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date	08/01/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	National Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in enabling the National Fund charity to make appropriate donations; and whether they intend to apply to the courts for a scheme allowing the Fund to be used for its original purpose.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL4465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The National Fund was created in 1928 with an initial anonymous donation of £500,000 with the aim of eventually extinguishing the national debt. It has accumulated significant funds through further donations and income over the years, as set out in the <strong><ins class="ministerial">attached </ins></strong>chart <del class="ministerial">below</del>. It is currently estimated to be worth over £460 million.</p><p>The terms of the deed of Trust for the National Fund are such that the Trustees are required to accumulate the net income and profits of the trust fund until the value of the fund along with its accumulated income, when added to the value of any other funds applicable for the same purpose, is sufficient to discharge the entirety of the National Debt. Given the terms of the trust, the money is currently ‘locked’ in the fund.</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office is working with the Charity Commission and the Fund’s trustees to help resolve this legally complicated matter.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 22/01/2018 14:42:46 question first ministerially corrected 16/05/2018 10:48:18 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie attachment 1 file name Chart 2.pdf title Chart previous answer version 35717 answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

670137

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date	09/01/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuels: Prices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have about retail petrol and diesel price differences across the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Quin
uin	HL4465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government believes that a competitive market is the best way to keep prices low. Retail fuels markets are subject to UK competition law under the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not collect statistics by the nations or the regions of the UK but it does publish weekly UK statistics retail petrol and diesel prices: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>. On 9 January 2017 the average retail price for petrol and diesel was 118.0 pence per litre and 121.3 pence per litre respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The AA publishes data on regional retail petrol and diesel price differences across the UK: <a href="http://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/driving-costs/fuel-prices" target="_blank">http://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/driving-costs/fuel-prices</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL4464 - weekly_fuel_prices.xlsx title Weekly fuel prices 2 file name december-2016.pdf title AA report 3 file name AA fuel-prices.pdf title AA website grouped question UIN HL4464 question first answered 23/01/2017 15:35:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	518 label Biography information for Baroness Quin

436999

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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	Turkey: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take steps to ensure that Turkey does not repatriate any genuine refugees, following the recent EU–Turkey financial agreement.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK cooperates closely with Turkey on migration and Turkey has consistently confirmed that their borders remain open to genuine refugees. We commend Turkey’s generosity in hosting over 2.2 million refugees from the crisis in Syria and Iraq. Enhanced cooperation between the EU and Turkey is critical to resolving the current migration crisis. At the EU-Turkey summit on 29 November, the EU agreed €3billion of additional support to Turkey to help ease its refugee burden and prevent further irregular migration to the EU. Turkey and the EU also agreed to activate the migration action plan. As part of this action plan, Turkey committed to accelerate procedures in order to readmit smoothly irregular migrants who are not in need of international protection, whilst ensuring that vulnerable people continue to be identified and taken care of.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 21/12/2015 14:41:44 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

175885

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Temporary Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 6 January (HL3874), whether they intend to commission research into the causes of homeless households being placed in temporary accommodation outside their home authority.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL4465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>This Government has made it clear that no council should be sending tenants en masse to a different part of the country. We have strengthened the law so that when considering the suitability of location, housing authorities must now take account of the impact a change in location would have on individual households – including possible disruption to things like employment and schooling.</p><p>This Government has made more than £1 billion available over this spending round to prevent and tackle homelessness and support vulnerable households affected by welfare reform.</p><p>London Boroughs account for 93% of households provided with temporary accommodation in another district. London councils have previously said that the vast majority of out of borough placements are within London, or where that is not the case, are local to the placing Borough.</p><p>In that context, we have no current plans to commission research.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/02/2015 15:18:36 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow