Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1017343

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons Chamber: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, the last occasion on which a fire evacuation drill was conducted in the Chamber of the House of Commons; and whether he plans to conduct such a drill in future.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	197454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Fire evacuation drills of the parliamentary estate are planned on an annual basis and the Chamber of the House of Commons was included as part of the last evacuation drill of the Palace of Westminster as a whole on 21 May 2018. Dates and time of fire evacuation drills are subject to change only for essential House business or security considerations.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 13/12/2018 12:13:17 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 90661 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1007169

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Bullying and Harassment of House of Commons Staff Independent Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the oral contribution of 05 November 2018, Official Report column 1281, how many individuals with complaints prior to July 2017 have come forward.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	191480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme helplines provide the House of Commons with information about the volume of calls received and the Independent Investigation Service holds information about the number of formal complaints pursued. This information does not include whether the behaviours complained about pre- or post-date July 2017, although callers are advised that only complaints about incidents later than this date can currently be upheld under the Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 29/11/2018 18:05:16 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 86784 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

838339

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what information the Commission holds on the number of contract staff in the House who are paid less than the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	127222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The House of Commons Commission does not hold pay information about individual contractor staff.</p><p>The House of Commons is an accredited London Living Wage Employer. In order to obtain our licence the House had to satisfy the Living Wage Foundation that no directly employed or contracted workers engaged on the Parliamentary estate are paid less than the London Living Wage. We can confirm that to our knowledge no contractor working on the Parliamentary Estate is being paid less than the London Living Wage. It is a requirement in our contracts that contractors and sub-contractors’ employees working on the Parliamentary Estate are paid at least the London Living Wage. Additionally, for House of Commons contracts and where the Lords and Commons contract together jointly, contractors and subcontractors which provide services in relation to our contracts, while not having a presence on Parliamentary premises, are required to pay staff working directly on our contracts at least the London Living Wage or the UK Living Wage if based outside London.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 20/02/2018 10:56:50 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

822919

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Catering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what plans the Commission has to increase the range of food available for both vegetarians and vegans in catering facilities in the House.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	122602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Catering services provide a wide choice of dishes to cater for vegans and vegetarians throughout the estate. Menus are changed on a regular basis to provide variety and to reflect seasonality. There has also been an increase in the number of choices for vegans and vegetarians across our venues in recent years.</p><p>We gather customer suggestions and feedback through regular surveys and through our customer feedback email address. This assists us with our menu planning and to improve our offers and dishes on our menus where possible.</p><p>There are no specific plans to increase the range of food available to vegans and vegetarians. In 2017, all cafeterias supported National Vegetarian Week (15 to 19 May) and World Vegan Month (in November) where we promote and further offer a selection of dishes to our customers. Catering services will continue to promote these in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 25/01/2018 11:25:38 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

678682

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Members: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what recent assessment the Commission has made of the level of online abuse of female hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	61644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>Members are encouraged to report all social media abuse and threats to the Parliamentary Liaison and Investigation Team (PLAIT), based in Westminster. This police unit provides support to individual Members about security concerns and co-ordinates the response with local forces.</p><p>The House has a policy of not commenting publicly on specific security matters. However, the Parliamentary Security Director is happy to meet the right hon. Member to discuss the level of online abuse of female hon. Members.</p><p>The Parliamentary Security Department, in conjunction with the police digital crime unit and social media companies, have run workshops for Members on this issue and provides general security advice on social media harassment.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 30/01/2017 12:05:54 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

524004

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Rt. hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, what the budget was for the out-of-hours taxi service for armed police officers working in the House in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions that service was used in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	40018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>Prior to 1 April 2016 the House paid for all Metropolitan Police Staff (MPS) required by business to stay until 11pm or later. This included police officers, armed police and civilian security officers. Data is not held according to job role and, therefore, it is not possible to provide the data in the format requested.</p><p>Following a change that the MPS put in place to the police officer rosters as well as the new police contract which came into effect on 1 April 2016, police officers, including armed officers, no longer use late night transport paid for by the two Houses.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 13/06/2016 16:56:16 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

424630

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Acts: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, what alternative media for printing Acts of Parliament the Commission has considered.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	13883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The House of Lords is responsible for the printing of two record copies of each Act, both printed on vellum in accordance with the Resolutions agreed by both Houses in February 1849. The Commission does not incur any expenditure on the printing of these copies, and has therefore undertaken no inquiry into, or consultation on, the proposal from the Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords to move to the use of archival paper. It has also therefore not sought to assess alternative options, nor undertaken any analysis of relative storage or care costs of vellum as opposed to archival paper. The House of Lords agreed in 1999 to vary its resolution and that vellum should cease to be used. The predecessor Administration Committee had considered arguments in support of a similar proposal from the House of Lords in June 1999. That Committee recommended in a report (<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmadmin/539/53903.htm" target="_blank"><em>Record Copies of Acts</em>, HC 539</a>) to the House that the proposal to end the use of vellum be accepted. However, following a debate on 1 November 1999, on a motion that the Commons agree with the Lords in their resolution, the proposal was rejected by the Commons. [Deb HC: 1 November 1999, Col 32ff].</p><p>In his letter to the Administration Committee of 17 September, printed with the Committee’s Report (<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmadmin/521/521.pdf" target="_blank"><em>Record Copies of Acts</em>, HC 521</a>), the Chairman of Committees stated that the average annual cost of printing vellums is around £100,000 a year. I understand that the current estimate of the savings arising from a switch to archival paper are about 80%, amounting to around £800,000 of savings to public funds over the next ten years. These arise from the greater ease of printing on paper rather than vellum, as well as the raw material costs. The exact level of savings to public funds will depend on the number of Acts passed, and number of pages per Act, per year, and the precise specification and contractual arrangements agreed for future printing. The Commission has made no assessment of the breakdown of savings arising.</p><p>The Chairman of Committees records in his letter the view that high quality archival paper would maintain durability and print quality. I understand that the National Archives has already informed Parliament that it does not require a vellum copy, and that it takes the view that archival quality paper is sufficient to maintain the public record. It also maintains a comprehensive database of legislation, both “as originally enacted” and “as amended”, on <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk</a>. Private Acts have been printed on archival paper since 1956. There are internationally recognised ISO standards for archival paper, and for archival quality ink and printing processes.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake grouped question UIN 13880 13881 13882 13884 13885 13957 13958 14164 question first answered 09/11/2015 11:47:59 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

423393

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, what progress has been made on confirming the final cost of the Options Appraisal Report into the refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	13110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>This information was provided in a Written Statement made by my predecessor on 16 December 2014, cols 86–87WS:</p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141216/wmstext/141216m0001.htm#14121636000008" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141216/wmstext/141216m0001.htm#14121636000008</a></p><p>The final cost of the Independent Options Appraisal was £2.02 million, excluding VAT.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 27/10/2015 16:51:05 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray