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224224

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the written statement by Lord Freud on 27 November 2014 (HLWS32), when they plan to bring forward the measure to prevent claimants being paid the Employment Support Allowance assessment rate if they have already been found fit for work but have made a repeat claim, and what consideration they have given to the implications this will have for disabled people and those with fluctuating conditions.
tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
uin	HL5277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Regulations that implement the measure making changes to how repeat claims for Employment and Support Allowance are dealt with were laid before Parliament on 5th March.</p><p> </p><p>The Regulations can be found at <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2015/437" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2015/437</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for eligibility for the support group in Employment and Support Allowance remains the same for men and women.</p><p> </p><p>The updated guidance for healthcare professionals on the assessment of risk in claimants with a Mental Health condition was developed with input from senior psychiatrists. It differentiates between men and women in relation to suicide risk because the suicide rate in men is significantly higher than in women.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance makes clear that the assessment of risk needs to focus both on the claimant’s health and whether the claimant could cope with work-related activity.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5278 question first answered 11/03/2015 16:49:33 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

224225

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the scoring for Work Capability Assessment applicants with mental health problems has been loaded to make it more difficult for women to qualify for the support group than it is for men; and, if so, why.
tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
uin	HL5278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>The Regulations that implement the measure making changes to how repeat claims for Employment and Support Allowance are dealt with were laid before Parliament on 5th March.</p><p> </p><p>The Regulations can be found at <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2015/437" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2015/437</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for eligibility for the support group in Employment and Support Allowance remains the same for men and women.</p><p> </p><p>The updated guidance for healthcare professionals on the assessment of risk in claimants with a Mental Health condition was developed with input from senior psychiatrists. It differentiates between men and women in relation to suicide risk because the suicide rate in men is significantly higher than in women.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance makes clear that the assessment of risk needs to focus both on the claimant’s health and whether the claimant could cope with work-related activity.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL5277 question first answered 11/03/2015 16:49:33 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

224227

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Succession to the Crown Act 2013
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 will be brought into force.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL5280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2015 answer text <p>Further to the answers of 26 February (HL Deb, col 922), 23 June (HL224) and 8 December (HL 3512), all Realms have concluded the necessary processes before implementation with the exception of Australia. All six of the Australian States have now enacted the necessary legislation and the Australian Government has recently introduced the Commonwealth’s Succession to the Crown Bill into the Australian Parliament. Once that legislation has received Royal Assent, the UK Government will then be in a position to make the commencement order for the Act.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 13/03/2015 13:33:43 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

224228

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Consumer Goods
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 Neville-Rolfe on 26 February (HL4989), what are the terms of reference for the review of unsafe product recall; what is the name of the chair of the review; and what is its timescale.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL5281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lady to my previous answer on 26 February.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/03/2015 15:07:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

224232

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Students: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support universities to provide bursaries for students experiencing difficulty in meeting living expenses.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>As autonomous and independent organisations, Universities are responsible for planning and implementing their bursary and hardship schemes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Universities wishing to charge above the basic fee (£6,000 for full time students. £4,500 for part time students) must agree an access agreement with the Office for Fair Access. In access agreements, universities set out what more they will do to support students from disadvantaged and under-represented groups. This includes the outreach they will undertake, and the measures to support student retention and success, including bursaries.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From this year, funding that used to be delivered through the Access to Learning Fund (ALF) has been incorporated into the Student Opportunity Fund allocation provided to universities by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This year £366m was provided to universities and colleges through the allocation. Universities may use the allocation to alleviate hardship for both undergraduate and postgraduate home students.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/03/2015 13:56:41 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

224234

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 2 February (HL4599), given the recent closure of Nottingham University Trust's acute dermatology service, what steps they are taking to relieve increasing service pressure on dermatology in the long term.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL5287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The commissioning and provision of National Health Services is a matter for the local NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NHS Trust Development Authority advises that since Monday 2 February Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has been unable to provide a comprehensive adult dermatology service. It no longer has sufficient consultant dermatologist capacity to sustain such a service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Trust has worked with commissioners to ensure a satisfactory service is available to local people from alternative providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group has commissioned a review to assess how to meet the needs of the population in the future. It would not be appropriate for Ministers or the Department to intervene in this matter.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 12/03/2015 15:05:48 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

224235

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ukraine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the deployment of Armed Forces personnel as trainers to Ukraine will cost.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL5288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The costs of Ministry of Defence (MOD) support of this nature are compiled retrospectively on the basis of the net additional costs incurred. Since much of the necessary detail is still emerging, the net additional costs of the MOD's training assistance to Ukraine in financial year 2014-15 will not be available until after the end of the financial year.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 10/03/2015 17:34:57 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

224236

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Iraq
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many British military trainers and Armed Forces personnel are currently deployed to Iraq (including Kurdistan) to counter ISIL; and at what cost.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL5289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>As at 3 March 2015 there were 154 UK Armed Forces personnel deployed to Iraq in support of the Iraqi Government to counter ISIL.</p><p>The net additional costs of training and equipping the Iraqi and Kurdish Security Forces as well as providing UK enablers is currently being met from the £50 million Deployed Military Activity Pool (DMAP). The net costings for UK military operational activity are published in the Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts after the end of each financial year.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 10/03/2015 17:38:52 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

224239

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mohammed Emwazi
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 abolition of control orders and Mohammed Emwazi's evasion of British security services and departure from the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL5292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.</p><p>Prosecution and conviction are always our preference for dealing with terrorists. Following the increase in the threat level last summer by the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and discussions with operational partners, the Prime Minister announced in another place (Commons Hansard, 1 September 2014, co.23-27) the Government’s intention to introduce several new measures to disrupt attempted travel for terrorism-related purposes and dealing decisively with terrorism suspects already here.</p><p>The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 received Royal Assent last month, providing the legislative basis for a suite of enhanced measures to tackle the threat posed to this country, including:</p><p>• providing the police with a power to seize a passport at the border temporarily, during which time they will be able to investigate the individual concerned.</p><p>• creating a Temporary Exclusion Order that can temporarily disrupt the return to the UK of a British citizen suspected of involvement in terrorist activity abroad.</p><p>• modifications to the existing TPIM regime, introducing the possibility for relocation and enhancing the safeguards around this power.</p><p>• improving law enforcement agencies’ ability to identify who is responsible for sending a communication on the internet or accessing an internet communications service.</p><p>• enhancing our border security for aviation, maritime and rail travel, with provisions relating to passenger data, ‘no fly’ lists, security and screening measures.</p><p>• creating a general duty on a range of organisations to prevent people being drawn into terrorism;</p><p>• putting Channel – the government’s voluntary programme for people vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism – on a statutory basis.</p><p>These measures are designed to enhance the powers already available to the police and Security Service to keep this country safe.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 10/03/2015 14:47:40 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

224247

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	National Parks
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what powers they have to direct a National Park Authority to dispose or not to dispose of land or a particular piece of land.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL5300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has no powers to direct a national park authority to dispose or not to dispose of land or a particular piece of land.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 11/03/2015 14:41:05 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves