Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of new scientific discoveries in the field of longevity and radical life extension in order to better public health; and whether they have a strategy to promote longevity science.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We continue to monitor new research that shows promise for improving the health of the public. The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR's strategy, Best Research for Best Health: The Next Chapter, highlights the need to fund research which responds to demographic pressures, including an ageing population. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including ageing.
Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) By pooling longevity and investment risk across the membership, CDC schemes can shield savers from much - Speech Link
2: None for CDC schemes is, in essence, to provide a more efficient way for workers to share investment and longevity - Speech Link
3: None nature, CDC schemes are collective: pooling contributions is what makes it possible for investment and longevity - Speech Link
Nov. 25 2009
Source Page: Firefighters' pension schemes in england: actuarial valuation as at 31 March 2007. Incl. annexes. 37 p.Found: Compared with the 2004 costing exercise, greater longevity of members has been assumed.
Asked by: Lord Morrow (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, following their announcement of the proposed ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, what is their reason for not proposing a threshold of longevity for recognition of a cultural practice.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
HM Government has taken on board guidance from UNESCO which defines Intangible Cultural Heritage as ‘traditional, contemporary, and living at the same time’. In line with this, we want to ensure that newer practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage can be recognised as well as more long-standing ones.
Found: actuaries work; the need to ensure impact for wider society such as insurance and pensions; mortality longevity
Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) It seems to me that, at some point, there might be a longevity of relationship, and I wonder whether - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) By pooling longevity and investment risk across their membership, CDC schemes can shield savers from - Speech Link
Asked by: Alistair Strathern (Labour - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to complete its review of the police funding formula before the end of this Parliamentary session.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government is clear on the need to review the distribution of funding across forces in England and Wales, which is why we are undertaking a review of the formula. We have engaged closely with the policing sector on an evidence-based assessment of policing demand and the relative impact of local factors on forces, and this work remains ongoing.
Our priority is to deliver a robust, future-proofed funding formula that allocates funding in a fair and transparent manner. Although we are working to introduce new funding arrangements as soon as feasible, their quality and longevity is our focus.
Mentions:
1: Lord Deben (Con - Life peer) business connections in Liverpool, but I must ask the Minister to come back to the general question of the longevity - Speech Link