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1130591

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Lord Young of Cookham on 5 June (HL Deb, cols 110–14), how many European Parliament Voter Registration (UC1) forms they received from the government of Germany in respect of UK citizens, resident in Germany, who had declared their intention to vote in the European Parliament elections in (1) 2014, and (2) 2019, in Germany under the terms of EU Council Directive 93/109/EC; where those forms were received; how they distributed those forms to the respective UK constituencies; and how many such forms they sent to the government of Germany in respect of EU citizens, resident in the UK, who had declared their intention to vote in the European Parliament elections in (a) 2014, and (b) 2019, in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Balfe
	uin	HL16135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>Under EU law, EU citizens living in another Member State are able to vote in their State of residence in European Parliamentary elections. Member States will, therefore, arrange for EU nationals to register to vote in their State of residence for these elections. Member States in advance of an upcoming European Parliamentary poll will exchange with each other data on EU nationals who have chosen to register to vote in another Member State. This is intended to identify and avoid double voting at European elections.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK, the UC1 form implements this requirement under EU law. EU Council Directive 93/109/EC requires all Member States to send the details of any EU citizens’ declarations to the state they are a citizen of, “sufficiently in advance of polling day” to ensure an EU citizen does not vote twice in the same European Parliamentary election. This is not a new requirement and has been in place for previous European Parliamentary elections. A similar provision applies to UK citizens living in the other EU Member States.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government receives data about UK citizens from the other Member States via a secure online portal managed by the European Commission. Data that can be matched to a local authority is then shared with the relevant local authority via encrypted file transfers. Electoral Registration Officers are responsible for sending the data in respect of EU nationals in the UK to the relevant Member States; the Cabinet Office does not see this data. The requested figures are attached in a deposited paper.</p><p> </p><p>In practice, we have found that the Commission’s voter information exchange process is of poor quality, as Member States record different information in respect of persons registering to vote and this may not be sufficient for other States to identify them.</p><p> </p><p>For the avoidance of doubt, this does not hinder the ability of the citizen to register to vote, nor indeed, to vote legally in elections.</p><p> </p><p>Rather, this is a deficiency in the European Commission’s mechanism to identify double voting. Notwithstanding, it is a criminal offence to vote twice in such elections, and information on voting participation will be recorded in marked registers.</p><p><strong><p><p><br></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The requested figures for the European Parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Usable Records Received</p></td><td><p>Records Sent to Member State</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1,699</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Not available yet*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Usable Records Received</p></td><td><p>Records Sent to Member State</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>13,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>Not available yet*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The figures for the 2019 European Parliamentary elections are not currently available.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL16134 question first answered 20/06/2019 14:30:34 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4302 label Biography information for Lord Balfe

1130834

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	By-elections: Peterborough
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 3 July 2017 (HL3), 15 September 2017 (HL1448), and 13 October 2017 (HL1671), and by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 21 December 2017 (HL3975), 16 March 2018 (HL6045), 20 November 2018 (HL11393 and HL11394), and 17 May (HL15556), what assessment they have made of whether there was any abuse of the electoral system in the conduct of the by-election for Peterborough on 6 June; and if there was any such abuse, what assessment they have made of whether this is part of a wider pattern of abuse of the electoral system.
	tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
	uin	HL16201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>We take the security and integrity of our democratic processes very seriously.</p><p>The running of polls is a matter for independent returning officers, not the Government. The Electoral Commission engage with the returning officers, electoral staff and registered parties providing assistance in disseminating information and advice to individuals delivering or participating in elections.</p><p>We have processes in place to defend against electoral fraud. There is ongoing work with electoral administrators to ensure our elections remain secure and robust, both now and in the future. Measures like voter ID are the latest in our efforts to respect, protect and promote our democracy.</p><p>Where abuse of the electoral system is alleged, it is for the Electoral Commission or Police to investigate such claims.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/06/2019 14:55:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1132619

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Honours
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of each category of honours were awarded in the Queen's Birthday Honours List to people in (1) Wales, (2) Scotland, (3) Northern Ireland, and (4) each of the regions of England, as a (a) number, and (b) percentage, of that country or region's population.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
	uin	HL16397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Statistical information held in relation to The Queen’s Birthday List 2019 can be found below. Information on the number of nominations by mayoral region is not captured, as we are not able to break down the data in that way.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>K Level</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>C Level</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>OBE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>MBE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>BEM</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of overall List</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of the UK’s population</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>4.75%</p></td><td><p>4.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>10.81%</p></td><td><p>8.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>5.96%</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>7.83%</p></td><td><p>9.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>4.10%</p></td><td><p>7.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>18.55%</p></td><td><p>12.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>2.70%</p></td><td><p>4.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>7.55%</p></td><td><p>11.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>14.07%</p></td><td><p>13.7&amp;</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>9.69%</p></td><td><p>8.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>6.15%</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humberside</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>5.68%</p></td><td><p>8.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/07/2019 11:41:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1132620

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Honours
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many honours were awarded in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List to people in (1) London, and (2) each English city region that has a mayor, per head of population of that city or region.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
	uin	HL16398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Statistical information held in relation to The Queen’s Birthday List 2019 can be found below. Information on the number of nominations by mayoral region is not captured, as we are not able to break down the data in that way.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>K Level</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>C Level</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>OBE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>MBE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>BEM</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of overall List</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of the UK’s population</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>4.75%</p></td><td><p>4.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>10.81%</p></td><td><p>8.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>5.96%</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>7.83%</p></td><td><p>9.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>4.10%</p></td><td><p>7.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>18.55%</p></td><td><p>12.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>2.70%</p></td><td><p>4.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>7.55%</p></td><td><p>11.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>14.07%</p></td><td><p>13.7&amp;</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>9.69%</p></td><td><p>8.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>6.15%</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humberside</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>5.68%</p></td><td><p>8.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/07/2019 11:42:03 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1132666

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Employment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, what is the percentage breakdown of public sector employees by (1) gender, and (2) ethnicity, for each region of the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL16444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p>Dear Viscount Waverley,</p><p><br>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the percentage breakdown of public sector employees is by (1) gender, and (2) ethnicity for each region of the United Kingdom (HL164444).</p><p><br>Estimates of employees by sector of employment are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS), a household survey of people in the UK. In the APS, the distinction between public and private sector is based on respondents’ views about the organisation for which they work. This may differ from how we would classify them for the headline measure of public sector employment. The APS also collects information regarding respondents’ sex and ethnicity.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 contains estimates of the percentage of public sector employees broken down by sex within each region. Table 2 contains estimates of the percentage of public sector employees broken down by ethnicity within each region. Both breakdowns use APS data for April 2018 to March 2019, the latest period for which data are available.</p><p>As the data are quite extensive, copy of both tables have been placed in the House of Commons Library.</p><p><br>Yours sincerely,</p><p><br><strong>John Pullinger</strong></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 28/06/2019 13:49:32 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name HL16444 - Table.xlsx title UKSA Final Response
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1133052

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Legislative Process
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the recommendations in the report of the House of Lords Constitution Committee The Legislative Process: Preparing Legislation for Parliament (HL Paper 19), published in October 2017, they have not accepted and implemented.
	tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
	uin	HL16470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The then Leader of the House of Commons responded to the Committee's report on 26 January 2018. In her response she committed to asking officials to consider carefully where the Committee's recommendations can be factored into our processes.</p><p><br>The Committee made two recommendations that the Government cannot support, relating to consultations and a legislative standards committee. First, on consultations, the Government agrees that timelines for consultations should be proportionate and realistic to allow stakeholders sufficient time to provide a considered response. However, within these parameters, consultation lengths should be adaptable to the complexity of policy and legislative. Second, on a legislative standards committee, the Government is committed to bringing forward well-drafted legislation of the highest quality but does not believe a legislative standards committee would add to this process.The PBL Committee already serves as a strict gatekeeper to legislation being introduced to Parliament. Furthermore, it is generally not possible to separate views on the standards of a bill from views on the appropriateness of the underlying policy, for which the bill stages in each House already provide the appropriate forum for debate and scrutiny. The Committee’s remaining four recommendations continue to be useful to Government and, as the then Leader of the House of Commons said in her response, are being factored into our processes as appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 02/07/2019 16:01:04 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1133481

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make public advice available to prepare for the threat of a category one cyberattack.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL16516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>In the event of any major cyber incident, the National Cyber Security Centre will ensure that the right technical advice is issued quickly and directly, and that the public are kept informed. As no two cyber incidents are identical, public communications will always be tailored to the specifics of a cyber attack.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 27/06/2019 11:37:09 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1134323

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Departmental Records: Archives
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the arrangements for preserving departmental archives; and when the Cabinet Secretary last reviewed record management practices.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank
	uin	HL16608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Archives monitors departments’ compliance with the Public Records Act 1958 and progress towards transition to the 20 year rule. The Chief Executive and Keeper updates the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport annually on the 20 year rule transition and engages with the Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretaries where necessary.</p><p>John Manzoni wrote to all other Permanent Secretaries in January 2019 to brief them about digital records management.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 03/07/2019 13:10:40 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	940 label Biography information for Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank

1134678

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for appointing a minister for children at Cabinet level.
	tabling member printed	Baroness D'Souza
	uin	HL16645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families at the Department for Education has a wide range of responsibilities for children's interests and that work is represented at Cabinet by the Secretary of State for Education.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 03/07/2019 13:11:23 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3709 label Biography information for Baroness D'Souza

1135092

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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 what plans they have to extend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to include housing associations and tenant management organisations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Shipley
	uin	HL16719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government agrees that landlords, including housing associations, should be accountable and transparent in their dealings with tenants and be responsive to their needs. However, we do not believe the extension of the FOI to housing associations is the best means of achieving that.</p><p>Housing Associations are already required to make a significant amount of information public. They are required to publish their accounts annually, including a strategic report covering issues such as the remunerations of key personnel.</p><p>The Regulator of Social Housing, which regulates the sector, also publishes information supplied by Housing Association at individual provider level, including details of their stock holdings, rent levels and evictions.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 03/07/2019 13:11:07 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4176 label Biography information for Lord Shipley