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Session 2017-19 Wednesday No. 140 11 July 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 11 July 2018 Page 1 James Vaughan, temporary Chair of the FIND Strategy Written Statements Board, has presented the Annual Report of the National DNA Database to the Home Secretary. Publication of the Wednesday, 11 July 2018 Report is a statutory requirement under section 63AB(7) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as inserted National DNA Database Strategy Board by 24 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. [HLWS816] The Report shows the important contribution that the Baroness Williams of Trafford: I am pleased to NDNAD and the National Fingerprint Databases make to announce that the National DNA Database Strategy Board supporting policing and solving crimes. I am grateful to Annual Report for 2016/17 is being published today. This the Strategy Board for their commitment to fulfilling their report has been expanded to cover the National statutory functions. Fingerprints Database in addition to the National DNA The report is being laid before the House and copies Database (NDNAD) to reflect the extension of the remit will be available from the Vote Office. of the Strategy Board. Page 2 11 July 2018 Written Answers March 2017, which was published in the ‘Children Written Answers Looked After in England data, SFR50’. This figure was then divided by 365 days to give a daily cost. It was then Wednesday, 11 July 2018 multiplied by seven to give the weekly cost. Armed Forces: Officers For the calculation of weekly residential care, the LAIT also referred to the section 251 for total spend on Asked by Lord West of Spithead residential care. This figure was then divided by the number of days that residential care was provided for To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the children nationally, which is collected as part of the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 3 July (HL8946 and Children Looked after return. This figure was then HL8947), whether officers given 5 star rank after the multiplied by seven for the weekly cost. decision to put that rank in abeyance in the mid-1990s are considered honorary. [HL9252] Section 251 documents, Education Funding Agency and Education and Skills Funding Agency. Accessed from: Earl Howe: Yes. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251- materials. Burma: Refugees ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: Asked by Baroness Cox 2016 to 2017’, Department for Education. Accessed from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children- To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to- taking to provide humanitarian aid to any refugees 2017. forced to return to Chin State, Myanmar, from Malaysia and other countries. [HL9103] ‘Children Looked after return SSDA903’, Department for Education. Accessed from: Lord Bates: The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children- announced on 13 June 2018 that it will begin individual looked-after-return-2016-to-2017-guide. assessments of Chin refugees in Malaysia and other countries to determine whether they continue to have Competition and Markets Authority international protection needs. The UK government does not currently assess that Chin refugees in Malaysia and Asked by Baroness Quin other countries are at risk of forcible return to Burma and To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment will continue to monitor the situation. they have made of the case for providing extra resources to the Competition and Markets Authority as Children in Care: Per Capita Costs a result of the UK no longer being a member of the EU. Asked by The Earl of Listowel [HL9092] To ask Her Majesty's Government how much it costs Lord Henley: At the Autumn Budget 2017, my rt. hon. to maintain a child in local authority care for a year. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer committed £3 [HL9027] billion over the next two financial years to helping departments, including the CMA, and the devolved Lord Agnew of Oulton: The annual cost to maintain a administrations to prepare for our exit from the EU. As child in local authority care in the period 2016 to 2017 part of the Spring Statement 2018, my rt. hon. Friend the was £178,360[1] for residential care and £29,900 for Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the CMA fostering services. has been allocated an additional £23.6m in 2018-2019 to [1]The results are based on unit costs included in the prepare for EU exit. Local Authority Interactive Tool (LAIT) Department for Education, GOV.UK. Last updated on 6 June 2018. Council Tax Accessed from: Asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local- authority-interactive-tool-lait. To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment The figures in the LAIT are recorded as weekly. For the they have made of (1) the rates of council taxes paid by annual cost, the methodology simply involved properties in bands A and B compared to properties in multiplying the figures by 52 weeks. the highest bands, and (2) the revaluation of council tax bands. [HL9112] Please note that the original LAIT figures were rounded to the nearest £5, so actual annual costs may vary slightly. Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth: Council tax levels are a For the weekly fostering services that were originally matter for individual local authorities, although the included in the LAIT, the calculation was based on the Government maintains a referendum threshold to allow section 251 Outturn data. This records the total spend voters in England the final say over any excessive (gross) on fostering services. This figure was then divided increases. The amount charged for properties in different by the number of children in fostering placements as of 31 bands is determined by the application of ratios to the Written Answers 11 July 2018 Page 3 authority’s band D council tax level. These ratios are set EU Aid out in Section 5 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. The Government has no plans to undertake a Asked by Lord Taylor of Warwick council tax revaluation. To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the European Commission’s new Court of Justice of the European Union: disclaimer for aid contracts, which states that if the UK Judgements withdraws from the EU without concluding a withdrawal agreement that ensures that UK applicants Asked by Lord Balfe continue to be eligible, then UK charities will cease to receive EU funding. [HL9202] To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the translation of EU legislation into UK domestic law, Lord Bates: We are clear that this disclaimer must be what plans they have to ensure that subsequent removed by the European Commission. As it stands, they judgments of the Court of Justice of the European are hindering British aid organisations’ ability to deliver Union are taken into account in that translated law. the common goal of alleviating poverty, which would hit [HL9014] the world’s poorest people hardest. Lord Callanan: As provided for in the EU (Withdrawal) Act, UK courts and tribunals will no longer Family Drug and Alcohol Court be bound by judgments by the Court of Justice of the Asked by The Earl of Listowel European Union after we leave the EU.