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1580445

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date	24/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Challenger Tanks
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the primary purpose of the Challenger II Main Battle Tank’s hull and automotive systems is to transport the Challenger II turret, its associated systems and crew, around the battlefield with an optimised balance of protection and mobility.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>Yes. The Challenger 2 hull primarily provides survivability, the automotive components provide mobility, and the turret provides lethality. All three are balanced and work in harmony to deliver an effective capability.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 07/02/2023 11:28:18 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

1388362

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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	Eastern Europe: NATO
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assurances, to which they were a party, were given to (1) Mikhail Gorbachev, or (2) other representatives of the government of the Soviet Union, on NATO expansion into Eastern Europe at the time of German reunification; whether any such assurances remain valid; and what assessment they have made of whether those assurances are being met.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>During the 1990 discussions on German reunification, no written assurances about the further enlargement of NATO beyond Germany were made to Mr Gorbachev or other representatives of the Government of the Soviet Union. Despite consistent assertion, Russian leaders have been unable to produce any written evidence that such assurances were made.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 06/01/2022 13:32:09 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1199376

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Software
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what role the NHS COVID-19 App is expected to play in the test and trace system.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service COVID-19 app is new technology to assist with the well-established technique of contact tracing, including online and local public experts, supplemented by 25,000 dedicated contact tracing staff.</p><p>The test and trace system aims to reduce transmission of the virus by alerting people who may have been exposed to the virus so they can take action to protect themselves, the people they care about and the NHS.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 10/06/2020 10:44:23 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

829020

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Liverpool Prison: Inspections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when was HM Prison Liverpool inspected in (1) 2016, and (2) 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Fearn
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) undertook an Inspection of HMP Liverpool on 4-15 September 2017. The report of that inspection was published on 19 January 2018. We take the views of our independent scrutiny bodies very seriously. We published the action plan in response to the report published on 19 January 2018 on the same date and will ensure that agreed recommendations are implemented swiftly.</p><p> </p><p>There was no Inspection of HMP Liverpool by HMIP in 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/02/2018 17:24:58 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	488 label Biography information for Lord Fearn

678853

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria will be used to judge whether NHS sustainability and transformation plans succeed in ensuring third sector involvement in the delivery of those plans.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>In NHS England’s 30 June and 21 October 2016 STP submission guidance, NHS England set out clear expectations that STPs would include the following elements as part of their plans:</p><p> </p><p>- A plan to engage more formally with NHS boards and those of their partners after the July conversations between STP leads and representatives from national bodies;</p><p>- Evidence of how footprints have engaged organisations and other key stakeholders so far, and with whom they are still to engaged; and</p><p>- Evidence or plans to involve staff, clinicians and care professionals, patients and Health and Wellbeing Boards etc.</p><p> </p><p>Copies of the 30 June and 21 October guidance documents are attached.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has made clear that STP partners should work with the knowledge, skills and experience of people in their communities. To support this, it jointly produced a practical guide for those developing plans in each of the 44 footprint areas and the statutory organisations that form part of them.</p><p>A copy of this guidance <em>Engaging local people: A guide for local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans</em> is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Those STP areas that are more advanced in their plans have begun formal consultation in line with business as usual requirements for service changes. Even where this is not taking place, dialogue with local people is essential throughout. Local community and voluntary sector engagement will be a central factor in national bodies’ consideration of individual local proposals and the support they give to local areas to deliver them.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name engag-local-people-stps.pdf title Engaging local people 2 file name STPs - STP October 2016 guidance letter.pdf title 21 October Guidance 3 file name stp-submission-guidance-june.pdf title 30 June Guidance grouped question UIN HL5003 question first answered 08/02/2017 17:21:55 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

444453

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Ground Water
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimates, if any, they have made of the changes to the water table in Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire as a result of rainfall over the last six weeks.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>The Environment Agency’s water situation report for the north west of England (which is published on the Gov.UK website) reports the situation for observation boreholes in the main bedrock aquifer in Cumbria and Lancashire, the Sherwood Sandstone. The Sherwood Sandstone is moderately unresponsive to rainfall events and this is partly because of the high storage characteristics of the sandstone and also because much of it is covered by low permeability glacial clays.</p><br /><p>Hydrographs for Skirwith (Cumbria) and Yew Tree Farm (West Lancashire) are thought to be representative of this aquifer, although this monitoring is undertaken for water resources purposes not groundwater flooding purposes.</p><br /><ul><li>The Skirwith hydrograph shows that the groundwater level has risen quite dramatically since mid-November in response to recent rainfall..</li><li>The hydrograph for Yew Tree Farm shows a similar but less dramatic rise, with levels close to record highs (the site has been monitored since 1971 but with groundwater levels rising steadily since the late 1990s due to reduction in nearby abstraction).</li><li>The sudden rise in levels was from quite a low point due to a relatively dry year and especially early autumn. Both of the examples show a steady reduction in levels up to the rainfall starting in November.</li></ul><br /><p>The Environment Agency routinely monitors groundwater throughout Yorkshire. Water levels in November 2015 were:</p><ul><li>on the low side of average in the Chalk Principal Aquifer and the Corallian Limestone Principal Aquifer</li><li>just above average in the Magnesian Limestone Principal Aquifer</li><li>well above average in the Sherwood Sandstone Principal Aquifer</li></ul><br /><p>Levels in all the aquifers in Yorkshire have responded to the rainfall in late December 2015 and early January 2016:</p><ul><li>Levels in the Chalk have responded strongly to the recent rainfall.</li><li>Groundwater levels in the Corallian Limestone near Malton are now at record highs and the result is ongoing groundwater flooding in Malton. North Yorkshire County Council are coordinating a multi-agency response including pumping to minimise the impact on local communities.</li><li>Levels in the Magnesian Limestone and the Sherwood Sandstone have also responded to the rainfall and are now at maximum levels for the time of year.</li></ul><br /><p>The Environment Agency undertakes monitoring and assessment of different aquifers locally, based upon the potential risk of groundwater flooding. A system of groundwater flood alerts and warnings is provided through our incident response procedures for those communities most vulnerable to potential groundwater flooding.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs)(Local Councils)</strong> have responsibility for local flood risk including groundwater under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. This Act gives LLFAs duties to prepare local flood risk management strategies and to co-operate with other risk management authorities, and powers to carry out local flood risk management.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/01/2016 13:40:10 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

179726

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people have been apprehended when illegally entering the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland at the border with the Republic of Ireland in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer of 26th January 2015, to Question 221443 given by my hon. Friend the Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/02/2015 15:50:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont