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1605387

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date	20/03/2023
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	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of goods processed through the Green Lane entering Northern Ireland that will be routinely checked under the Windsor Framework; and what percentage of the routinely checked consignments will be done physically.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>Trusted traders will face no routine physical checks on their goods moving in the green lane. The only physical checks completed will be risk-based and intelligence-led to target smuggling, criminality, abuse or specific risks to animal, plant or public health. For agrifood goods, we will also radically reduce the number of visual inspections done on consignments in the green lane - from 100 percent now to 5 percent by 2025.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/04/2023 14:34:33 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1438173

registered interest
date	04/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: EU Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ask the EU to ease the administrative and paperwork requirements for lorries carrying medicines and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine.
tabling member printed	Lord Lamont of Lerwick
uin	HL6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2022 answer text <p>The UK is committed to working with partners, including the EU, as well as humanitarian agencies, to ensure a well-coordinated and well-funded response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the region.</p><p> </p><p>We have initiated a number of conversations with the EU and its Member States to understand their plans to ease the movement of humanitarian supplies. The EU has been working with Member States on this issue and several are now easing their entry and exit regime to support the humanitarian effort for Ukraine.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government has also introduced a simplified customs process to support the export of aid goods destined for victims of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. More information can be found on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p>Unless an organisation or person has a licence, medicines cannot be exported using this simplified process.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has committed a £220 million humanitarian aid package for Ukraine to help aid agencies respond to the deteriorating situation, creating a lifeline for Ukrainians to access basic necessities and medical supplies.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 17/03/2022 13:27:09 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	895 label Biography information for Lord Lamont of Lerwick

1222213

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
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 potential to reduce carbon emissions by introducing a road usage duty, and whether they will publish any such assessment.
tabling member printed	Baroness Worthington
uin	HL6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>UK Motorists currently pay fuel duty and VAT on fuel, which means that those who use the roads the most, and do so in higher polluting cars, pay more tax. In addition, the Government uses the Vehicle Excise Duty system to encourage the uptake of cars with low carbon dioxide emissions (CO<sub>2</sub>) to help meet our legally binding climate change targets.</p><p> </p><p>However, technology is changing many aspects of the economy – including the vehicles we drive – and the government is considering how the tax system will need to adapt to manage those changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 21/07/2020 15:24:46 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4235 label Biography information for Baroness Worthington

872479

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Reading
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what benefits, in terms of timekeeping for both passenger and freight trains, have accrued since the flyover at Reading was commissioned.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to disaggregate the benefits of the Reading viaduct from those brought about by the overall Reading Station Area Redevelopment. Cumulatively, the components of the redevelopment have resulted in:</p><p> </p><ul><li>a minimum of four additional train paths per hour in each direction</li><li>five additional platforms</li><li>125% improvement on through line platform capacity</li><li>38% improvement in service performance</li></ul><p> </p><p>The construction of the Reading Viaduct to the west of Reading station formed one aspect of the wider £850m investment in the Reading Station Area Redevelopment. Other components of this project include the introduction of seven new platforms, signalling upgrades and track reconfiguration, as well as the construction of a new tunnel to the west of the station.</p><p> </p><p>The primary purpose of the flyover was to allow the separation of passenger and freight services to help enable faster journey times; one of Network Rail’s objectives in Control Period 6 is to improve freight performance through better average speed of freight services.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 03/04/2018 13:51:45 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

717906

registered interest
date	05/04/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Social Security: Expenditure
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total expenditure on social security in 2016–17; and what were the ten largest heads of expenditure.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2017 answer text <p>The total expenditure on social security in the UK in 2016–17 was forecast to be £217.9bn by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), in their Spring Budget 2017 forecast. Table 4.24 of the OBR’s March 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> provides more detail, including a breakdown by benefit area.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Office for Budget Responsibility, <em>Economic and Fiscal Outlook</em>, March 2017, Table 4.24 (http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.org.uk/March2017EFO-231.pdf).</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/04/2017 14:50:35 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

456839

registered interest
date	02/03/2016
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	Construction: Industrial Health and Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve health and safety risk management skills in the construction sector.
tabling member printed	Lord McKenzie of Luton
uin	HL6653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Government’s role in Health and Safety is to set the framework in which companies have to operate. The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 sets out general duties that employers owe to their employees. This is supplemented by more tailored regulations embodying the requirement to assess risks and identify measures required to deal with them. These include the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015, which integrate health and safety into the management of construction projects throughout the entire supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the general framework for health and safety law, the Health and Safety Executive regulates health and safety in hazardous industries, including construction, through the use of permissioning regimes. These regimes include those set out in the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.</p><p> </p><p>Safety requirements for the sector are established by construction employers and representative bodies. Many of the requirements are embedded in qualifications, training courses and basic health and safety tests required by the sector to obtain skills cards, such as the Construction Skills Certification Scheme. Courses such as the Site Supervisors’ Safety Training Scheme are endorsed by Build UK as the standard training for all supervisors working on member sites.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/03/2016 12:47:24 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3694 label Biography information for Lord McKenzie of Luton