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1387970

registered interest
date	14/12/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	10 Downing Street: Crown Lands and Estates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Number 10 Downing Street is a Crown property; and, if so, whether regulations made under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 apply there.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL4966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>No 10 Downing Street is a Crown property. Regulations under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 which relate to the activities of people, apply regardless of whether those activities took place on Crown property or not.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 07/01/2022 13:57:12 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1387055

registered interest
date	10/12/2021
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	Social Services: Catering
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made, if any, of the number of people receiving social care who follow a non-meat diet; and what steps they are taking to ensure that such people are given meat-free meals.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL4869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the number of people receiving social care who follow a non-meat diet. Local authorities should facilitate the personalisation of care and support services in line with their duties under the Care Act 2014. This includes encouraging services to enable people to make meaningful choices and to take control over the way their care is planned and delivered, based on their individual needs and what matters most to them. This may include dietary requirements and preferences where appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 16/12/2021 15:32:13 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1387056

registered interest
date	10/12/2021
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	Social Services: Inspections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what training is available to care inspectors in relation to diet and its impact on overall wellbeing.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL4870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>As the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) monitors, inspects and regulates services to ensure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety. The CQC’s inspectors consider Regulation 14 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, to assess whether people who use services have adequate nutrition and hydration to sustain life and good health.</p><p>The CQC can prosecute for a breach of this regulation or a breach of part of the regulation if a failure to meet the regulation results in avoidable harm to a person using the service or a person using the service is exposed to significant risk of harm.</p><p>While the CQC’s inspectors are not required to undertake specific mandatory training in relation to diet and Regulation 14, the CQC refers its inspectors to both learning resources produced by Skills for Care and internal resources on nutrition and hydration.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/12/2021 14:51:02 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1387057

registered interest
date	10/12/2021
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	Care Workers: Qualifications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they recognise the need for a (1) nationally recognised, and (2) mandatory, care qualification; and what steps they have taken, if any, towards establishing this.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL4871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>There are a number of nationally recognised qualifications available for those working in the adult social care sector. We are also investing in the social care workforce to support those working in care to access training and qualifications and increase their skills.</p><p>In addition, the Care Certificate provides nationally recognised training standards for non-registered roles. The standards equip workers with the fundamental skills they need to provide quality care and care workers complete the Care Certificate as part of their induction training. We have also committed to the creation of a delivery standard recognised across the sector. This will improve the portability of the Care Certificate, to avoid care workers repeating training when moving roles. We are exploring options to establish a requirement for all care workers to have reached this baseline standard.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/12/2021 14:54:26 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1387058

registered interest
date	10/12/2021
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	Social Services: Catering
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 standard training given to chefs in care settings.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL4872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/12/2021 14:39:21 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1367775

registered interest
date	10/11/2021
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	Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions
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 additional powers local authorities may require to meet (1) the net zero target by 2050, and (2) World Health Organisation guidelines on safe levels of air pollution.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>Local authorities have a combination of powers in housing, planning, transport, and environmental permitting which allow them to take action to achieve net zero and to improve air quality.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Net Zero Strategy, published on 19 October, the Government set out its commitments to enable local areas to make progress towards net zero. The strategy includes the creation of a new Local Net Zero Forum to improve collaboration net zero policies by convening national and local government senior officials.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving air quality, including through reducing a diversity of pollutants that harm both human health and the environment. The Environment Act made improvements on the Local Air Quality Management framework to enable local authorities to take more effective, co-ordinated actions to improve air quality. It will also deliver improvements to public health by ensuring local authorities have more effective powers to tackle emissions from domestic burning.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 25/11/2021 17:50:01 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1367776

registered interest
date	10/11/2021
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	Air Pollution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to improve the (1) reliability, and (2) coverage, of air quality monitoring in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>Defra’s national air quality monitoring networks are made up of 300 sites across the UK and are managed by the Environment Agency. The reliability of the networks is ensured through a process of quality assurance and quality control prescribed in agreements with the monitoring network contractors to continuously improve air quality monitoring reliability and performance. The national air quality monitoring network is subject to continuous review to ensure that it remains fit for purpose and delivers on public expenditure at good value.</p><p> </p><p>The geographical coverage of air quality monitoring is determined by the Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010) that require a set number of monitoring locations within administrative areas dependent on whether the environment is urban, rural or by a roadside and dependent also on population size.</p><p> </p><p>Several adjustments were made in a recent review including increases in monitoring for particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. Also, as part of the development of new targets for PM<sub>2</sub>.<sub>5</sub> in the Environmental Act, Government is expanding the number of PM<sub>2.5 </sub>monitoring sites to ensure that compliance with the new targets can be appropriately monitored. A consultation on the new targets and the proposed monitoring arrangements will be issued early in the New Year.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 24/11/2021 17:26:51 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1367795

registered interest
date	10/11/2021
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	Sewage: Lake District
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 Goldsmith of Richmond Park on 9 November (HL3061), whether the number of spillages from United Utilities treatment plans into (1) Lake Windermere, and (2) Lake Grasmere, are expected to reduce further in (a) 2021, and (b) in subsequent years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>In the last Asset Management Plan (AMP) cycle (2015-2020), United Utilities (UU) delivered a number of schemes in the Lake District to reduce spills into Windermere and other lakes. UU also made improvements to reduce the frequency of storm spills into Lake Windermere from Glebe Road pumping station and into Lake Grasmere from Grasmere Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW). As a result, the number of storm spills from Glebe Road and Grasmere WWTW was reduced significantly in 2020, and these improvements should be maintained in future years.</p><p>The Environment Agency is currently looking at the most recent data to determine if further interventions are required.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 24/11/2021 14:28:18 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1360902

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A303: Stonehenge
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 Vere of Norbiton on 12 October (HL2847), what area of inalienable land vested in the National Trust following a national appeal for public subscriptions in 1927 would need to be acquired for constructing and operating the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down dual carriageway and tunnel across the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site; and what would be (1) the terms, and (2) the costs of such acquisition.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>Within the World Heritage Site, there is 41.62 hectares of inalienable land owned by the National Trust that is being acquired; 1.75 hectares subject to outright acquisition and 39.87 hectares subject to subsoil rights acquisition for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme. The terms of the acquisition of inalienable National Trust land are the same as for all land interests and rights that are subject to Compulsory Acquisition.</p><p> </p><p>If granted, the Development Consent Order (DCO) gives National Highways Compulsory Acquisition powers to purchase land that is required to build and maintain the scheme, which includes National Trust land declared as inalienable. The National Trust land will be acquired through the General Vesting Declaration (GVD) process, which would vest the required land or rights to National Highways, including subsoil rights to construct and maintain the Tunnel. Where National Highways are taking subsoil rights only, the amenity of the surface land above will remain, including the surface lands inalienability. This applies to 39.87 hectares.</p><p> </p><p>Those rights and interests in land that are extinguished or changed through the above process, such as those belonging to The National Trust, would enable a right to compensation. This compensation would be negotiated and paid following the making of the GVD. A key principle of compensation is that of “equivalence”, meaning that a claimant should be placed in no better or worse position, financially, after the acquisition than they were before the acquisition. Therefore, until a time in which the land has vested through the GVD process and a claim received, it would be inappropriate to prejudice a live negotiation through speculating on potential costs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 27/10/2021 13:36:04 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1358962

registered interest
date	13/10/2021
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	Sewage: Lake District
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions the Environment Agency has had with water companies regarding the ending of sewage dumping in the Lake District; and when they expect to meet the target of high quality water in that area, in accordance with the Water Framework Directive.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) has regular discussions with United Utilities (UU), the water company which covers the North West of England, including the Lake District. The EA is working actively with UU to ensure overflows are properly controlled and to stop environment harm by overflows.</p><p> </p><p>In the last Asset Management Plan (AMP) cycle (2015-2020) UU delivered a number of schemes in the Lake District to reduce nutrient inputs into Windermere and other lakes. UU also made improvements to reduce the frequency of storm spills into Lake Windermere from Glebe Road pumping station and into Lake Grasmere from Grasmere Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW). As a result, the number of storm spills from Glebe Road reduced from 157 in 2018, to 28 in 2020; and at Grasmere WWTW, from 260 in 2018 to 7 in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The EA required UU to install Event Duration Monitors (EDM) on storm overflows across Cumbria. In the current AMP period (2020-2025) UU must investigate the impact of over 50 storm overflows in Cumbria, which data has shown are spilling frequently, using the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.water.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2FSOAF.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Ceac28d6dc58345aeb70508d99ab9c69d%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C637710944952319218%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=IkSP0j%2BLcNOt6hxDl4VE4tOLKYs6G8TynPptYJerO0Y%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Storm Overflow Assessment Framework</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The objective for all waters in the Lake District is to achieve good ecological status. These objectives are set out in the North West <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Friver-basin-management-plans-2015&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Ceac28d6dc58345aeb70508d99ab9c69d%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C637710944952329213%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=QmeNtAE0MDC%2BUjaza6gfTEbhIBBuU35afc3SvLfWnS8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">river basin management plan</a>. While some waters in the Lake District have improved, some are still below good status. All waters face increasing pressures on the wider water environment including climate change and population growth. To address these challenges, UU and EA are developing the next AMP cycle of improvements (2025 – 2030) to identify investment to improve water quality; as well as developing UU’s drainage and wastewater management plans and delivering the UU’s green recovery programme.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Bill, which will place future drainage and sewerage management plans on a statutory footing, also legislates for a package of measures to tackle storm overflows, which will help to reduce harm from sewage across all parts of the country, including in the Lake District.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 09/11/2021 12:40:54 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb