICE has recommended the following drugs for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer: trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla) for treating HER2-positive advanced breast cancer after trastuzumab (Herceptin) and a taxane; pertuzumab (Perjeta) with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and docetaxel for treating HER2-positive breast cancer; pertuzumab (Perjeta) for the neoadjuvant treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer; and pertuzumab (Perjeta) for adjuvant treatment of HER2-positive early stage breast cancer.</p><p>NHS commissioners are legally required to fund drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance. It is for clinicians to decide on the most appropriate treatment for an individual patient based on their clinical judgement and in discussion with the patient.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL17501 question first answered 25/07/2019 16:45:03 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough