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1665593

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date	17/10/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	EU Law: Fines
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total amount of fines that have been imposed by European courts on the UK for breaches of EU law and regulations since 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/10/2023 11:15:34 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1665595

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which cases against His Majesty’s Government for breaches of EU law and regulations are currently ongoing.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/10/2023 11:15:19 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662257

registered interest
date	20/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much capital budget was allocated to (1) Northern Ireland, (2) Scotland, and (3) Wales, for each of the past five years including the 2023–24 financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2023 answer text Please see the table below for a breakdown of devolved administration capital budgets (plans) over the past 5 years.<p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Total Capital DEL budget (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2023-24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Welsh Government</strong></p></td><td><p>2,226</p></td><td><p>3,151</p></td><td><p>3,165</p></td><td><p>2,889</p></td><td><p>3,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scottish Government</strong></p></td><td><p>4,432</p></td><td><p>5,449</p></td><td><p>5,562</p></td><td><p>6,412</p></td><td><p>5,950</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland Executive</strong></p></td><td><p>1,576</p></td><td><p>1,807</p></td><td><p>1,942</p></td><td><p>2,114</p></td><td><p>2,116</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>A breakdown of devolved administration funding dating back to 2016-17, including capital funding, can also be found in the block grant transparency publication. The publication is regularly updated and the most recent update was published in July 2023. answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 05/10/2023 15:19:26 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662258

registered interest
date	20/09/2023
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	Hospitals: Waiting Lists
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the letter from the Secretary of State for Health to his counterparts in the Welsh and Scottish governments on 13 August, what (1) arrangements, or (2) agreements, they have made with those governments concerning the reduction of hospital waiting lists.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to reducing waiting times across England and the United Kingdom, and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Steve Barclay MP) has written to the devolved administrations to offer to work collaboratively to reduce long waits. He also indicated that he would consider any request for patients waiting for lengthy periods for treatment in Scotland and Wales to be able to choose from alternate providers in England.</p><p>Officials in the Department are seeking an initial meeting with the devolved administrations to discuss how we can work jointly and share lessons on tackling the longest waits.</p><p>More generally, the Government has a longstanding history of close working with the Devolved Governments on cross-border commissioning arrangements. These have been in place for several years and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland already have the power to contract with any National Health Service provider in England for specific services.</p><p>For example, NHS England commissions five specialised services on behalf of patients from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: Choriocarcinoma, Craniofacial services, Liver transplantation (where this takes place at English providers), Retinoblastoma, and Specialist paediatric liver services.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 27/09/2023 14:06:35 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662196

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay Settlements
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what will be the total additional cost of the 6.5 per cent pay rise agreed for teachers.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2023 answer text <p>The government has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s (STRB) recommendations for the 2023/24 teacher pay award in full. This means that teachers and head teachers in maintained schools in England will receive an award of 6.5%, the highest STRB award in three decades. The 2023/24 pay award completes the delivery of our manifesto commitment to raise starting salaries to £30,000. This will raise the status of the teaching profession and provide a pay offer that helps attract and retain the best teachers in the profession.</p><p>Back in March, the department set out its calculation that schools, on average, could afford a pay award of 4% from within existing funding. The department decided to fund the 2023 pay award from a lower affordability figure than that calculation: funding the costs of the pay award above 3.5%, on average, rather than above our 4% national affordability calculation. That matches the earlier figure in our written evidence to the STRB, which many schools used in their budget assumptions. Unions have confirmed that this ensures the pay award is properly funded.</p><p>The department is therefore providing additional funding equivalent to 3% of the pay award, or £525 million in the 2023/24 financial year and £900 million in the 2024/25 financial year. The estimated full cost of the 6.5% award, for all state-funded schools in England, would be £1.14 billion in the 2023/24 and £1.95 billion in 2024/25 financial years respectively.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 29/09/2023 13:50:43 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662197

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the Barnett consequentials for devolved regions of the 6.5 per cent pay rise agreed for teachers in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s pay recommendations for the 2023/24 teacher pay award in England in full. We are reprioritising from within the Department for Education’s existing budget to deliver the additional funding to schools in England for the costs of the pay award over 3.5%.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations receive funding through the Barnett formula when UK Government departmental DEL budgets change. As there is no change to the Department for Education’s DEL budget associated with this announcement, there are no associated Barnett consequentials. Barnett consequentials would already have resulted from the Department for Educations’s initial budget settlement at Spending Review 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations are well funded to deliver all their devolved responsibilities. Overall, the devolved administrations’ funding is at least 20% more per person than equivalent UK Government spending in other parts of the UK. Spending Review 2021 also set the largest annual block grants, in real terms, of any spending review settlement since the devolution Acts. This provided £41 billion per year for the Scottish Government, £18 billion per year for the Welsh Government and £15 billion per year for the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p>A full breakdown of changes to devolved administrations’ block grants, including Barnett consequentials, is set out in the published Block Grant Transparency document.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 03/10/2023 14:40:28 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662198

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mathematics: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of additional resources required to enable all pupils to study mathematics up to the age of 18.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2023 answer text <p>In April, the Department set out the first steps the Government will take towards building an education system in which all young people study mathematics up to age 18. This included the appointment of an expert advisory group made up of experts from academia, industry and frontline provision to build the evidence on what mathematics knowledge and skills it is most important for young people to possess, and to advise the Prime Minister and the Department on the appropriate next steps.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 26/09/2023 16:06:15 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1662199

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 30 March (HL6589), whether the expenditure outlined is additional expenditure to that already previously committed and budgeted.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2023 answer text <p>Further to the response of 30 March, the department will substantially uplift the hourly rate paid to local authorities to increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers to deliver existing free entitlements offers. The department is providing £204 million of additional funding in 2023/24 and £288 million in 2024/25.</p><p>This funding is in addition to the £4.1 billion that the government expects to provide by 2027/28 to facilitate the expansion of the new free hours, and also sits on top of funding already announced for 2023/24.</p><p>This is new money, on top of the 2021 Spending Review announcement of additional funding of £180 million in 2023/24 and £170 million in 2024/25, compared to the 2021/22 financial year, and the further £20 million for 2023/24 announced on 16 December 2022.</p><p>The department is continuing to explore how we can support the sector to deliver the additional places that will be required. We will work closely with local authorities and providers to identify what needs to be in place to support this significant expansion in childcare provision, including capital requirements as well as workforce.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 27/09/2023 09:26:22 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1661502

registered interest
date	18/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the process by which a pupil becomes eligible for an Education, Health and Care Plan.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter and there are different systems for supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p>In England, a child or young person is eligible for an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan if it is necessary for a local authority to make ‘special educational provision’ in accordance with such a plan. This test and other aspects of the decision-making process are set out in the Children and Families Act 2014. The statutory criteria for eligibility for EHC plans in England are not replicated in the other parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p>Departmental officials have regular dialogue with counterparts in the Devolved Administrations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL10287 question first answered 27/09/2023 09:25:44 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1661532

registered interest
date	18/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how eligibility for an Education, Health and Care Plan compares to eligibility for Statementing for Special Educational Needs in devolved regions of the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter and there are different systems for supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p>In England, a child or young person is eligible for an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan if it is necessary for a local authority to make ‘special educational provision’ in accordance with such a plan. This test and other aspects of the decision-making process are set out in the Children and Families Act 2014. The statutory criteria for eligibility for EHC plans in England are not replicated in the other parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p>Departmental officials have regular dialogue with counterparts in the Devolved Administrations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL10286 question first answered 27/09/2023 09:25:43 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme