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1182874

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date	04/03/2020
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	Sanctions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 2 March (HL Deb, col 389), whether the planned secondary legislation under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 will be applied to individuals linked to crimes against humanity; and whether the definition of a perpetrator will vary based on country or nationality.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>As I stated in my answer to the Oral Question on 2 March 2020, House of Lords, column 389, we are currently working to soon lay secondary legislation for the UK's first autonomous sanctions regime under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. It would be inappropriate to comment on the specific aspects of the scope before the secondary legislation comes into force.</p><p>The regime is not intended to target individual countries, but those who commit serious human rights violations or abuses anywhere in the world.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 12/03/2020 15:47:58 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1182875

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	China: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 2 March (HL Deb, col 390), what steps they are taking to ensure that companies registered in the UK are not contributing to forced organ harvesting in China.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>We encourage UK businesses to conduct appropriate due diligence to satisfy themselves that their activities do not support, or risk being seen to be supporting, any human rights violations or abuses. The Government's position remains that, if true, the practice of systematic, state-sponsored organ harvesting would constitute a gross violation of human rights.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/03/2020 12:59:40 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1182876

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	China: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 2 March (HL Deb, col 390), whether they will place in the Library of the House all reports and correspondence they have received from the World Health Organisation, especially those relating to the transparency of the government of China’s organ transplant system.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>We consult and share assessments with a wide range of human rights and international organisations, including the World Health Organisation, on the basis of confidentiality. In order to maintain working relationships with these organisations, we do not publish details of discussions between them and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/03/2020 16:57:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1182877

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Priti Patel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish a report at the conclusion of their inquiry into allegations of bullying by the Home Secretary.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL2200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my answer on 12th March 2020 to Lord Young of Cookham (<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-03-12/debates/2D8B6145-D6DF-4AEF-BBEB-6AB08158DF0D/MinisterialCode" target="_blank">Official Record, House Of Lords,Vol. 802. Col. 1158</a>).</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 19/03/2020 14:27:55 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1182878

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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 Health: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address mental health problems affecting children, following the increase in the number of children under 11 contacting Childline because of suicidal thoughts and feelings since 2015–16.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>We are taking action to protect the mental health of all children and young people. Following on from our Green Paper on transforming children and young people’s mental health, we are:</p><p>- incentivising every school or college to identify and train a Senior Lead for Mental Health;</p><p>- creating new mental health support teams in and near schools and colleges; and</p><p>- piloting a four-week waiting time to allow swifter access to specialist NHS services for those children and young people who need them.</p><p>The Green Paper has the potential to significantly improve early intervention and prevention, along with expanding the current children and young people’s mental health workforce.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 18/03/2020 15:20:52 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1182879

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Veganism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the ruling by Justice Robin Postle on 3 January that veganism satisfies the tests required for it to be a philosophical belief and is therefore protected under the Equality Act 2010, and (2) the Vegan Society’s leaflet, Supporting veganism in the workplace: a guide for employers; and whether they will issue guidance on supporting veganism in the workplace.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL2202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p>Further to the answer I gave to PQ <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Lords/2020-03-03/HL2142/" target="_blank">HL2142</a>, the Government currently has no plans to issue any guidance on supporting veganism in the workplace. Any employer unsure about their obligations to accommodate staff who are vegan should either contact ACAS for advice or, if more appropriate on a specific case, obtain legal advice.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 23/03/2020 15:12:50 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1182880

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Sports: Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the participation of those who are transgender in women’s sport.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL2203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>Sport England collects data on transgender status through its Active Lives surveys, which measure the activity levels of people across England. However, the number of transgender responses received to the survey is so low that the figure is not statistically reliable.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Sport England also funded Pride Sports, a UK organisation which helps improve LGBT+ access to sport, to gather information on transgender participation in all sport and physical activity. Pride Sports reported in 2016 that there were very low rates of transgender participation and the report’s findings helped to inform Sport England’s current work on transgender inclusion.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The report ‘Sport, Physical Activity and LGBT: A Study by Pride Sports for Sport England’ can be found here: <a href="https://sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pride-sport-sport-physical-activity-and-lgbt-report-2016.pdf#page=1" target="_blank">https://sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pride-sport-sport-physical-activity-and-lgbt-report-2016.pdf#page=1</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 18/03/2020 12:02:44 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran attachment 1 file name pride-sport-sport-physical-activity-and-lgbt-report-2016.pdf title SPORT, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & LGBT
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1182881

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Hospitals: North West
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS hospital trusts in (1) Greater Manchester, (2) Lancashire, (3) Merseyside, (4) Cheshire, and (5) Cumbria, have completed mandatory autism training of staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL2204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>This information is not available as autism training is not currently a mandatory requirement though under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, employers are required to take steps to ensure that their staff receive support and training to undertake their roles competently.</p><p>In ‘Right to be Heard’, which was published on 5 November 2019, we outlined our plans to introduce mandatory learning disability and autism training for health and social care staff in England. Work is currently underway with Health Education England and Skills for Care to develop and trial, during 2020/21, a standardised training package, which will be known as ‘the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Learning Disability and Autism Training’. The evaluation of the trial, which will be published at the end of March 2021, will inform future roll-out.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 11/03/2020 13:39:03 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1182882

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Dentistry: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average cost per student to the public purse in providing (1) a Bachelor of Dental Surgery, and (2) foundation training for a dental graduate.
tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
uin	HL2205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>This information is not routinely collected centrally. However, the Department estimates that the total Government outlay is on average around £230,000 for the provision of a Bachelor of Dental Surgery, and around £110,000 for the provision of foundation training for a dental graduate.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 12/03/2020 17:37:20 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

1182883

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Dogs: Meat
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what urgent steps they intend to take explicitly to ban the slaughter of dogs for human consumption in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Fookes
uin	HL2206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>I can assure you that the Government shares the public’s high regard for animal welfare, including the welfare of dogs, and we are committed to making the UK a world leader in protection of animals as we leave the EU. The Government has made wide ranging commitments on animal welfare.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is appalled by the prospect of dogs being consumed. However, it is already illegal to sell dog meat for human consumption and the Government has seen no evidence that dog meat is being sold or consumed in this country. We are confident that the current position in this country sends a clear message that the slaughter and consumption of dogs will never be acceptable.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 18/03/2020 12:17:10 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	830 label Biography information for Baroness Fookes