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167217

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many new (1) academies or free schools that are part of a chain, (2) stand-alone academies or free schools, (3) voluntary aided schools, and (4) community schools, have opened since May 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL3318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>Between May 2010 and 1 December 2014: 2476 academies and free schools opened as part of a chain and a further 1985 stand-alone academies and free schools opened. 58 voluntary aided schools and 72 community schools also opened.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/12/2014 13:05:56 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

167233

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Leasehold: Property Management Companies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they propose to take following the Competition and Markets Authority market study into the residential property management service sector in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL3334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>With more than 4 million properties across England subject to a long lease, leaseholders are a vital part of a growing housing market.<br><br>This Government has already increased protections for leaseholders, with limits being placed on the amount of service charges recoverable from local authority leaseholders where the works are funded by Government grant, as well as a requirement for every property manager to belong to an approved redress scheme. We will now work closely with the Competition and Markets Authority to consider what further support the Government can offer.<br><br></p><p>Housing is a devolved issue for Wales. I understand that the Competition and Markets Authority will be pursuing the issues arising out of its market study separately with the Welsh Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 09/12/2014 13:05:04 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

167256

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people from Northern Ireland were recruited to the Army in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Annual recruitment to the Army from Northern Ireland over the last five years is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p><p>(to 31 October)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Regular</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>270</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reserve</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>380</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures have been rounded to 10. Numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid systematic bias.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 08/12/2014 16:40:37 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

167273

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Speed Limits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Kramer on 1 December (WS 65), what is the evidence that "actual average speeds are unlikely to change" as a result of increasing the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles on dual carriageway roads from 50 to 60 miles per hour.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL3374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government conducted an impact assessment on raising the national speed limit for heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes on dual carriageway roads. The impact assessment has been deposited in the libraries of both Houses, and has been published on the GOV.UK website at:</p><p><a target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/increased-speed-limit-for-heavy-goods-vehicles-over-75-tonnes-dual-carriageway</a></p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment outlines that based on observed speeds, taken from National Statistics, heavy goods vehicles on dual carriageway roads travel at an average of 53mph in free-flow conditions. On motorways, the HGV speed limit is 60 mph but the average speed travelled by heavy goods vehicles is also 53mph.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that professional HGV drivers are likely to have the same behavioural response to road conditions as car drivers, and will drive at the same speed or more slowly on dual carriageways than on motorways. It is implausible that HGVs would choose to drive faster on dual carriageways than on motorways. In addition, HGVs are required by EU Directive 2002/85/EC to fit speed limiters to vehicles set at 56mph.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 09/12/2014 13:07:43 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

167274

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Speed Limits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of any increase in road accidents resulting from the heavy goods vehicle national speed limits on dual carriageway roads increasing from 50 to 60 miles per hour.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL3375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government conducted an impact assessment on raising the national speed limit for heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes on dual carriageway roads. The impact assessment has been deposited in the libraries of both Houses, and has been published on the GOV.UK website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/increased-speed-limit-for-heavy-goods-vehicles-over-75-tonnes-dual-carriageway" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/increased-speed-limit-for-heavy-goods-vehicles-over-75-tonnes-dual-carriageway</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment estimates that raising the heavy goods vehicle national speed limit to 60mph on dual carriageways will not result in actual changes in heavy goods vehicle speeds, because these vehicles already travel at the same speed on motorways (with a 60mph limit) as on dual carriageways, and it is implausible that they would choose to drive faster on dual carriageways than on motorways. It is therefore not expected to have any impact on road safety.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 09/12/2014 13:08:22 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

167281

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
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 Welsh Government’s initiative on free breakfasts in primary schools; and what steps they will take to ensure that more schools provide breakfast clubs for pupils.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not made a formal assessment of the Welsh Government’s initiative on free breakfasts in primary schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Provision of breakfast was one of the issues considered in the independent School Food Plan. In response to the Plan’s recommendations, the Government is now funding the setting up of self-sustaining breakfast clubs in 184 schools in England which have free school meal entitlement of 35% or higher.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/12/2014 13:02:55 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

167282

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Regional Schools Commissioners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they will put in place to support regional schools commissioners in their oversight of under-performing academy chains.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) are responsible for monitoring academy performance and prescribing intervention in underperforming academies and free schools.</p><p> </p><p>RSCs have authority to act on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education to fulfil this function. To support them we have created headteacher boards which provide additional local context and educational expertise to the decision making process.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2014 17:28:35 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

167283

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they will take to ensure that transparent criteria are set out in advance of admissions processes for all schools, including academies.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>All state-funded schools must comply with the School Admissions Code. The Code requires that the criteria which are used to decide the allocation of school places must be ‘fair, clear and objective’. Parents should be able to look at a set of arrangements and understand easily how places for that school will be allocated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Code also requires all schools to publish their admission arrangements significantly in advance of parents applying for a place. Ministers permit specific derogations from compliance with the Code within the funding agreements of free schools and academies where to do so would support fairness.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2014 17:49:45 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

166848

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Rail Franchise
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the annual profits to be made by the successful bidders for the East Coast rail franchise.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL3266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The level of profit bid by Inter City Railways Limited is commercially sensitive. It is not guaranteed and is commensurate with the risks associated with a franchise of this size and nature. The Government has put in place a profit cap and profit sharing mechanism to prevent any possibility of “over-compensation”.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 09/12/2014 13:04:24 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

166615

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Ukraine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 25 November (HL Deb, col 840), whether they supported the European Union's attempts to bring Ukraine within its sphere of influence; and what assessment they have made of the effect of those attempts on the present situation in Ukraine.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL3206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>This Government is a strong supporter of a closer EU-Ukraine relationship. The signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in June is a significant step towards closer relations, and a commitment by Ukraine to European norms and values. In the long term this could lead to EU membership for Ukraine, if that is what its people and government want, and if Ukraine is able to implement the wide ranging economic, political and judicial reforms that would be necessary to meet the demanding conditions of entry.</p><p>The crisis in Ukraine was not a result of the EU’s actions or the proposed signature of the Association Agreement in 2013. It is very clear where responsibility for the crisis lies – in Russia’s deliberate acts to destabilise its neighbour, its illegal annexation of Crimea and continued support of the separatists in eastern Ukraine.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 09/12/2014 14:34:09 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch