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436599

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date	09/12/2015
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
hansard heading	District Heating
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made any assessment of the cost of energy bills to people served by District Heating Networks.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL4433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>In March 2015 DECC published a report by AECOM titled ‘An Assessment of the Costs, Performance, and Characteristics of UK Heat Networks’. The report included a review of the prices charged to final customers by a representative sample of heat networks (7 in total). The average heat price was found to be 6.43p/kWh but with a wide range of 4.64 to 9.88 p/kWh reflecting differences in network design, construction, commissioning and operation. On average this is less than the modelled cost of gas central heating in flats and terraced houses when boiler ownership costs are included (7.22 to 10.24p/kWh).</p><br /><p>The Government is aware that costs to the consumer can vary and achieving cost savings is dependent on the quality of the individual network. DECC has supported industry development of a technical code of practice for heat networks, and worked closely with industry and consumer groups on the development of Heat Trust, an independent consumer protection scheme that launched in November 2015. There are also plans to launch an on-line cost comparator tool in 2016 to allow a consumer to assess their charges against gas central heating. This greater transparency of heat charges is complemented by the billing information requirements in the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 15/12/2015 15:48:46 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

436034

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role local authorities and school governors have in agreeing annual school budgets.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Maintained schools receive a delegated budget from their local authority. Local authorities are required to maintain a scheme for financing schools that sets out the framework for the financial relationship between them and the schools they maintain. This requires that the school’s formal annual budget plan must be approved by the governors. This approval is undertaken on the basis that the budget is being used for the purposes of the school.</p><br /><p>Under the scheme for financing schools, a local authority’s responsibilities are to review schools’ budget plans; to carry out high level monitoring of school budgets; to agree a deficit reduction programme with schools in deficit; to challenge excess surplus balances held by schools without good reason; to intervene in schools for which there are financial concerns.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/12/2015 13:39:03 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436036

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Maintained Schools: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether governors of maintained schools are allowed to agree a budget deficit.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Governors are responsible for agreeing the budget of a school under the arrangements set out in their Local Authority’s Scheme for Financing Schools, which may preclude any planning for deficits; or it may allow schools to plan for deficits only in certain approved circumstances.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 14/12/2015 14:48:25 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name Scheme_for_Financing_Schools_August_2015_published.pdf title Scheme for Financing Schools
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

436040

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Tower Hamlets
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 8 December (HL3697), what is the name of the new school; whether that school is a free school; and what involvement, if any, the New Schools Network had in founding that school.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
uin	HL4336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>We cannot yet confirm which school the Commercial Road site will be developed for as the latest wave of applications is currently being assessed. Whether the entire site will be used will depend on the type of school approved.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 14/12/2015 15:03:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

436066

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Tornado Aircraft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Tornado GR4-trained navigators there are in the RAF.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>There are 190 Tornado GR4 trained navigators in the Royal Air Force.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 14/12/2015 16:42:52 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

436067

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Tornado Aircraft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average age of Tornado GR4-trained navigators in the RAF.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The average age of Tornado GR4 trained navigators in the Royal Air Force is 41 years and three months.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 14/12/2015 16:43:04 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

436068

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Tornado Aircraft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the last RAF Tornado GR4 navigator completed their training.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL4364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Tornado GR4 Weapons Systems Officers (navigators) continue to be trained until the projected completion of the final course in March 2017.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 14/12/2015 16:43:21 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

436070

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Iraq: Military Intervention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the financial cost to date of UK air strikes against Daesh in Iraq.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
uin	HL4366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>It is not possible to separate out the costs of military action in Iraq from that of wider counter-Daesh operations due to the inter-related nature of UK military activity. The net additional cost of UK counter-Daesh operations to date is approximately £150 million. This includes around £80 million for military operations between August 2014 - 31 March 2015 and a net additional cost to date in this financial year of around £70 million.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 15/12/2015 16:36:34 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

436071

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Syria: Military Intervention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the projected financial cost for this financial year of UK air strikes against Daesh in Syria.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
uin	HL4367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>It is not possible to separate out the costs of military action in Syria from that of wider counter-Daesh operations, due to the inter-related nature of UK military activity. Based on current levels of activity, the net additional cost of increased UK activity in Syria is not expected to rise above the low tens of millions of pounds.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 15/12/2015 16:41:14 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

436072

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
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 Libraries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what statutory duties local authorities have to provide library and library-related services.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 places a duty on local authorities to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service. It is for individual local authorities to determine how best to provide this.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 14/12/2015 15:20:07 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves