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1121558

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date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
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 require a placing local authority to introduce a procedure for when young people are placed in another local authority area for that local authority to be informed of the young person’s circumstances and needs and to jointly assess the suitability of the placement and the risk exposure of the young person; and whether they have any plans to introduce such a requirement.
tabling member printed	Lord Bach
uin	HL15209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Where local authorities are placing a young person out of area, there are clear statutory requirements in place to safeguard young people. These require the placing authority to inform the host authority before confirming the placement, and to check whether the host authority is aware of any concerns about the setting.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory responsibilities for looked after children remain with the placing local authority, and Directors of Children’s Services must approve all distant placements.</p><p> </p><p>As a lack of sufficient placements to meet young people’s needs can lead to children being placed out of area, we are investing part of our £200 million Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme in projects in London, where demand for placements outstrips supply. This would also help to increase councils’ capacity so that fewer children are placed far away from home.</p><p>Where there is a dispute between local authorities about who should have responsibility for a looked after child, the ordinary residence determination process provides a mechanism to resolve this.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also launched the Boarding School Partnerships (BSP) to encourage boarding school placements for children in care and those on the edge of care, where it was in the best interests of the child. The BSP has been working with the boarding schools sector to provide a supply of places to local authorities supported by bursaries.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL15210 question first answered 29/04/2019 16:27:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3451 label Biography information for Lord Bach

1121559

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to evaluate the impact of the passing on of costs by local authorities to other local authorities when placing a young person in another local authority; and what consideration they have given to asking the National Policing Chief’s Council and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services to undertake such work.
tabling member printed	Lord Bach
uin	HL15210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Where local authorities are placing a young person out of area, there are clear statutory requirements in place to safeguard young people. These require the placing authority to inform the host authority before confirming the placement, and to check whether the host authority is aware of any concerns about the setting.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory responsibilities for looked after children remain with the placing local authority, and Directors of Children’s Services must approve all distant placements.</p><p> </p><p>As a lack of sufficient placements to meet young people’s needs can lead to children being placed out of area, we are investing part of our £200 million Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme in projects in London, where demand for placements outstrips supply. This would also help to increase councils’ capacity so that fewer children are placed far away from home.</p><p>Where there is a dispute between local authorities about who should have responsibility for a looked after child, the ordinary residence determination process provides a mechanism to resolve this.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also launched the Boarding School Partnerships (BSP) to encourage boarding school placements for children in care and those on the edge of care, where it was in the best interests of the child. The BSP has been working with the boarding schools sector to provide a supply of places to local authorities supported by bursaries.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL15209 question first answered 29/04/2019 16:27:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3451 label Biography information for Lord Bach

1121567

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the week beginning 8 April 2019, how many court buildings in the Greater London area were inaccessible to (1) defendants and witnesses with disabilities, (2) members of the public and court staff with disabilities, and (3) court staff with disabilities;  how many of those buildings were only temporarily inaccessible in that week because of broken lifts; and how many courts were inaccessible to at least one of these groups for (1) more than one week, and (2) more than one month.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL15218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service is committed to ensuring access to courts and tribunals is maintained for staff and service users. We have a reasonable adjustments policy in place to accommodate those with particular access requirements.</p><p> </p><p>31 of the 56 total court and tribunal buildings in the Greater London area were inaccessible to those with disabilities during the week commencing 8 April 2019. Those affected by the inaccessible buildings can be broken down as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Defendants – 26</p><p>Witnesses – 7</p><p>Members of the public – 7</p><p>Court staff – 0</p><p> </p><p>Of these, 2 of those buildings were temporarily inaccessible in that week because of broken lifts. 1 of those buildings was inaccessible for more than one week, and 1 for more than one month.</p><p> </p><p>Disabled access was typically not factored in when many of our court and tribunal buildings were built. However, we have a number of accessible courts that our criminal justice partners are aware of, and these are used to list cases where a defendant might have accessibility needs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 30/04/2019 16:30:19 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1121568

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Lasers: Weapons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage the development of high energy laser weapons systems.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL15219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence Strategic Programmes team has established a Novel Weapons team to build on the work carried out by Defence Science and Technology. It is preparing the Ministry of Defence for the introduction of capabilities, including High Energy Lasers. A range of Capability Demonstration Programmes will be undertaken to accelerate the introduction of Directed Energy Weapons by approximately 10 years and further inform the Armed Forces of their utility.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 25/04/2019 13:53:12 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

1121570

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Turkey: Arms Trade
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 advice of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe that if Turkey proceeds to purchase the Russian S-400 air defence system it should receive no delivery of F-35 aircraft.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL15221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK remains concerned by the planned purchase of S-400 by Turkey and its implications for their continued participation in the F-35 programme. As the US administration has made clear, the purchase of S-400 generates unacceptable risks around F-35. We share this risk assessment and continue to call on Turkey to reconsider its planned purchase in light of those risks and the US offer of alternative solutions to legitimate Turkish air defence requirements.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/04/2019 14:58:44 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

1121571

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft: Procurement
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 purchase and deploy optionally manned aircraft for the armed services.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL15222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK has no formal plans to purchase optionally manned aircraft. Air programmes, such as the Combat Air Acquisition Programme (CAAP) which aims to replace Typhoon's capabilities from 2040 onwards, are assessing the potential benefits of such solutions across a range of applications.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/04/2019 14:59:02 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

1121573

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in implementing the Better Defence Estate Strategy, published in 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL15224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the oral statement given in the House of Commons by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Defence Personnel and Veterans (Tobias Ellwood) on 28 February 2019 (Official Report, column 540) that provided an update on the work undertaken through the Defence Estate Optimisation Programme.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/04/2019 14:59:36 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name 20190228_Defence_Estate-Optimisation_Programme.docx title Defence Estate Optimisation Programme
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

1121588

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Sheep
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to have the new system for ageing lambs to be in place.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL15239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>At this present time, lambs presented for slaughter will continue to be subject to existing domestic legislative arrangements. This means there is no change to current systems. Sheep aged over 12 months or with 1 permanent incisor erupted in the gum will be split and Specified Risk Material (SRM) removed.</p><p> </p><p>We have been discussing an alternative process put forward by the industry. Under this process, all lambs evidenced as born the previous year and presented for slaughter would not routinely be tooth-checked. This would enable the industry to take advantage of last year’s amendment to the EU TSE Regulation that enables Member States to approve a different method for estimating whether a lamb is aged over twelve months for the purpose of removing the skull and spinal cord.</p><p> </p><p>Key steps for us to introduce such a change would be:</p><ul><li>an amendment to our domestic legislation to protect the food business operator from unwittingly acting unlawfully in breach of the requirements set out in Schedule 7 of the TSE statutory instruments;</li><li>an agreed and enforceable protocol for use at the slaughterhouse to meet the needs of our official controls; and</li><li>a public consultation to offer the opportunity for all relevant parties to comment, including consumers, retailers, food processors, slaughterhouse operators and farmers.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We have carefully and thoroughly looked at all possibilities to fast-track this work. Given legislative processes and the need to agree the protocol and carry out a public consultation, and to ensure that all relevant stakeholders are sufficiently informed and prepared for implementation, it will not be feasible to deliver the change in time for this year’s proposed cut-off date of 30 June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Officials will work with stakeholders on introduction, bearing in mind the terms of the UK’s exit from the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 30/04/2019 12:14:20 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1121589

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
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 research published by the Cooperative Group on 1 March that said that 18 per cent of the British public were unaware of modern slavery; and what plans they have to increase public awareness of modern slavery.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL15240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Tackling modern slavery remains a top priority for this Government. We are aware of the Cooperative Group’s research. We are committed to collabo-rating with business, civil society organisations and the public sector to im-prove the evidence about the nature and scale of modern slavery. We con-tinue to take action to raise awareness to encourage reporting and to prevent this crime from happening in the first place.</p><p>For example;<br>• In March 2019, the Home Office worked closely with the Cabinet Office to launch a targeted pilot communications campaign focusing on labour exploitation in the West Midlands, West Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire. We are working with frontline professionals in the banking, healthcare and job centre sectors to im-prove how they spot the signs of modern slavery and encourage greater reporting.</p><p>• In January 2018, the National Crime Agency launched the Invisible People campaign, a touring photographic exhibition which portrayed the signs of slavery and exploitation to raise awareness across the country</p><p>• In 2018, we piloted a targeted, localised communications activity in Manchester, Barking and Dagenham focused on particular types of modern slavery. We worked with communities to co-create and pilot communications activity designed to help spot the signs of domestic servitude and encourage reporting</p><p>• Following the introduction of Anti-Slavery Day (18 October), in 2018 we launched a week long social media campaign to raise awareness of modern slavery across the UK.</p><p>• Border Force continue to work with port operators across the country to encourage display of anti-modern slavery messaging. This includes communications materials visible in all UK ports, such as Heathrow airport who collaborated with A21 to produce and display the ‘can you see me’ posters at its terminals. Border Force is also working with the NGO Unseen to ensure that information about the Modern Slavery Helpline is displayed at arrival points in the UK.</p><p>• Prosecutions for Modern Slavery continue to receive extensive media coverage which is increasing public awareness of these crimes. For example, the 2018 trial of British citizen Josephine Iyamu who was the first ever convicted cross border sex-trafficker under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, receiving an 18-year sentence. This highlights that any crimes relating to modern slavery, will not be tolerated.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/04/2019 16:24:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1121615

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	CCTV: Scotland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for the Scotland Office on 9 May 1996 (HC27914) in which the Minister stated that about £4 million was made available to fund CCTV for the subsequent three years to reduce crime and fear of crime in Scotland, what assessment they have made of the impact of this funding in leading to an increase in detection and deterrence of crime and to a substantive reduction in crime.
tabling member printed	Lord Selkirk of Douglas
uin	HL15266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Evidence shows that CCTV can have a significant impact in deterring offenders and reducing overall crime. There has been no government assessment of the impact of this specific funding, which was made available to Scotland in 1996.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/04/2019 16:14:54 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	802 label Biography information for Lord Selkirk of Douglas