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1723960

registered interest
date	29/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Gender
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they have issued on whether teachers should be required to use preferred gender pronouns for pupils whose legal sex remains the same as their biological sex.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/08/2024 answer text <p>Children’s wellbeing must be at the heart of the Gender Questioning guidance for schools.</p><p>It is vitally important that teachers have clear guidance, which is why the department is looking carefully at the consultation responses before setting out next steps to take the Gender Questioning guidance forward. The department will also consider this in light of the evidence published in the Cass Review. This will include consideration of the appropriate guidance to give on the use of pronouns in school settings.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL433 question first answered 12/08/2024 15:45:09 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1671258

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	New Towns
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when was the last time the provisions of the New Towns Act 1946 was used to support delivery of a new community.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The last time the provisions of the New Towns Act 1946 were used in England was in 1964 with the designation of Washington, Tyne and Wear New Town. The New Towns Act 1946 was subsequently consolidated into the New Towns Act 1965 and the Central Lancashire New Town in 1970 was the last new town in England designated under that Act. There have been no new towns designated in England since then.</p><p>Well planned, well-designed, locally led garden communities will play a vital role in helping to meet this country’s housing need well into the future, providing a pipeline of new homes. We are supporting 47 locally led Garden Community projects across the country, with the capacity to deliver around 300,000 homes by 2050.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 06/12/2023 14:50:22 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	228 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

1464811

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
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	Pornography: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Online Safety Bill will ensure that commercial pornography websites do not carry any illegal content, such as (1) extreme pornography, or (2) prohibited images of children.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill principally applies to services that allow users to post content online or to interact with each other, and to search engines. Where commercial pornography websites facilitate user-generated content, they will have to deliver the illegal content duties under the Bill and, where the service is likely to be accessed by children, to protect them from harmful content. These will ensure that all platforms in scope of the Bill tackle illegal user-generated content on their services, including extreme pornography and prohibited images of children.</p><p>Where the illegal content is not user-generated but rather is created and published by the relevant company on its own site, then that website service is likely to be committing an offence so will potentially be liable for prosecution. Part 5 of the Bill creates a new duty on providers of published pornography, which includes some dedicated commercial pornography websites, to protect children from accessing pornographic content.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL435 question first answered 08/06/2022 13:45:07 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1316941

registered interest
date	20/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	English Language: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Integrated Communities Strategy green paper, published on 14 March 2018, when they plan to publish an English language strategy.
tabling member printed	Lord Gilbert of Panteg
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2021 answer text <p>This government remains committed to English language as demonstrated by the manifesto commitment to boost English language teaching.</p><p>We know that language skills are crucial to help people integrate into life in England, as well as to break down barriers to work and career progression. This is why we want to support all adults in England to secure the English language skills they need.</p><p>The department funds English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision through the Adult Education Budget (AEB). Currently, approximately 50% of the AEB is devolved to 7 Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Mayor of London, acting where appropriate through the Greater London Authority. These authorities are now responsible for the provision of AEB-funded adult education, including ESOL, for their residents and allocation of the AEB to providers. The Education and Skills Funding Agency is responsible for the remaining AEB in non-devolved areas.</p><p>In 2019/20, 116,100 adult learners were supported through the AEB, across devolved and non-devolved areas to improve their levels of English through fully and part funded ESOL courses.</p><p>Our response to the COVID-19 outbreak is our priority at present. We will provide an update on ESOL in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 02/06/2021 13:05:47 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	4543 label Biography information for Lord Gilbert of Panteg

1170840

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Abortion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to highlight and address how best to (1) prevent unsafe abortion, and (2) make safe abortion accessible for all, as part of their commitment to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children in the developing world.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>DFID’s policy on safe abortion takes an evidence-based, public health approach that aims to reduce death and disability caused by unsafe abortions. Between 2018 and 2019, we supported 23.5 million women to use modern methods of family planning, averting 2 million unsafe abortions and saving 8,300 lives.</p><p>Unsafe abortion continues to be a major cause of preventable maternal mortality in developing countries. Sexual and reproductive health and rights will therefore be at the heart of our commitment to ending preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children. We will continue to empower women and girls to choose whether, when and how many children to have. In countries where abortion is permitted, this means supporting programmes that make safe abortion more accessible in order to save the lives of women who would otherwise resort to backstreet abortions. In countries where abortion is highly restricted, we help make the consequences of unsafe abortion more widely understood and support those fighting to access safe abortion. We do this through supporting dedicated programmes such as the Safe Abortion Action Fund, which improves access to safe abortion for some of the world’s most vulnerable women and girls, and an integrated approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights, which includes safe abortion care where legal.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 28/01/2020 12:37:39 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1156554

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
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	Hydrogen: Storage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to promote hydrogen energy storage.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The report published on the 2nd May 2019 by our independent advisors, the Committee on Climate Change, has stressed the importance of hydrogen in achieving Net Zero, however the technologies required to produce low carbon hydrogen are not yet fully developed. BEIS, through its Energy Innovation Programme, has committed more than £40 million to accelerate:</p><ul><li>the commercialisation of large-scale hydrogen energy storage technologies; and</li><li>the development of supplying low carbon hydrogen at scale for industry, power, buildings and transport.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 05/11/2019 14:38:58 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

747980

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated cost of maintaining the RMS St Helena since May 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>St Helena Line, the company who operate the RMS St Helena, has confirmed the estimated cost of maintaining the RMS St Helena since May 2016 is £916,000.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/07/2017 16:03:37 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

522883

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	RMS St Helena
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what safeguards they have put in place to ensure that, if the student loan book is sold on, students are not faced with increased rates of interest on their student loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>As stated in the March 2016 Budget, the Government is continuing to prepare for the sale of the pre-2012 income contingent repayment student loan book, with a first sale expected in 2016-17.</p><p>Purchasers would have no direct relationship with borrowers, and would have no power to amend the terms of repayment. Government would still finance student loans and continue to collect repayments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 14/06/2016 13:16:03 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

350120

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Middle East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proposals they have for addressing interfaith conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the Middle East.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) supports greater dialogue between Sunni and Shia Muslims among all faith groups in the Middle East and North Africa region to build bridges, talk, listen and learn from each other. At the 27 March UN Security Council debate on the persecution of minorities in the Middle East, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), called for bold leadership from governments and communities in the region to continue working for tolerance and reconciliation. Where the British Government is best placed to act, and has the means to do so, we will. For example, in Syria a number of Government-funded projects have brought together religious leaders from all denominations (including Alawi, Christians, Kurds, Druze and Sunnis) to foster greater understanding between faiths and support reconciliation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 22/06/2015 11:26:15 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

62505

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Democratic Republic of Congo
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the report by Freedom from Torture Rape as torture in the DRC: Sexual violence beyond the conflict zone which suggests that United Kingdom development aid money could be funding programmes for police and security personnel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are responsible for raping opponents of President Kabila.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>DFID welcomes the analysis in the report by Freedom from Torture into the concerning issue of rape used as torture in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We welcome the recommendations made that urge the Government of DRC to honour their commitments to tackling sexual violence, and DFID to continue projects to support reform of the security sector to promote respect for human rights. The report underlines the importance of DFID's on-going constructive engagement to promote police reform. The UK has and will continue to raise our concerns about sexual violence and torture at the highest level to lobby the Congolese authorities to end impunity for those who abuse or violate human rights.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 01/07/2014 16:36:45 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead