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The department may issue written warnings to school staff in connection with a range of misconduct—for example, impropriety and theft— and inappropriate sexual behaviour towards children. The number of written warnings issued to staff in schools by the List 99 Teachers Misconduct Team in each of the relevant years was as follows:
Due to the way in which information is currently recorded, it is not possible to indicate the number of these cases where staff in schools were issued with written warnings for inappropriate sexual behaviour. The department does not maintain records of written warnings issued to staff by employers as a result of local disciplinary proceedings, as this is a matter for the employer concerned.
Crime: Northern Ireland
Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many people did not answer police bail in each of the last five years in Northern Ireland.[HL2631]
Lord Rooker: The Police Service of Northern Ireland has advised that the information requested by the noble Lord would require a manual trawl of prosecution files and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Drugs: Cannabis
Lord Lester of Herne Hill asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether their policy on cannabis reflects the possibility that cannabis is capable of relieving severe pain suffered by victims of arthritis.[HL2624]
The Minister of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath): Because of evidence of risks of harm, cannabis-based products are controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The most recent advice to the Home Secretary on the requirements for controls from the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs was published in January 2006.
Currently cannabis-based medicinal products are not licensed under the Medicines Act in the United Kingdom but are available for prescription under named patient arrangements. Responsibility for prescribing under these circumstances falls to the clinician.
If clinical trials were to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of cannabis extract in relieving the pain associated with arthritis, this drug could be licensed and made available in the same way as other analgesics available for treating arthritic pain.
Energy: Biofuels
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked Her Majesty's Government:
How much money has so far been contributed by the Department of Trade and Industry's research programmes to the development of second-generation biofuels. [HL2711]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Truscott): The DTI has spent around £438,000 on second-generation biofuels since 2002 via the Technology Programme and the New and Renewables Energy Programme.
In addition, research council expenditure on bioenergy since 1997 is more than £20 million, including support for research into biofuels, biomass and light harvesting in biological systems.
Energy: Renewables Obligation Scheme
Lord Beaumont of Whitley asked Her Majesty's Government:
What sums the renewables obligation buy-out fund has distributed during each year of the operation of the renewables obligation scheme; and, in each case, to what organisations; and [HL2461]
What has been the total revenue raised for dispersal by the Government through renewables obligation buy-out payments during each year of the operation of the renewables obligation scheme. [HL2462]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Truscott): The detail of revenue raised for dispersal by the Government through renewables obligation buy-out payments and the sums distributed, and to whom, is shown in the table below:
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