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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1145211/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p><del class=\"ministerial\">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.<\/del><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">Higher education providers are autonomous bodies, independent from the government. The department plays no direct role in the provision of student residential accommodation.<\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <ins class=\"ministerial\">The department assesses student accommodation rent levels through the Student Income and Expenditure Surveys that have been undertaken at regular intervals since the mid-1980s. Information on student rents is also reported in the Accommodation Costs Surveys published jointly by the National Union of Students and the student housing charity, Unipol.<\/ins><\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <ins class=\"ministerial\">The report published by the independent panel supporting the Post-18 Review of Education and Funding recommends that the Office for Students:<\/ins><\/ins><\/p><blockquote><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <ins class=\"ministerial\">examines the costs of student accommodation; and<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"><ins class=\"ministerial\"><ins class=\"ministerial\"><ins class=\"ministerial\">works with students and providers to improve data about costs, rents, profits and quality.<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p><\/blockquote><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">The department has not yet taken decisions on these recommendations but will consider the panel\u2019s proposals in due course.<\/ins><\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1145213/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In the 2015 licence fee funding settlement, the government agreed with the BBC that responsibility for the over 75s TV licence fee concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020. This reform was then debated extensively and agreed to by Parliament during the passage of the Digital Economy Act 2017. This legislation provides that the future of the concession is the responsibility of the BBC, not of the government.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The government remains disappointed with the BBC\u2019s decision to restrict the concession to only those aged over 75 in receipt of Pension Credit. My colleague the Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport recently met with the Chairman of the BBC Board and the Director-General of the BBC and asked them to do more to help those affected by its decision. Discussions continue between government officials and the BBC.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1145216/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p><del class=\"ministerial\">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with my noble Friend.<\/del><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">The latest figures on electricity supplied by interconnectors are available in the 2019 \u2018Energy Trends: Electricity\u2019, published by BEIS. In Q1 2019, net imports of electricity via interconnectors were 6.0 TWh for the UK. This is equivalent to 6.4% of total demand over the period. In Great Britain, as part of the Capacity Market process, National Grid Electricity System Operator assesses how much capacity will be needed in the years ahead factoring in the risks of particular technologies not delivering. This annual process includes an assessment of how interconnectors should be derated to reflect the likely reliability of electricity flow during times of stress. We then secure all the capacity needed through the Capacity Market, ensuring we meet our reliability standard.<\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">In Northern Ireland, the Single Electricity Market operates as a single, shared wholesale electricity market between Ireland and Northern Ireland, with electricity flows between Ireland and Northern Ireland treated as internal flows. The Single Electricity Market\u2019s capacity remuneration mechanism is working well to ensure security of supply of electricity in Northern Ireland.<\/ins><\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4282", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1145227/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has no plans to legalise illicit drugs. There is a substantial body of scientific and medical evidence to show that controlled drugs are harmful and can damage people's mental and physical health.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1145240/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p><del class=\"ministerial\">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.<\/del><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">The Court order of 20 June 2019 remitted the decision to grant export licences for the sale or transfer of arms and military equipment to Saudi Arabia for possible use in the conflict in Yemen to my Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade to re-take on the correct legal basis.<\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">The order did not require the Secretary of State to suspend existing licences. As a matter of priority, and without prejudice to our appeal against the 20 June judgment, we are considering the implications of the judgment for decision-making.<\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">Amending our decision-making process in line with the judgment does not necessarily mean that decisions would be different.<\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">On 20 June, the then Secretary of State, set out in a statement to Parliament that until we retake our licensing decisions in line with the judgment we will not grant any new licences for exports to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners that might be used in the conflict in Yemen.<\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\"> <\/ins><\/p><p><ins class=\"ministerial\">However, you will be aware of the Secretary of State\u2019s statement to Parliament of 26 September, in which she set out information on inadvertent breaches of the Undertaking given to the Court of Appeal by the then Secretary of State in the Order of the Court dated 20 June 2019 and licences that were granted contrary to the wider commitment to Parliament, made in a statement that same day. The Secretary of State has apologised unreservedly for these errors, both to the Court and Parliament.<\/ins><\/p>"}
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