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1688904

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date	14/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Buckinghamshire
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they were aware that trees would be felled in Sheephouse Wood when they agreed £40m funding for a tunnel to mitigate the impact on wildlife in Sheephouse Wood.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>Wildlife mitigations adjacent to Sheephouse Wood include physical measures to protect the local bat population, as well as a green overbridge, and landscaping for public access. Given that the HS2 route in this area is overground rather than in tunnel, a number of trees along the perimeter of Sheephouse Wood have had to be removed to fulfil safety requirements alongside an operational railway. These trees were removed with the necessary permissions from Natural England, and HS2 Ltd informed the Department for Transport in advance of the works taking place. The requirement to deliver these works was included in the overall funding allocations for the HS2 project.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 28/02/2024 15:21:21 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1520880

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total cost to the taxpayer of controlling bovine tuberculosis since 2012; and what analysis they have made of these costs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL2483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>Defra’s net expenditure on bovine tuberculosis (bTB) eradication in England since 2012 is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>For the financial year 2016/17, the lower figure shown is mainly due to a difference in the handling of salvage income rather than any cut in TB control expenditure in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>For the financial years after 2016/17 the figures do not include the substantial, but separately costed, expenditure made by the Animal and Plant Health Agency and its predecessor bodies, which are accounted for separately by the relevant executive Agencies. That includes expenditure on contracted out TB testing as well as the work of the Agency’s various veterinary, scientific, and administrative teams and associated operating and overhead costs. We estimate that the total costs to the taxpayer for bovine TB-related work in England have remained at around £100 million a year for each of the last 10 financial years.</p><p> </p><p>Defra’s bTB eradication strategy is working. A sustained <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fincidence-of-tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Ce0da6fda445b466f081908dab833363d%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638024827337338851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=U1FdbcqdJAD4zNnc2xXiq7SwQCNXqI1nbGw90JvzVrY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">downward trajectory in disease</a> is being seen in areas of England at highest risk of bTB (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/incidence-of-tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Amount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>£96,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>£101,781,004</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>£92,944,731</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>£90,396,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>£19,324,857</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/2018</p></td><td><p>£36,192,349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/2019</p></td><td><p>£37,625,125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/2020</p></td><td><p>£36,939,089</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/2021</p></td><td><p>£31,635,562</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/2022</p></td><td><p>£34,261,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>£577,100,337</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 28/10/2022 08:09:33 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1353623

registered interest
date	07/09/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Telephone Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many calls the Veterans' Gateway helpline received in (1) June, (2) July, and (3) August.
tabling member printed	Lord Coaker
uin	HL2483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>Information held by the Veterans Gateway shows that in June there were 1,386, in July there were 1,362 and in August there were 1,505 calls.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 15/09/2021 10:38:31 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1184466

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
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	Gender: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures, if any, have been put in place to ensure that the Government Equalities Office has regular input into policy proposals to be put forward by (1) the Home Office, (2) the Ministry of Defence, (3) the Department for International Development, and (4) the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with particular regard to policies on gender equality.
tabling member printed	Baroness Anelay of St Johns
uin	HL2483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p>All public bodies in Great Britain, including Whitehall departments, have a legal obligation under the Public Sector Equality Duty to consider the potential effects of key decisions on groups with protected characteristics including gender.</p><p>They are also required to set and publish specific and measurable equality objectives which Whitehall departments have for the last two years included in their Single Departmental Plans. The Government Equalities Office (GEO) encourages departments to publish equality objectives that cover strategic policy work and not only workforce and Human Relations issues. In addition to this, the International Development Act (Gender Equality) 2014 puts the Department for International Development’s commitment to gender equality on a statutory footing and ensures that gender equality remains at the heart of its work.</p><p>GEO has engaged with the specific departments listed on a number of policies including those related to gender equality. For example, as part of the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls’ Strategy, GEO are working alongside Home Office on work to tackle harmful gender norms.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 23/03/2020 15:14:55 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns