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78247

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House whether she will discourage ministers and spokespersons from answering Questions for Written Answer by referring to websites, in order to accommodate those without internet access.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL1142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>On 13 May the House agreed a new set of rules to govern the content of written answers, in response to the introduction of a new electronic system for submitting them. While the digital copy of answers will be the definitive record copy, all written answers will continue to be published, and a signed copy will continue to be sent to the Peer asking the question.</p><p>These rules make clear that all answers should be complete and comprehensible, and not rely on references to external documents or webpages. They also make clear that supporting documents should be included as attachments, not hyperlinks, and referred to in the answer itself. Any attachments that are included will be available in the Library to be printed out on demand.</p><p>All of these rules will help to accommodate those without internet access. I will remind all Lords Ministers to adhere to them.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 29/07/2014 16:24:58 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

79520

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Ofsted
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements they have in place to assess the performance of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills Board overall, and of its individual members.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL1419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector reports to the Education Select Committee at least twice a year on matters relating to Ofsted’s performance.</p><p> </p><p>The performance of the Ofsted Chair is reviewed by the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education on behalf of the Secretary of State.</p><p> </p><p>The Chair undertakes performance reviews of the Chief Inspector and Ofsted Board members.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 29/07/2014 11:19:11 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

76549

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prisoners with known mental health problems have been kept in segregated custody for longer than 24 hours in the last year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
	uin	HL893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>Figures recording the number of prisoners with known mental health problems who have been placed in segregation for longer than 24 hours during the last year are not gathered centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost by collating the information from records held at each prison.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/07/2014 11:03:15 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

78263

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Travellers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the recommendations in the report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons <i>People in prison: Gypsies, Romany and Travellers </i>that there should be further research into the reasons why people from those communities are in prison and how they are supported; and that the number of young people of Gypsy, Romany and Traveller background in Secure Training Centres should be investigated.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
	uin	HL1158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is considering how best to take forward Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) report recommendation for research into the reasons why people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities are in prison.</p><p> </p><p>To address the historically low declaration rates of GRT prisoners and to improve the support received by GRT prisoners, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has carried out extensive work to increase the declaration rates of GRT prisoners including work to increase the confidence of GRT prisoners to declare their ethnicity.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2014, NOMS implemented a new tool to monitor various outcomes for prisoners against a range of protected characteristics, including GRT prisoners. NOMS is now monitoring outcomes for this group of prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>The Youth Justice Board (YJB) commissioned and jointly published (with HMIP) the report: 'Children and Young People in Custody 2012-13: An Analysis of 12-18 year olds' perceptions of their experience in secure training centres'. This was the first published annual summary of children and young people's self-reported experiences and perceptions from surveys carried out with young people in each of the four Secure Training Centres (STCs).</p><p>The YJB will continue to commission these reports and monitor the findings from this survey in future years to gain a better understanding of the representation GRT young people within STCs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/07/2014 16:55:34 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

77801

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Scotland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the transfer of suspects and convicted criminals to and from an independent Scotland, whether or not it remains a member of the European Union.
	tabling member printed	Lord MacKenzie of Culkein
	uin	HL1098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>Both the UK Government and Scottish Government have said that there can be no ‘pre-negotiations’ on independence in advance of the referendum. The question of how the transfer of prisoners to and from <em>the Scottish prison estate and other parts of the United Kingdom</em> would be affected by Scottish independence cannot be answered now because it would depend on multiple negotiations that could only take place if people in Scotland vote to leave the UK in September’s referendum.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/07/2014 10:59:38 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	2507 label Biography information for Lord MacKenzie of Culkein

78967

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Questions for Written Answer have been answered by reference to websites (1) by department, and (2) in each Parliamentary session, since the 2010 General Election.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mawhinney
	uin	HL1284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 29/07/2014 11:55:55 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	121 label Biography information for Lord Mawhinney

79522

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments from the Cabinet Office have been laid this calendar year; of those, what percentage corrected errors in a previous instrument (including drafts of affirmative instruments that had to be superseded by correcting drafts); and what steps that Department is taking to reduce the need for correcting instruments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
	uin	HL1421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>All legislation is published online at <a href="http://legislation.gov.uk/" target="_blank">legislation.gov.uk</a></p><p>The lessons gained from any errors in Statutory Instruments are fed back into the department’s quality assurance process, ensuring that the planning process takes sufficient account of the time required for pre-laying scrutiny of instruments.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 29/07/2014 11:05:17 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

79171

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	McKinsey and Company
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which departments currently have contracts with McKinsey and Company.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
	uin	HL1332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>Since January 2011, as part of the Government’s transparency programme, details of contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 29/07/2014 11:02:28 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

79186

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Falkland Islands Review
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comment by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 1 July (HL Deb, col 1709), whether they consider the Franks inquiry into the Falklands War to have been thorough and vigorous.
	tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
	uin	HL1347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>As I stated on 16 July (HL Column WA127), the Franks Report was an important Inquiry for the public record, establishing events and learning lessons.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 29/07/2014 11:06:25 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

79462

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet: Aberdeen
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated cost to the Exchequer of holding the Cabinet meeting in Aberdeen on 24 February.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Seccombe
	uin	HL1361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>The central cost of holding Cabinet in Aberdeen was £1,800. This is a considerable reduction from the cost of regional Cabinet meetings under the previous administration, which were reported through Parliamentary Questions to have cost between £50,000 and £100,000.</p><p>As was the case under previous administrations, Departments and agencies may also have incurred costs in terms of travel, staff time and other support. The cost of police security is a matter for the relevant police force.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 29/07/2014 11:41:44 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	2097 label Biography information for Baroness Seccombe