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Questions for Written Answer for 24 April 2019

Tabled on 11 April 2019 and due for answer by 29 April 2019.

Lord Bach to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the need to require a placing local authority to introduce a procedure for when young people are placed in another local authority area for that local authority to be informed of the young person’s circumstances and needs and to jointly assess the suitability of the placement and the risk exposure of the y… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Bach to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to evaluate the impact of the passing on of costs by local authorities to other local authorities when placing a young person in another local authority; and what consideration they have given to asking the National Policing Chief’s Council and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services to undertake such work.… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Bach to ask Her Majesty's Government what is their definition of “detainee dignity” in the context of people who are deprived of their liberty.  HL15211
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Baroness Berridge to ask Her Majesty's Government what attempts they have made directly, or through, the UN or relief agencies, to assess the conditions in which British children are living in internally displaced persons’ camps in Syria.  HL15212
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Baroness Berridge to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the internally displaced persons' camps in Syria in which British children reside are under the control of the government of Syria or the Kurdish authorities.  HL15213
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Baroness Berridge to ask Her Majesty's Government whether the “best interests of the children test” pursuant to section 55 of the Borders, Citizens and Immigration Act 2009 was applied in the cases where those having their citizenship revoked had British children in their care.  HL15214
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in ensuring that musicians directly affected by restrictions on the trade and movement of products covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora can continue to travel between the UK and the EU post-Brexit.  HL15215
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in increasing the number of ports designated as points of entry for goods covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.  HL15216
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Lord Black of Brentwood to ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timeline for the review of the National Plan for Music Education, which currently runs until 2020.  HL15217
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Lord Blunkett to ask Her Majesty's Government, in the week beginning 8 April 2019, how many court buildings in the Greater London area were inaccessible to (1) defendants and witnesses with disabilities, (2) members of the public and court staff with disabilities, and (3) court staff with disabilities;  how many of those buildings were only temporarily inaccessible in that week be… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage the development of high energy laser weapons systems.  HL15219
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem to ask Her Majesty's Government when it is anticipated that HMS Queen Elizabeth will undergo its first dry dock maintenance at Rosyth Dockyard.  HL15220
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the advice of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe that if Turkey proceeds to purchase the Russian S-400 air defence system it should receive no delivery of F-35 aircraft.  HL15221
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to purchase and deploy optionally manned aircraft for the armed services.  HL15222
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem to ask Her Majesty's Government what factors influenced the decision to delay and scale back the proposals to concentrate military units in Devon and Somerset in a single large-scale garrison.  HL15223
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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem to ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in implementing the Better Defence Estate Strategy, published in 2016.  HL15224
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Lord Clark of Windermere to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to raise awareness of the risks of skin cancer and methods of prevention  HL15225
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Lord Clark of Windermere to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include skin cancers in the Be Clear on Cancer campaign resources.  HL15226
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Lord Clark of Windermere to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review sunbed regulations.  HL15227
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Lord Empey to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have allocated funds for work to find an alternative to the Withdrawal Agreement Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland; and if so, what level of funds have been allocated.  HL15228
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Lord Empey to ask Her Majesty's Government what alternatives to the Withdrawal Agreement Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland are currently being considered.  HL15229
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Baroness Gardner of Parkes to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to check whether agencies employing careworkers are paying the costs of such workers for their travel between clients.  HL15230
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Baroness Helic to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of allegations of genocide in Darfur; what action the international community might take as a result; and what discussions they have had with the government of Sudan about any such allegations.  HL15231
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Baroness Howe of Idlicote to ask Her Majesty's Government when they will implement the requirements in the Digital Economy Act 2017 in relation to age verification on websites with pornographic content.  HL15232
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Lord Hylton to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the concerns expressed by hunger strikers protesting at the prison conditions of Abdullah Öcalan; and what assessment they have made of the need to resolve the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.  HL15233
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Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of livestock theft in England.  HL15234
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Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of wildlife decline in UK national parks.  HL15235
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Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Groceries Code Adjudicator.  HL15236
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Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of bioenergy's contribution to cutting harmful emissions.  HL15237
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Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effects of using glyphosate as part of wider integrated pest management systems.  HL15238
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Baroness Kennedy of Cradley to ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to have the new system for ageing lambs to be in place.  HL15239
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the research published by the Cooperative Group on 1 March that said that 18 per cent of the British public were unaware of modern slavery; and what plans they have to increase public awareness of modern slavery.  HL15240
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark to ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the data breaches by the Home Office which led to the sharing of personal data of applicants for settled status and of applicants for the Windrush Compensation Scheme do not recur.  HL15241
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark to ask Her Majesty's Government what specific legislative measures they have taken since the publication of Fixing our broken housing market (Cm 9352) on 7 February 2017.  HL15242
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark to ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in preventing victims of domestic abuse from being charged by GPs for letters needed to access legal and other professional services.  HL15243
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the need for additional council house provision for older people in rural areas.  HL15244
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the charges levied on customers by UK banks.  HL15245
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Lord Lucas to ask Her Majesty's Government whether, when a local authority acts, for a fee, as a guarantor for a property transaction in which it has no other interest in a distant local authority the details of this transaction should be (1) available to the public, (2) reported in that authority's accounts, and (3) subject to permission from central government; and if so, how.  … Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Lucas to ask Her Majesty's Government when a local authority borrows via the Public Works Loan Board to invest in commercial property principally in order to make a margin to help finance expenditure, what rules set out how this should be disclosed in their accounts; and what permissions they require from central government to borrow such money for such an investment.  HL1524… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Lucas to ask Her Majesty's Government what rules apply to the setting of a level of materiality in local authority audits; who enforces those rules; and whether a level of materiality in excess of ten per cent of a council’s annual turnover is unusual.  HL15248
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Lord Lucas to ask Her Majesty's Government how many fulfilment houses had stock seized by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in the last 12 months.  HL15249
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Lord Lucas to ask Her Majesty's Government how many notices of joint and several liability were issued in the last 12 months in respect of VAT evasion by overseas sellers; and how much stock was seized as a result.  HL15250
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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the importance of the food and drink industry to the rural economy; and what steps they intend to take to ensure that food safety standards are maintained.  HL15251
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The Lord Bishop of Newcastle to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the causes of the fall in real-terms funding per child for low-level mental health services in 60 per cent of local authorities in England given the £226 million reported as planned spending for 2018/19.  HL15252
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Baroness Redfern to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) size of the population of, and (2) the threat of extinction faced by, hen harriers in England; and whether they intend to introduce a licencing system for grouse moors to protect hen harriers.  HL15253
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Baroness Redfern to ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to set out how they measure whether the apprentice programme boosts economic productivity.  HL15254
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Baroness Redfern to ask Her Majesty's Government how many nurses have returned to the NHS in the last 12 months.  HL15255
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Baroness Redfern to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the positive impact of face-to-face meetings between ex-offenders and National Probation Service officials; how many such meetings there have been, in England and Wales, in each of the last 12 months; and what steps they intend to take to (1) reduce supervision by telephone, and (2) increase face-to… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Redfern to ask Her Majesty's Government what additional support, funding, and guidance they intend to provide to schools to (1) limit the availability of sugar products in schools, and (2) become sugar-free.  HL15257
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Lord Rennard to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they published the terms of reference and membership of the working group of experts set up to consider the recommendations from the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee’s report E-cigarettes, published on 17 August 2018, that impact the licensing of e-cigarettes as medicines; if so, when and where t… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to urgently review the detention of prisoners subject to imprisonment for public protection sentences who have served their minimum tariff following reports of the numbers of those who await a decision from the Parole Board.  HL15259
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Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Bahrain to secure medical treatment for Ali Alhajee, who resumed his hunger strike in Jau Prison on 5 April in protest at the continued failure of prison authorities to provide adequate medical treatment and meals in accordance with his dietary requirements.  HL15260
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Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 21 March (HL14745), what assessment they have made of the investigative allegations against Major Mariam Albardoli; whether they have raised these allegations with the government of Bahrain; and what steps they are taking to ensure compliance with international human rights le… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 18 March (HL14213), what assessment they have made of reports that prison authorities in Bahrain continue to provide inadequate medical care to the political prisoner Hajer Mansoor Hassan, including by restricting access to medical records and failing to organise follow-up app… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that prison authorities in Bahrain have provided inadequate medical care to political prisoner Hassan Mushaima, including by imposing humiliating measures which violate Article 47 of the UN Nelson Mandela Rules.  HL15263
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Lord Scriven to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 18 March (HL14745), whether they will reconsider their advice to victims of torture to seek recourse from Bahraini oversight bodies, considering that the UN and non-governmental organisations publications that the Minister refers to in his answer are evidence of the inefficacy… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Lord Selkirk of Douglas to ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to roll-out CCTV in areas which have high violent crime rates, including of knife crime.  HL15265
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Lord Selkirk of Douglas to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for the Scotland Office on 9 May 1996 (HC27914) in which the Minister stated that about £4 million was made available to fund CCTV for the subsequent three years to reduce crime and fear of crime in Scotland, what assessment they have made of the impact of this funding i… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill to ask Her Majesty's Government, following the announcement in the Spring Statement that listed companies will be required to report on their payment performance in their annual report and accounts in order to tackle the issue of late payment, (1) how they intend to publish this information, and (2) when they will assess whether adequate improvement h… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text
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Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill to ask Her Majesty's Government how many smart meters have been installed in England and Wales, broken down by local authority area, in each of the past three years.  HL15268
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Baroness Thomas of Winchester to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have opened consultation on merging Personal Independence Payment and Employment and Support Allowance assessments; and if not, when they intend to do so.  HL15269
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Lord Touhig to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to join the Council of Europe Development Bank.  HL15270
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