Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people who have been deported from the United Kingdom after (1) asylum application refusal, or (2) completion of a prison sentence, have returned to the UK (a) as illegal entrants in breach of their deportation arrangements, and (b) following completion of a sentence overseas, in the past five years.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The requested data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will introduce regulations to provide for a photographic image of the registered disabled person to be placed on the authorised displayed front of a disability parking blue badge.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The legislation governing the Blue Badge scheme requires that the side of the badge bearing the photograph should not be on display. Many disabled people have concerns about personal security and would not like to have such information on view. There are no plans to change this requirement.
Blue Badges have key information which enables on-street enforcement officers to check the details of the badge and the badge holder, and to view a photograph at the roadside on a smartphone or similar device.
The Department for Transport keeps the Blue Badge scheme under review, carrying out research and working closely with local authorities aiming to improve the consistency of local enforcement to tackle fraud and misuse of the Blue Badge scheme by acting swiftly and sharing best practice.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have been prosecuted for the illegal use of disability parking blue badges in the past two years.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport does not hold data about the number of prosecutions for illegal badges.
The Department for Transport sets the legislation that governs the scheme and provides guidance for local authorities who are solely responsible for administrating the scheme.
Current legislation provides local authorities with the means to tackle abuse of the Blue Badge scheme locally, such as the power to retain and cancel badges found to be misused.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total number of recorded cases of the illegal use of disability parking blue badges.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport does not hold data about the number of prosecutions for illegal badges.
The Department for Transport sets the legislation that governs the scheme and provides guidance for local authorities who are solely responsible for administrating the scheme.
Current legislation provides local authorities with the means to tackle abuse of the Blue Badge scheme locally, such as the power to retain and cancel badges found to be misused.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they collect evidence or carry out research into the illegal use, production, sale or theft of disability parking blue badges.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The legislation governing the Blue Badge scheme requires that the side of the badge bearing the photograph should not be on display. Many disabled people have concerns about personal security and would not like to have such information on view. There are no plans to change this requirement.
Blue Badges have key information which enables on-street enforcement officers to check the details of the badge and the badge holder, and to view a photograph at the roadside on a smartphone or similar device.
The Department for Transport keeps the Blue Badge scheme under review, carrying out research and working closely with local authorities aiming to improve the consistency of local enforcement to tackle fraud and misuse of the Blue Badge scheme by acting swiftly and sharing best practice.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether private hospitals are required to provide information on costs for each patient treatment episode when seeking remuneration for the provision of NHS services.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The majority of services provided by independent sector hospitals are charged per individual treatment episode, according to the prices set out in the NHS Payment Scheme. There are some independent sector providers who are re-imbursed on the basis of local prices for treatment episodes, usually where no national price is available or, very occasionally, local pricing may be based on a block payment or total packages of care.
Independent sector providers of healthcare services to integrated care boards or NHS England are procured under the terms of the Provider Selection Regime Regulations and are contracted using the NHS Standard Contract.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government on what basis private hospitals are contracted to provide NHS services; and whether remuneration arrangements are based on the provision of services to individual patients.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The majority of services provided by independent sector hospitals are charged per individual treatment episode, according to the prices set out in the NHS Payment Scheme. There are some independent sector providers who are re-imbursed on the basis of local prices for treatment episodes, usually where no national price is available or, very occasionally, local pricing may be based on a block payment or total packages of care.
Independent sector providers of healthcare services to integrated care boards or NHS England are procured under the terms of the Provider Selection Regime Regulations and are contracted using the NHS Standard Contract.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government to what extent the scale and provision of NHS services are linked to individual treatment episodes in contracts for NHS services provided by private hospitals.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The majority of services provided by independent sector hospitals are charged per individual treatment episode, according to the prices set out in the NHS Payment Scheme. There are some independent sector providers who are re-imbursed on the basis of local prices for treatment episodes, usually where no national price is available or, very occasionally, local pricing may be based on a block payment or total packages of care.
Independent sector providers of healthcare services to integrated care boards or NHS England are procured under the terms of the Provider Selection Regime Regulations and are contracted using the NHS Standard Contract.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answer on 29 July (HL122), how many Conservative members of the House who will not reach the age of 80 by 1 June 2029 were members at the start of the previous session of Parliament; and of those, how many attended more than (1) 30, and (2) 50, per cent of sitting days in the last session of Parliament.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
There are 182 Conservative members who will not reach the age of 80 by 1 June 2029 and who were members at the start of the 2023-24 session. Of these, 138 attended 30% or more sitting days of the last session and 104 attended 50% or more sitting days of the last session. These figures reflect the membership of the House as of 24 July 2024.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answer on 29 July (HL122), how many Crossbench members of the House who will not reach the age of 80 by 1 June 2029 were members at the start of the previous session of Parliament; and of those, how many attended more than (1) 30, and (2) 50, per cent of sitting days in the last session of Parliament.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
There are 99 Crossbench members who will not reach the age of 80 by 1 June 2029 and who were members at the start of the 2023-24 session. Of these, 53 attended 30% or more sitting days of the last session and 36 attended 50% or more sitting days of the last session. These figures reflect the membership of the House as of 24 July 2024.