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45725

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date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve support for young people with caring responsibilities.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL6374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>Improving support for carers of all ages is a priority for this Government. That is why the Department for Education has provided over £2.7 million of funding to The Children's Society and Carers Trust over four years (2011-15) to work with local authorities and voluntary and community organisations to promote ‘whole family' approaches to supporting young carers and identify and share existing good practice.</p><p>The Department has also made significant changes to the law relating to young carers with effect from April 2015. Clause 96 of the Children and Families Act 2014 delivers four things:</p><ol><li>It consolidates and simplifies the legislation relating to young carers' assessments, making rights and duties clearer to both young people and practitioners</li><li>It extends the right to an assessment of needs for support to all young carers under the age of 18 regardless of who they care for, what type of care they provide or how often they provide it</li><li>It makes it clear to local authorities that they must carry out an assessment of a young carer's needs for support on request or when the need becomes apparent</li><li>It provides the appropriate links between children's and adults' legislation to enable local authorities to align the assessment of a young carer with an assessment of the person they care for.</li></ol><p>These changes will work with provisions in the Care Bill that also support the combining of children's and adult's assessments, and the forthcoming regulations on a whole family approach to assessing and supporting adults. Together they will provide a clear legislative framework that will support local authorities to consider the needs of the whole family, deliver coordinated packages of support and protect children and young people from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.</p><p>In addition, we will develop regulations and statutory guidance that will build on existing best practice to support local implementation. We plan to issue draft versions for consultation in spring 2014 and final versions in October 2014; six months before the changes will take effect. A decision on what additional implementation support is needed beyond March 2015 will be made in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

45726

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pensioners received winter fuel payments in each of the parliamentary constituencies in the city of Manchester in (1) 2010–11, (2) 2011–12, and (3) 2012–13.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL6375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information is available: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

45739

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many complaints about Atos Healthcare have been submitted or received through the Department for Work and Pensions, per year, since the commencement of the service provision contract.
tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
uin	HL6388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department does not hold central records on the number of complaints received in regards to Atos Healthcare, this information could only be collated at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

45740

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of Atos Healthcare's complaints policy and procedure, as held by the Department for Work and Pensions.
tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
uin	HL6389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I will place a copy of Atos Healthcare's complaints policy and procedure in the House library.</p><p> </p><p>Atos Healthcare provides leaflets which are available in all their assessment centres for information on their complaints procedure and policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud attachment 1 file name eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390.doc title eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390 2 file name Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure 3 file name 22-13 Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure grouped question UIN HL6390 question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

45741

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether all persons undergoing medical examinations by Atos Healthcare in respect of benefit applications are advised of the complaints procedure and policy, as held by the Department for Work and Pensions; if so, whether this has been routine practice since Atos Healthcare commenced service provision; and how persons are made aware of the complaints policy and procedure.
tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
uin	HL6390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I will place a copy of Atos Healthcare's complaints policy and procedure in the House library.</p><p> </p><p>Atos Healthcare provides leaflets which are available in all their assessment centres for information on their complaints procedure and policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud attachment 1 file name eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390.doc title eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390 2 file name Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure 3 file name 22-13 Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure grouped question UIN HL6389 question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

45749

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that all maintained and academy schools in receipt of the pupil premium use the funds directly to support disadvantaged pupils.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL6398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>Headteachers of maintained schools and academies are expected to use their professional judgement in determining which well-evidenced interventions to invest in to raise the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils. A headteacher may decide to spend some of their pupil premium on whole school interventions, such as improving the quality of teacher feedback, as the evidence shows that this has a significant impact on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>While headteachers have this freedom, they are also held accountable for the impact of this additional funding in three different ways. Firstly, the performance tables set out the attainment and progress of disadvantaged pupils and the gap between them and their peers. Secondly, Ofsted inspects the achievement of all pupils in a school, and where disadvantaged pupils are making insufficient progress, inspectors are likely to grade a school as requiring improvement and will recommend that the school undertakes a pupil premium review. Thirdly, schools are required to publish online how much pupil premium funding they receive, how they have used this funding and an evaluation of the impact that it has had.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

45495

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
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 Nash on 15 October 2013 (WA 76–7) and 21 October 2013 (WA 122), by what mechanism they have subsequently monitored the enhancement of teaching in maths and English, and with what outcomes.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL6360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>The new national curriculum sets out very clearly what should be taught to pupils. However, it deliberately gives teachers the flexibility to decide how to teach it. The Department for Education expect schools to identify the support that they need to prepare for the new curriculum, recognising that different schools will face different challenges.</p><p>The Department has provided funding to teaching schools to work with their alliances and beyond, and we have been signposting schools to the range of free support that is available in English and mathematics including the resources developed by the National Literacy Trust and the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. The sector-led expert subject groups have been providing audit tools and guidance, and publishers are bringing a variety of new materials to market.</p><p>The Government is funding a national network of around 30 maths hubs to drive up the quality of mathematics teachers. Each hub will be led by an outstanding school and will provide support to all schools in the area, across all areas of mathematics education. Systematic phonics has been emphasised in the teaching of early reading in the new national curriculum because evidence shows that it is the most effective way of teaching all children to begin to read. We have provided match-funding of £23 million to primary schools to purchase high quality phonics resources.</p><p>Ofsted, as part of their on-going programme of inspection, report on the quality of teaching in schools to ensure that teaching in subjects such as English and mathematics is resulting in improved achievement.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

44878

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the percentage cost over-run established by the management board for any budget in the Ministry of Defence to merit being tabled at the departmental management board; and how many times in the last 12 months that has occurred.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL6281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>The Defence Board receives a monthly report on the performance of each of its Top level Budgets showing the forecast position against the allocated budget. It also receives information on the delivery of the Ministry of Defence's key equipment and other projects. The Board assesses this management information at each meeting and takes action as and when necessary.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

44880

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the percentage cost over-run established by the management board for any budget in the Department of Energy and Climate Change to merit being tabled at the departmental management board; and how many times in the last 12 months that has occurred.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL6283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p>The departmental management board review the Department's expenditure forecasts against Parliamentary control totals. No cost over-runs have been forecast in the last 12 months.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

44899

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the breakdown of departmental spending on Government Procurement Cards in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2009–10, including the name, merchant type, purchase date and transaction value.
tabling member printed	Baroness Seccombe
uin	HL6302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Officials' spending on Government Procurement Cards (GPCs) in 2009-10 generated nearly 47,000 transactions totalling £3.9m.</p><p>The breakdown requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>However, details of all GPC transactions with a value of £500 or above, incurred from 1 April 2010 onwards, are published online at <a href="http://data.gov.uk/dataset/defra-gpc-spend-over-500-pounds" target="_blank">http://data.gov.uk/dataset/defra-gpc-spend-over-500-pounds</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	2097 label Biography information for Baroness Seccombe