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528201

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees whether he has considered recommending to the relevant Committee of the House of Lords that at times of great national tragedies the House could hear inclusive prayers that reflect the national mood of grief and caring.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The Noble Lord may wish to take informal soundings about this possibility and to consider writing to the Convenor of the Lords Spiritual and Procedure Committee with a proposal.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 04/07/2016 14:59:37 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

525459

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
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 13 June (HL433), when they expect the quality assurance of the Home Office’s Case Information Database data relating to sexuality-based asylum claims to be completed, and whether they plan routinely to record asylum claims based on, or relating to, gender identity issues in a way that can be easily aggregated.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The process of quality assuring the data held on the Home Office's Case Information Database relating to sexuality based asylum claims continues to be undertaken by the Home Office. We are currently looking at ways to expedite this process. There are no current plans to record information where the detail of the asylum claim basis relates to gender identity issues on Home Office databases.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/06/2016 15:51:51 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524589

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
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 Nash on 6 June (WA273), whether local consultations are the only means by which the Education Funding Agency is accountable to residents of an area where a new school is planned and specifically to those residents who wish to protest against such a decision.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Free school trusts are required, under Section 10 of the Academies Act 2010, to consult those they think appropriate before the school opens and to have due regard to the outcome of that consultation. The duty to consult rests solely with the trust.</p><p>In addition, all new free schools must comply with planning legislation and almost all require the submission of a planning application to permit the establishment of a new school. This means that local communities have an opportunity to express their views both supporting and objecting to the school proposal. The local planning authority must fully consider all such submissions in deciding whether to grant planning permission.</p><p>The Secretary of State has a duty, under Section 9 of the Academies Act 2010, to consider the likely impact of opening a new academy on maintained schools, academies and institutions within the further education sector in the area in which the additional school is, or is proposed to be, situated. The Department for Education publishes impact assessments for new schools on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL623 question first answered 27/06/2016 15:15:16 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524590

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government to what extent neighbouring schools are included in the consultation process of site selection by the Education Funding Authority.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Free school trusts are required, under Section 10 of the Academies Act 2010, to consult those they think appropriate before the school opens and to have due regard to the outcome of that consultation. The duty to consult rests solely with the trust.</p><p>In addition, all new free schools must comply with planning legislation and almost all require the submission of a planning application to permit the establishment of a new school. This means that local communities have an opportunity to express their views both supporting and objecting to the school proposal. The local planning authority must fully consider all such submissions in deciding whether to grant planning permission.</p><p>The Secretary of State has a duty, under Section 9 of the Academies Act 2010, to consider the likely impact of opening a new academy on maintained schools, academies and institutions within the further education sector in the area in which the additional school is, or is proposed to be, situated. The Department for Education publishes impact assessments for new schools on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL622 question first answered 27/06/2016 15:15:16 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524317

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	S4C
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the total cost to the NHS of insurance premiums for clinical negligence; which Foundation Trust pays the highest amount as a percentage of its budget; and what percentage of its budget that cost represents.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The question has been interpreted to mean contributions to the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) which provides indemnity for National Health Service bodies. These are not insurance premiums.</p><p> </p><p>The total cost for 2014-15, which is the last available published figure, is £1,037,742,810.</p><p> </p><p>The information as to which NHS Foundation Trust pays the highest amount as a percentage of its budget is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 14/06/2016 13:15:40 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524318

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	S4C: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what safeguards and governance arrangements have been put in place to prevent a recurrence of the situation where (1) the Principal of North East Surrey College of Technology allegedly paid her husband over £170,000 during the course of a contract with a Saudi Arabian college, and (2) the Board of Governors were unaware for over 18 months that such payments were made.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>As an independent corporation North East Surrey College of Technology is responsible for ensuring appropriate safeguards and governance arrangements are in place in relation to the corporation including subsidiary companies. The Skills Funding Agency has received a report from NESCOT and is considering whether there is any risk to public funds and if so what action should be taken.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/06/2016 15:11:03 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524319

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Abortion
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 8 June (HL342), what regulations are in place to ensure the health and safety of paying passengers outside London; and who is responsible for that function.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2016 answer text <p>As rickshaws (pedicabs) outside London are regulated as taxis (Hackney Carriages), it is down to each local authority to set the licensing conditions, standards and by-laws for both driver and vehicle. This includes ensuring the health and safety of all travelling passengers, for instance through policies on vehicle type and safety features.</p><p> </p><p>This function is the responsibility of the local licensing authority.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2016 10:29:57 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524320

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Rents
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 Williams of Trafford on 7 June (HL272), what are the National Planning Policy Framework guidelines about what constitutes an exceptional circumstance that necessitates building on Green Belt land.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2016 answer text <p>Green belts are created and protected by local authorities in line with national policy set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). A Green Belt boundary can only be altered where there are exceptional circumstances and only by means of the Local Plan process of public consultation and independent examination.</p><p>We do not define exceptional circumstances as these can vary from instance to instance. The NPPF however does outline that exceptions in regards to the construction of new buildings in the Green Belt may include:</p><ul><li>buildings for agriculture and forestry;</li><li>provision of appropriate facilities for outdoor sport and recreation and for cemeteries as long as it preserves the openness of the Green Belt and does not conflict with the purposes of including land within it;</li><li>the extension or alteration of a building provided that it does not result in disproportionate additions over and above the size of the original building;</li><li>limited infilling in villages, and limited affordable housing for local community needs under policies set out in the Local Plan.</li></ul> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/06/2016 14:22:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

523868

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many county councils have closed down their children's centres.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty under the Childcare Act 2006 to ensure sufficient children’s centres to meet the needs of local families. Local authorities must also consult fully before any significant changes are made to children’s centre services.</p><p>All 27 county councils in England have children’s centre sites open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network.</p><p>According to data supplied to the department by local authorities, at end May 2016, eight county councils had closed some sites within their children’s centre networks.</p><p>An independent survey carried out by the national children’s charity, 4Children (published October 2015) estimated more than a million children and families were using children’s centres.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 29/06/2016 14:36:31 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

523870

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their policy on providing defibrillators in public places and schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>We recognise that better provision of defibrillators and increasing the number of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation could help save more lives of those who have a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting.</p><p> </p><p>That is why the Chancellor announced in the budget in March 2016 that the Government is making available another £1 million to make public access defibrillators and coronary pulmonary resuscitation training more widely available in communities across England. This builds on last year’s funding of £1 million, which provided almost 700 more publicly accessible defibrillators in communities across England and increased the numbers of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.</p><p> </p><p>Details on how this second tranche of the funding can be accessed will be available in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education (DfE) is encouraging schools to purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) as part of their first aid equipment and in November 2014 announced new arrangements to allow schools to purchase AEDs at a competitive price. This is the result of a unique agreement between the DfE and the Department of Health in which devices are bought in bulk and the savings of around 50% are passed on to schools. Since the launch of this policy, 1,389 defibrillators have been provided to schools.</p><p> </p><p>To help schools in considering whether to purchase a defibrillator, DfE has published advice on installing and maintaining AEDs on school premises. This has been developed drawing on the expertise of National Health Service ambulance services and voluntary and community sector organisations.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/06/2016 12:22:50 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey