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819356

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date	09/01/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will nominate a candidate to the UN Committee for Ending Discrimination Against Women.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL4558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is composed of 23 members. There will be an election later this year to replace 12 of these members, whose terms of office expire on 31 December 2018. The Government is not currently planning to make nominations for this Committee.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/01/2018 17:10:40 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

671157

registered interest
date	10/01/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what the net costs of running and funding the domestic and non-domestic renewable heat incentive schemes were in (1) England, (2) Scotland and (3) Wales, each year since their inception, and what they expect this to cost in the next three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL4558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme provides financial incentives to households and non-domestic consumers, including public bodies and charities, to help bridge the gap between the cost of renewable heating systems and conventional alternatives.</p><p>The non-domestic RHI scheme launched in November 2011 and the domestic RHI launched in April 2014. Both schemes are administered by Ofgem and are open to England, Wales and Scotland; however scheme costs are calculated collectively for Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Table one: Scheme administration costs (amount paid to Ofgem to administer the scheme. The domestic set-up costs are included in the non-domestic figure)</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Non-domestic</p></td><td><p>Domestic</p></td><td><p>Notes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1.5m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£4.8m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£5m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Includes domestic RHI preparation costs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£7m</p></td><td><p>£4.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£7.7m</p></td><td><p>£6.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£6.8m</p></td><td><p>£5.3m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong><em>Table two: Total subsidies paid (amount paid to scheme participants)</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Non-domestic</p></td><td><p>Domestic</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£2m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£27m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£52m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£136m</p></td><td><p>£23m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£295m</p></td><td><p>£77m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong><em>Table three: Budget to fund subsidy payments to existing and future participants in both schemes to 2021</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£430m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£640m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£780m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£900m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£1010m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£1150m</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 24/01/2017 14:41:58 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

437856

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	India: Overseas Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the efficacy of UK aid to India in 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Rana
uin	HL4558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK can be proud of the results that its aid to India continues to achieve. For example, during the five years to 2015, UK aid has ensured that over 3.5 million pregnant women and children under 5 are covered by nutrition programmes in eight low income states; that over 1.3 million people have sustainable access to improved sanitation; and that over 600,000 additional people have access to low carbon energy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 21/12/2015 14:19:55 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3689 label Biography information for Lord Rana

176649

registered interest
date	29/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	IVF
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what body will be responsible for overseeing clinical trials of pronuclear transfer and spindle-chromosomal complex transfer.
tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
uin	HL4558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The provision of treatment services involving the use of the Maternal Spindle Transfer and Pronuclear Transfer mitochondrial donation techniques will not be provided as a clinical trial.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Clinical trials are regulated by the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004, which implements the Clinical Trials Directive 2001/20/EC. The Regulations do not cover treatment services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Regulations define a clinical trial as:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“clinical trial” means any investigation in human subjects, other than a non-interventional trial, intended—</p><p> </p><p>(a) to discover or verify the clinical, pharmacological or other pharmacodynamic effects of one or more medicinal products,</p><p> </p><p>(b) to identify any adverse reactions to one or more such products, or</p><p> </p><p>(c) to study absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of one or more such products,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>with the object of ascertaining the safety or efficacy of those products;”.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If the Draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 are approved by Parliament, clinics wishing to offer this service will need to seek prior approval from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Applications will be considered by the Authority on a case by case basis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL4557 question first answered 12/02/2015 13:15:21 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow