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Questions for Written Answer for 1 March 2018

Tabled on 28 February 2018 and due for answer by 14 March 2018.

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the Chinese human rights lawyer, Li Baiguang, died in a military hospital on 25 February, despite being in good health; and what assessment they have made of the extent to which there might be a pattern of deaths of human rights defenders and dissidents in China.  HL5929
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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reported findings of a UN Panel of Experts that North Korea has increased its covert assistance to a Syrian government agency responsible for producing that country’s chemical weapons and advanced missiles.  HL5930
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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 28 February, whether their current assessment of the ability of Iraqi legal capacity and expertise indicates that prosecuting Daesh fighters in their courts will be possible soon; and whether they are considering the possibility of UN-sanctioned regional tribunals, in the… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are providing funds to third-party organisations to enable the collection of court-ready evidence for International Criminal Court (ICC) category crimes in the territory of Iraq; and, whether, following the passage of UN Security Council resolution 2379, court-ready evidence is being collected in the territories… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government how much money they have contributed so far to the effective realisation of the aims of UN Security Council Resolution 2379; and how much they are committed to spending to ensure that the Resolution achieves its mandate.  HL5933
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Lord Bassam of Brighton to ask Her Majesty's Government what were the levels of capital receipts available for building new council housing in each year since 2010, broken down by local authority.  HL5934
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of London meeting the UNAIDS 90:90:90 targets on HIV infection, what plans they have to update their HIV strategy to ensure that other parts of England also meet those targets.  HL5935
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to commit to the achievement of zero new HIV infections in England; and if so, by what date.  HL5936
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government how they plan to facilitate the involvement of civil society organisations in reporting on the UK’s progress in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  HL5937
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to incorporate into the Quality and Outcomes Framework for 2018–19 the NICE indicator for annually reviewing patients with atrial fibrillation who are treated with an anticoagulant.  HL5938
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Lord Dobbs to ask Her Majesty's Government, in each year between 2007 and 2017, (1) how many patients were treated by the NHS who were not ordinarily resident in the UK, (2) what was the gross cost to the NHS of treating such patients, and (3) how much money was recovered from such patients.  HL5939
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Lord Dobbs to ask Her Majesty's Government what is the process to recover money owed to the NHS from those patients who are treated by the NHS but who are not ordinarily resident in the UK and do not qualify for free healthcare at the point of use.  HL5940
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Lord Dobbs to ask Her Majesty's Government how many beds were available in NHS hospitals in each year from 2007 to 2017; and what was the total number of instances where a delayed transfer of care occurred in an NHS hospital in each year from 2007 to 2017.  HL5941
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Lord Dobbs to ask Her Majesty's Government how many instances there were of a delayed transfer of care occurring where the patient subject to the delayed transfer of care was homeless in each year from 2007 to 2017.  HL5942
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Lord Dobbs to ask Her Majesty's Government how many instances there were of a delayed transfer of care occurring where the patient subject to the delayed transfer of care was waiting for longer than one day for a family member or friend to collect them in each year from 2007 to 2017.  HL5943
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Lord Dobbs to ask Her Majesty's Government how many patients treated by NHS Accident and Emergency departments were under the influence of drugs or alcohol in each year from 2007 to 2017; and what is their estimate of the gross cost of such treatments in each of those years.  HL5944
Answered
The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask Her Majesty's Government how many bedrooms in accommodation allocated to asylum seekers in (1) the North East of England, and (2) Yorkshire, under Home Office COMPASS contracts, are shared by two or more unrelated individuals; and what proportion of the total number of bedrooms available in those areas that figure represents.  HL5945
Answered
The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask Her Majesty's Government how are "vulnerable people" defined when allocating shared bedrooms to unrelated asylum seekers under Home Office COMPASS contracts.  HL5946
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The Lord Bishop of Durham to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answers by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 26 February (HL Deb, cols 425–28), what measures they plan to take to ensure that all children living in poverty over the age of seven can receive a healthy meal at lunch time, as part of combatting child obesity and poor levels of nutrition.  HL5947
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Lord Empey to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish a consultation on legacy issues pertaining to Northern Ireland; if so, when; and whether they intend to seek the views of the public in Northern Ireland on the appropriateness of establishing the legacy bodies envisaged in the Stormont House Agreement.  HL5948
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Lord Fox to ask Her Majesty's Government what processes are used by Innovate UK to confirm that all parties listed in a project application have consented to their inclusion in that project.  HL5949
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Lord Fox to ask Her Majesty's Government what recourse a business has if it finds that it has been falsely cited by a third party in a bid application to Innovate UK.  HL5950
Answered
Baroness Hollins to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of research published in the Lancet showing that the estimated health benefits of minimum unit pricing of alcohol would benefit those from the lowest socioeconomic group.  HL5951
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Lord Hylton to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have received evidence showing that Turkey has used Interpol or Europol notices to harass politically active Turks and non-Turks who have no connection to crimes or terrorism.  HL5952
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that the UK conforms with the rules on pavement parking set out in the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, before the UK ratifies that Convention.  HL5953
Answered
The Marquess of Lothian to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress to date in implementing the UN Action Plan for Libya.  HL5954
Answered
The Marquess of Lothian to ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the average daytime speed of traffic in the five largest English cities; whether that speed has decreased since 2012; if so, what assessment they have made of the reasons for the decrease; and what is their assessment of the impact of a slowdown in average urban driving speeds on the national e… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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The Marquess of Lothian to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have proposed any diplomatic initiatives to help to resolve the current maritime dispute between Lebanon and Israel.  HL5956
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The Marquess of Lothian to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the political situation in Colombia, following the government of Colombia’s announcement of the suspension of peace talks with the National Liberation Army.  HL5957
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The Marquess of Lothian to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the Chinese Communist Party’s proposals to change the Chinese constitution in order to remove the two-term limit on the presidency, (2) whether those proposals represent a retrograde step for democracy, and (3) the impact of the proposed change on bilateral relations.  HL5958
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The Marquess of Lothian to ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to prevent further decline in hedgehog numbers, particularly in rural areas.  HL5959
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Lord Stunell to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 24 March 2016 (HL7094), when the next biennial review will be published; and why there has been a 12-month delay in publication for the review which was scheduled to have been published in early 2017.  HL5960
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Lord Stunell to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to convene a roundtable of representatives of Ebay, Amazon and Electrical Safety First to seek a resolution to the problem of unregulated sales of sub-standard and counterfeit electrical goods online.  HL5961
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Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of access to specialist cross-border healthcare for sufferers of rare diseases following Brexit; and how they plan to ensure that those patients continue to benefit from specialist medical expertise across EU member states following Brexit.  HL5962
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Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to the future of the fishing industry in upcoming negotiations with the EU.  HL5963
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Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of proposed European Court of Justice involvement in providing oversight over the withdrawal treaty.  HL5964
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Lord Taylor of Warwick to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK is on target to meet the March 2019 deadline for withdrawal from the EU.  HL5965
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the statement by the UN Relief and Works Agency on 22 February regarding the mortar attack that killed two Palestinian children near the refugee camp of Jaramana, and to reports that 50 mortar shells landed in Damascus in a single day.  HL5966
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government whether there has been an increase in the number of midwives (1) registered to practise in the UK, and (2) practising in the NHS, over the past five years.  HL5967
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government how many midwives there were on (1) the Nursing and Midwifery register, and (2) practising in the NHS, in each of the past five years.  HL5968
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity has decreased over the past five years.  HL5969
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2000–05, (2) 2005–10, and (3) 2010–15.  HL5970
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Baroness Tonge to ask Her Majesty's Government what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2014–15, (2) 2015–16, and (3) 2016–17.  HL5971
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