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450613

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what fines have been levied on the UK for non-compliance with EU directives from 2010 to date.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text From 2010 to date no fines have been levied on the UK for non-compliance with EU directives. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 15/02/2016 15:03:28 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450511

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Employment: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether a record is kept of persons employed in Northern Ireland whose primary addresses are in the Republic of Ireland, and what steps they have taken to ensure that such data are collected and updated regularly.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>Salaries, wages and other similar remuneration from an employment is normally taxed in the country where it is earned, so the primary address of an employee is not relevant. As such the information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 17/02/2016 14:07:30 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450512

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken to improve support for children and young people with mental health problems.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Children and young people’s mental health is a priority area for this Government and it is committed to delivering the vision set out in <em>Future in Mind</em>, the report published jointly by the Department and NHS England in March 2015. This is supported by an additional investment of £1.4 billion over the course of this Parliament. A copy of <em>Future in Mind</em> is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Progress has been made on many of the key ambitions set out in <em>Future in Mind</em>. One significant development being that Local Transformation Plans (LTPs) for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing have been produced covering the full spectrum of mental health issues, from prevention to intervention for emerging or existing mental health problems. LTPs also address the full spectrum of need, for every clinical commissioning group (CCG) in the country. The Local Government Association have produced a spreadsheet giving details of LTPs. A copy of this spreadsheet is attached.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Work is in progress to strengthen the capacity and capability of the workforce and to improve data and information in order to deliver the vision set out in <em>Future in Mind</em> by 2020. In addition, the Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is continuing to be rolled out across the country.</p><p> </p><p>Progress has also been made on making help and support to children and young people available online through the launch of an online hub for children and young people on the NHS Choices website and further investment made into a campaign to reduce stigma and discrimination as proposed in <em>Future in Mind</em>.</p><p> </p><p>All CCGs, working closely with their partners, have developed and submitted LTPs to transform their local offer for children and young people’s mental health. Plans cover the whole spectrum of services from prevention to intervention for emerging or existing mental health problems and address the full spectrum of need.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Future in Mind report.pdf title Future in Mind 2 file name List of of Local transformation plans_70216.xlsx title Local Transformation Plans question first answered 11/02/2016 15:44:12 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450513

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Unemployment: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in reducing the levels of youth unemployment in Northern Ireland over the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government is reducing the largest structural deficit in UK peacetime history and this more than anything will help deliver a sustainable economic recovery and so directly assist young people get into employment.</p><p>The Government has also abolished employer National Insurance Contributions for under-21 year olds from April 2015 making it cheaper for businesses in Northern Ireland to employ young people.</p><p>According to data from the Office for National Statistics, the number of unemployed 16-24 year olds in Northern Ireland has fallen by 5 per cent in the last three years.</p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 17/02/2016 14:14:52 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450514

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prisoners were in open prisons in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>Progression to open prisons is never automatic, and prisoners must generally be within two years of release before they can be considered for allocation. Public protection is paramount, so the only prisoners transferred to open prison are those whose risk of escape/abscond and risk of causing harm to the public are assessed as capable of being effectively managed in an open prison.</p><p> </p><p>Indeterminate sentence prisoners are, with few exceptions, transferred to open conditions only following a positive recommendation by the Parole Board. The Board will make such a recommendation after a robust risk assessment, based on reports provided by offender managers, offender supervisors and, where appropriate, by psychologists, with the overriding priority being the safety of the public.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of male and female prisoners held in dedicated open prisons as at the last Friday in June in each of the last five years. The data below do not include the number of male and female prisoners held in category D units in otherwise closed prisons.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2011</p></td><td><p>4,808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012</p></td><td><p>4,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>4,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>5,087</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>5,020</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 18/02/2016 09:18:24 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450515

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the potential impact on Northern Ireland of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>UK Government Ministers have regular contact with the Northern Ireland Executive to discuss a range of issues, including matters relating to the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 17/02/2016 14:27:22 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

446640

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Discipline
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many extra days or weeks imprisonment have been given to prisoners for assaults committed on (1) fellow prisoners, and (2) prison staff, in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The table attached shows the numbers of awards of additional days in prison establishments as a result of adjudications in each year since 2011, for breach of prison discipline involving violence, including the number of adjudications where awards of added days were as a result of an assault against (1) another prisoner or (2) a member of prison staff.</p><p> </p><p>Violence in prison has increased in recent years. The nature of offenders currently in custody and the widespread availability of new psychoactive substances have both contributed to making prisons less safe. There is no single, simple solution to improving safety in prisons but we are making progress.</p><p> </p><p>We are trialling the use of body worn cameras and training sniffer dogs to detect New Psychoactive Substances. We have made it an offence to smuggle New Psychoactive Substances into prison, but ultimately the only way to reduce violence in prisons is to give governors and those who work in prisons the tools necessary to reform and rehabilitate offenders more effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2015 - 2016 is not yet available.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 04/02/2016 17:51:17 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks attachment 1 file name HL5296 - Table.xlsx title Extra Days of imprisonment table
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

446641

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	EU Nationals: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people from other EU countries have been admitted to (1) work, and (2) live, in Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 01/02/2016 16:29:40 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley attachment 1 file name HL5297 Letter.pdf title Referral Letter
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

446642

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Basic Skills
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what resources and schemes are being targeted at those who lack the basic levels of literacy and numeracy.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>This Government understands the importance of English and maths and makes these subjects a priority for support within the adult skills system. Adults who improve their literacy and numeracy are more likely to experience better health and well-being, increase their chances of employment and progress to better jobs.</p><p>We fully fund, through a statutory entitlement, all adults to achieve their first English and maths GCSE at grade C or above as well as other qualifications which help them get to that level. The total funding for English and maths for academic year 2013/14 (including for apprenticeships, English for Speakers of Other Languages and prisoners) was £563,961,000. Of this £142m was spent on English and maths in apprenticeships. (905,600 learners participated in English and maths courses in 2013/14)</p><p>We fund a wide range of learners to study English and maths including:<br>• Prisoners, through the Offender Learning and Skills Service<br>• Learners in the community, including through Family English, Maths and Language<br>• People who need English for Speakers of Other Languages <br>• Trainees as part of their traineeship<br>• Apprentices as part of their apprenticeship<br>• Jobseekers</p><p>We have increased our expectations of what learners should achieve in order to increase the standard of literacy and numeracy. To do this we have embedded English and maths at the heart of all our major programmes. This means:<br>• Learners who did not achieve a good GCSE pass in English and/ or maths by the age of 16 are now required to continue to study those subjects post-16; <br>• Since 2014/15, the English and maths requirement for Intermediate Apprenticeships has been stronger, with all apprentices who have already achieved level 1 English and maths having to work towards level 2;<br>• Since 2014/15, young people undertaking a traineeship have been required to study English and maths unless they already have level 2 qualifications in these subjects;<br>• In August 2014, we introduced mandatory assessment of maths and English for all newly-received prisoners to ensure that all offenders, not just those that go into learning, receive a learning assessment (focused around English and maths, but also covering learning difficulties and disabilities)</p><p>We have reformed GCSEs to ensure they are more stretching and provide greater assurance of core literacy and numeracy than the old GCSEs. We also recognise that some people are not ready to take GCSE so we are also improving the rigour and relevance of English and maths Functional Skills qualifications, which are taken by many students and apprentices aged 16 and over. We have commissioned the Education and Training Foundation to revise the National Literacy and Numeracy Standards and reform Functional Skills. The foundation has launched a consultation which will run until April and which will involve employers, teacher and subject experts.</p><p>We recognise the need to improve the quality of English and maths teaching in further education. We have invested over £30m over the past 3 years to fund a range of measures to improve the workforce in areas such as leadership, governance, teaching and learning, with a particular focus on maths and English. This has resulted in over 1,000 bursaries to attract graduates to teach in further education and over 3,800 teachers have benefited from training to improve the quality of their English and maths courses. <br>We are undertaking a range of research to best understand where Government investment in English and maths has the greatest impact and delivers value for money. This includes:<br>• Using behavioural insights to identify how to motivate adults to improve their English and maths and encourage learners to keep studying once enrolled on a course; ;<br>• Longitudinal research into skills gain and skills atrophy of adult English and maths learners<br>• Comparing the impact of blended and more traditional classroom learning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 01/02/2016 12:38:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

446643

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the overall performance of the National Crime Agency during its first year of total operation in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>Since 20 May 2015, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has been operating with full powers in Northern Ireland. As the NCA recently reported to the Northern Ireland Policing Board on 16 December 2015, from 01 April 2015 up to 30 September 2015, the NCA has recorded 29 disruptions against organised crime groups and high priority threats operating in Northern Ireland. The scope of the NCA’s crime-fighting capability within the jurisdiction has expanded. The NCA has worked in partnership with the Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the support that the NCA provides law enforcement partners, particularly the PSNI has been enhanced.</p><p>The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 requires the Northern Ireland Policing Board to monitor the exercise of the functions of the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland. The interim Memorandum of Understanding between the National Crime Agency and the Northern Ireland Policing Board states the Board is required, not later than six months after the end of each financial year, to issue a report relating to the policing of Northern Ireland for the next financial year. The report will include an assessment of the exercise of the functions of the NCA in Northern Ireland.</p><p>The NCA is committed to playing its role in tackling serious and organised crime in Northern Ireland. Hence, the NCA will be fully engaged in delivering the commitment outlined in the ‘A Fresh Start: The Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan’ to a concerted and enhanced effort to combat serious and organised and cross border crime.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/02/2016 14:42:11 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont