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752478

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	The Senior Deputy Speaker what is his estimate of the cost arising from the House sitting in September.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>The planning assumption made by the House Administration each year is that there will be a sitting in September. Most activities are scheduled on that basis and costs of September sittings are factored into the original budgets.</p><p> </p><p>On that basis, the main additional cost arising from the House sitting in September is an estimated £4k for cleaning and porterage at the end of maintenance and project works to prepare for the sitting and around £1k of staff overtime for the Parliamentary Maintenance Services Team.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 31/07/2017 11:21:10 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

752505

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in the Law Officers' department have responsibilities relating to the UK's exit from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	5143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments use their resource flexibly and a number of staff from across the organisations have been involved in work that supports the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Legal Department has a team that specifically provides legal services to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). Currently, there are 41.5 full-time-equivalent staff in this team and GLD would expect to charge DExEU £3.731m for the services of this team in the 2017/18 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining Law Officers' Departments (Attorney General’s Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) do not keep a separate record of expenditure for work relating to the UK’s exit from the EU. It would not be proportionate to quantify the number of staff involved and calculate costings, – particularly as the numbers of staff involved and the time requirements from each vary over time.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 5370 question first answered 27/07/2017 13:52:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752506

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what amount of the Law Officers' Departments' annual expenditure is allocated to work relating to the UK's exit from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	5370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments use their resource flexibly and a number of staff from across the organisations have been involved in work that supports the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Legal Department has a team that specifically provides legal services to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). Currently, there are 41.5 full-time-equivalent staff in this team and GLD would expect to charge DExEU £3.731m for the services of this team in the 2017/18 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining Law Officers' Departments (Attorney General’s Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) do not keep a separate record of expenditure for work relating to the UK’s exit from the EU. It would not be proportionate to quantify the number of staff involved and calculate costings, – particularly as the numbers of staff involved and the time requirements from each vary over time.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 5143 question first answered 27/07/2017 13:52:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752507

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent progress has been made in increasing the prosecution rate for hate crimes.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	5417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its prosecution of all strands of hate crime.</p><p>The CPS is prosecuting and convicting more defendants of hate crime than ever before. In 2015/16, the CPS completed 15,442 hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 704 on the previous year. The conviction rate also improved to 83.2% in 2015/16 an increase from 82.9% the previous year.</p><p>The CPS Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17 shows that the proportion of cases where the CPS was successful in achieving uplifted sentences for hate crime perpetrators has increased dramatically. The proportion rose from 33.8% in 2015/16, to 52.2% in 2016/17 – reaching 58.2% in the final quarter.</p><p>The CPS has delivered mandatory face to face disability hate crime training and racially and religiously aggravated hate crime training and is in the process of developing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime training to support prosecutors to more effectively deal with hate crime cases.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/07/2017 14:45:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752449

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many workers aged 21 to 65 are recognised as self-employed; and what percentage of the total workforce this represents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The latest ONS Labour Force Survey shows the number of people reporting to be self-employed was 4.8 million in the 4<sup>th</sup> quarter of 2016.</p><p>Due to the age categories in which ONS reports this data, it is not possible to get a figure for 21 to 65 year olds.</p><p>However, as a proportion of the total number of people in employment (31,713,000), self-employed people between the ages of 25 and 64 account for 13.1% of total employment. Self-employed people between the ages of 18 and 64 account for 13.7% of total employment.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:01:17 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

752480

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how they apply the business impact target (BIT) to regulations relating to fire safety in buildings; whether they intend to review the application of BIT to such regulations; and whether they intend to exempt such regulations from BIT.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is considering how best to continue to deliver its commitment to regulate more efficiently and effectively over the course of this Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 31/07/2017 14:20:41 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

752448

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the TUC estimate that some 500,000 workers are on zero-hours contracts or in insecure temporary employment; and what percentage of the total workforce aged 21 to 65 this represents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The latest ONS Labour Force Survey shows that the number of people who report they are on a ‘zero hour contract’ in their main employment was 905,000 in the 4<sup>th</sup> quarter of 2016, which represents 2.8% of those in employment ages 16-65+, with nearly 70% happy with their hours.</p><p>Due to the age categories in which ONS reports this data, it is not possible to get a figure for 21 to 65 years old.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:01:29 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

752482

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what estimates of (1) the value of lives saved, and (2) additional life years gained, they use when classifying proposed regulatory measures as “in”, “out” or “zero net cost” in departmental submissions to the Regulatory Policy Committee.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Treasury’s Green Book guidance on policy appraisal and evaluation sets out how the economic, financial, social and environmental assessments of a policy, or specification of regulations, should be combined. It includes guidance on appraising social impacts, such as health and welfare benefits and prevented fatality and how to weight such considerations against other impacts.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/07/2017 15:09:34 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

752459

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the benefits and costs to the UK of membership of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
	uin	HL905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>Within the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators budget it is not possible to identify the membership costs for any individual member state. Details of their costs and the work they do are set out in their Programming Document[1] for 2017-2019.</p><p>In common with other EU agencies, as part of exit negotiations the government will discuss with the EU any potential future relationship with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.acer.europa.eu/en/The_agency/Mission_and_Objectives/Documents/ACER%20Programming%20Document%202017-September%202016.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.acer.europa.eu/en/The_agency/Mission_and_Objectives/Documents/ACER%20Programming%20Document%202017-September%202016.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 31/07/2017 15:26:25 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

752447

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the social and economic consequences of restricting zero-hours contracts to students and pensioners.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>Government has not made an estimate of the social and economic consequences of restricting zero hour contracts to students and pensioners.</p><p>Further to my oral statement in the House on 11 July regarding the publication of the independent Review of Modern Working Practices by Matthew Taylor, the Review concluded that the UK has employment levels and rates that are at historic highs. It also concluded that the UK is widely recognised as having one of the most flexible labour markets in the world and many people working on atypical contracts value the flexibility that they bring and choose to work this way.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 31/07/2017 12:49:10 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton