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179198

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date	11/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to improve cancer care across the National Health Service and to ensure that National Health Service staff are trained to meet the future needs of cancer patients.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL4935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>On Sunday 11 January NHS England announced a new independent cancer taskforce to develop a five-year action plan for cancer services that will improve survival rates and save thousands of lives. It will produce a new cross-system national cancer strategy to 2020, building on NHS England’s vision for improving cancer outcomes as set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The taskforce will work in partnership with the cancer community and other health system leaders, and will be chaired by Dr Harpal Kumar, Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK. It will include cancer specialist doctors and clinicians, patients groups and charity leaders, Public Health England, local council representatives and professional bodies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The strategy will set a clear direction covering the whole cancer pathway, from prevention to living with and beyond cancer and end-of-life care, issues such as data, workforce, research and reducing inequalities. It will also consider how services need to develop and innovate in the future. The taskforce will produce a statement of intent by March 2015, with the new strategy to be published in the summer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and content for education and training and ensure newly qualified doctors, nurses, and other professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high-quality patient care. The General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council set standards for the education of doctors and nurses respectively. The royal colleges have responsibility for developing curricula for doctors and nurses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has mandated Health Education England (HEE) to provide national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service in England. HEE works across disciplines to train staff to deal with patients with all conditions, including cancer.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 25/02/2015 15:10:17 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

179199

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to work with the political parties in Northern Ireland on the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL4936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is in regular contact with the Northern Ireland parties to work with them in implementing the Stormont House Agreement, in addition to the quarterly Implementation Review Group meetings. The Government has also introduced legislation for the devolution of Corporation Tax powers to Northern Ireland which is currently progressing through the other place.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 24/02/2015 12:53:48 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

179200

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Dog Fighting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to end dog fighting.
tabling member printed	Lord Hoyle
uin	HL4937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Dog fighting has been banned in this country for over 100 years. It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of £20,000 or both. In addition, the police have powers to investigate allegations of dog fighting as well as powers of arrest against those suspected of being involved in this barbaric practice.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 23/02/2015 16:36:02 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	1000 label Biography information for Lord Hoyle

179201

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Buildings: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to ensure that sports centres, theatres and other public places are being adapted to provide for those people who are physically disabled but not necessarily in a wheelchair.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gould of Potternewton
uin	HL4938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination against disabled people in the provision of goods, facilities and services. Sport England has produced the ‘Accessible Sports Facilities’ guidance note to ensure that providers meet the needs of the widest range of people in the design, operation and maintenance of sports facilities.</p><p>The Arts Council has published guidance called 'Building Inclusion: Physical Access Guidance for the Arts' which covers access in relation to all aspects of arts buildings from arrival and circulation to toilets and signage for all users - staff, artists and the public.</p><p>The Arts Council's current capital programme has focused on repair, renewals and refurbishments including supporting applications that seek to improve physical access. Organisations in the Arts Council's 2015-18 portfolio will need to provide an Audience Development plan for access for deaf and disabled people as part of the Funding Agreement negotiations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/02/2015 15:06:31 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3573 label Biography information for Baroness Gould of Potternewton

179202

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Private Rented Housing: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the policy guidance provided by the Housing Minister and the Department for Communities and Local Government on short-term lets in London, whether the proposed restriction of short-term letting of homes to a maximum 90 days in a calendar year will apply only to entire homes or whether the letting of spare rooms will also be subject to the cap.
tabling member printed	Lord Grade of Yarmouth
uin	HL4939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2015 answer text <p>Section 25 of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1973 provides that a residential premises, and each part thereof, which is used for stays of less than 90 consecutive nights is a change of use, and would therefore require planning permission. Through the Deregulation Bill, the Government is proposing to allow the premises subject to Section 25 of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1973 to be let for up to 90 nights per calendar year without applying for planning permission.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 20/02/2015 11:00:32 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4228 label Biography information for Lord Grade of Yarmouth

179203

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Iran
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of Iran about the detention of journalists in Iran.
tabling member printed	Lord Grade of Yarmouth
uin	HL4940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Freedom of expression in Iran is severely restricted. Iran has one of the highest numbers of journalists in prison in the world. News outlets and online media are heavily censored and the majority of newspapers are now government controlled. The UK continues to urge Iran to guarantee the rights of all its citizens in line with its international obligations. We last raised our concerns around freedom of expression during Iran’s Universal Periodic Review during the UN Human Rights Council on 31 October 2014.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 23/02/2015 13:34:28 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4228 label Biography information for Lord Grade of Yarmouth

179204

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Iran
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of Iran’s financial and material support for Hamas.
tabling member printed	Lord Grade of Yarmouth
uin	HL4941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>We remain deeply concerned by Iran’s ongoing financial and material support for Hamas and other Palestinian rejectionist groups. The supply of arms to Hamas contravenes the embargo on Iranian arms exports established by UN Security Council Resolution 1747 and undermines prospects for peace and stability in the Middle East.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 23/02/2015 13:35:56 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4228 label Biography information for Lord Grade of Yarmouth

179205

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Media
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the justification for the Ministry of Justice’s refusal to permit visits to any prisons by a reporter from <i>The Guardian</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL4942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The External Communications team at the Ministry of Justice receives a significant number of requests by local and national media for access to prisons. For operational reasons and resource implications it is not possible to facilitate all requests.</p><p> </p><p>Each request is considered on its own merit, with careful thought over the subject area, resource and security implications, victim impact, and value to the taxpayer. In a similar way to the police or the NHS, there are operational considerations to be made when filming or reporting in prisons. When facilitating media access we must ensure that the needs of victims are met, which may involve concealing identities, carrying out relevant checks and liaising directly with victims about the access request. We must also ensure that media access does not breach any security restrictions, for example filming keys or locks. Consideration is also given to protecting the identities of prisoners and staff.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to providing open and transparent access to prison and regularly provide access to journalists for news items, features and documentary programmes. We aim to provide a range of access to different journalists covering both print and broadcast media, local, national and online media.</p><p> </p><p>Since the beginning of January 2015 we have provided access to a range of media outlets, a few examples are listed below:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Guardian were given access to HMP New Hall - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/30/new-hall-womens-prison-inmates-equals</li><li>BBC and the Sun were giving access to HMP Coldingley</li><li>Regional BBC were giving access to HMP Northumberland (Sodexo run prison)</li><li>Telegraph and Heart Radio were giving access to HMP Drake Hall</li><li>Evening Standard and regional BBC were giving access to HMP Thameside (Serco run prison)</li><li>BBC Radio 4 were giving access to HMP Prescoed/HMP Cardiff</li><li>Sky Sports were giving access to HMP Feltham</li><li>National BBC, regional ITV and the Manchester Evening News were giving access to HMP Styal</li><li>Evening Standard and London Live were giving access to HMP Isis</li><li>East Anglia Daily Times and regional BBC radio were giving access to HMP Hollesley Bay</li><li>Sky News were given access to HMP Ranby</li><li>ITV were given access to HMP Norwich</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL4943 question first answered 25/02/2015 17:02:11 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

178861

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Embryos
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 8 January 2013 (WA 24–6), 24 February 2014 (WA 174–5) and 5 February 2015 (HL4367), whether the total number of embryos allowed to perish as stated as 1,717,375 between 1991 and 2011 represents the same set of embryos recorded in the earlier answer as "stored for research" or "discarded", which totalled 1,720,446 or those recorded in that answer as not being "transferred", "stored for patients' use" or "stored for donation", totalling 1,316,979; which is the correct figure for the number of embryos destroyed over that period; and what relevance they consider that the embryo being "the size of the head of a pin" has to the number of embryos destroyed.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that the number of embryos allowed to perish between 1991 and 2011 is 1,717,375, as stated in my written answer of 5 February 2015 (HL4367). In relation to the figures given in my written answer of 8 January 2013 (WA 24-6), the comparator would be the figures recorded as “Embryos reported on the Treatment form as being discarded” and “Embryos reported on the Gamete Movement form as being removed from storage and discarded”.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total figures differ from the later answer (HL4367) because the latter does not include embryos stored for research. Any further difference in the figures is due to reconciliation work performed on the data since my answer of 8 January 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The descriptive term “head of a pin” was intended to give the noble Lord an indication of the size of the embryo involved, in my written answers of 24 February 2014, HL5165 (WA 174-5), and 5 February 2015, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=4367" target="_blank">HL4367</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/02/2015 15:34:34 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

178863

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	North Korea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that the government of North Korea uses forced and uncompensated labour, including school children, in the construction of tourist sites visited by United Kingdom tourists; and whether United Kingdom legislation prohibits the use of such sites by United Kingdom-based businesses or individuals.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>We are aware of reports regarding the use of conscripted military personnel in the construction of sites that foreigners visit in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and of the use of forced and uncompensated labour for construction projects more generally. Our Embassy in Pyongyang has seen activity corroborating these reports, such as military personnel working on the new Pyongyang airport terminal and Masik Pass Ski Resort, and we are aware of situations in which university students have been taken out of classes to participate in construction projects. We are unaware of specific reports regarding the use of school children in the construction of tourist sites, and we have not witnessed this in Pyongyang. Our officials have seen children, who appear to be of school age, taking part in extracurricular activities including street cleaning and grass cutting, and also being used as agricultural labour at harvest time.</p><p> </p><p>There is no legislation prohibiting the use of, or access to, DPRK tourist sites by UK-based business or individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 24/02/2015 16:48:02 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool