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1092428

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date	20/03/2019
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 what assessment they have made of the report by the New Economic Foundation A Rail Network for Everyone: probing HS2 and its alternatives, published on 20 March, in particular its conclusions that (1) HS2 will make the north–south divide worse by concentrating wealth in London, and (2) the budget for HS2 should be invested in the existing railway network instead.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>HS2 has the potential to be a transformative infrastructure project that will help to rebalance our economy. The report misrepresents evidence that by no means suggests that HS2 would exacerbate a North-South divide. The project has cross-party Parliamentary support and significant support from political leaders in the North and Midlands, in particular, who can see the benefits this project can have in terms of job creation, providing new apprenticeships and opportunities for large and small businesses, unlocking commercial space and regeneration and facilitating new housing.</p><p> </p><p>The project is already leading to significant investment in Birmingham and we expect it to deliver similar growth in towns and cities across the North. HS2 not only represents an investment in the economies of the North and Midlands, it will also add additional capacity where our rail network needs it most and the trains will call at 25 stations across the UK, as far as Edinburgh and Glasgow, which will improve people’s connections between towns and cities the breath of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>To present the investment in our rail network as an either / or between modernising the existing network and investing in new infrastructure is both misleading and inaccurate. In Control Period 6 the government is planning to invest £48bn on our rail network, this is in addition to HS2 and the emerging plans Transport for the North has developed for Northern Powerhouse Rail. While upgrading existing lines is essential, doing that alone would not provide the long-term capacity that is so vitally needed – HS2 will deliver capacity roughly equivalent to two new dual three-lane motorways - would lead to more disruption for passengers on the existing networks, and more importantly it would not offer the range of economic benefits that City Regions and LEPs have set out in their HS2 Growth Strategies.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 02/04/2019 13:53:32 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1092429

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
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	Jamal Khashoggi
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 19 March (HL14319), whether they will now answer the question put, namely what support they are giving to the government of Turkey in its request for those accused of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi to be returned to stand trial in that country.
tabling member printed	Lord Balfe
uin	HL14686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>As the Foreign Secretary has said, the Government condemns Jamal Khashoggi's killing in the strongest possible terms. The Government remains clear that anyone found responsible must be held fully accountable.</p><p>The ongoing Saudi judicial process is an important element in the process to establish accountability. The question of those accused standing trial in Turkey is a matter to be resolved by the Turkish and Saudi Arabian governments.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/04/2019 14:44:49 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4302 label Biography information for Lord Balfe

1092430

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to ensure that measures designed to prevent voluntary-aided schools that select 100 per cent of their pupils based on faith from having a detrimental impact on social cohesion, such as school linking programmes and religious diversity on governing bodies, are implemented and maintained once those schools have opened.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL14687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Schools play a vital role in promoting integration and encouraging greater community cohesion and this includes faith schools.</p><p>The Integrated Communities Strategy made clear the important role schools play in knitting communities together. All state funded schools, whatever their type, have a legal obligation to promote community cohesion and to teach a broad and balanced curriculum, and are under a duty to foster good relations between different groups. They are also required to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs. Their effectiveness in doing so is inspected by Ofsted.</p><p>Many existing faith schools have a strong record on promoting integration and the department encourages them, as well as all new schools, to engage in programmes such as school linking, that promote social mixing within and across schools. The department is taking forward over 20 measures across its portfolio to support the sector to promote integration, as set out in the Integrated Communities Action Plan. This can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/integrated-communities-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/integrated-communities-action-plan</a>.</p><p>This document is also attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL14691 question first answered 29/03/2019 13:13:05 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Integrated_Communities_Strategy_Govt_Action_Plan.pdf title Integrated_Communities_Strategy_Govt_Action_Plan
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1092431

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they will ensure that local objections to proposals for new voluntary-aided faith schools with the legal power to select all of their pupils based on faith are adequately taken into account by local authority decision-makers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL14688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Alongside the launch of the capital scheme for new voluntary-aided schools, the department published the updated and attached statutory guidance for proposers and decision-makers on opening and closing maintained schools.</p><p>The guidance explains that proposers are required to consult prior to publishing statutory proposals for a new school and hold a four-week representation period once the statutory proposals have been published. In deciding proposals, decision-makers (usually the local authority) must take any comments received during the representation period into account.</p><p>The statutory guidance sets out the department’s expectations on how the consultations are carried out, including the Cabinet Office guidance on consultation principles.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 29/03/2019 14:24:21 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Opening_and_Closing_maintained_schools_Guidance.pdf title Opening_and_closing_maintained_schools_guidance
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1092432

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Admissions
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 impact that voluntary-aided schools that select 100 per cent of their pupils based on faith will have on religious integration.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL14689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Many schools with faith-based admissions have diverse intakes, and many schools that don’t have faith based admissions have homogenous school populations. While faith schools are allowed to give priority to children of their faith, some choose to allocate only a certain percentage of their places with reference to faith in order to open up places to other children regardless of faith, and many do not have faith admissions criteria at all. Where there are sufficient places, faith schools must offer a place to every applicant regardless of faith.</p><p>The department undertook an extensive series of activities as part of the Schools that Work for Everyone consultation to understand the variety of opinions relating to faith schools. Having considered the views of respondents, and those of a range of other stakeholders, the department decided to establish the voluntary-aided capital scheme alongside retaining the 50% cap in faith admissions in faith designated free schools.</p><p>An analysis of how the voluntary-aided schools capital scheme will affect specific protected groups (equalities impact assessment) is attached and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-aided-schools-capital-scheme-equalities-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-aided-schools-capital-scheme-equalities-impact-assessment</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 02/04/2019 15:33:29 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL14689_voluntary_aided_schools_capital_scheme_equalities_impact_assessment.pdf title HL14689_voluntary_aided_schools_capital_scheme_equ
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1092433

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to provide funding for additional rounds of the new capital scheme for voluntary-aided schools; and if so, how often they intend to do so.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL14690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The department launched the capital scheme for voluntary-aided schools on the 15 November 2018 and the bidding round closed on 1 February 2019. We plan to launch a second bidding round in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 02/04/2019 16:03:04 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1092435

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Community Relations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to introducing measures to promote social integration in all schools, in the same manner that has been done for voluntary-aided schools that select 100 per cent of their pupils based on faith.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL14691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Schools play a vital role in promoting integration and encouraging greater community cohesion and this includes faith schools.</p><p>The Integrated Communities Strategy made clear the important role schools play in knitting communities together. All state funded schools, whatever their type, have a legal obligation to promote community cohesion and to teach a broad and balanced curriculum, and are under a duty to foster good relations between different groups. They are also required to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs. Their effectiveness in doing so is inspected by Ofsted.</p><p>Many existing faith schools have a strong record on promoting integration and the department encourages them, as well as all new schools, to engage in programmes such as school linking, that promote social mixing within and across schools. The department is taking forward over 20 measures across its portfolio to support the sector to promote integration, as set out in the Integrated Communities Action Plan. This can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/integrated-communities-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/integrated-communities-action-plan</a>.</p><p>This document is also attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL14687 question first answered 29/03/2019 13:13:05 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Integrated_Communities_Strategy_Govt_Action_Plan.pdf title Integrated_Communities_Strategy_Govt_Action_Plan
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1092436

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Zimbabwe: Storms
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe on the relief effort in response to Cyclone Idai.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL14692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK’s focus in responding to Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe is on providing essential health supplies, hygiene kits and child protection support. We continue to monitor the situation closely and stand ready to provide further support as needed. The EU retains sanctions against former President Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace Mugabe, and the company Zimbabwe Defence Industries. We consider that sanctions have been an appropriate response to the political violence of the last 15 years. They do no damage to the wider economy or to the people of Zimbabwe and have no impact on the UK’s relief effort.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 01/04/2019 15:47:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

1092437

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Diabetes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of primary school children who have type 1 diabetes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL14693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 28/03/2019 16:18:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

1092438

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Diabetes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether primary schools with pupils who have type 1 diabetes receive additional funding towards the extra adults required to take care of such pupils; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL14694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>All school funding is in place to ensure that schools makes provision for all children. This includes an allocation for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Mainstream schools are expected to meet the first £6,000 of special educational need support costs for each child from their budget, which is calculated under a local formula that includes factors that provide extra resources to schools for their pupils with additional needs.</p><p> </p><p>Where a school finds that further support is required, they can ask the local authority to provide top-up funding. It is for the local authority to determine what level of top-up funding is required for each pupil, based on individual needs.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/04/2019 16:43:48 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford