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967496

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Home Office: Correspondence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 20 July (HL Deb, col 1413), when the reply to Catherine Utley will be sent to her.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>I responded to the correspondence from Ms Catherine Utley on 24<sup>th</sup> August.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/09/2018 12:35:48 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

967497

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inheritance Tax: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to deferring the date that inheritance tax becomes payable on the home of two blood-related joint owners until the death of the second of those two persons.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>All individuals benefit from a £325,000 tax free threshold for inheritance tax. On certain assets, inheritance tax can be paid in instalments over a ten-year period. This includes situations where the estate contains a house, provided that the house remains unsold.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/09/2018 11:50:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

967498

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sir Edward Heath
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, futher to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 12 July (HL Deb, cols 963–5), what are their reasons for not establishing an inquiry into Operation Conifer conducted by the Wiltshire Police into allegations against Sir Edward Heath.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>I recognise concerns that have been raised by Noble Lords in relation to Operation Conifer, however it is for locally-elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to decide how best to hold their forces to account, and PCCs have the powers to commission an inquiry, should they deem it appropriate. The Government has no plans to launch an inquiry into Operation Conifer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/09/2018 12:47:27 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

947594

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Salisbury Museum: Heritage Lottery Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to assist Salisbury Museum in its bid for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant by making a donation from money made available to Salisbury by the Ministerial Recovery Group.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2018 answer text <p>The Ministerial Recovery Group has to date agreed £7.5 million of government funding to support businesses, boost tourism, and meet unexpected costs as a result of the incidents in Salisbury and Amesbury. The Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have made no plans to allocate part of this funding directly to Salisbury Museum, but the museum will benefit indirectly through the promotion of the city and its cultural attractions.</p><p>Heritage Lottery Fund trustees make grant decisions independently from Government and it would be inappropriate to support specific applications to HLF. The Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will support and advise Wiltshire Council in any proposals they have to bolster their cultural and heritage offering.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 03/08/2018 11:57:22 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

934495

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Bookshops: Non-domestic Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce a business rates relief scheme for bookshops analogous to that provided for public houses.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has introduced a range of business rates reforms and measures to support businesses, including bookshops, worth over £10 billion by 2023. This includes, from April 2017, permanently doubling Small Business Rate Relief and raising the threshold for relief meaning that over 600,000 small businesses now pay no business rates at all, and helping all business by switching the measure of inflation, used for the indexation of rates, from Retail Price Index to Consumer Price Index.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 17/07/2018 16:40:52 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

932367

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 25 June (HL Deb, col 5), what additional funding will be provided to the health services in Northern Ireland under the government’s £20 billion funding plan for the NHS; and when it will be allocated to health and social care in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The final Barnett consequentials for all three devolved administrations will be confirmed at upcoming Fiscal Events and at the next Spending Review, as per the usual process set out in the Statement of Funding Policy.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the government’s funding plan for the NHS in England, indicative additions to the Northern Ireland block grant are set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ billion</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>2023-24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>0.20</p></td><td><p>0.31</p></td><td><p>0.45</p></td><td><p>0.59</p></td><td><p>0.76</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This information was set out in the paper deposited in the House of Commons Library (DEP2018-0598) by the Department of Health and Social Care on 18 June 2018 and is available here: <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-0598/NHS_Settlement-Numbers_corrected.docx" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-0598/NHS_Settlement-Numbers_corrected.docx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Funding decisions would be best taken by a restored Northern Ireland Executive. In the interim it will be for the Northern Ireland Civil Service to allocate funding.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/07/2018 15:23:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

932368

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Pedestrian Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cyclists breached rule 64 of the Highway Code by riding on a pavement in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL9080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold figures for the exact number of breaches, but data from the Ministry of Justice shows that there were 200 prosecutions in 2017 for the offence “Pedal cycle – Riding on footpath”. However, this may not cover all incidents that breached rule 64 of the Highway Code. The figures presented relate to defendants for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 12/07/2018 10:58:16 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

926468

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Boarding Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to help more children in care to secure places in state and independent boarding schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL8723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>This government wants every child, whatever their background and no matter what challenges they face, to have access to a world-class education that prepares them for life in the modern world. This is particularly important for looked-after children who start with the disadvantage of their pre-care experiences and who may also have special educational needs.</p><p>It is for this reason that we launched the Boarding School Partnerships (BSP) Information Service which is aimed at both independent and state boarding schools. This will give local authorities the tools and information they need to consider boarding as an option for children in their care. We believe that this could be beneficial for some children in or on the edge of care.</p><p>The BSP Information Service, in partnership with the Norfolk County Council and the Norfolk Boarding School Partnership, recently published research on positive outcomes for vulnerable children following placements in boarding. This research identified a number of benefits including reducing the likelihood of a child going into care and improved educational outcomes. While this is not suitable for all children, we would urge local authorities to consider boarding as an option if it is suitable for the child in question.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 27/06/2018 14:15:04 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

922987

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Media: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how their media standards review in Northern Ireland will be conducted; and when they anticipate that it will be completed.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL8560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Under the Data Protection Act 2018, the Information Commissioner must conduct a statutory review of the media’s compliance with the Act during the first four years of its operation, with specific consideration of the extent of compliance in each part of the United Kingdom. Alongside that review, a named person will review journalistic compliance with data protection rules in Northern Ireland. This approach, details of which will be finalised in due course, reflects the fact that while data protection is reserved, press regulation is devolved.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 26/06/2018 12:03:44 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

916586

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many local authorities are denying funding to parents of children with special educational needs who seek places at independent schools with appropriate provision for them.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL8292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to assess whether children and young people have complex special educational needs requiring an education, health and care (EHC) plan. When drawing up an EHC plan, the child’s parents or (from age 16) the young person has a statutory right to request that a particular institution be named on the EHC plan. If the institution is one of those specified in Section 38(3) of the act, the local authority is under a qualified duty to name the institution, and the institution must admit the child or young person.</p><p> </p><p>Independent special schools may choose to bring themselves in scope of this duty by asking to join the Secretary of State’s approved list (under Section 41 of the act). 155 independent special schools have chosen to do so.</p><p> </p><p>A parent or young person may request a placement in an independent school that is not on the Section 41 list. The local authority is not under the same conditional duty to name the provider, but must have regard to the general principle in Section 9 of the Education Act 1996 that children should be educated in accordance with their parents’ wishes, so long as this is compatible with the provision of efficient instruction and training and does not mean unreasonable public expenditure. The local authority should be satisfied that the institution would admit the child or young person before naming it in a plan, since these providers are not subject to the duty to admit a child or young person even if named in an EHC plan. If a local authority names an independent school, independent special school or special post-16 institution in an EHC plan, then they must secure a place and fund any fees, including any boarding and lodging where relevant.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 18/06/2018 12:02:47 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden