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1700740

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date	15/04/2024
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	Conversion Therapy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce legislation which would ban the practice of conversion therapy.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL3776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government is taking account of the recently published final report from the independent Cass Review.</p><p> </p><p>As the Cass Review has shown, challenges of legislating in this area are considerable, and there is significant risk of oversimplifying complex and nuanced issues. We cannot risk unintended consequences for parents, teachers, religious leaders or for clinicians providing crucial and legitimate support to young people experiencing gender distress.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 29/04/2024 14:25:24 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1681335

registered interest
date	10/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Care Leavers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide a timetable for updating the HM Prisons and Probation Service Strategy for Care-Experienced People; and whether this will include a specific focus on race.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL1451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>We are updating our strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system, to ensure we are using care-experienced people’s time in the criminal justice system to support them to lead crime-free lives.</p><p>This will include a focus on race and its role in shaping the experiences and outcomes of those with care experience in the criminal justice system, and will link to wider departmental efforts to address racial disproportionality in the criminal justice system.</p><p>We are aiming to publish this strategy in autumn 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 25/01/2024 17:33:25 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1681336

registered interest
date	10/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Treatment of, and Outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Individuals in the Criminal Justice System Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish an updated progress report on implementation of recommendations in David Lammy MP’s Review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the Criminal Justice System, published in September 2017.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL1452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>This Spring, the Government will update Parliament regarding the work of the Inclusive Britain strategy, as it did in April last year. As we work towards this, we are also considering what further updates may be provided from the Ministry of Justice regarding our work to tackle racial disparities in the Criminal Justice System, including the work we committed to in response to the Lammy Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 24/01/2024 12:26:25 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1681337

registered interest
date	10/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide a timetable for updating the Statutory Guidance on Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL1453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The government gave a commitment to update the statutory guidance ‘Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children’, and to extend it to care leavers up to age 25, in the ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ strategy for the reform of children’s social care. The update forms part of the wider mission in the strategy “to reduce the disparities in long-term mental and physical health outcomes and improve wellbeing for care-experienced people”. This commitment was reaffirmed in September 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Work is underway to understand how the current guidance is working in practice and where changes are necessary. Timeframes will depend on the scope of changes needed. The Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care will keep relevant stakeholders in the health and children’s social care sectors updated as the work progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 22/01/2024 17:27:24 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1671248

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase investment in early intervention and prevention as part of children’s social care reform.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The government has invested billions in local services. This year alone, the total social care grant for local government is over £2 billion. In the ‘Stable Homes Built on Love’ Strategy, the department outlined its plans to build on the strengths of current early help and Child in Need services, through the creation of Family Help.</p><p>The department is investing £200 million in Children’s Social Care reforms, including £45 million for the Families First for Children Pathfinder programme, which will test how multi-disciplinary family help teams can improve the support that children and families receive. The pathfinder will inform the next stage of the department’s reform programme which will look to deliver transformation more widely.</p><p>The department also announced over £1 billion of funding for programmes to improve early help services, including delivering Family Hubs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 04/12/2023 16:15:01 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1671293

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services: Children
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 report by Josh MacAlister The independent review of children’s social care, published on 23 May 2022; and what progress they have made in improving council-run homes in the children’s social care system given the findings of that report.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>In February 2023 the department published its consultation and implementation strategy, ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’. This sets out the department’s plans for a system-wide transformation of children’s social care, and details how the department will help families overcome challenges, keep children safe, and make sure children in care have stable loving homes, long-term loving relationships, and opportunities for a good life.</p><p>To support local authorities to meet their statutory duty to ensure there is sufficient provision for children in their care, the department has announced £259 million capital funding to maintain capacity and expand provision in both secure and open children’s homes that provide high-quality, safe homes for some of the most vulnerable children and young people across England. The department has allocated a portion of the £259 million capital funding to open children’s homes enabling a total of 69 projects to be delivered, which will create an additional 350 beds across this sector.</p><p>The department has also committed to developing a core overarching set of Standards of Care for fostering, children’s homes, and supported accommodation. This will help simplify the regulatory landscape, raise quality, and ensure there are consistent safeguards across different types of settings.</p><p>The department will develop a programme to support improvements in the quality of leadership and management in children’s homes, including exploring proposals for a leadership programme to attract and train new talent.</p><p>In addition, the department is investing £10 million to develop Regional Care Co-operatives (RCCs) to plan, commission and deliver children’s social care placements. Through operating on a larger scale and developing specialist capabilities, the RCCs will be able to develop a wider range of places to meet children’s needs better.</p><p>The department is also making good progress on addressing challenges relating to the retention and recruitment of social workers, which is key to supporting the delivery of the wider children’s social care reforms. This includes introducing an Early Career Framework to better support newly qualified social workers to meet the challenges of child and family social work, increasing the number of social worker apprenticeships, and supporting local authorities with their retention and workload challenges. Alongside ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, the department also published a consultation on a set of rules for local authority engagement of agency child and family social workers. The response to this consultation was published on 25 October 2023 and sets out a set of national rules intended to increase workforce quality and sustainability. The department will consult on statutory guidance on the technical detail in Spring 2024. These reforms are in addition to the department’s £50 million annual investment in recruiting, training and developing the workforce.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 04/12/2023 16:40:34 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1657630

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Africa: Debts
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 statement by African Faith Leaders on 8 August calling for a reduction of debt across African countries.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL9807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government notes the statement by African Faith Leaders and we are working with our G20 partners to ensure swift progress and effective implementation of debt treatments under the Common Framework to deliver a long-term, sustainable approach to dealing with debt vulnerabilities. The Paris Club and the G20 have been clear that private creditors must participate in restructurings on terms at least as favourable as those provided by the official sector.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also championing greater transparency around sovereign lending and borrowing, which plays an important role in supporting the debt sustainability of developing countries. While adhering to the G20 Operational Guidelines for Sustainable Financing and OECD sustainable lending principles, the UK has also put addressing the nexus between climate and debt at the top of its international agenda through pioneering the use of climate resilient debt clauses (CRDCs).</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 12/09/2023 13:14:50 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1657631

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the impact of section 63 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 on the operation of the UK’s modern slavery provisions (1) in prisons, and (2) across the wider population.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL9808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>“The Government assessed the Impact of Section 63 of the Nationality and Borders Bill (now Act) prior to Royal Assent and will continue to assess its impact going forward. The published Impact Assessments for the Nationality and Borders Bill, including the impact of Section 63, can be found here:</p><p>Equalities Impact Assessment: Nationality and Borders Bill: Equality Impact Assessment (publishing.service.gov.uk)</p><p>Economic Impact Assessment: Impact Assessment (parliament.uk)”</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth attachment 1 file name Nationality_and_Borders_Bill_-_EIA (1).pdf title Nationality and Borders Bill: Equality Impact 2 file name Illegal_Migration_Bill_Economic_Impact_Assessment_26.6.2023.pdf title Economic Impact Assessment question first answered 18/09/2023 15:41:18 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1606120

registered interest
date	21/03/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy Bills Rebate: Boats
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide fuel support to those living on licensed boats with no permanent mooring, many of whom are on low incomes or pensioners.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL6686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is keen to support these households living on licensed boats with no permanent mooring and to ensure that they can receive the Alternative Fuel Payment via the Alternative Fund where eligible. We are currently working to find an acceptable method for these households to provide proof of eligibility, whilst protecting public funds, so they can claim the Alternative Fuel Payment via the Alternative Fund.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 04/04/2023 14:58:02 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester

1489052

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
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	Pakistan: Blasphemy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Pakistan regarding the cases of (1) Qaisar Ayub, and (2) Amoon Ayub, who have been imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Manchester
uin	HL1740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>We oppose the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle and have made that clear to the Government of Pakistan. We are deeply concerned at the misuse of blasphemy laws in Pakistan. We continue to press for speedy and fair trials for those accused of blasphemy, including cases such as Qaiser and Amoon Ayub, and urge the authorities to ensure the safety of those charged with blasphemy. Most recently, the British High Commissioner in Islamabad raised the misuse of the blasphemy laws in his meeting last month [in June] with Pakistan's new Human Rights Minister, Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/07/2022 13:10:48 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4878 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Manchester