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1183445

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date	09/03/2020
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	Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government under which circumstances a service provider may require a person to provide a gender recognition certificate as a condition of providing services.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL2348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>A Gender Recognition Certificate is a private, legal document which a person would not usually be required to produce as a condition of accessing services, in the same way that a person would not usually be asked to produce their birth certificate. If evidence of gender is required to access a service, it will normally be possible to provide it in the form of other documents, for example a driving licence or a passport.</p><p>The Equality Act allows service providers to offer services to one sex only, for example men’s or women’s toilets or changing rooms. Transgender people can be excluded from single-sex facilities if service providers have a legitimate reason for doing so and if exclusion is the least discriminatory way to proceed.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 24/03/2020 15:41:59 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

775940

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Sales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment that have made of the ways in which retail vehicle sales are financed, in the light of the increasing levels of debt incurred by new rental and lease purchase schemes and current pressures on the retail motor industry.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate
uin	HL2348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government works closely with the UK automotive industry to understand the issues and opportunities the sector faces. The Government will continue its longstanding programme of support for the sector’s competitiveness.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market, transferring regulatory responsibility from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 1 April 2014. This more robust regulatory system is helping to deliver the Government’s vision for a well-functioning and sustainable consumer credit market which can meet consumers’ needs.</p><p> </p><p>Car finance companies are required to meet the standards that the FCA expects of lenders, including making affordability checks and providing adequate pre-contractual explanations to consumers. FCA rules are binding, and the FCA has a wide enforcement toolkit to take action wherever these rules are breached.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA is committed to tackling sources of consumer detriment, and is looking at the car finance market to ensure that it works well and to assess whether consumers are at risk of harm. The FCA is carrying out supervisory work with lenders, and is carefully scrutinising firms’ sales practices and processes, to decide what further interventions may be necessary. This work includes assessing how well firms are managing the risk that asset valuations could fall, and how they ensure that they adequately price risk. The FCA will publish an update on this work in Q1 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/11/2017 14:58:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	891 label Biography information for Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate

603952

registered interest
date	17/10/2016
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Vacancies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many roles within the Department for Exiting the EU are currently unfilled; and how many job applications have been received for those roles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL2348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union now has over 250 staff and the expertise of 120 officials in Brussels, and is continuing to grow.</p><p>We are not in a position to give a total number of job applications as recruitment is ongoing and we will not be giving a running commentary. Our aim is to have a streamlined Department, while ensuring the right skills and experience to get the best outcome for the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 27/10/2016 10:57:46 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

419417

registered interest
date	17/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bowel Cancer: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why people who have reached the age of 75 are not automatically invited for a bowel screening to identify symptoms of bowel cancer.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation based on the best available evidence.</p><p> </p><p><br> Bowel cancer screening by Faecal Occult Blood testing for men and women aged 50-74 was recommended by the UK NSC in July 2003. Following this recommendation, the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in England initially invited men and women aged 60-69 years old as the programme was rolled out across the country. This has now been extended to men and women aged up to 74, as recommended in the Cancer Reform Strategy (2007). The programme offers screening up to the age of 74 based on the original English<sup>1</sup> and Danish<sup>2</sup> trials along with evidence published in 2010 (Cairns et al, 2010) which recommended that surveillance seizes at the age of 75.</p><p> </p><p><br> No assessment has been made regarding automatically inviting those over 75 years for bowel screening. Men and women aged above the eligible age limit have been able to self-refer for screening every two years since the programme began, and so far over 150,000 have done so.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>Hardcastle JD, Chamberlain JO, Robinson MH, Moss SM, Amar SS, Balfour TW, James PD, Mangham CM. Randomised controlled trial of faecal-occult-blood screening for colorectal cancer.</p><p> </p><p>Lancet. 1996:348(9040);1472-7</p><p> </p><p>2 Kronborg O, Fenger C, Olsen J, Jorgensen OD, Sondergaard O. Randomised study of screening for colorectal cancer with faecal-occult-blood test.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 22/09/2015 13:09:43 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

100617

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sports: Primary Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the commitments made after the Olympic Games, what plans they have to increase the time allocated and resources spent per pupil on sport in all primary schools; and what additional resources will be allocated for that purpose.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
uin	HL2348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>All maintained schools must teach a full programme of study for PE and it is up to schools to decide how much time they should devote to PE, or indeed to any other national curriculum subject. New research has shown that primary school pupils are now spending an average of more than two hours a week in PE lessons – an increase of 13 minutes since last year. Through the primary PE and sport premium we are providing over £450 million of ring-fenced funding across the three academic years beginning in 2013/14. The premium goes directly to primary schools to be spent on PE and sport; our research has shown that over 90% of schools have improved the quality of their PE lessons as a direct result of this funding.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/11/2014 17:15:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton