Session 2017-19 Tuesday No. 149 4 September 2018 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS WRITTEN STATEMENTS AND WRITTEN ANSWERS Written Statements ................................ ................ 1 Written Answers ................................ ..................... 2 [I] indicates that the member concerned has a relevant registered interest. The full register of interests can be found at http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests/ Members who want a printed copy of Written Answers and Written Statements should notify the Printed Paper Office. This printed edition is a reproduction of the original text of Answers and Statements, which can be found on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/. Ministers and others who make Statements or answer Questions are referred to only by name, not their ministerial or other title. The current list of ministerial and other responsibilities is as follows. Minister Responsibilities Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal Earl Howe Minister of State, Ministry of Defence and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords Lord Agnew of Oulton Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Lord Ashton of Hyde Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Lord Bates Minister of State, Department for International Development Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Wales Office Baroness Buscombe Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions Lord Callanan Minister of State, Department for Exiting the European Union Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen Whip Earl of Courtown Deputy Chief Whip Lord Duncan of Springbank Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office and Scotland Office Baroness Fairhead Minister of State, Department for International Trade Lord Gardiner of Kimble Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Baroness Goldie Whip Lord Henley Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Lord Keen of Elie Advocate-General for Scotland and Ministry of Justice Spokesperson Baroness Manzoor Whip Lord O'Shaughnessy Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care Baroness Stedman-Scott Whip Baroness Sugg Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport, Whip Lord Taylor of Holbeach Chief Whip Baroness Vere of Norbiton Whip Baroness Williams of Trafford Minister of State, Home Office Lord Young of Cookham Whip Viscount Younger of Leckie Whip © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2018 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/ Written Statements 4 September 2018 Page 1 Quality and safety of organs, tissues and cells Written Statements State aid Tuesday, 4 September 2018 State aid Studying in the UK or EU EU Exit Erasmus+ in the UK [HLWS904] Workplace rights Lord Callanan: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of Workplace rights State for Exiting the European Union, Dominic Raab, has Notices were published on gov.uk during the made the following statement: parliamentary recess. These can be found here: Technical Notices https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/how-to- As announced by the Prime Minister and Secretary of prepare-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-with-no-deal State for Exiting the European Union on 18 July 2018, the Copies of notices were also placed in the Libraries of Government is publishing a series of technical notices both Houses to ensure all Members had access, and we during August and September. On Thursday 23 August, will continue to ensure that technical notices are made we published 25 of these notices and will publish more in available to Members. the coming weeks. These notices are designed to inform Slides on the Framework for the UK-EU partnership people, businesses and stakeholders about steps they may need to take in the event of a ‘no deal’ scenario. The UK negotiating team are also producing presentations for discussion with the EU, in order to Notices were published on the following areas: inform development of the future framework. Overview Slides have been published in the following areas over UK government's preparations for a no deal scenario the parliamentary recess: Applying for EU-funded programmes Financial Services The government’s guarantee for EU-funded Open and Fair Competition programmes These were published on gov.uk during the Horizon 2020 funding parliamentary recess and were also deposited in the Delivering humanitarian aid programmes Libraries of both Houses. Copies can also be found here: Civil nuclear and nuclear research https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/framewor Nuclear research k-for-the-uk-eu-partnership-financial-services Civil nuclear regulation https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/framewor k-for-the-uk-eu-partnership-open-and-fair-competition Farming Farm payments Pensions Update Receiving rural development funding [HLWS905] Importing and exporting Baroness Buscombe: My honourable Friend the Trade remedies Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions & Trading with the EU Financial Inclusion (Guy Opperman MP) has made the Classifying your goods in the UK Trade Tariff following Written Statement. Exporting controlled goods Throughout the last decade, government has worked closely with the pensions, financial services and consumer Labelling products and making them safer community to rebuild the UK’s pension savings culture. Labelling tobacco products and e-cigarettes Through automatic enrolment, 10 million people will be Developing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) newly saving or saving more into a workplace pension Producing and processing organic food scheme, with an estimated £20 billion extra pension Money and tax saving by 2019/20. VAT for businesses The pension freedoms have given people much greater choice about when and how they use their pension Banking, insurance and other financial services savings. Regulating medicines and medical equipment The Government has a significant programme of work Batch testing medicines ahead to increase confidence in workplace pensions, by Ensuring blood and blood products are safe improving: How medicines, medical devices and clinical trials • The provision of information to, and financial would be regulated capability of, individuals, in order that they can make Submitting regulatory information on medical products informed and more confident financial decisions. Page 2 4 September 2018 Written Statements • The way pensions are run, making them more secure; Finally, collective forms of pension saving offer improving transparency; and responding more quickly interesting new possibilities, and the Department is when things go wrong. currently working through proposals for the first Improving the provision of information to, and financial Collective Defined Contribution schemes in the UK. We capability of, individuals intend to launch a formal consultation in the autumn. The pensions dashboard will offer people the This is an ambitious programme of work, which has the opportunity to access their pension information in a clear potential to further transform the pensions landscape and and simple form – bringing together an individual’s benefit consumers. savings in a single place online. The work that the Department for Work and Pensions Social Housing Green Paper has done in assessing feasibility for a pensions dashboard [HLWS903] has made it clear that we should not underestimate the Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth: My Rt Hon. Friend, the size or complexity of the challenge. An industry-led Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local dashboard, facilitated by government, will harness the Government (James Brokenshire), has today made the best of industry innovation. We will continue to engage following Written Ministerial Statement. with industry on this model and Government will protect pension savers and personal information by legislating On 14 August, my Department published our Social where necessary. This will build on the Government’s Housing Green Paper ‘A new deal for social housing’ ‘Check your State Pension’ online service for the State which proposes fundamental reform to ensure social Pension. We will shortly report on the findings from the homes provide an essential, safe, well managed service Feasibility Study. for all those who need it. The Social Housing Green Paper was laid before Parliament on 14 August (CM 9671). To improve financial capability and understanding we have taken through Parliament the Financial Guidance Everyone deserves a decent, affordable and secure and Claims Act 2018, which gives us the power to place to live. It’s the most fundamental of human needs. introduce the Single Financial Guidance Body. This will While we have made important strides to build the homes bring together the services currently delivered by the we need in recent years, I recognise we have much further Money Advice Service, the Pensions Advisory Service to go when it comes to making our housing market work and Pension Wise. The creation of the SFGB is a genuine for all parts of our society – not least for residents in opportunity to improve provision of free