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1678707

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date	18/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance, if any, is included as part of the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme for parents on how to speak to their children and awareness of what constitutes verbal abuse.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2024 answer text <p>The Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme provides funding for local authorities to provide services that support parents to care for and interact with their children. This includes programmes on parenting, parent-infant relationships, perinatal mental health and the Home Learning Environment. Funding for parenting support should be used for provision of a universal and targeted offer which helps make the transition to parenthood as smooth as possible and which stresses the importance of sensitive and responsive caregiving. All these services are informed by local needs assessment and should consider the wants and needs of different parents and carers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 04/01/2024 15:37:19 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1483321

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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	Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in formulating the draft Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (Amendment) Regulations 2022, they considered the impact of carbon monoxide poisoning arising from sources in adjacent properties; and why the draft Regulations do not include a requirement for audible carbon monoxide detectors in bedrooms where there is no fixed combustion appliance, except for gas cookers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>In formulating the draft regulations, the Government considered national statistics on overall numbers of accidental carbon monoxide poisonings. This, and the falling costs of carbon monoxide alarms, supported the case to extend alarm requirements to include social housing, to rooms having fixed combustion appliances in both rented sectors and to rooms where fixed combustion appliances are installed all irrespective of heating fuel (excluding gas cookers). These regulations, which will provide parity between rented sectors, are applicable to dwellings where a landlord has responsibility for internal repairs and maintenance. They do not account for adjacent properties for which the landlord is not responsible. This decision was based on the evidence and the right balance between safety for residents and ensuring regulatory burdens are proportionate.</p><p>Requiring alarms in rooms with fixed combustion appliances will help to mitigate risks in other rooms, as alarms will detect and give audible warning of carbon monoxide before it has a chance to spread elsewhere. It would not be proportionate to mandate additional alarms in other rooms, including bedrooms, that do not contain a fixed combustion appliance.</p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 08/07/2022 14:01:37 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

1338337

registered interest
date	21/06/2021
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	UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Construction
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 UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on (1) staff shortages in the construction industry, and (2) the impact of any such staff shortages on house building rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has a set of housing delivery goals and an assessment of the likely workforce requirements to achieve these goals. We will keep a track of how workforce numbers evolve, including in the context of the UK’s departure from the EU, over the coming months and years.</p><p>We have been making strong progress against the ambition to build at least 1 million new homes in England by the end of this Parliament. In 2019-20, around 244,000 net additional homes were delivered – the highest number of new homes for over 30 years, and the seventh consecutive year that net supply has increased.</p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 05/07/2021 14:55:43 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1175501

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
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	Visas: EU Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether UK citizens travelling by (1) mobile home, (2) yacht, (3) barge, or (4) bicycle, will be able to remain in the Schengen area for more than 90 days in any 180 day period after December 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The EU has already legislated such that British nationals will not need a visa when travelling to the Schengen area for short stays of up to 90 days in every 180-day period. This will apply from the end of the transition period to all British nationals travelling to and within the Schengen Area for tourism, to visit friends or family, to attend cultural or sports events or exchanges, to attend business meetings, for journalistic or media purposes, medical treatment, for short-term studies or training and any similar activities. Further detail is available on the European Commission's website.</p><p>Provisions for British nationals intending to stay in the Schengen area for longer than 90 days in any 180-day period will depend on the approach taken by the EU or by the relevant Member State (s). British nationals intending to stay in the Schengen Area for longer may need a visa or permit to do so. Member State rules vary and British nationals should check with the Embassy of the relevant Member State for what type of visa or permit, if any, they will need.</p><p>The FCO's Travel Advice pages provide the most up to date information on entry requirements for travellers. We will update those pages if there are any changes for British nationals travelling to EU Member States.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 11/02/2020 17:20:47 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

757288

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which international companies supply plasma products to hospitals in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Blood plasma supplied by NHS Blood and Transplant for transfusion to hospitals in England is either imported from Austria or comes from United Kingdom donors. Both sources are public, not privately sourced.</p><p>Blood plasma derived medicinal products are subject to medicinal regulation to assure their safety. Data are not held on the number of National Health Service patients receiving blood plasma medicinal products which may have been derived from United States donors.</p><p>The companies that supply plasma derived products to hospitals in England via NHS England’s Commercial Medicines Unit (CMU) frameworks are:</p><p> </p><p>- CSL Behring;</p><p>- Grifols;</p><p>- Octapharma;</p><p>- BPL (Bio Products Laboratory);</p><p>- LFB Biomedicaments;</p><p>- Baxalta (now part of Shire); and</p><p>- Shire Pharmaceuticals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information is not held on supply of plasma derived medicinal products to NHS trusts outside of a CMU framework agreement.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of measures in place to ensure the safety and supply of plasma and medicinal products for patients.</p><p> </p><p>All companies wishing to supply plasma derived medicinal products to hospitals in the UK have to be licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). There are a series of stringent safety measures in place to prevent infections resulting from the use of medicinal products prepared from human blood or plasma, including selection of donors, screening of individual donations and plasma pools for specific markers of infection and the inclusion of effective manufacturing steps for the inactivation/removal of viruses. These measures are described in detail in the European Medicines Agency’s <em>Guideline on plasma-derived medicinal products</em>. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Department works closely with the MHRA, the pharmaceutical industry, NHS England and others to manage risks to the supply chain of blood plasma products to NHS patients.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL1272 HL1274 HL1275 question first answered 19/09/2017 15:21:30 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name Guideline on plasma-derived medicinal products.pdf title Guideline on plasma-derived medicinal products
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

539197

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Design and Technology
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to including Design and Technology as a science option within the English Baccalaureate.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2016 answer text <p>Design and Technology (D&amp;T) is a subject that can inspire and equip young people for further study and careers in a range of design and engineering fields. Our reforms to the D&amp;T curriculum and qualifications move the subject on from its craft-based routes to be aligned with high-tech industry practice.</p><p> </p><p>The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) has been designed to be limited in size to provide a rigorous academic core whilst leaving space in the curriculum for pupils to study other subjects of their choice. On average, pupils in state-funded schools enter nine GCSEs and equivalent qualifications, rising to more than ten for more able pupils. As the EBacc covers up to eight GCSEs, this leaves room for other choices, including D&amp;T.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 28/07/2016 14:34:41 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

388796

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the official monthly rate of sanctions applied to Jobseeker's Allowance claimants is calculated.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department calculates a monthly sanctions rate for Jobseekers Allowance claimants based on the number of sanctions in a month divided by the Claimant Count.</p><p> </p><p>The data underpinning the calculations are DWP’s statistics on decisions to apply a sanction and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) statistics on the number of people claiming JSA (the Claimant Count). These are publicly available Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>More detail on the calculation of the monthly sanctions rate can be found in the statistical ad-hoc publication, “JSA and ESA benefit sanctions rates: explanation of methodology”, available on GOV.UK. A copy of the publication is also attached here.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 23/07/2015 16:10:53 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name HL 1273 JSA and ESA benefit sanctions rates.pdf title JSA and ESA benefit sanctions rates
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

78956

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take action to improve accident and emergency unit waiting times, in the light of reported missed targets over the last year.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>National Health Service accident and emergency (A&amp;E) departments are measured against a standard that at least 95% of patients should be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival. The standard applies to all types of (A&amp;E) departments, including major (A&amp;E) departments, minor injury units, and walk-in centres.</p><p> </p><p>This standard was met in all four quarters and for the whole of 2013-14, with performance at 95.7% for the year. It has been met for the first quarter (April to June) of 2014-15, with performance at 95.1%.</p><p> </p><p>There were 21.8 million attendances at (A&amp;E) departments in 2013-14 compared to 20.5 million in 2009-10, and in the face of rising demand not all patients are receiving care within the standard. NHS England, the NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor are working with the most challenged providers and commissioners. £400 million has been made available this year to ensure local urgent and emergency care services are sustainable and prepared for winter.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 22/07/2014 16:29:07 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick