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1587428

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date	20/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Hearing Impairment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve educational outcomes for deaf children.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>On 29 March 2022 the department published the Special Educational Needs Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision Green paper, which set out our plans to improve the experience and outcomes for children and young people with SEND, including those with Sensory Impairment, within a fairer and financially sustainable system. We carefully considered the feedback we received through the responses to the consultation and in the many events that took place during the 16-week consultation period. A full response has been published on 2 March 2023, in the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan.</p><p>It is a legal requirement for qualified teachers of classes of pupils with sensory impairments to hold the relevant mandatory qualification (MQSI). To offer MQSIs, providers must be approved by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education. We have developed a new approval process to determine providers of MQSIs from the start of the 2023/24 academic year. Our aim is to ensure a steady supply of teachers of children with visual, hearing, and multi-sensory impairments, in both specialist and mainstream settings.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 06/03/2023 17:16:08 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1417158

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase offerings of (1) vocational, and (2) technical, courses throughout the school system, to help better prepare students for the working world.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The department is streamlining and improving the quality of the post-16 qualifications system at level 3 and below.</p><p>We are reforming technical education to ensure that all post-16 students have access to vocational and technical options that support progression and meet employer needs. This includes the introduction of new T Levels which have been designed with employers and will increase the options for learners to take post-16. We are also reviewing all other technical qualifications at level 3 and below and introducing new higher technical qualifications which will improve the quality of the future technical landscape.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 07/02/2022 17:18:26 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1203563

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	World Health Organization: Social Distancing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of reported flaws in the study by the World Health Organisation about the risks posed by reducing social distancing to one metre.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government commissioned a review into the two metre (six feet) social distancing rule and took advice from a range of experts, including the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Scientific Advisor, behavioural scientists and economists to ensure that it comprehensively examined how the two metre rule works in practice, the evidence around transmission of the virus in different environments, incidence rates, and international comparisons.</p><p>Given the significant fall in the prevalence of the virus, the Prime Minister has announced that we can change the two metre social distancing rule from 4 July to a ‘one metre plus’ approach. This means members of the public can be one metre away from each other while other measures are put in place to limit the transmission of the virus. Where it is possible to keep two metres apart people should continue to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/06/2020 10:44:17 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

846667

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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	Unitary Councils
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria they use to consider the possible reorganisation of local government in England in two-tier areas to create unitary authorities covering the whole, or part, of an existing county area.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Our policy as stated in my Department’s Single Departmental Plan is that we will consider proposals for unitarisation and mergers when requested, and reach a judgment in-the-round as to whether the proposal, if implemented, is likely to improve the area’s local government, commands a good deal of local support in the area and whether the area itself is a credible geography for the proposed new structures.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 28/02/2018 15:27:08 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

706869

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to monitor train companies' policies for handling passenger claims under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of train operators, as service providers, to ensure that their customers are made aware of their rights to compensation or other redress in cases of service failure or disruption, and to handle any claims. Train operators’ own compensation schemes provide the main means of redress for passengers.</p><p> </p><p>The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA) came into force for all transport providers on 1 October 2016. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a designated enforcer of consumer law, and has been working with the Rail Delivery Group and individual train operators over the last year to raise their awareness of the CRA and their obligations under it. The ORR is currently reviewing train operators’ compliance with the rules around how refunds must be paid under the CRA.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 14/03/2017 12:28:04 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

449212

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
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	Toner Cartridges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the UK competition authorities have made an assessment of the UK market in printer cartridges; and if so, what conclusions were reached.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) carried out a market study in 2001 on consumer IT goods and services, including the printer cartridge market. It noted that consumers may find it difficult to identify which printer manufacturer had the cheapest price overall - this included the upfront price of the printer and the price of cartridges over the life of the machine. The OFT worked with the industry to introduce a labelling scheme which allowed consumers to identify how many pages they could expect to print with a cartridge. This allows consumers to consider both the purchase price and the running costs of the printer.</p><p> </p><p>The Competition and Markets Authority took over the competition functions of the OFT in 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/02/2016 12:10:09 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

227335

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bail
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Browning on 12 July 2011 (HL Deb, col 609), what consultation on matters relating to bail and the conditions that apply has taken place to date.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
uin	HL5722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The College of Policing consulted between 27 March and 21 July 2014 on a set of ‘bail management principles’ that the police had introduced in 2013. The results of that consultation were published by the College on 11 December 2014 and are available on its website www.college.police.uk.</p><p>Alongside these improvements in the management of pre-charge bail, my Right Honourable Friend the Home Secretary considered that it would also be appropriate to introduce statutory time limits. As a result, the Home Office published a consultation on this on 18 December 2014, which closed on 8 February and is available on the gov.uk website. We are currently considering the 300 responses to the consultation and hope to publish the Government’s response, including proposals for legislation, shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/03/2015 12:26:55 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon