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930887

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date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Religious Freedom
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 Bates on 18 June (HL8400), whether, in the course of working with marginalised communities in Pakistan, they conduct any monitoring of madrassas known to promote hatred of minorities.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>DFID does not support madrassas, but does support the Government of Pakistan to improve access to quality education, working in particular towards improving access to education and learning outcomes for the most marginalized groups of children, including the poorest, girls, children with disabilities and children from minority communities.</p><p> </p><p>Reforming and regulating madrassas is a key part of the Government of Pakistan’s National Action Plan developed to counter extremism in the country. This has led to registration of some madrassas as well as closing down of some madrassas seen to be promoting sectarianism, religious hatred and intolerance. This plan has been unanimously endorsed and adopted by all political parties as well as government.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 04/07/2018 16:45:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

930888

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether trade deals in which the UK is partner are conditional on other signatories ensuring the rights of minorities in their countries; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK has long supported the promotion of our values globally.</p><p>The EU has included provisions protecting human rights within their trade and political agreements with partner countries<em>. </em>EU Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with developed countries since the EU-South Korea FTA have also included references to the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental conventions which provide for the elimination of discrimination at work.</p><p>Additionally, the EU’s GSP+ scheme provides enhanced tariff preferences to economically vulnerable developing countries which are effectively implementing 27 international conventions, including on racial and gender discrimination.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead question first answered 09/07/2018 16:31:57 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

930889

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Overseas Aid
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 Bates on 18 June (HL8402), how they have monitored the use of UK aid given to Pakistan in the last ten years; and what plans, if any, they have to link the provision of aid more closely to the protection of minority rights in the recipient country.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>DFID’s approach in Pakistan includes ensuring that our development assistance targets poor women and men, regardless of race, religion, social background, or nationality. We have robust monitoring in place, including systems to track spend and monitor results and value for money, plus annual reviews and project completion reviews of all programmes. Our support contributes either directly or indirectly to the protection of minority rights, including by adopting a ‘do no harm’ approach. One of the four principles set out in the Partnership Principles Agreement that the UK has with Pakistan is a commitment to respect human rights. DFID and the FCO continue to raise the issue of human rights of minorities at the highest levels of Government, including in our annual Bilateral Assistance Talks, advocating greater tolerance and action against abuses when they occur.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 04/07/2018 16:45:54 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

930890

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Korean War: Casualties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions have been held with the United States authorities about the repatriation of the remains of United States and British servicemen killed during the Korean War; what is their estimate of the number of UK servicemen whose remains are still in North Korea; and what proportion this is of the total number of UK servicemen killed in the conflict.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>On 12 June 2018 President Trump and Kim Jong Un signed the Sentosa agreement, which included a commitment to recovering Prisoners of War - Missing in Action remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. The UNC Military Armistice Commission have informed the UNC Sending States that a repatriation event for the transfer of remains will shortly be announced. Some of the remains may be from Sending States other than the US. UK and US officials are in discussion about the handling of remains that are demonstrated to be other than US personnel.</p><p>From 27 June 1950 to 27 July 1954, 1,129 UK Armed Forces died as a result of the Korean War[1]. An exercise is currently under way to cross reference records in the UK and the British Embassy in Seoul of those personnel with no known grave, to confirm the number of personnel whose remains might possibly be in North Korea. I will write to the noble Lord when this work is complete.</p><p>[1] For deaths prior to 1984, Defence Statistics (Health) uses the AFM database and specifically the 'Theatre' field to identify all those personnel who died as a result of operations in a medal earning theatre</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 03/07/2018 16:11:29 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

930891

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many social housing properties have been sold under the Right-to-Buy Scheme since 2010; and how many of those sold have been replaced by (1) local authorities, and (2) housing associations.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL8891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>There have been 93,859 Right-to-Buy sales since 2010, of which 72,042 sales have been local authority properties. In the same time period 128,050 new homes have been provided for social rent.</p><p>In 2012 the Government made changes to the Right to Buy scheme, increasing the maximum discount caps. An estimate of the expected sales without these increases to the discount cap had been calculated for the purposes of calculating the local authorities’ self-financing payments. Any Right to Buy sales above these projections are considered ‘additional’ and are subject to the one-for-one additions policy, which is a commitment to provide dwelling at affordable or social rent for each additional Right to Buy dwelling sold.</p><p>Under the Right to Buy one-for-one replacement policy, local authorities have three years from receiving receipts arising from additional Right to Buy sales to incur a specified level of expenditure on one-for-one replacement. If a local authority does not incur this level of this expenditure, a proportion of the receipt is transferred to Homes England (HE) or the Greater London authority (GLA), who use these recycled Right to Buy receipts to deliver starts and acquisitions.</p><p>As part of the one-for-one Right-to-Buy replacement commitment Local Authorities have delivered 16,012 replacements and recycled receipts used by HE and the GLA has delivered 1,899 replacements.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 09/07/2018 15:43:56 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

930892

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	May 2018 Rail Timetable Implementation Independent Inquiry
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 potential conflict of interest that may arise from the chair of the board of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Stephen Glaister, being appointed as the chair of the independent inquiry into the disruption caused by the changes in rail timetables in May; how the appointment of Mr Glaister to the inquiry relates to the ORR’s (1) responsibility to oversee the effectiveness of rail timetables, and (2) draft determination on Network Rail’s Control Period 6 which endorses the System Operator timetable process model.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL8892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not consider a conflict of interest arises from the role of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) in this inquiry, or the role of Professor Glaister, who has a distinguished record in the transport sector. ORR is the independent regulator for the rail sector. As a public body independent of government, the ORR is answerable to Parliament. It is established by statute, and operates under a legislative framework that assures its independence from both government and the rail companies that it regulates. The government has asked the ORR to conduct the inquiry within this framework, which assures the independence of this work.</p><p> </p><p>In undertaking this work, ORR will be supported by an expert panel of independent advisers. This will be one of the means to ensure the ORR’s own role as regulator of Network Rail and the train operating companies has been properly assessed by the Inquiry, notwithstanding its regulatory work in other areas, such as timetabling and the draft determination for Control Period 6.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 09/07/2018 12:36:57 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

930893

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	EU Agency for Railways
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 Callanan on 22 June (HL8486), how they intend to work with the European Agency for Rail after the UK leaves the EU on issues such as standards.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL8893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK rail industry has played a leading role in the development of international rail standards and safety regimes. We fully expect this to continue once we have left the EU and it is in all of our interests that it does given the importance of these areas. The exact nature of the UK’s relationship with the EU on rail, including with the European Agency for the Railways, is a matter for discussion with the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 04/07/2018 11:11:47 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

930894

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Marine Protected Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total area of UK waters classified as no take zones.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL8894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>There are three no take zones in UK waters; Lundy, Lamlash Bay and Flamborough Head, however we do not hold data on their total area.</p><p> </p><p>Our Marine Protected Area network currently includes 299 sites covering a total area of 80,742 square miles. Sustainable marine industries are allowed to operate in these sites, but only if they do not damage the protected features.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently consulting on 41 new Marine Conservation Zones. As part of this consultation we are also seeking views on whether in future we should establish Highly Protected Marine Areas - these are areas where most or all human activities would not be permitted, and could include no take zones.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 09/07/2018 11:21:51 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

930895

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children
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 Association of Child Psychotherapists Silent Catastrophe: responding to the danger signs of children and young people's mental health services in trouble published in June, and its findings in relation to the adequacy of services for children at risk of suicide; and whether they will review the specialist services available to such children.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL8895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has noted the report and will examine it with interest.</p><p>Suicide prevention is a priority for this Government which is why we updated the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, <em>Preventing suicide in England: Third progress report of the cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives,</em> last year to strengthen its key areas for action. The Strategy highlights that addressing suicide prevention in children and young people requires tailored approaches to meeting their mental health needs. A copy of the Strategy is attached.</p><p>The Government is investing record levels to transform mental health services which includes £1.4 billion to improve access to children and young people’s mental health services. We are investing an additional £300 million to deliver the proposals set out in the joint health and education <em>Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper</em>. A copy of the Green Paper is attached. The Green Paper builds on the work of the report, <em>Future in Mind, </em>to address the provision of mental health services for children and young people, including the provision of specialist services.</p><p>The Department also supports the work of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, which published research into suicide by children and young people, in 2017.</p><p>The Department continues to review and wide range of research to inform evidence-based policy development on mental health.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name Suicide_report_2016_A.pdf title Preventing suicide in England 2 file name Transforming_children_and_young_people_s_mental_health_provision (1).pdf title Transforming CYP MHP Green Paper question first answered 09/07/2018 16:30:11 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

930896

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Regulation
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 Henley on 22 June (HL8591), when each of the bodies listed became public under the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL8896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 was enacted on 28 July 2000. On that date the following public bodies were already in existence:</p><p>Bank of England</p><p>Companies House</p><p>Insolvency Service</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Reporting Council was incorporated in March 1990 and became a public body in its current form in 2004.</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority were established in their current form in April 2013 by the Financial Services Act 2012.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 06/07/2018 13:22:06 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted