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418192

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	Dolphins: Japan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they are making to the government of Japan to discourage the annual killing of dolphins in the town of Taiji in Japan.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
uin	HL2163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government raises its opposition to the annual coastal dolphin hunts that take place in Taiji, Japan, at every appropriate opportunity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In July 2015, Minister of State for Farming, Food and Marine Environment, George Eustice MP, wrote to the Japanese Government to raise the UK’s opposition to their on-going coastal hunts and continued programme of lethal scientific research on cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Prior to this, the UK Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) met the Japanese Commissioner to the IWC in May 2015 and officials from the Japanese Embassy in March 2015, where he strongly re-iterated the UK Government’s opposition to their continued hunting of cetaceans. Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Japan has also written previously to the Japanese Government on this issue.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 16/09/2015 12:48:33 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	228 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

417883

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the last major maintenance work was undertaken on (1) the junction of the M6 and the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction, and (2) the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL2116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>From Highways England’s records that are readily available,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(1) The last major maintenance work at the junction of the M6 and the A38 (M), known as Spaghetti Junction was undertaken in 1995.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(2) The last major maintenance work at the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was undertaken in 1987.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>On the matter of the annual maintenance cost:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction was approximately £8.2m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was approximately £2.4m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June 2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2117 HL2118 question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

417884

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction, for each of the last 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL2117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>From Highways England’s records that are readily available,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(1) The last major maintenance work at the junction of the M6 and the A38 (M), known as Spaghetti Junction was undertaken in 1995.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(2) The last major maintenance work at the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was undertaken in 1987.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>On the matter of the annual maintenance cost:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction was approximately £8.2m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was approximately £2.4m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June 2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2116 HL2118 question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

417885

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M5
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost of maintaining the elevated motorway section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 for each of the last 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL2118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>From Highways England’s records that are readily available,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(1) The last major maintenance work at the junction of the M6 and the A38 (M), known as Spaghetti Junction was undertaken in 1995.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(2) The last major maintenance work at the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was undertaken in 1987.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>On the matter of the annual maintenance cost:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction was approximately £8.2m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was approximately £2.4m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June 2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2116 HL2117 question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

417909

registered interest
date	09/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rescue Services: Belfast
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the coastguard boat based in Belfast was given an Irish Language name; and what steps they plan to take to ensure equality of cultures in any such namings in the future.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL2142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Coastguard does not have a boat based in Belfast.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 16/09/2015 13:29:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

417452

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bail
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 findings by Professor Hucklesby of Leeds University on pre-charge bail; and what action, if any, they plan to take in response to those findings.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>Professor Hucklesby submitted her findings as part of the public consultation launched by my Right Honourable Friend the Home Secretary in December last year. Officials have been in contact with Professor Hucklesby and have arranged for her to address the next meeting of the PACE Strategy Board in October.</p><p>Professor Hucklesby’s findings are broadly supportive of the reforms to pre-charge bail which the Home Secretary set out in response to the consultation in March of this year. Legislation to give effect to those reforms will be brought forward in the Policing and Criminal Justice Bill later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/09/2015 14:37:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

417453

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing
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 impact of the decision to cut social housing rents on the maintenance of existing council housing stock and the number of new council houses likely to be built in the short, medium, and long term.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>We made a commitment in the Summer Budget to reduce social rents in England by one per cent a year for four years from April 2016. This will help protect tenants from rising housing costs whilst protecting taxpayers from the rising costs of subsidising rents through housing benefit. We are confident that local authorities and private registered providers will be able to find and make efficiencies to accommodate the new rent settlement while meeting their Decent Homes responsibilities. The Government remains committed to delivering 275,000 affordable homes over the course of this Parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/09/2015 11:20:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

417454

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Illness: Prisoners
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 Oxford University study <i>Psychiatric disorders and violent reoffending: a national cohort study of convicted prisoners in Sweden</i>, and whether they have plans to improve the current level of diagnosis of and treatment provided to prisoners with mental health problems before their release.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>We have made no assessment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The joint National Health Service and National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) programme provides a pathway of psychologically informed services for offenders who have a severe personality disorder and who pose a high risk of harm to others or a high risk of reoffending in a harmful way.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The programme has developed a range of services to improve the assessment, treatment and management of this group of offenders from sentence through custody to community-based supervision and resettlement. The NHS is re-investing up to £30 million in OPD services in 2015-16, mainly in prisons and probation services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In response to the objective in the Government’s Mandate to NHS England to provide better healthcare across for people in the criminal justice system in England, including improved mental health care, NHS England has introduced a range of measures to improve mainstream mental health services in prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s new national specifications for health and justice services will help to promote effective and coordinated mental health services across the prison estate in England. All 116 prison establishments now have clear commissioning strategies to improve service delivery.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also developed new performance indicators for prison healthcare with NOMS. These Health and Justice Indicators of Performance will provide assurance that healthcare delivery in prisons, including mental health care, is fit for purpose.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Options for a new mental health pathway, connecting custody, community, as well as secure hospitals, are also being developed to ensure that any prisoner can have mental health treatment equivalent to that they would receive in the community, and that this is also available during a community sentence and after prison.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 16/09/2015 13:50:03 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

417460

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A303
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government in which year they currently expect the dualling of the A303 around Stonehenge to be completed.
tabling member printed	Lord Cameron of Dillington
uin	HL2056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Road Investment Strategy sets out an intention to upgrade all remaining single carriageway sections of the A303 between the M3 and the A358 to dual carriageway standard as part of a long-term commitment to creating a new Expressway to the South West. We are starting this process with three major improvements: A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down (Stonehenge), A303 Sparkford to Illchester and the A358 Taunton (M5) to Southfields. Construction of these schemes is expected to start in the first Road Period (by 1 April 2020), depending on planning, and completion is expected by the middle of the 2020s at the latest. We would expect subsequent Road Investment Strategies to fund the remaining improvements, such as to the Illminster by-pass.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2057 question first answered 16/09/2015 13:30:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3705 label Biography information for Lord Cameron of Dillington

417461

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: South West
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government in which year they currently expect the dualling of the A303 along the Ilminster by-pass and the A358 link to the M5 to be completed.
tabling member printed	Lord Cameron of Dillington
uin	HL2057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Road Investment Strategy sets out an intention to upgrade all remaining single carriageway sections of the A303 between the M3 and the A358 to dual carriageway standard as part of a long-term commitment to creating a new Expressway to the South West. We are starting this process with three major improvements: A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down (Stonehenge), A303 Sparkford to Illchester and the A358 Taunton (M5) to Southfields. Construction of these schemes is expected to start in the first Road Period (by 1 April 2020), depending on planning, and completion is expected by the middle of the 2020s at the latest. We would expect subsequent Road Investment Strategies to fund the remaining improvements, such as to the Illminster by-pass.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2056 question first answered 16/09/2015 13:30:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3705 label Biography information for Lord Cameron of Dillington