Challenger 3 will be a highly capable Main Battle Tank with world-leading performance. In line with the Land Industrial Strategy, our ambition is for it to be in service in 2027 with the capability ready for transfer, loan, or export. We are closely working with partners, including Germany where certain Challenge 3 components will be made, in order to meet these ambitions.<\/p>
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Any and all such sharing would be subject to the relevant law of intellectual property, national export regulations, and licence conditions that identify and control the end user, and reflect international arms controls and human rights legislation.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4306", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Goldie"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Goldie"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-02-07", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-02-07T16:47:40.897Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "11"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Defence"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Defence"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-01-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Challenger Tanks: Exports"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government, when the Challenger 3 tank is in service, whether they will be free to export, sell, loan or transfer these tanks to any government they should choose without the agreement of the government of Germany.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3425", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Earl Attlee"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Earl Attlee"} ], "uin" : "HL5003"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1388396", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1388396/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
My remark referred to comments made by my noble Friend during the passage of the Environment Bill, where he implied a focus on the environment could conflict with the need to produce food. The remark did not refer to the speech delivered by my noble Friend during the Beyond Brexit Debate (15 November 2021). The Government is committed to rewarding farmers and land managers for their role as environmental stewards and investing in productivity, through our future environmental land management schemes and current schemes like the recently launched Farming Investment Fund. A healthy environment is crucial to providing the ecosystem services which underpin a thriving agricultural sector, through fertile soils, clean water and pollination.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4062", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2021-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2021-12-22T15:55:19.907Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "13"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2021-12-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Food: Production"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park on 15 November (HL Deb, col 49GC), what are the reasons for the minister's view that the Earl of Caithness has argued that \"the choice is between food production and ecological restoration\".", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3310", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for The Earl of Caithness"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "The Earl of Caithness"} ], "uin" : "HL5003"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1199375", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1199375/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet Testing \u2013 note for House of Lords<\/em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/829019/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " DFID budget spend in Ethiopia for the last three years for which figures are available is detailed in our published Annual Report and Accounts, and shown in the table below. Further information on DFID\u2019s current programme can be found in the DFID Ethiopia Profile, published in July 2017 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-ethiopia-profile-july-2017<\/a>)<\/p> <\/p> Year<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2014<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2015<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Bilateral Spend (£)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 284,298,764<\/p><\/td> 338,850,044<\/p><\/td> 340,387,168<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Multilateral spend (£)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 241,688,266<\/p><\/td> 223,467,308<\/p><\/td> 137,118,616<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Centrally Managed Programme Spend (£)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 40,930,173<\/p><\/td> 48,566,779<\/p><\/td> 40,698,603<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Total (£)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 566,917,203 <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 610,884,132 <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 518,204,387 <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> DFID\u2019s programme is designed to help Ethiopia in transforming into a stable, industrialised and more resilient country, able to self-finance itself out of poverty and harness the potential of its youth. As of March 2017 we had supported 1.2 million children to gain a decent education, helped 755,000 people access clean water and/or sanitation and reached 5.7 million people through nutrition related interventions. DFID\u2019s portfolio in Ethiopia also focusses on helping to catalyse over £500 million of new investment, generating more jobs, and creating opportunities for British business in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. DFID is investing significantly to tackle migration issues and help refugees have a long-term life in Ethiopia (host to the second largest refugee population in Africa), while reducing incentives for onward migration to Europe and diminishing the influence of criminal gangs and people smugglers. And DFID has played a leading role in the response to ongoing severe drought in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, where our humanitarian funding will support over 1.2 million people with emergency food rations, give 100,000 people improved access to water and sanitation, and help 500,000 pastoralists with emergency livestock support to prevent them falling into destitution.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government how much aid from the Department for International Development's budget has been made available to Ethiopia, either through direct or indirect contributions in the last three years for which figures are available; and what were the main purposes of each contribution.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what criteria will be used to judge whether NHS sustainability and transformation plans have been the result of meaningful local community engagement and reflect local context, needs and financial situations.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/444452/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Environment Agency routinely monitors groundwater levels in England\u2019s principal aquifers and publishes these monthly in a national water situation report.<\/p> Rainfall totals for December were above average across England at 165% of the long term average. For a second consecutive month north-east and north-west England had exceptionally high rainfall totals for the time of year. Groundwater levels increased at approximately two-thirds of indicator sites during December and two thirds of sites were classed as normal or higher for the time of year.<\/p> The Environment Agency undertakes monitoring and assessment of different aquifers locally, based upon the potential risk of groundwater flooding. A system of groundwater flood alerts and warnings is provided through our incident response procedures for those communities most vulnerable to potential groundwater flooding.<\/p> The groundwater situation currently varies widely across the country, with higher than average and exceptionally high groundwater levels in parts of Cumbria, Yorkshire, Wessex, East Hampshire and Sussex whilst across the rest of southern England groundwater levels are around average or below average for the time of year.<\/p> The National Crime Agency (NCA) operates UK-wide, including in Northern Ireland, and provides support to its partner agencies there in relation to customs and immigration matters whilst continuing to exchange information with the PSNI. The NCA has, to date, been unable fully to target serious and organised crime groups in Northern Ireland involved in activities which require policing powers to tackle them.<\/p> The draft Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, was laid before Parliament on 29 January 2015. It makes provision for the NCA to operate in Northern Ireland with full powers including the ability to recover criminal assets in relation to offences that are devolved, together with the ability to request the recovery of assets overseas in civil recovery cases.<\/p> This will make Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK a safer place and means the most serious criminals can be pursued wherever they are. The Order details commencement of the provisions, some of which will come into force the day after it is made, including the extension to Northern Ireland of all of the relevant civil recovery provisions relating to freezing and recovery orders. The related civil recovery investigation powers will require further secondary legislation relating to a Code of Practice.<\/p> A number of provisions that relate to the NCA\u2019s operational use of constable powers and covert techniques, which will be subject to a Memorandum of Understanding, will come into force at the end of two months beginning with the day on which the Order is made. The Order may not be made until it has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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