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1688054

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date	06/02/2024
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	Developing Countries: Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights as per Sustainable Development Goal target 5.6.
tabling member printed	Baroness Northover
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2024 answer text <p>The White Paper on International Development reaffirmed the UK's commitment to deploy policy and investment to advance and strongly defend universal access to comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in line with Sustainable Development Goal target 5.6.</p><p>The UK Government is committed to driving progress and demonstrating leadership on SRHR globally as a major donor, through our diplomatic network and in collaboration with partners. For example, the UNFPA Supplies Partnership averted 8 million unintended pregnancies, 2.2 million unsafe abortion and 170,000 maternal and child deaths in 2022, with the UK as their largest donor. The Women's Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Programme supported 9.5 million women to use modern methods of contraception and averted over 45,000 maternal deaths, 5 million unsafe abortions and over 16 million unintended pregnancies from the programme's inception to 2021. In May 2023, the UK joined other G7 leaders in re-asserting the critical role of comprehensive SRHR in our efforts to achieve gender equality, explicitly recognising the need for access to safe and legal abortion as well as post abortion care.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 15/02/2024 10:46:54 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover

1505669

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	Israel: Palestinians
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 Israel regarding a raid by the Israeli Defence Forces on St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ramallah on 18 August; and whether they have asked them to undertake an investigation into that incident.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Southwark
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>We believe the Israeli government's decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organisations and the raids on their offices and on St Andrew's Church in Ramallah are deeply troubling developments. Civil society organisations play an important role in upholding human rights and democracy, they must be able to operate freely in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). We continue to engage with a number of these organisations and the UK stands in solidarity with Christian communities in the OPTs. The UK remains committed to working with all parties across the Holy Land to ensure the safety and security of the holy sites and all who worship there, including Christians from all nations. During her recent visit to Israel and the OPTs in June 2022, the former Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East met with human rights defenders, journalists and civil society organisations to discuss the pressures they face in the region.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2254 question first answered 11/10/2022 14:05:59 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4345 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Southwark

1349320

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
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	OneWeb: Satellites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their acquisition of a share of OneWeb on 3 July 2020, how many satellites OneWeb have launched since that date; where were those satellites manufactured; what launch vehicles were used; and from where they were launched.
tabling member printed	Lord Bowness
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2021 answer text <p>Since the Government’s investment, OneWeb has launched 180 satellites, bringing the total number of satellites launched to 254.</p><p>OneWeb satellites are currently manufactured in Florida, USA. The payload (the active component), for the satellites is manufactured in the UK.</p><p>OneWeb currently utilises heavy launch via their ArianeSpace contract executed through the Soyuz launcher at Vostochny in Russia.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 28/07/2021 15:16:43 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3496 label Biography information for Lord Bowness

1183161

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Skilled Workers: Vacancies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of job vacancies which remain unfilled because of skill shortages among potential applicants; and what steps they are taking to introduce training courses and apprenticeships to fill that gap.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Employer Skills Survey 2017 identified 1,007,000 vacancies, of which 226,000 were skill-shortage vacancies (SSVs) – representing 22% of all vacancies. This percentage has remained broadly stable over several waves of the survey – 23% in 2015. Employers were most likely to report SSVs for Skilled Trades (42% of all Skilled Trades vacancies were SSVs), Machine Operatives (31% of all these vacancies were SSVs) and Professionals (30% of all these vacancies were SSVs). These proportions are also in line with 2015 percentages. We are awaiting results of the 2019 survey.</p><p> </p><p>We have put in place a range of measures to tackle skills gaps. We are making apprenticeships longer, better, with more off-the-job training and proper assessment at the end, with new standards across all levels being designed and driven by the industry so they can equip people with the skills they need. We will be investing up to £500 million a year in T levels, a high quality technical alternative to A levels, which will be more rigorous than current vocational courses and involve employers in their development to ensure the qualifications have real labour market value.</p><p>We also investing up to £290 million of capital funding to establish 20 new Institutes of Technology, which will be the pinnacle of technical training offering higher technical education and training in key sectors such as digital, construction, advanced manufacturing and engineering.</p><p> </p><p>We have also invested £100 million into establishing a National Retaining Scheme, which will help prepare adults for future changes to the economy, including those brought about by automation, and help them retrain into better jobs. On top of this we are investing an extra £3 billion, over the course of this Parliament, for a new National Skills Fund to help people learn new skills and prepare for the economy of the future. The fund will help ensure that businesses can find and hire the workers they need and help people fulfil their potential.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 24/03/2020 17:17:31 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

773538

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
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 link between good community mental health services and lower rates of detention under the Mental Health Act 1983.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>On 4 October 2017, the Prime Minister announced an independent review of mental health legislation and practice to tackle the issue of mental health detention. The independent review will look at a range of issues, and central to this will be a consideration of why rates of detention are increasing and what can be done to reduce inappropriate detention and improve how different agencies respond to people in crisis. The review will make recommendations to Government in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that improved community mental health services need to be in place, to support people before their mental health deteriorates to the point they need to be detained under the Mental Health Act. Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams will therefore receive £400 million in additional funding by 2021, to ensure that they can offer a responsive service at all times of the day.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also investing £247 million to 2021 in mental health support in hospital emergency departments, and police forces are working National Health Service partners to deliver street triage services to support people with immediate mental health needs. The Government has already introduced a waiting time standard to help ensure that people receive rapid access to Early Intervention in Psychosis services, and in August 2017, 75.3% of patients started treatment within two weeks of referral.</p><p> </p><p>On 18 October, the Government launched a new £15 million scheme, Beyond Places of Safety. This will seek to fund services in 2018/19 and 2019/20, including places of calm and crisis cafes, that offer support to people who are at risk of mental health crisis.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL2252 question first answered 02/11/2017 12:59:24 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

600500

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the UN report, published in September, that more than 3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The UK directly supports a number of bilateral education programmes for refugees providing indirect support through multilateral contributions to organisations such as UNHCR. Specifically on the Syria crisis, in 2015/16 UK Aid, as part of the No Lost Generation Initiative (NLGI), has provided nearly 392,000 children in Syria and the wider region with formal education and nearly 95,000 with non-formal education. Additional psychological support has been provided to nearly 199,000 children, and 350,000 text books to children in Lebanon, nearly 100,000 of which are Syrian refugees.</p><p>The UK has been instrumental in creating a new global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – called ‘Education Cannot Wait’ – which was launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in May this year. This fund will support displaced children to access quality education, as part of its wider mandate to improve education in emergency and crises affected countries. The UK pledged £30million for two years to the fund, as the largest founding donor, which will contribute towards the fund reaching 4.5 million children in its first two years. The UK also supports research on refugee education, education in emergencies and through a new partnership with the World Bank on their Global Program on Forced Displacement.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/10/2016 15:53:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

419180

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
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	Yemen: Military Intervention
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 BBC Newsnight report of 10 September that presented evidence of attacks on civilians in Yemen by the Royal Saudi Air Force.
tabling member printed	Lord Ahmed
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2015 answer text <p>We are aware of reports of alleged violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Yemen by all sides to the conflict and take these very seriously. The British Government has always been clear that any action, including military, must be in accordance with IHL. We have raised our concerns with the Saudi Arabian government and have received repeated assurances of IHL compliance and continue to engage with them on those assurances. We have also raised our concerns with the Houthis on the importance of compliance with IHL and international human rights law. A political solution is the best way to bring long term stability to Yemen and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. The UK fully and actively supports the UN’s efforts to achieve an end to the conflict.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 30/09/2015 13:39:46 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed

100047

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	European Rail Traffic Management System
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are their latest cost estimates for the installation of the European Rail Traffic Management System in each cab of United Kingdom trains.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Our estimates are based upon information and assessments carried out by industry, who have used data from UK and EU deployments.</p><p> </p><p>The Government uses these estimates as a benchmark only, to be used during the evaluation of those new passenger franchises affected by the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) deployment. As this information is used in commercial competitions, it would not be appropriate to put this in the public domain.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 04/11/2014 13:47:56 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw