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1303638

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2021
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	House of Lords: Training
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the estimated cost of providing ‘Valuing Everyone’ training to all (1) Peers, and (2) staff of the House of Lords; and out of which budget it is paid.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL14339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>To the end of February £40,446 has been spent on Valuing Everyone training for members of the House of Lords, and £29,169 has been spent on Valuing Everyone training for staff of the House of Lords Administration, based on an assumption of cost per head across all training sessions delivered. The House of Lords share (30%) of development costs, pilot sessions and administration fees is £43,080. 　All costs relating to the Valuing Everyone training are paid for from the budget of the bicameral Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 15/04/2021 13:37:06 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

678232

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2017
	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: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker why access to the "Religion of Peace" website is not available on the Parliamentary estate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL4961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Digital Service uses an industry standard categorising service, the “Religion of Peace” website is blocked as part of this automated service as it is classified as a religion-based hate website by the categorising service.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 01/02/2017 12:01:26 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

711186

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2017
	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: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answer on 7 March (HL5612), what is the industry standard categorising service; who within the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) is responsible for the service; whether there is a contract or other service level agreement between PDS and the service; whether PDS pays for the service, and if so, how much is paid annually; whether the service reports to PDS in respect of its activities and decisions, and if so, how; whether its classification of websites is advisory or mandatory; whether Parliament is free to over-ride its classification of religion-based hate websites; and if so, why there are no plans to unblock the "Religion of Peace" website.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL6074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) uses the Check Point URL filtering service to categorise websites, and currently blocks a range of categories of website from the Parliamentary Estate, including “Hate/Racism”. PDS does not control which websites are put into which category by the filtering service; this is an automated process conducted at an industry level.</p><p>It is not possible to provide an accurate figure regarding the annual cost of the service as it is one of a number of services provided within a contract. With over one billion websites to categorise, it is not practicable for the filtering service to report to PDS in respect of its categorising decisions for particular websites. While it would be possible for PDS to unblock a website that has been included in a blocked category, there are no plans to unblock the “Religion of Peace” website, which has been included in the “Hate/Racism” category, because the site does not appear to have been incorrectly categorised.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 23/03/2017 11:53:35 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1304502

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2021
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Peers: Conduct
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to the ‘Valuing Everyone’ training session for Peers on the morning of 16 March, whether describing a female over the age of 14 as a ‘girl’ rather than a ‘lady’ in the course of their parliamentary duties would constitute a breach of the Code of Conduct for Members of the House of Lords; and if so, what the penalty would be.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL14454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2021 answer text <p>Only the Commissioner for Standards and the Conduct Committee can decide whether something is a breach of the Code of Conduct, upon receipt of a specific complaint to the Commissioner or appeal to the Conduct Committee. They do not deal with hypothetical situations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 06/04/2021 15:16:06 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1260454

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2020
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the total estimated cost of the report by the Conduct Committee: The conduct of Lord Maginnis of Drumglass (HL Paper 185).
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL11364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2020 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide an accurate estimate of the cost of the report　<em>The conduct of Lord Maginnis of Drumglass</em> as most costs cannot be disaggregated from time spent by members or staff on other work.<br></p><p>1. Member costs</p><p> </p><p>The report into Lord Maginnis was considered at two separate meetings of the Conduct Committee, at the first there were other items on the agenda so claims for attendance were not solely related to consideration of this case. At the second meeting Lord Maginnis’ appeal was the only item on the agenda. All members of the Committee attended for that meeting. HL members can claim attendance allowance for participating in a virtual select committee but those claims may also cover other parliamentary work undertaken that day so it is not possible to say how much they claimed for their work on this case that day. Lay members have so far claimed £1,200 to prepare for and attend that meeting.</p><p>2. Payments to the Commissioner and her staff</p><p> </p><p>The costs of the time of the Commissioner for Standards and her office in relation to her investigation in to the complaints against Lord Maginnis cannot be disaggregated from her work on other cases. £5,760 was spent in payment to the external investigator who supported the Commissioner in her investigations into the four complaints. <br></p><p>3. Publication</p><p>The report was printed in-house on the same paper used for other parliamentary publications by a permanent staff team therefore the small costs of printing this report cannot be disaggregated from other work.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 16/12/2020 17:12:44 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

694339

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Peers: Per Capita Costs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the average cost to the British taxpayer, including salary and expenses but excluding building maintenance costs, of a member of the House of Lords.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL5613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>For the 2015-16 financial year the cost of the House of Lords excluding Estates and Works expenditure and non-cash costs (e.g. depreciation) was £67,932,000. As at 31 March 2016 there were 814 members, making the average cost of a member on this basis £83,000.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 07/03/2017 15:14:02 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

694338

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	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: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answer on 1 February (HL 4961), whether he will give an instruction for the unblocking of the Religion of Peace website on the Parliamentary Estate; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL5612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>Access to the Religion of Peace website has been blocked on the Parliamentary Estate because it has been classified as a religion-based hate website by the Parliamentary Digital Service’s industry standard categorising service. As a result there are no plans for the website to be unblocked.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 07/03/2017 15:14:36 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch