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date	02/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Boxes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that post boxes remain within an appropriately close distance to all homes so that universal provision of the service is maintained.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL7573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>Ofcom’s regulatory framework requires Royal Mail to ensure that, for the UK as a whole, the premises of not less than 95% of users of postal services are within 5 kilometres of an access point (such as a post box, a Post Office or a Customer Service Point within a Delivery Office) and, in all postcode areas, the premises of 95% of users of postal services are within 10 kilometres of such an access point.</p><p>In its 2022 review of postal regulations, which included a public consultation, Ofcom decided to maintain this regulation as it considered that it remained appropriate to ensure widespread access to the universal postal service.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 16/05/2023 10:46:00 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1456683

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	British Constitution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which Cabinet minister has overall responsibility for constitutional issues.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL7573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2022 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has overall responsibility for constitutional issues. How responsibilities across government are allocated and how the Prime Minister is supported in the discharge of responsibilities is set out in the List of Ministerial Responsibilities, the last version of which was published on 3 March 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 07/04/2022 16:36:42 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1228268

registered interest
date	29/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to support the re-opening of all registered early years settings in September.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL7573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2020 answer text <p>In order to control the spread of COVID-19, early years providers were initially only open for children of critical workers and vulnerable children.</p><p>From 1 June, early years providers have been able to welcome back children of all ages and since 20 July, they have been able to return to their normal group sizes. This paves the way for more children to transition back to their early education and support parents to return to work.</p><p>The department has provided detailed guidance for early years providers to support them to welcome back more children and implement the required protective measures:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures</a>.</p><p>On 20 July, we announced our commitment to continue paying local authorities for the childcare places they usually fund throughout the autumn term. This means that providers who are caring for fewer children can continue to be funded at the same levels as before the COVID-19 outbreak. Local authorities will also continue to fund providers which have been advised to close, or left with no option to but close, for public health reasons. These measures give another term of secure income to nurseries and childminders who are open for the children who need them.</p><p>Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, the early years sector has also been able to access a wider package of government support in the form of a business rates holiday, business interruption loans and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Full details of the support available can be found at:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures#funding" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures/coronavirus-covid-19-early-years-and-childcare-closures#funding</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 11/08/2020 14:37:41 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

897342

registered interest
date	03/05/2018
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	NHS: Vacancies
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 need to reduce vacancy levels amongst medical professionals and ancillary staff in the NHS.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL7573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>As set out in NHS Improvement’s most recent quarterly <em>Performance of the NHS provider sector</em> report, management information shows that over the course of the last year medical vacancy rates have reduced, from 10,848 whole time equivalent (WTE) in the first quarter of 2017/18 to 9,676 WTE in the third quarter of 2017/18.</p><p>A copy of <em>Performance of the NHS provider sector</em> <em>for the month ended 31 December 2017</em> is attached.</p><p>NHS Improvement supports providers to reduce these rates. This includes programmes to reduce reliance on medicals locums and the development of new roles to support advanced clinical practice.</p><p>Information on the vacancy rates of ancillary staff is not available centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 16/05/2018 11:24:44 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_month_ended_31_December.pdf title Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

511531

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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	Young Offenders: Literacy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many young offenders in prison have been recorded as improving their standard of literacy during their sentence in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Falconer of Thoroton
uin	HL7573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of offender learners aged 18 to 21 that undertook and achieved a learning aim in English from 2010/11 to 2014/15 in prisons in England.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="11"><p><strong>Table 1: Offender Learners aged 18 to 21 – English Achievements (2011/12 to 2014/15) – Learner Volumes </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>English Achievements</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,100</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,700</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,200</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest hundred.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>2) The data source is the Individualised Learner Record.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>3) Offender learners are defined as offenders aged 18 or over that participated in Skills Funding Agency funded learning while in the prison system. These offenders were funded via the Offenders' Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) budget.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>4) Age is reported as at 31 August of the academic year.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 26/04/2016 15:06:10 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	2758 label Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton