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1050779

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date	29/01/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Wildlife: Smuggling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL13204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Combatting the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a priority for the UK Government and the UK plays a leading role globally. We are investing over £36 million from 2014 to 2021 on action to counter IWT, including work to reduce demand, strengthen enforcement, ensure effective legal frameworks and develop sustainable livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>The UK initiated and supported a series of international conferences, starting with the first conference in London in 2014, to drive the fight to eliminate IWT and in October last year brought together global leaders at the latest and most ambitious of these. The conference brought a new focus and determination to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, to build coalitions and to close markets for illegally traded wildlife products. Sixty-five countries, including the UK, have reaffirmed their commitment to counter the illegal trade and have declared what further action they will be taking. Full details of all the commitments made at the conference have been published in the 2018 London IWT conference declaration.</p><p> </p><p>New UK pledges made at the conference which complement our existing initiatives in this area include the following commitments:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>an additional £6 million for the UK’s IWT Challenge Fund;</p></li><li><p>£900,000 of new funding to develop a British military counter-poaching taskforce;</p></li><li><p>£2.1 million for public-private partnerships in Indonesia, to secure and extend critical habitats for species including the Sumatran tiger and Asian elephant;</p></li><li><p>£50,000 to support a new WILDLABS Tech Hub, which has since partnered with the Open Data Institute to reduce the level of illegal trade of wildlife by sharing data to develop innovative technologies;</p></li><li><p>up to £40,000 to create education packs for children in multiple languages which will teach them about key conservation and IWT issues, in partnership with Tale2Tail, a citizen ivory action group, and the WWF;</p></li><li><p>to establish a new global consortium made up of specialists in demand reduction and behaviour change, to make sure that our future work on IWT is as binding and effective as possible.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>At home we have passed tough new legislation to close our domestic ivory market. The Ivory Act 2018 effects a total ban on commercial dealing in elephant ivory that could directly or indirectly fuel poaching, with five narrow exemptions. When the ban comes into force it will be the toughest in Europe and one of the toughest in the world, with some of the strongest enforcement provisions.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/02/2019 12:43:49 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1050804

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Buscombe on 14 January (HL12638) and 22 January (HL12887), whether they will now answer the question asked, namely, why they no longer record centrally the information on domestic violence easements provided in the answer of the Minister of State for Employment on 10 February 2015 (HC223651).
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL13227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department still collects centrally information on domestic violence easements for Job Seeker Allowance claimants. However, this data is not considered robust enough to report in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>Since the introduction of Universal Credit, it has not been possible for the Department to report specific easements applied to individual claimants. This is because this has not been included in the Universal Credit Management Information build. We are committed to gathering better data to support claimants with complex needs and have registered this as part of the wider work programme for the Universal Credit, anything we do will be introduced incrementally and could be broad across complex needs rather than focusing on one particular group.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/02/2019 12:33:50 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1050808

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Assembly Members: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the total continuing payment to Members of the Legislative Assembly in each party in the Northern Ireland Assembly since the Assembly ceased to function; and what has been the overall payment to each of those party's staff during that period.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL13231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The budget for the payment of salaries to MLAs, along with the associated financial figures, is held by the Assembly Commission. This is the corporate body of the NI Assembly. They are the appropriate body to advise on exact figures paid. Details of this expenditure are not held by the Northern Ireland Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2019 15:41:51 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1050810

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 22 January (HL12844), what is the data source for their claim that the amount owed to smaller businesses in late payments has more than halved in the past five years; and what was the amount owed to small businesses in late payments in each of the past five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The statement in HL12844 was from Kelly Tolhurst MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy, and can be viewed<br>at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ending-late-payments-to-small-businesses</p><p><br>The overall level of late payment debt owed to small and medium sized businesses is reported by BACS Late Payment Data. In July 2017, this was reported as £14.2bn, more than halving from £30.2bn in 2012.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:37:52 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050811

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Procurement Review Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 23 January (HL12960), how many spot checks the Public Procurement Review Service will undertake to ensure public bodies are complying with their duty to report late payment performance, and by what date; and how many spot check exercises were previously completed by its predecessor the Mystery Shopper Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>There were 52 spot checks completed by the Mystery Shopper Service since the introduction of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Public Procurement Review Service has completed 88 checks within this financial year. There is an ongoing programme of spot checks which we target to the trends identified. We report findings from our spot check programme in the Public Procurement Review Service progress report which is produced annually.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:37:30 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050812

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Procurement Review Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 22 January (HL12843), how many businesses had their late payment cases resolved by the Mystery Shopper Service in 2018; and what was the average value of those cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 the service resolved 54 payment cases for 22 different businesses. The mean value of outstanding amounts was £31,599.58. (Total range in values is from £98.65 to £275,112.00).</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:37:03 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050814

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 22 January (HL12843), what is their estimate of the total value of overdue payments owed to UK businesses in 2018; and what proportion of the total value they estimate is represented by the £1.7 million resolved by the Mystery Shopper Service in that period.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Public Procurement Review Service does not hold this data and is not able to estimate the total value of overdue payments owed to UK businesses. The service is only aware of the late payments owed to suppliers who contact PPRS for help. In 2018 the amount recovered for UK businesses in resolved cases totalled £1,706,377.13.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:34:23 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050815

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Patisserie Valerie: Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many complaints the insolvency service has received about the collapse of Patisserie Valerie; whether they plan to launch an investigation into the role played by its directors and its corporate governance in its collapse; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>No complaints have been received by the Insolvency Service to date.</p><p> </p><p>When a company enters administration, the administrators have to report to my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State within three months on the conduct of the directors.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of Patisserie Valerie the Insolvency Service will be making early contact with the administrators and other authorities to discuss the directors’ conduct, and to consider whether further steps, such as a detailed investigation, may be necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/02/2019 16:18:43 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050824

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Parliament: Demonstrations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what are the average daily costs to Parliament of any additional Parliamentary security personnel who have been required to deal with the demonstrators near to the Palace of Westminster since 23 June 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
uin	HL13245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>There have been no additional costs to Parliament. The additional security staff fall into two categories, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and private security provision for the broadcasters. The resources for the police officers who are part of the wider MPS response to Brexit do not fall within the contractual arrangement between MPS and Parliament, therefore Parliament is not paying any extra for policing these protests. Private security provision for the broadcasters is contracted by various broadcasters on Abingdon Green, which Parliament does not pay for.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 06/02/2019 12:34:00 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

1050843

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to extend the scope of freedom of information laws to include bodies in the private sector that provide public services.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has already introduced a range of measures to increase transparency in public sector contracts and is publishing more data than ever before. At present, the Government has no plans to legislate in this area.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:33:14 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick