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79823

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date	30/07/2014
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	Occupied Territories
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what further action they plan to take internationally to ban the trade in goods and services from Israel's settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL1712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text While the issue of settlement produce is a subject of active discussion with our EU partners, the Government has no plans to take this further internationally. We are working together to ensure continued, full and effective implementation of existing EU legislation and bilateral arrangements applicable to settlement products. This ongoing work includes measures to ensure that settlement produce does not enter the EU duty-free, under the EU-Israel Association Agreement, and steps to ensure that EU-wide guidelines are issued to make sure that settlement products are not incorrectly labelled as Israeli produce, in violation of EU consumer protection regulations. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 18/08/2014 09:54:16 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

79825

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to remove the exemption for skip lorries and concrete mixing lorries from the requirement to be fitted with a safety bar, and, if so when; and what assessment they have made of the efforts made by Cemex in that area.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
uin	HL1714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Transport will be consulting in the autumn to change the rules for side guards to be fitted to tippers, refuse vehicles and car transporters that were registered from 1 January 2010.　 Side guards will be required to be fitted to the majority of new vehicles from 29 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no specific assessment of the measures implemented by Cemex but the Government welcomes the initiatives taken by a number of companies to voluntarily fit additional safety equipment to protect pedestrian and vulnerable road users.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 04/08/2014 10:40:49 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

79827

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how a business is to determine whether its activity will be classed as "manufacture", "supply", "installation" or "adaption", pursuant to section 41 of the Gambling Act 2014, and therefore require a licence; and whether they have plans to supplement the guidance provided by the Gambling Commission on the matter.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL1716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission’s publication ‘What is gambling software?’ (June 2014) provides advice to assist the industry in understanding who needs a gambling software licence. This covers what constitutes the activities of manufacturing, supplying, installing and adapting gambling software, considers circumstances where multiple parties are involved in the development process and who needs a licence. The guide can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/What is gambling software - June 2014.pdf</p><p> </p><p>The requirement to obtain gambling software from Gambling Commission-licensed providers is an important provision both to ensure the integrity of gambling software and to keep crime out of gambling, and ensures a consistent approach for remote gambling operators based in Britain and overseas. This requirement is set out in the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and was subject to statutory consultation this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL1717 HL1718 HL1719 HL1720 question first answered 18/08/2014 09:46:52 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

79828

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the meaning of "adaption" with regard to section 41 of the Gambling Act 2014 in respect of software licensing requirements.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL1717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission’s publication ‘What is gambling software?’ (June 2014) provides advice to assist the industry in understanding who needs a gambling software licence. This covers what constitutes the activities of manufacturing, supplying, installing and adapting gambling software, considers circumstances where multiple parties are involved in the development process and who needs a licence. The guide can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/What is gambling software - June 2014.pdf</p><p> </p><p>The requirement to obtain gambling software from Gambling Commission-licensed providers is an important provision both to ensure the integrity of gambling software and to keep crime out of gambling, and ensures a consistent approach for remote gambling operators based in Britain and overseas. This requirement is set out in the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and was subject to statutory consultation this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL1716 HL1718 HL1719 HL1720 question first answered 18/08/2014 09:46:52 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

79829

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will encourage the Gambling Commission to give guidance in relation to its software licensing criteria within the Gambling Act 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL1718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission’s publication ‘What is gambling software?’ (June 2014) provides advice to assist the industry in understanding who needs a gambling software licence. This covers what constitutes the activities of manufacturing, supplying, installing and adapting gambling software, considers circumstances where multiple parties are involved in the development process and who needs a licence. The guide can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/What is gambling software - June 2014.pdf</p><p> </p><p>The requirement to obtain gambling software from Gambling Commission-licensed providers is an important provision both to ensure the integrity of gambling software and to keep crime out of gambling, and ensures a consistent approach for remote gambling operators based in Britain and overseas. This requirement is set out in the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and was subject to statutory consultation this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL1716 HL1717 HL1719 HL1720 question first answered 18/08/2014 09:46:52 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

79830

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why, in the light of the requirements for licensing of software developers and suppliers under the gambling licensing regimes in other European Union member states, they have opted to increase the scope of businesses that require licensing in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL1719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission’s publication ‘What is gambling software?’ (June 2014) provides advice to assist the industry in understanding who needs a gambling software licence. This covers what constitutes the activities of manufacturing, supplying, installing and adapting gambling software, considers circumstances where multiple parties are involved in the development process and who needs a licence. The guide can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/What is gambling software - June 2014.pdf</p><p> </p><p>The requirement to obtain gambling software from Gambling Commission-licensed providers is an important provision both to ensure the integrity of gambling software and to keep crime out of gambling, and ensures a consistent approach for remote gambling operators based in Britain and overseas. This requirement is set out in the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and was subject to statutory consultation this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL1716 HL1717 HL1718 HL1720 question first answered 18/08/2014 09:46:52 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

79831

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why software developers and other companies involved in gambling software, working as sub-contractors for newly-licensed software suppliers, have to apply for their own licences; and what assessment they have made of the impact of that requirement on smaller businesses reliant on such short-term contracts.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL1720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission’s publication ‘What is gambling software?’ (June 2014) provides advice to assist the industry in understanding who needs a gambling software licence. This covers what constitutes the activities of manufacturing, supplying, installing and adapting gambling software, considers circumstances where multiple parties are involved in the development process and who needs a licence. The guide can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/What is gambling software - June 2014.pdf</p><p> </p><p>The requirement to obtain gambling software from Gambling Commission-licensed providers is an important provision both to ensure the integrity of gambling software and to keep crime out of gambling, and ensures a consistent approach for remote gambling operators based in Britain and overseas. This requirement is set out in the Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and was subject to statutory consultation this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL1716 HL1717 HL1718 HL1719 question first answered 18/08/2014 09:46:51 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

79832

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether live dealer studios holding current European Economic Area and White-list authorisation for the services they provide to those offering live dealer games in the British market will be eligible for a continuation licence under the provisions of the Gambling Act 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL1721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>Yes, subject to meeting the criteria set out in Statutory Instrument (2014 Nos. 1675 and 1641), live dealer studios in the European Economic Area and White-list states currently permitted to operate in Britain are eligible.</p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 18/08/2014 09:46:03 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

79835

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the publication of the Ministry of Defence's <i>Global Strategic Trends out to 2045</i>, what consideration they have given to educational inequalities in the developing world; and how the United Kingdom can aid the closing of gender gaps in educational access and attainment.
tabling member printed	Lord Verjee
uin	HL1724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The UK is supporting disaggregation of data by sex and age in the Post 2015 development framework which will succeed the Millennium Development Goals. This will help ensure no-one is left behind, including girls in Education. The UK International Development Gender Equality Act which was passed in May 2014 now makes it law to consider, before providing development assistance, how the assistance will contribute to reducing gender inequality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Supporting gender equality in education remains a key priority for the UK government and we are increasingly focussing on marginalised girls both in terms of access and attainment. For example, the Girls Education Challenge funded by UK aid is the largest donor funded education programme which aims to support up to one million marginalised girls to be in school and learning which will help to transform their lives.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 18/08/2014 09:43:24 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4299 label Biography information for Lord Verjee

79840

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Jubilee Line
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 Kramer on 28 July (WA 257–8), whether they have considered conducting a reassessment, 10 years after the last, of the benefit-cost ratio of the Jubilee Line extension; and whether they intend to carry out any similar assessments of other infrastructure projects.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL1729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2014 answer text <p>The Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) are responsible for the Jubilee line. TfL have no current plans to undertake a further evaluation of the benefit-cost ratio of the extension.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport takes a structured approach to understanding the benefits of projects once delivery of those projects has started. Actively managing the realisation of benefits will improve value for money and maximise the benefits for passengers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 04/08/2014 11:22:18 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw