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714279

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date	27/03/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 21 March (HL6081), what is their estimate of the cost of constructing the Handsacre connection to the West Coast Main Line compared with a straight connection to HS2 Phase 2A towards Crewe.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The total budget for High Speed 2 is £55.7bn. HS2 Ltd is currently procuring contractors to deliver the first Phase of HS2. The Department for Transport does not release details of the estimated cost of constructing individual components of the scheme as this information is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/04/2017 12:34:27 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

714280

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
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	CH2M Hill
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 16 March (HL5813 and HL5815), since HS2 Ltd, Thames Water Utilities Ltd and Bazalgette Tunnel Ltd are all private limited companies, why the information requested is available for HS2 but not the other companies.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>HS2 Ltd is funded by the Government, whereas Bazalgette Tunnel Ltd and Thames Water Utilities Ltd are not, and as such, different arrangements apply in respect of the information which the Government can request from them and the extent to which it can be disclosed.</p><p> </p><p>In the particular case of information about CH2M Hill staff referred to in the noble Lord’s previous question (HL5813), this is not required by the Secretary of State to carry out her functions, and Defra therefore does not hold it.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 03/04/2017 16:13:06 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

714281

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	West Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 23 March (HL5994), what are the minor line speed improvements on the West Coast Main Line, mainly North of Preston, that will enable non-tilt trains to go faster, but will not enable tilting trains to go faster.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The current West Coast Main Line (WCML) has been optimised for tilting trains which operate up to a maximum speed of 125 mph, whilst non-tilting trains are limited to operating at up to 110 mph.</p><p> </p><p>However, north of the future Golborne Junction, track geometry on some sections of line may allow non-tilting passenger trains to operate up to 125 mph within the existing operational rules and without track changes. Further, minor infrastructure alternations could be made on the transitions between straight and curved sections of track to optimise the speed profile for non-tilting trains further, which would make no change to the speed profile of existing tilting trains. The journey time differential between a tilting train and non-tilting train would therefore be reduced.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/04/2017 12:34:03 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

714282

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students: Loans
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 effectiveness of methods of recovery of student loans from overseas students.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL6303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company publishes an annual statistical first release on student loans in England that provides statistics on loan outlays, repayment of loans and borrower activity. The latest release is attached.</p><p>In addition to this, in February 2016 the Department published a Joint Repayment Strategy which includes an assessment of actions to trace borrowers and to recover loans where avoidance or evasion is identified. This publication isalso attached.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name Debt_and_repayment_statistics_England_2016.xlsx title Debt_and_repayment_statistics_England_2016 2 file name Student-loan-repayment-for-sustainable-higher-education-strategy-February-2016.pdf title Student-loan-repayment-sustainable-higher-educatio question first answered 30/03/2017 17:01:30 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

714288

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Child Rearing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was spent by the Social Mobility Commission on preparing and publishing its report <i>Helping Parents to Parent</i>, published in February 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL6309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>We welcome the Commission’s ‘Helping parents to parent’ report, published in February. The report was commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission to bring together evidence on parenting behaviours and the extent to which public policy can support parents. It examined 28 interventions and programmes in the United Kingdom and internationally.</p><p>The research was tendered in an open competition process and the successful bid was put forward by the market and social research agency, Family Kids and Youth, which carried out the research. The amount for this research contract is £10,350 (exclusive of VAT) and this is in line with the total project spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 30/03/2017 15:55:08 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

714289

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 23 March 2017 (HL5996), what estimate they have made of the contribution of non-UK EU nationals living in the UK to the UK’s gross domestic product per head; and what assessment they have made of that contribution.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL6310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>Productivity is a key determinant of GDP per head. As noted in the 2012 report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), the empirical literature suggests that the impact of migration on aggregate productivity may be mixed and heavily dependent on the type of migrant coming to the UK. Migrants may increase productivity either through a simple ‘batting average’ effect if they work in higher productivity roles relative to the average for non-migrants, or through increasing the productivity of UK workers through greater specialisation and knowledge transfer.</p><p> </p><p>In this report, the MAC established the key role played by skilled migrants in raising productivity. Further, the 2014 MAC report, ‘Migrants in low-skilled work’, found low skilled migrants have a neutral impact on UK-born employment rates, GDP per head and productivity.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/04/2017 12:37:02 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

714290

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: India
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Tier 4 (General) student visas were granted to Indian nationals in each year since 2001.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL6311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2017 answer text <p>Information on Tier 4 (General) grants for Indian nationals is published quarterly; latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, October - December 2016’, Visa data tables volume 3, table vi_06_q_s, available from the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 31/03/2017 11:10:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name entry visas 3 - q4 tables vol 3 - table vi-06-q-s.xlsx title Table vi-06-q-s- Immigration Stats - Oct-Dec 2016
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

714291

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: India
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for what periods in 2009 and 2010 did the then UK Border Agency stop accepting new applications for a Tier 4 (General) student visa in North India.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL6312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>The UK Border Agency stopped accepting Tier 4 applications from North India in February 2010 owing to concerns about fraudulent applications. The rules on the policy were strengthened during 2010 and the acceptance of applications resumed in August of that year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/04/2017 10:47:12 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

714292

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applicants for a Tier 4 (General) student visa, or its previous equivalent, have been interviewed as part of the application process in each year since 2006.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL6313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>I am sorry but the information requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 30/03/2017 15:19:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

714293

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: India
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications for a Tier 4 (General) student visa from Indian nationals were refused in each year from 2006 to 2016; what was the rate of refusal; how many appeals were lodged against refusals; and what number were subsequently allowed.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL6314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>Quarterly information on the total number of Tier 4 (General) student visas refused is published in Visa table vi_01_q, and the total number of Indian nationals refused a visa (all categories) in table vi_02_q. The latest data are in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, October - December 2016’, (Visa data tables volume1) available from the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#visas</a></p><p>The relevant tables have also been attached to this answer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Student Visas Refused.xls title Student Visas 2 file name Indian Visa Applications.xls title Indian Visas question first answered 06/04/2017 10:48:45 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington