Tag: Lord Moonie

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-01-26.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many UK civil servants are seconded to the European Commission.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

There are a total of 156 UK secondees working across the EU institutions, as either Seconded National Experts or National Experts in Professional Training. 127 of them are currently working in the European Commission.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-09-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consular offices remain in Italy at which UK citizens can renew their passports, and what plans they have for those that still provide this service.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

British nationals cannot renew full validity passports at consular offices in Italy. Passport applications are made online and documentation is sent to Her Majesty’s Passport Office in the UK. British nationals can get an Emergency Travel Document at the British Embassy in Rome or at the British Consulate General in Milan when they have an urgent need to travel and meet the necessary criteria.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-02-24.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers have sufficient network bandwidth capabilities to make full use of the situational awareness and tactics which the F-35 can offer the Royal Navy; and what plans they have to enhance that use.

Earl Howe

The current network bandwidth installed on the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers is sufficient to carry out the endorsed scope of carrier strike operations. As with all programmes, requirements and opportunities are kept under constant review and amended where necessary.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 19 September (HL1756), how many British nationals they estimate are long-term residents in Italy; how many UK consular offices there are in Italy; when those consular offices ceased renewing passports for British nationals; how many renewals there were in the last year during which this service was provided; and how many emergency travel documents the Rome or Milan offices have issued in the past year.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

1. In 2015 the UN, in their ‘Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin’ report, estimated that 64,986 British people were living in Italy.
2. As of October 2016 we have two permanent Consular Offices in Rome and Milan. These offices are supported by a network of five Honorary Consuls operating in Venice, Genoa, Catania (Sicily), Cagliari and Naples.
3. The processing of passport renewal applications from Italy was transferred to the Regional Passport Processing Centre in Paris in 2009. On 1 April 2011 an accord was signed between FCO and the Home Office to transfer responsibility for overseas passports to the Identity and Passport Service, now known as Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO). The transition of application processing from the Regional Passport Processing Centre in Paris to HMPO began in June 2013. This included all applications made from Italy. This process concluded in March 2014. As part of this process, all records were transferred to HMPO, and the FCO does not hold records of the numbers of passports issued overseas.
4. In 2015 we issued 1,261 emergency travel documents from our Consular offices in Italy. 83 of those emergency travel documents were issued because of expired passports.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-03-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many EU nationals work in the NHS in England.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England.

Nationality is a self-reported field within the NHS electronic staff record system. Of those individuals who declared their nationality, 1,050,034 (93.5%) are European Union nationals (this includes 994,693 British nationals and 55,341 other EU nationals). There are a further 73,681 (6.5%) non United Kingdom and non EU nationals.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to oblige electricity supply companies to forward feed-in tariff payments to small or domestic suppliers to a similar timescale as that which applies to small or domestic customers.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

Payments to generators are based on generation meter readings and must be made at least quarterly. There is no restriction on FIT licensees making payments more frequently; generators may wish to consider this when choosing a FIT licensee or deciding to switch FIT licensees.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-03-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-UK, non-EU nationals work in the NHS in England.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England.

Nationality is a self-reported field within the NHS electronic staff record system. Of those individuals who declared their nationality, 1,050,034 (93.5%) are European Union nationals (this includes 994,693 British nationals and 55,341 other EU nationals). There are a further 73,681 (6.5%) non United Kingdom and non EU nationals.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their decision to buy Apache AH-64E helicopters through a foreign military sale with the United States government, how many UK companies are part of the AH-64E global supply chain; and by value, what proportion of the total cost of an AH-64E their goods and services represent.

Earl Howe

The UK’s Apache AH-64E helicopters are being bought from the US Government through their Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme. As such, the UK Government does not have a direct contractual relationship with the Apache AH-64E supply chain. It is understood, however, that at least five UK companies have been successful in securing sub-contracts from Boeing, the helicopter manufacturer and lead system integrator, on the Apache programme. Together, these contracts represent about 5 per cent by value of Boeing’s contribution to the global Apache programme.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-03-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many live births there were in 2015 at 23 and 24 weeks gestation.

Lord Bridges of Headley

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government on how many occasions over each of the last five years Network Rail has been fined for breaches of health and safety legislation; and what safeguards are in place to ensure that fines are not passed on to the taxpayer or passengers.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Network Rail has been fined fifteen times over the last five years for breaches of health and safety legislation, however the incidents that these fines correspond with took place over the last thirteen years (2003-2016). All fines must be paid out of existing budgets and no additional funding will be made available by government and no extra can be raised from track access charges.