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1651433

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date	07/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why funding is only available for the external provision of the Early Career Framework for teachers and not school-based provision.
tabling member printed	Lord Carrington
uin	HL9165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>All state funded schools offering statutory induction receive funding to deliver the early career framework (ECF) reforms. In addition to their core funding to cover the cost of time off timetable for early career teachers (ECTs) in year one of induction, schools also receive funding which covers 5% off timetable for ECTs in year two of induction, for induction activities including ECF based training and mentor sessions. This funding also covers a dedicated mentor for each ECT, based on 20 hours of mentoring in year two of induction.</p><p>The department wants all ECTs to have access to high-quality ECF based training, so schools can choose to use a Department for Education funded training provider. The content of the providers’ programmes has been quality assured by the department and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). The quality of delivery of the programmes is also quality assured separately through Ofsted inspection. If a state funded school uses a Department for Education funded training provider, the department funds the training delivered to ECTs and their mentors by the provider, and provides additional funding to backfill the mentor time spent undertaking funded provider-led training, meaning that there is no cost for these schools.</p><p>To ensure that schools have choice and flexibility, they have the option of delivering their own ECF based training programme. For schools who choose this approach, they can choose to use the department’s accredited materials and resources, which have been independently assessed by the EEF to ensure their fidelity to the ECF. These materials are freely available to schools via the department’s ‘Manage training for early career teachers’ service, available at: <a href="https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://manage-training-for-early-career-teachers.education.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 21/07/2023 14:00:55 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4712 label Biography information for Lord Carrington

1651435

registered interest
date	07/07/2023
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	Gender Plus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the new private clinic Gender Plus operates safely for the children and young people who come under its care.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL9167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>All healthcare providers should follow clinical best practice and must be registered with their professional body and any other regulators, as appropriate, for that service.</p><p>If a private organisation which is within the scope of regulated practice fails to meet the standards expected of it, then regulators, including the Care Quality Commission, have powers to inspect these services to determine whether patient safety is at risk or if best practice is not being followed.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/07/2023 14:35:45 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

1651451

registered interest
date	07/07/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Zimbabwe: Politics and Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the Zimbabwean government concerning the banning of opposition party rallies.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL9183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>As the Minister for Development and Africa said to President Mnangagwa on 5 May, it is important that Zimbabwe's upcoming elections are peaceful and credible. The UK regularly calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to ensure that political opposition and civil society are able to operate freely. On 3 May, the UK's Ambassador to Zimbabwe publicly underlined that the fundamental rights of assembly and expression are enshrined in Zimbabwe's constitution.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 21/07/2023 14:00:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1651036

registered interest
date	06/07/2023
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	Abortion: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to update the Department of Health and Social Care’s Required Standard Operating Procedures for approved independent sector abortion providers to collect data on medical complications arising from women accessing home-use early medical abortions, presented across all clinical settings, to measure the efficacy of the present policy on telemedicine.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL9115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/08/2023 answer text <p>The Department’s Required Standard Operating Procedures for the approval of independent sector places for termination of pregnancy in England (RSOPs) were last updated in March 2023. The RSOPs are kept under review and are updated as required, for example due to changes in abortion legislation, or if issues are identified which need to be addressed.</p><p>The RSOPS are also reviewed, in liaison with key stakeholders such as the Care Quality Commission, prior to the renewal of the Secretary of State’s approval of all currently approved independent sector abortion clinics, which happens every 4 years (all clinics are currently approved until 31 July 2026). However, there are presently no plans to update the RSOPs to include expectations around the collection of data on medical complications.</p><p>Known complications resulting from legal abortions in England and Wales are recorded on the HSA4 form up until the patient has been discharged from the abortion service. For medical terminations where either one or both stages of the treatment were administered at the patient’s usual place of residence, complications are less likely to be known by the provider and recorded on the HSA4. Complications are also recorded in other patient record systems such as Hospital Episodes Statistics, where the woman has attended a health service after being discharged.</p><p>To improve the quality of data available on abortion complications, the Department is taking forward a project to improve our understanding of the data.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/08/2023 12:50:16 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1651060

registered interest
date	06/07/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Economic Cooperation: Saudi Arabia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for promoting economic cooperation between the UK and Saudi Arabia.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL9150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2023 answer text <p>Saudi Arabia is an important trading partner for the UK, with total bilateral trade at £18.5 billion in the four quarters to Q1 2023, and as underpinned by our joint Strategic Partnership Council.</p><p> </p><p>To further promote two-way trade and investment, the UK is negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), including Saudi Arabia. An FTA will boost UK exports, create new opportunities and drive greater investment. It is also expected to increase UK-GCC trade by 16% and contribute an additional £600m (compared to 2019 levels) to UK workers’ annual wages in the long run.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 11/08/2023 12:52:49 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1650141

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Schools on 30 June (190680) stating that schools will be expected to manage the upcoming teacher pay award from within existing funding, how many schools they estimate have surpluses which would enable them to do so without affecting current spending commitments.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL9045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2023 answer text <p>The government has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) recommendations for 2023/24 teacher pay awards in full. This means that teachers and headteachers in maintained schools will receive an award of 6.5%, the highest STRB award in three decades. The department will be providing an additional £525 million to schools this year, to support schools with the teachers’ pay award, and £900 million in financial year 2024/25, and as the unions have agreed, this means that the award is properly funded.</p><p>This is on top of funding totals previously announced, meaning that school funding is rising by over £3.9 billion in the 2023/24 financial year alone, on top of a £4 billion cash increase last year. Combined, that represents a 16% increase in just two years. Next year, school funding will be over £59.6 billion, the highest ever level in real terms per pupil.</p><p>This additional funding will enable headteachers to continue to invest in the areas that positively impact educational attainment, including high quality teaching and targeted support to the children who need it most, as well as help schools to manage higher costs, including teacher pay awards.</p><p>Each year the department publishes an assessment of schools’ costs and funding, which informs what pay award we judge to be affordable for schools from within this existing funding. In March 2023, the department set out a calculation that schools, on average, could afford a pay award of 4% from within existing funding.</p><p>The department decided to fund the 2023 pay award from a lower affordability figure than that calculation, funding the costs of the pay award above 3.5%, on average, rather than above our 4% national affordability calculation. This is a more generous funding offer than in March.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 28/07/2023 11:48:30 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1649509

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Minimum Unit Prices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the evaluation published on 7 June 2022 by Public Health Scotland of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland on people who are drinking at harmful levels, which found that alcohol specific deaths fell by 13.4 per cent and hospitalisations by 4.1 per cent.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL8986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2023 answer text <p>Legislative competence for alcohol pricing policy is devolved. A formal assessment has not been carried out, however we are following developments on alcohol policies in other nations closely to see what works.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 10/08/2023 10:11:37 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1649511

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
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	Prescription Drugs: Addictions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of long-term and permanent harm caused by the use of benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and antidepressants.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL8988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>The safety of medicines on the United Kingdom market are continuously monitored by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). There are currently no plans to conduct any further reviews into the harms associated with benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and antidepressants, however, any new data would be carefully considered. Details about the possible risks and side effects are outlined in the product information available for each medicine.</p><p>Benzodiazepines and Z-drugs are authorised for short term use, two to four weeks, and should not be used long term due to the risk of dependence and subsequent withdrawal reactions. Healthcare professionals have been reminded of these risks by the MHRA, the Department and professional bodies which have highlighted the extensive warnings about the risks of dependence, the need to limit prescribing and advice about gradual withdrawal.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL8989 question first answered 26/07/2023 13:29:24 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1649512

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
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	Benzodiazepines: Addictions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to conduct a review of efficacy, safety and risk of addiction relating to the long-term use of benzodiazepines.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL8989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>The safety of medicines on the United Kingdom market are continuously monitored by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). There are currently no plans to conduct any further reviews into the harms associated with benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and antidepressants, however, any new data would be carefully considered. Details about the possible risks and side effects are outlined in the product information available for each medicine.</p><p>Benzodiazepines and Z-drugs are authorised for short term use, two to four weeks, and should not be used long term due to the risk of dependence and subsequent withdrawal reactions. Healthcare professionals have been reminded of these risks by the MHRA, the Department and professional bodies which have highlighted the extensive warnings about the risks of dependence, the need to limit prescribing and advice about gradual withdrawal.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL8988 question first answered 26/07/2023 13:29:24 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1648993

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
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: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide LGBTQ+ relevant mental health services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL8902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2023 answer text <p>We remain committed to the aims of the NHS Long Term Plan, investing at least £2.3 billion of extra funding a year in expanding and transforming mental health services in England by March 2024. This extra funding will enable an extra two million people, including those who identify as LGBT, to be treated by National Health Service mental health services by March 2024.</p><p>The funding includes £110 million to expand adult mental health services including NHS Talking Therapies (formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). In 2021/22, there were 1.81 million referrals to talking therapies in England, compared to 1.46 million in 2020/21. 1.24 million referrals started a course of treatment within this year.</p><p>We also provided an additional £500 million in 2021/22 to accelerate our expansion plans to address waiting times for mental health services, give more people the mental health support they need, and invest in the NHS workforce.</p><p>The Advancing Mental Health Equalities strategy published by NHS England in 2020 helps set expectations for providers and commissioners to identify opportunities and drive forwards improvements to address inequalities in access to and experience of mental health services. The strategy supports local systems to tailor services to meet the needs of their local populations, including LGBTQ+ people. This includes improvements to the quality and use of data and information, for example the Equality Data Quality Guidance to help improve the collection of demographic data in the Mental Health Services Dataset, and a range of initiatives to improve diversity and representation in the mental health workforce.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 02/08/2023 12:23:36 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker