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date	16/01/2018
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the effectiveness of the expansion of the badger cull across parts of England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, licensed badger control operations were completed by local farmers and landowners in eleven new areas and eight existing areas. The Chief Veterinary Officer has stated that the outcome of 2017’s culls indicates that industry led culling can deliver the level of effectiveness required to be confident of achieving disease control benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Results of the 2017 badger control operations can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-summary-of-badger-control-monitoring-during-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-summary-of-badger-control-monitoring-during-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>and:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-chief-veterinary-officers-advice-on-the-outcome-of-the-2017-badger-culls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-chief-veterinary-officers-advice-on-the-outcome-of-the-2017-badger-culls</a></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/01/2018 12:49:44 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

675186

registered interest
date	18/01/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what rights exist for individuals and organisations, for example schools or other educational institutions, that are subject to being photographed by, or regularly overflown by, drones.
tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
uin	HL4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The Air Navigation Order 2016 sets out several rules which drone users must abide by. In particular, users must not fly drones with cameras within 50m of any vehicle, structure or person which is not under the control of the person in charge of the aircraft. They must also not fly drones over or within 150m of any congested area or large crowds of people.</p><p> </p><p>These activities can only be undertaken if the Civil Aviation Authority have issued specific permission to do so, having assessed a safety case for the operation. A person convicted of doing either of these activities without permission could be punished by a fine not exceeding £2,500.</p><p> </p><p>Trespass and other non-aviation specific laws may also apply in these circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently consulting on the future safe use of drones in the UK, including proposals such as registration and making drones electronically identifiable and strengthening penalties for breaking the law. The consultation can be found on gov.uk and closes on 15 March 2017.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 30/01/2017 14:21:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

439676

registered interest
date	21/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islam
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 17 December (HL4279), whether they plan to collect information about overseas funding of the preaching and teaching of Wahhabism in mosques and Muslim education bodies.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>HM Government’s Counter Extremism Strategy and counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, set out our approach to tackling the full range of factors that allow extremist and terrorist groups to grow and flourish. These include directly challenging ideologies, including those which have a theological basis. The review into funding of extremism in the UK will include funding that comes from overseas.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL4753 question first answered 11/01/2016 15:05:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

178364

registered interest
date	06/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Mother and Baby Units
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to address any shortfall of beds in specialist inpatient mother and baby units.
tabling member printed	Baroness Nye
uin	HL4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning specialised inpatient perinatal mental health services that provide a safe and secure environment for the care of women with severe mental illness and their infants. Assessments should be made by clinical commissioning groups based on local needs.</p><p> </p><p>The number of inpatient mother and baby units specialising in psychiatric care during the perinatal period increased from 10 units in 2010 to 17 in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has committed in its business plan to develop and deliver a pathway to support women with postnatal mental health problems by March 2015. It is also working with local partners to support the continued development of maternity and perinatal mental health networks through its Maternity and Children Strategic Clinical Networks to promote seamless integrated comprehensive care across the whole clinical pathway.</p><p> </p><p>To raise awareness of good maternal mental health during pregnancy and the first year after birth the Mandate between the Government and NHS England includes a specific objective to reduce the incidence and impact of postnatal depression through earlier diagnosis, and better intervention and support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To support this, Health Education England will ensure that training in perinatal mental health is available so that specialist staff will be available to every birthing unit by 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We have trained 400 perinatal mental health visitor champions who are supporting health visitors with the identification and management of anxiety, mild to moderate depression and other perinatal mental disorders and knowing when to refer on.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has also commissioned the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University to develop a perinatal mental health indicator, which will help us to better identify and address gaps in our services. NHS England is developing a plan to support women with postnatal mental health problems by March 2015 which will share best practice and learning with the National Health Service.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 20/02/2015 11:02:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4180 label Biography information for Baroness Nye