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registered interest
date	14/03/2023
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	BBC Persian Service: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to use part of the £20 million of additional funding they have made available to the BBC for World Service broadcasts to prevent the imminent closure of the BBC Persian Radio Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>As an outcome of the Integrated Review, the Government will provide an additional £20 million to the BBC World Service over the next two years to protect all 42 language services it provides, support English language broadcasting and counter disinformation, allowing the BBC World Service to maintain its unrivalled status as the world's largest international broadcaster.</p><p>The previously announced changes to the Persian radio service are part of the BBC's transition to a &quot;digital-first&quot; organisation, to ensure they remain relevant in a rapidly changing technological world. Whilst radio broadcasts for BBC Persian are ceasing, TV broadcasting for these services will continue and investment in digital services will increase, reflecting audience trends. The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from Government and therefore decisions about how language services are delivered are for them to take.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL6442 question first answered 28/03/2023 15:41:20 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1436065

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Homicide: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 4 February (HL5661), what is the latest available data on youth deaths by stabbing in (1) London, (2) Birmingham, (3) Coventry, (4) Liverpool, (5) Manchester, and (6) Newcastle, for the year ending March 2021.
tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
uin	HL6441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician</p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Field of Birkenhead CH DL<br>House of Lords<br>London<br>SW1A 0PW</p><p>02 March 2022</p><p>Dear Lord Field,<br>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking for the latest available data on number of youth deaths by stabbing in London, Birmingham, Coventry, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle for the year ending March 2021 (HL6441).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes homicide figures where the method of killing was by a knife or sharp instrument sourced from the Home Office Homicide Index, which is a database separate from the main police recorded crime dataset. It contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by the police in England and Wales. It is continually updated with revised information from the police and courts and, as such, is a richer source of data than the main police recorded crime dataset.</p><p>We do not hold data on homicide by knife or sharp instrument by age below the national level. However, we have provided the estimates for England and Wales for the year ending March 2021 in Table 1. This data was published alongside Homicide in England and Wales, year ending March 2021[1].</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Offences[2] currently recorded as homicide by a sharp instrument, by age[3], year ending March 2021</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of victims</p></td><td><p>Apr 2020 to Mar 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 16</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16-17</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18-24</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Home Office - Homicide Index</p><p> </p><p>1) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglan dandwales/yearendingmarch2021</p><p>2) As at 10 December 2021; figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available.</p><p>3) The age categories that have been used in this table are supplied by the Home Office.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 14/03/2022 17:50:48 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True attachment 1 file name UKSA_Response_to_HL6441.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1220808

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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	Environment Protection: Treaties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much staff resource from the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs in each financial year since 2015 has been used to support the development and implementation of (1) the Convention on Biological Diversity, (2) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, (3) the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, (4) the Ramsar Convention, (5) the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, (6) the African–Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, (7) the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, (8) the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, and (9) the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Caithness
uin	HL6441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>The information requested on money spent and staff resources to support development and implementation of the listed agreements and bodies is not held centrally. Compiling it would be a complex exercise incurring disproportionate costs. We have therefore provided the information that is readily available below.</p><p> </p><p>As a Party or Member of these Conventions, Agreements and Bodies, the UK is required to make financial contributions to support their development and implementation. Details of the mandatory and voluntary financial contributions made will be publicly available in their financial records. The UK’s mandatory contributions to the conventions and bodies listed amount to more than £18 million since 2015[1].</p><p> </p><p>The UK also implements these agreements through financing a large number of cross-cutting programmes and activities. One example is the world-renowned Darwin Initiative which delivers on multiple international commitments and on the UK’s wider ambitions for the protection of global biodiversity. The Darwin Initiative has committed £57 million since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Staff resources are in place to work directly on UK input to the listed agreements and organisations and also on programmes to implement them. Given the cyclical timetable of the global meetings of the Conventions and Agreements and the changing nature of the topics which they cover, staff resources are adjusted over time to ensure the UK is able to participate effectively in them. For this reason, it is difficult to accurately quantify the staff resources that have been involved since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is fully committed to putting nature at the heart of our plans for tackling the interlinked global crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our departure from the EU presents an important opportunity for the UK to play a stronger global role and in some areas this will require additional resource. Efforts are underway to make sure that resources are available in order that we seize these opportunities, starting with securing an ambitious set of post-2020 global biodiversity targets at CBD COP15 and successful hosting of COP-26.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Based on current exchange rates. Some subscriptions are paid in non-sterling currencies.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park grouped question UIN HL6439 HL6440 question first answered 20/07/2020 14:38:20 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	3310 label Biography information for The Earl of Caithness

867234

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Pakistan: Religious Freedom
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 impact on religious minorities in Pakistan of the ruling by the Islamabad High Court on 9 March that requires citizens to take a religious oath upon joining the civil service, armed forces, or judiciary.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
uin	HL6441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>We remain deeply concerned about restrictions on freedom of religion or belief in Pakistan. The Islamabad High Court ruling of 9 March, if applied, would be a further negative development which risks discriminating against a number of groups in Pakistan. It is vital that Pakistan upholds and protects the rights of all its citizens regardless of their faith, gender or ethnicity. We routinely raise the issues of freedom of religion and belief and the protection of minority religious communities, with the Pakistan government at a senior level.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/04/2018 14:23:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

714955

registered interest
date	29/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what procedures are in place to enable the reporting of unlawful exclusions from state-funded schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL6441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>A pupil can only lawfully be deleted from the admission register in accordance with the grounds prescribed in legislation. These are set out in Regulation 8 of the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006 as amended, which includes where a child has been permanently excluded. Where the name of a pupil is to be deleted from the admission register, the school must inform their local authority of the deletion.</p><p> </p><p>As part of their legal duties in relation to exclusion, schools must have regard to the statutory guidance issued by the Department.</p><p>Parents approaching the Department with concerns about an unlawful exclusion or removal from the admission register are informed about the formal routes of challenge available to them and directed to sources of free and impartial advice. If the Department identified that a governing body had acted unlawfully or unreasonably in carrying out its legal duties in relation to exclusion, and it would be expedient to so, then the Secretary of State could issue a direction. The Department would also pass to Ofsted any relevant evidence that fell within the inspectorate’s remit.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 07/04/2017 13:19:11 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

455136

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Ecofys
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what independent reports, if any, they have commissioned from Ecofys in the past five years; when they received those reports; whether those reports were published; and if not, whether they will now publish those reports.
tabling member printed	Baroness Golding
uin	HL6441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>Data on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain is set out in the Government’s ‘Smart Meters, Great Britain, Quarterly report to end September 2015’, published on 22 December 2015:</p><p>The roll-out is making good progress with more than 2 million meters now operating under the Programme which covers Great Britain. Northern Ireland is undertaking a separate roll-out programme.</p><p><br>Currently, data is published only at Great Britain level. Data is not collected from energy suppliers in a way that allows constituency or regional-level data to be produced.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 07/03/2016 12:12:34 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	281 label Biography information for Baroness Golding