Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information he holds on whether there are declines of snow or ice, other than of Arctic sea ice extent, that are inconsistent with reasonably expected natural variability.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not made its own assessment of the above question.
Evidence that present rates of decline in the extent of Arctic sea ice are not consistent with reasonably expected natural variability is synthesised in the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5). Long-term records of Arctic sea ice extent in this report show that the decline from 1980 onwards lies outside of what would be expected from natural variability alone. IPCC AR5 reports high confidence that human influences are very likely (>90% probability) to have contributed to the observed Arctic sea ice loss since 1980.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Head of the Government Economic Service plans to reply to the letter and email he received from the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on 23 January 2017 on flaws in his Department's analysis of the impact of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Simon Kirby
A reply was sent on 10 February. This answer addresses all three Parliamentary questions relating to the letter sent by the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on 23 January 2017.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Head of the Civil Service plans to reply to the letter and email he received from the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on 23 January 2017 on flaws in HM Treasury's analysis of the impact of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Simon Kirby
A reply was sent on 10 February. This answer addresses all three Parliamentary questions relating to the letter sent by the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on 23 January 2017.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury plans to reply to the letter and email he received from the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on 23 January 2017 on flaws in his Department's analysis of the impact of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Simon Kirby
A reply was sent on 10 February. This answer addresses all three Parliamentary questions relating to the letter sent by the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden on 23 January 2017.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden of 2 December 2016 on behalf of his constituent, William Dickinson of Cross Farm, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on the issue of rural crime.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The response to the Rt Hon. Member's letter of 2 December 2016 was issued on 14 February 2017.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will ask the Charities Commission to investigate the implications for the charitable status of Friends of the Earth of the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority on Friends of the Earth's fund-raising leaflets.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The Charity Commission is the independent regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. It is a non-ministerial department and is independent of government and the sector it regulates.
I understand from the Commission that it has received a complaint regarding the Friends of the Earth Trust Limited and is currently engaging with the charity. It is assessing the information provided to determine whether there are any regulatory concerns.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses and auxiliary nurses from (i) Nigeria, (ii) Ghana and (iii) other African countries have come to the UK under the points-based system in each year since 2008.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
I am sorry but this information is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work permit applications have been approved for (a) doctors and (b) nurses and auxiliary nurses from (i) Nigeria, (ii) Ghana and (iii) other African countries in each year since 2007.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Work Permit arrangements ended in 2008 and were replaced by the Points Based System. The work permit database has been archived and there are no reporting facilities any longer on this database therefore data for 2006 and 2007 is not available.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to meet his Russian counterpart to discuss a programme of student exchanges between the UK and Russia.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The Government has no current plans to meet Russia to discuss student exchange. We remain committed to welcoming the brightest and best students to study at our world class institutions. In 2014/15 there were 4,105 students from Russia enrolled on higher education programmes in the UK.
Asked by: Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his letter of 15 December 2015 setting out Skills Funding Agency priorities and funding for 2016-17, whether it is his policy that an area can only have its adult education budget devolved once it has fully implemented the recommendations of its area review.
Answered by Nick Boles
The Area Review process has been designed to bring about a more resilient and sustainable post-16 sector in the given locality, better able to exploit the opportunities made available through the recent SR and better placed to meet local skills needs. As such the completion of an area review, leading to an agreed plan for implementation, is an essential pre-cursor to the full devolution of the adult education budget.