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910299

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date	04/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Disaster Relief
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on the replacement of emergency natural disaster payments that are currently made from the EU Solidarity Fund.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	147368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>Under the implementation period included within the draft Withdrawal Agreement, the UK will continue to participate in 2014-2020 EU programmes until they close.</p><p>In the longer-term, the funding choices we take will be based on the UK’s domestic priorities and will be affected by the economic environment, the fiscal position and the outcome negotiated with the EU.</p><p>The UK Government and devolved administrations are discussing EU exit through the Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) and the Ministerial Forum (EU Negotiations).</p><p>I also discuss funding matters with the devolved administration finance ministers on a regular basis, both bilaterally and through the Finance Ministers’ Quadrilateral.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 07/06/2018 13:43:38 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

916528

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Democratic Republic of Congo: Ebola
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 outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The total number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has remained stable at 38 since 6th June. There are currently 14 probable cases. The number of suspected cases continues to fluctuate as new alerts are flagged and tested for Ebola.</p><p> </p><p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) assesses the risk of a regional outbreak as ‘high’ but continue to consider the risk of a broader international outbreak to be ‘low’. Public Health England (PHE) has assessed the risk of the outbreak to the UK public to be ‘very low to negligible’. PHE continues to monitor the situation closely, assessing daily epidemiological updates and formally re-evaluating the risk on a weekly basis.</p><p> </p><p>HMG has provided significant support to the joint WHO-DRC Government response. DFID has provided £5m in funding for the WHO response plan and three experts from the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team have been deployed to DRC. In addition to this, DFID and the Wellcome Foundation, with pledges of £1 million and £2 million respectively, have joint funded an urgent research response initiative which includes the use of the experimental vaccine.</p><p> </p><p>These interventions are helping to save lives in DRC and mitigating the risk of a wider international outbreak.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 18/06/2018 15:13:32 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

916529

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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	Darfur: Internally Displaced Persons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of a recent attack by a pro-government militia on an internally displaced persons camp in Central Darfur, Sudan.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>We are concerned by reports that the Rapid Support Forces of the Sudanese Armed Forces used violence in the Khamsa Dagig Internally Displaced People Camp in Zalingei on the morning of 21 May, which led to civilian casualties including a fatality. We are monitoring the situation closely. We condemn the reported violence and urge the Government of Sudan both to investigate the incident and to ensure that its armed forces provide safety for civilians in a manner that is compliant with international humanitarian and human rights law.</p><p>We regularly raise the importance of solutions for internally displaced persons camps with the Government of Sudan, including through the high-level UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue, the fifth round of which was held on 24 April.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/06/2018 12:22:27 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

916530

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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	Transplant Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what requirements exist for hospitals in the UK to register patients who have obtained organ transplants overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom. To monitor the number of patients who have undergone transplant surgery abroad, NHSBT contacts transplant and satellite units to ask them for details of patients who have been transplanted abroad and have then come to the UK for follow-up.</p><p>Some of these patients lived in the UK and travelled overseas specifically for the transplant, others may have been living overseas when they have their transplant. NHSBT is unable to distinguish which scenario applies to any recipient.</p><p>UK hospitals are only able to record information about patients that received transplants abroad when they come into contact with the patient for follow up care.</p><p>The Government has no current plans to make collecting such information a legal requirement.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL8237 question first answered 18/06/2018 11:59:10 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

916531

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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	Transplant Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will consider requiring hospitals in the UK to register patients who have obtained organ transplants overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom. To monitor the number of patients who have undergone transplant surgery abroad, NHSBT contacts transplant and satellite units to ask them for details of patients who have been transplanted abroad and have then come to the UK for follow-up.</p><p>Some of these patients lived in the UK and travelled overseas specifically for the transplant, others may have been living overseas when they have their transplant. NHSBT is unable to distinguish which scenario applies to any recipient.</p><p>UK hospitals are only able to record information about patients that received transplants abroad when they come into contact with the patient for follow up care.</p><p>The Government has no current plans to make collecting such information a legal requirement.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL8236 question first answered 18/06/2018 11:59:10 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

916532

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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	Transplant Surgery: China
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will consider making it illegal for British citizens to travel to China to receive organ transplants until it is proven beyond doubt that the alleged practice of forced organ removal from prisoners of conscience in China has ended.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL8238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>While UK physicians advise patients against it, it is very difficult to prevent UK citizens travelling to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant. Although numbers in the UK are not collated, it is thought that very few patients in the UK choose to do so.</p><p>We welcomed China's move to stop using organs harvested from executed prisoners from January 2015. We continue to monitor the degree of implementation of this commitment, and encourage China to make further progress in bringing transparency to their organ transplant process.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/06/2018 13:23:08 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

916533

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Vetting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government in what circumstances information gathered during the developed vetting security clearance process can be released to the police or the Crown Prosecution Service.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL8239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Information provided as part of the Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance process is subject to a high degree of data privacy protections. The DV process is structured to facilitate the safeguarding of national security while maintaining tight control and limited distribution of applicants’ personal data. The DV process conforms to the UK’s data protection legislation.</p><p> </p><p>On the basis of this legislation, personal data can be shared with external agencies such as the police only in specific circumstances. These are:</p><ul><li>where the data subject may have committed a previously undetected criminal offence, or where an offence may be about to be committed;</li><li>where people may be at risk of harm; and</li><li>where action is required to safeguard national security.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In the event that, for example, the Crown Prosecution Service is pursuing a criminal trial against an individual, one or more of these conditions may be met. In such circumstances judicial authorities will submit a formal application to the data controller for disclosure. Such applications are scrutinised on a case by case basis and strict conditions are placed on the degree to which personal data is shared and with whom.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 18/06/2018 15:59:03 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

916534

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Russia
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 ability of Russian citizens who have been denied visas to enter the UK to circumvent this restriction by taking citizenship of another EU country.
tabling member printed	Lord Balfe
uin	HL8240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Citizens of EEA countries may enter or remain in the UK by virtue of the provisions of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, which sets out the right of admission for EEA nationals. This right is not absolute and in certain cases admission can be refused or the individual can be excluded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 08/06/2018 12:26:57 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4302 label Biography information for Lord Balfe

916535

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Brighton Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they estimate has been lost in rail revenues due to running rail replacement services on the Brighton Main Line in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL8241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold data on lost revenue to this level of detail. However, as part of agreed industry practice, Network Rail pays compensation to Train Operating Companies to mitigate the loss in passenger income suffered as a result of its infrastructure and engineering works.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 18/06/2018 12:12:33 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

916536

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Lewes-Uckfield Railway Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the assessment made in the London and South Coast Rail Corridor Study conducted for the Department for Transport, how much they estimate restoring the Uckfield to Lewes rail line would cost.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL8242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>High-level estimated costs to reinstate closed rail lines between Lewes and Uckfield range from £150m to over £1billion, depending on scope of the scheme. The London &amp; South Coast Rail Corridor Study concluded there is no case for Government to progress development, but interested parties, including local authorities, may wish to work to improve the viability of such schemes. Any proposal presented to Government would need to be consistent with the new rail network enhancement pipeline.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 18/06/2018 12:15:08 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton