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732387

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	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: ICT
	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, for what reasons hon. Members were offered only tablets manufactured by Apple; and if the Commission will take steps to offer Android and other tablet devices to (a) new hon. Members and (b) other hon. Members.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Digital Service currently offers three tablets to Members:</p><ul><li>iPad (128GB; Wi-Fi &amp; Cellular enabled) Case Optional</li><li>iPad (128GB; Wi-Fi enabled) Case Optional</li><li>Android Tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab S2)</li></ul><p>All Members are able to purchase these as part of their agreed hardware allowance, or through the IPSA office costs allowance.</p><p>At the New Members Reception Area the allocation and process were kept the same as at the 2015 General Election, so that Members were offered one laptop and one iPad.</p><p>Our policy is to be device-independent as far as possible when developing new apps. For instance the House papers app functions in IOS and Android, as does the Commons Order Papers app.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 28/06/2017 09:28:24 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

418060

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Parliament: Art Works
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2015 to Question 3834, what disposal strategy there is for the Parliamentary Art Collection.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	9732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The disposals policy for the Parliamentary Art Collection was reviewed and agreed in 2013 and is published with my answer.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 17/09/2015 17:06:45 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake attachment 1 file name WoA-Disposal-Policy-2013.pdf title 4-page document
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

418062

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Parliament: Art Works
	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, how many items in the Parliamentary Art Collection are on loan outside the parliamentary estate.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	9669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>There are currently four objects from the Parliamentary Art Collection on loan outside the Parliamentary Estate.<br><br>The House of Commons and the House of Lords are actively committed to giving access to the Parliamentary Art Collection to as wide an audience as possible.<br><br>Loan requests are welcomed which will broaden access to the Collection and we are actively developing professional partnerships with other institutions around the UK who are organising exhibitions. In addition to this the Works of Art Committees of both Houses are working hard to raise the profile of the Parliamentary Art Collection and building to increase the number of loans outside the Parliamentary Estate.<br><br>The number of loans out changes from time to time as works are usually loaned for temporary exhibition.<br><br>As the Works of Art Committees have only recently reformed following the election we anticipate that the number of loans out may increase as pending loan requests are considered.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 16/09/2015 15:07:45 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

418061

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	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	Parliament: Art Works
	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, how many items in the Parliamentary Art Collection are (a) on and (b) not on public display.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	9668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The total recorded number of works of art in the Parliamentary Art Collection (House of Commons and House of Lords) is 7,900.<br><br>On average, approximately 6,320 works, or 80% of the whole Parliamentary Art Collection is on display around the buildings of the Parliamentary Estate (Commons and Lords) at any one time. Approximately 1,500 of those works are in areas to which the public have access, including committee rooms and banqueting facilities to which guests may be taken.<br><br>The Works of Art Committees take care to ensure that the most important works in the collection are displayed in public areas on the line of route, in committee rooms and in banqueting areas to which the public have access.<br><br>Works from the collection are also drawn from other areas across the Estate for temporary displays such as the current ‘Waterloo, Wellington and Westminster’ exhibition in the Royal Gallery and the Election Artist display in Portcullis House which will accessible during the forthcoming ‘Open House’ weekend.<br><br>The public also have access to the Collection via the Parliamentary Art Collection website <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/art" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk/art</a> which also features online exhibitions, videos and lectures about the collection.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 17/09/2015 17:06:26 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

758797

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	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: ICT
	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 preparations the House authorities have made to apply big data analytics to House and hon. Member activities.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	9522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Since the launch of data.parliament.uk in 2015 the Parliamentary Digital Service has continued to deliver improvements to the volume and quality of data about the House and hon. Member activities, with a view to publishing open data for both internal and external re-use and analysis via the new website.</p><p>The Parliamentary Digital Service has increased its expertise in working with data through new recruitment and development of existing staff. New techniques in data science are being investigated, for example machine learning, with support from colleagues in the Government Digital Service. Work is ongoing to ensure that data about Parliamentary activity is available for analysis, to help deliver internal efficiencies and to facilitate research by colleagues, in particular the House of Commons Library. To deliver the value from big data analytics it is critical that the underlying data structure schema are consistent and robust. The Parliamentary Digital Service continues to work on this key enabling data infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 13/09/2017 17:00:22 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

417708

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	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	House of Commons: Working Hours
	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 (a) overtime and (b) flexible working arrangements are in place for clerking, catering, security, Hansard and other ancillary or support staff and officers of the House during late sittings of the House.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	9407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The House of Commons terms and conditions of employment include provision to compensate staff for working late and/or additional hours during late sittings of the House.</p><p> </p><p>Staff in pay bands A–E (and some senior staff) required to work until the rise of the House or beyond are paid an Unsocial Hours Payment (UHP) for the commitment to work to an undefined time and a flat rate for each additional hour they work after 6pm once that have completed 8 hours work during that day. Staff who are not normally required to work to the rise of House or beyond, but agree to do so, may be eligible for paid overtime payments or time off in lieu (TOIL).</p><p> </p><p>Staff in catering pay bands are required to work until 15 minutes after the rise of the House if they are contracted to work in venues that supply services to Members. Staff who work in these areas or volunteer to work in these areas are paid overtime for any additional hours worked.</p><p> </p><p>Line managers have the discretion to agree flexibility around working hours by compensating individuals for additional hours worked by granting TOIL. Where business needs allow, TOIL can be granted to manage peaks and troughs in workloads. The extent to which TOIL is used varies between areas or roles, but is used frequently in some cases where workloads vary significantly between sitting and non-sitting periods. Work is under way to introduce a Flexible Time Management Policy.</p><p> </p><p>Security staff are employed by the Metropolitan Police Service and are paid in accordance with their terms and conditions of employment.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 14/09/2015 15:57:56 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 20747 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1141972

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
	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, how frequently the Commission receives reports from the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	912182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art produces an annual report which is published and considered by the House’s Finance Committee. The Commission does not receive routine updates. The last annual report was published on the Committee’s website in October 2018. This year’s annual report is due to be considered by the Advisory Committee in September and will be published later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 25/07/2019 10:58:01 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

643117

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	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	House of Commons: Nurseries
	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, if the Commission will take steps to provide crèche services for the children of hon. Members, staff and visitors.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
	uin	907449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The House of Commons operates an onsite nursery, available to Members, their staff and staff of each House. Based on consultation with Members, the facility was specifically set up as a nursery, rather than a crèche, to meet the needs of Members and their children, some of whom might be facing long hours in a stranger’s care, reflecting Members’ work pressures.</p><p>Professor Sarah Childs’ report, ‘<em>The Good Parliament</em>’, includes a recommendation for a crèche as well as a nursery. The recommendations in this report are being explored further under the auspices of the Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 24/11/2016 10:41:06 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

457189

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	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	House of Commons: Broadcasting Programmes
	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 the Commission's policy is on the use of House broadcast footage in programmes of a satirical nature.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
	tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
	uin	903894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>Members decided not to allow televised coverage of the House for satirical purposes as part of the broadcasting arrangements which came into place in 1989. This followed recommendations made by the Select Committee on Televising of Proceedings of the House (<em><a href="https://4l32cg.dm2302.livefilestore.com/y3mCcGtmxNmToTk66kML7D-mt3-XG-FtGiyMmOLALgp_nvg0Re1QX8R_cp9ZSetfXuDq2Byq-cTSuKedsdihya86s9M30VpDwUmxIt5E8RpCpguNX_WAFqYhibSw-gtFm923F-GR6rD1tDXR4MtNWVQDQ/Broadcasting%20Committee%20First%20Report%2089-89%20HC%20141-I.pdf?psid=1" target="_blank">First Report 1988–89, HC 141-I</a>, para 50</em>).</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 03/03/2016 12:20:03 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

446384

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2016
	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	House of Commons: Nurseries
	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 steps he is taking to provide crèche services for the children of hon. Members.
	tabling member constituency	Livingston
	tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
	uin	903184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>Following consultation with Members, a nursery model of childcare was determined as best fulfilling their needs and the needs of the children. The Nursery opened in 2010. A crèche would need to be separate from the nursery, and would require appropriate accommodation. The Nursery Governance Committee discussed this at its meeting in October 2015 and was not persuaded of the case for a crèche.</p><p>However, I am sure that the Commission would welcome fuller consideration of the case for such services, and of an appropriate funding model.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 21/01/2016 10:48:35 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell