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1586002

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date	09/02/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many provisions of retained EU law were incorporated into UK law by primary legislation.
tabling member printed	Lord Bowness
uin	HL5594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally by the Department of Business and Trade, primary legislation is outside the scope of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 22/02/2023 16:03:37 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3496 label Biography information for Lord Bowness

1586004

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
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	Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to use more trained therapists to ease the backlog of NHS patients with mental health problems.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL5596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2023 answer text <p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan we are committed to transforming and expanding mental health services in England by 2023/24 so that an additional two million people can get the mental health support that they need. This commitment is backed by our plans through the NHS Long Term Plan to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 professionals, including more trained therapists to provide more people with National Health Service talking therapies, by 2023/24.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/02/2023 11:36:02 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1586005

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether any asylum seekers who are residing in Northern Ireland have criminal records in their countries of origin.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL5597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>This data can only be obtained at disproportionate costs as it would require a manual search through individual records to establish their address and whether they have a criminal record in their country of origin.</p><p>All individuals who claim asylum are subject to mandatory security checks against their claimed identity including criminality checks on UK databases for, amongst other things, convictions, pending prosecutions, wanted or missing reports. This is critical to the delivery of a safe and secure immigration system.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 21/02/2023 16:53:43 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1586006

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Omagh: Military Bases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when inspections and building condition surveys were last carried out on St Lucia Barracks in Omagh.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL5598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence owns the historic core buildings at St Lucia Barracks, the remainder of the site is owned by the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>A full building condition report was completed in September 2019 which identified repairs needed to the historic core buildings. Remediation works, undertaken by Defence Infrastructure Organisation contractors, were completed in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Defence Infrastructure Organisation Officials last inspected the buildings on 8 February 2023.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie grouped question UIN HL5599 question first answered 23/02/2023 16:28:53 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1586007

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Omagh: Military Bases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they own St Lucia Barracks in Omagh.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL5599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence owns the historic core buildings at St Lucia Barracks, the remainder of the site is owned by the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>A full building condition report was completed in September 2019 which identified repairs needed to the historic core buildings. Remediation works, undertaken by Defence Infrastructure Organisation contractors, were completed in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Defence Infrastructure Organisation Officials last inspected the buildings on 8 February 2023.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie grouped question UIN HL5598 question first answered 23/02/2023 16:28:53 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1586008

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to bring back a student loan forgiveness scheme for teachers, similar to that trialled between 2002 and 2004, in which 10 per cent of a new teacher’s total student loan was paid off each year that they stayed in the profession.
tabling member printed	Lord Hampton
uin	HL5600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department has piloted two schemes in recent years which were designed to attract and retain teachers by repaying their student loans. The Repayment of Teachers’ Loans (RTL) scheme was trialled in the mid-2000s and an evaluation was completed by University of Durham in 2004. This indicated that RTL influenced 11% of participating teachers’ decisions to stay in teaching.</p><p>In 2017, the Department introduced the Teacher Student Loan Reimbursement (TSLR) scheme for science and languages teachers in 26 Local Authorities, which allows these teachers to claim back the student loan repayments they have made. The evaluation by CFE Research was published in January 2023, and found that TSLR exerts some influence on both retaining teachers and the areas where they choose to teach.</p><p>Both the RTL and TSLR evaluations found that offering bursaries for trainee teachers exerts the strongest influence on teacher recruitment. This is why the Department is offering increased bursaries worth £27,000 tax-free and scholarships worth £29,000 tax-free, to encourage talented trainees to key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 23/02/2023 12:30:06 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4951 label Biography information for Lord Hampton

1586009

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what measures are in place to ensure that commuted funds in respect of planning obligations set aside under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 are spent in (1) an appropriate, and (2) timely, manner and represent value for money.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL5601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>Section 106 obligations are negotiated between developers and local planning authorities, and can include obligations requiring developers to pay financial contributions. Where they are used to support the grant of planning permission, section 106 obligations must comply with regulation 122 of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations 2010 (as amended), which states that the obligations must be necessary to make the development acceptable in planning terms, must be directly related to the development, and must be fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development.</p><p>Section 106 agreements should normally include clauses stating how commuted funds will be used, and clauses that allow for their return, after an agreed period of time, where they are not used. Local authorities that receive contributions must publish Infrastructure Funding Statements annually, which set out what has been received and spent through developer contributions, providing transparency for communities.</p><p>Under the new infrastructure levy proposed in the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill, levels of negotiation in the system will be reduced, while retaining a constrained role for section 106 agreements. Local authorities will be required to produce infrastructure delivery strategies to illustrate how they intend to spend Levy proceeds in a timely and effective manner, such that new development is accompanied by the infrastructure that local communities need - like roads, schools, and GP surgeries.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 23/02/2023 17:42:13 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1586010

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
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	School Leaving: Carers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support school leavers who have ongoing caring responsibilities for parents, guardians or siblings.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL5602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 places a duty on local authorities to assess young carers before they turn 18, so that they have the information they need to plan for their future. Local authorities must conduct a transition assessment for a young carer where it appears that the carer is likely to have needs for support after they turn 18 and where they think that there would be ‘significant benefit’ to the carer in carrying out the assessment.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 20/02/2023 12:32:19 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1586011

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
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	Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 5 December 2022 (HL3057), what assessment they have made of the Cochrane Review on Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses, published on 30 January 2023; and whether they will update their guidance on face coverings in response to those findings.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Leicester
uin	HL5604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the Cochrane Review published on 30 January 2023, which concludes that there is uncertainty about whether wearing masks helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies assessed.</p><p>The National Infection Prevention and Control Manual (NIPCM), published on the National Health Service website in April 2022 in an online-only format and most recently updated in January 2023, is consistent with the recommendations in the Cochrane Review. The NIPCM is used by healthcare providers in all healthcare settings in England and is complemented by pathogen/disease specific guidance produced by the UK Health Security Agency.</p><p>The NIPCM does not require patients or visitors to NHS settings to routinely wear a face mask. However, there are some circumstances where it is recommended by a local risk assessment that patients and visitors to care settings wear masks, for example, where patients are at high risk of infection due to immunosuppression.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 20/02/2023 15:19:31 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4919 label Biography information for The Earl of Leicester

1586012

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
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	Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 5 December 2022 (HL3057), how the UK Health Security Agency’s The effectiveness of face coverings to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in community settings: A rapid review (update 2) from November 2021 accounts for biases such as the retrospective data collection, short-term duration of the studies and the presence of co-interventions; and why the rapid review was not independently peer-reviewed.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Leicester
uin	HL5605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published a range of rapid evidence reviews. The first review of the effectiveness of face coverings in non-healthcare settings was published on 26 June 2020, with the first update published on 29 January 2021, and the second update published on 9 November 2021. The second update review searched for studies up to 14 September 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Studies were assessed by an experienced UKHSA evidence reviewer and checked by a second reviewer using the quality criteria checklist (QCC) for primary research. This risk of bias tool can be applied to most study designs, observational and interventional, and is suitable for rapid reviews of mixed type of evidence. As copy of this checklist is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Reviewers using the QCC tool can capture bias from retrospective data collection, presence of co-interventions, and short-term duration of follow-up. In all three evidence reviews of the effectiveness of face coverings, all biases that the reviewers felt were present in each of the included studies were detailed in the supplementary tables to the reports.</p><p> </p><p>All evidence reviews were subject to an internal quality assurance and clearance process prior to publication. Due to the pace of the UKHSA COVID-19 pandemic response, independent peer review was not sought prior to publication.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 06/03/2023 16:37:23 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name QCC_Quality Criteria Checklist_ Primary Research.docx title Attachment
tabling member	4919 label Biography information for The Earl of Leicester