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1672755

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date	23/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Mining: Environment Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to strengthen the environmental duties and responsibilities of British mining companies operating overseas.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Last year my Department published the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy to accelerate domestic production, collaborate with international partners, and enhance international markets to strengthen supply chains.</p><p>The Strategy commits to boost global environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance to support a more transparent, responsible, and sustainable critical minerals and mining industry. The UK is playing a leading role in international efforts to drive up ESG performance through its bilateral and multilateral engagements, including the Minerals Security Partnership and Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance.</p><p>The UK has re-affirmed its commitment as a member of the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), advocating for better governance of the extractives and critical minerals sectors. At COP 15 the UK, along with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United States, signed up to the Canada-led Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance, committing to promote high environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards and net zero mining practices, employing a nature forward approach.</p><p>The UK Government is supporting the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to rationalise the range of existing mining sustainability standards and bring them together.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 28/11/2023 13:06:51 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1672756

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date	23/11/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Dams: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to promote international safety standards for tailings dams following the collapse of the Fundão Dam near Mariana in Brazil in 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business &amp; Trade's (DBT) Responsible Mining Team in Brazil have promoted best practice on tailings dams since 2016. They led a mission to the UK in November to build on work to implement the Global Industrial Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) and have organised roundtables in partnership with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote the GISTM in Brazil. UK Ministers for the Americas and Europe have highlighted work to improve safety measures around tailings dam management, including in October in a meeting with the law firm representing victims of the Mariana Dam incident and at a Westminster Hall Debate in June.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL543 question first answered 07/12/2023 14:13:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1672757

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Dams: Safety
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 adoption of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management following the collapse of the Fundão Dam near Mariana in Brazil in 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business &amp; Trade's (DBT) Responsible Mining Team in Brazil have promoted best practice on tailings dams since 2016. They led a mission to the UK in November to build on work to implement the Global Industrial Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) and have organised roundtables in partnership with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote the GISTM in Brazil. UK Ministers for the Americas and Europe have highlighted work to improve safety measures around tailings dam management, including in October in a meeting with the law firm representing victims of the Mariana Dam incident and at a Westminster Hall Debate in June.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL542 question first answered 07/12/2023 14:13:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1672758

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date	23/11/2023
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	NHS: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how integrated care boards assess the initial and continuing financial stability of private companies from which NHS services are commissioned, and what assessment they have made of the overall financial stability of private companies providing NHS services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care boards (ICBs) assess the financial stability of companies subject to the current rules on procurement, including the Public Contract Regulations 2015. ICBs are responsible for their own due diligence and governance surrounding procurement, the award of contracts, and the assessment of suppliers for those purposes.</p><p>The Department has not made a central assessment of the overall financial stability of private companies providing services to the National Health Service.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 30/11/2023 17:34:50 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1672759

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
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	NHS: Private Sector
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision by One Norwich Practices to stop providing services to the NHS, including a walk-in centre, because of financial problems, whether they will conduct an investigation into the board of that company and its management of services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) and One Norwich Practices have been working constructively to identify appropriate alternative providers and develop plans to transfer services and staff. The ICB’s immediate priorities are to ensure that disruption to patient care is minimised and to protect the wellbeing of staff at One Norwich Practices. Once these immediate priorities are addressed, the ICB will be in a position to undertake its own internal review of the circumstances that may have contributed to One Norwich Practices’ insolvency.</p><p>As a commissioner, the ICB is not in receipt of the financial information of its contractors, and the ICB is not responsible for the financial viability of any organisation, nor any subsequent arrangements, financial or otherwise, within a wider group of companies or partners with whom the ICB does not directly commission services.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 30/11/2023 17:23:50 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1672760

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
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 distribution of electric vehicle charging points in rural areas, by (1) number per (a) area, or (b) village, (2) the number of villages that still lack any such facility, or (3) any other relevant metric.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>Data on public electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, held by the Department for Transport, is sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform Zapmap. Charging devices not recorded on Zapmap are not included and the correct number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.</p><p>As of 1 October 2023, there were 3,316 public charging devices in a rural village and dispersed setting in England.</p><p>There were a further 2,676 charging devices in rural towns, with a total number of 5,992 charging devices in rural areas in England as of 1st October 2023.</p><p>No further assessment has been made.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 05/12/2023 12:53:58 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle