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850579

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Equal Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 18 September 2017 (HL1445), whether all government departments and executive agencies with 250 or more employees have now published information about gender pay gaps between male and female employees.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL5922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Public bodies with 250 or more employees, including Government Departments, have until 30 March to publish this data. All ministerial departments in scope of the regulations in fact reported their gender pay gap data before the end of 2017. Staff working in executive agencies are included in the relevant department’s gender pay gap reports.</p><p>The majority of non-ministerial departments have also already reported.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/03/2018 12:44:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

855413

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Discrimination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they propose to include HIV in UK disability laws, in line with the view of UN AIDs that the inclusion of HIV has been an effective means of addressing discrimination based on HIV status and AIDs.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Gould of Potternewton
	uin	HL6019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Under the Equality Act 2010, HIV infection is already a qualifying condition for disability from the point of diagnosis. People diagnosed with HIV are, therefore, eligible for the protections in the Act available to those with disabilities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2018 15:55:14 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3573 label Biography information for Baroness Gould of Potternewton

855396

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Transgender People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of individuals who self-identify as transsexual; and how many individuals have received a Gender Recognition Certificate since the Gender Recognition Act 2004 was passed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL6002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not have an estimate of the number of individuals in the UK who identify as transgender. <br>The total transgender population is difficult to estimate for a number of reasons. For example, there is no standardised approach to collecting data on gender identity and some individuals are unwilling to disclose that they are transgender due to privacy concerns. <br>The Ministry of Justice publish statistics on the Gender Recognition Act process every quarter. The latest statistics can be found at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2017</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2018 16:06:57 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

856332

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Females: Candidates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to identify and remove barriers to women standing as (1) local councillors, and (2) Members of Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL6120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has commissioned an evidence review to identify the barriers that limit women’s participation in national Government. The aim is to provide political parties with a range of solutions to draw on.</p><p>We are also developing a programme to inspire young women to be leaders in their communities, and develop the skills and aspiration for careers in public life, at all levels of governance. We will share more details in due course.</p><p>In November, the Government announced details of the £1.5 Women’s Suffrage Centenary Grant Scheme for projects to celebrate the centenary. Large grants of up to £125,000 will include projects to encourage women to participate in public life. The first successful projects will be notified in early April.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2018 15:58:31 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

856300

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many responses to their consultation on caste in Great Britain and equality law were accepted after the closing date for submissions; and whether statistics on any responses accepted after the closing date will be declared separately.
	tabling member printed	Lord Cashman
	uin	HL6091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p><br>Following the closure of the Government’s consultation on ‘Caste in Great Britain and Equality Law’ on 18 September 2017, we received 42 late responses in five separate postal mailings. This constituted 0.26% of the total number of responses received, and included responses from both those in favour of and those opposed to explicit legal protection against caste discrimination being included in the Equality Act 2010. Almost all late responses were campaign responses identical to others which had arrived on time.</p><p>Respondents had already had almost six months to reply to the consultation, and late responses were not taken into account in the Government’s analysis of the consultation’s results. The Government will be publishing this analysis and its response to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2018 15:57:45 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4340 label Biography information for Lord Cashman

856323

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Holyhead Port: Storms
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what emergency and longer-term action they are taking, if any, to assist (1) local authorities and agencies, and (2) the Welsh Government, with recovery from recent severe storm damage inflicted on infrastructure and sea vessels at Holyhead harbour in Anglesey.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
	uin	HL6112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>My thoughts are with the communities in Anglesey and across Wales adversely affected by the recent weather conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Although responsibility for local authorities is devolved to the Welsh Government and therefore assistance to local government in Wales is for the Welsh Government, UK Government agencies stand ready to provide help to their devolved counterparts in supporting the local communities affected if requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 14/03/2018 15:34:04 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

855460

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Taxation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to make it easier for small businesses to navigate complex and expensive tax procedures; and how they plan to increase awareness of tax relief schemes amongst small businesses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL6066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to having a tax system that is simple to understand and easy to comply with. Autumn Budget 2017 took a number of practical steps to simplify the tax rules for small businesses including:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Extending the option of using mileage rates to property businesses; and</p></li><li><p>Ending receipt checking on subsistence costs when employees are reimbursed using benchmark scale rates.</p><p>These measures build on action taken since 2010 including:</p></li><li><p>Establishing the Office of Tax Simplification and then putting it on a permanent, statutory basis so that it can provide independent advice on simplifying the tax system; and</p></li><li><p>Implementing over 200 of the OTS’s recommendations since 2010. This includes simplifying employee benefits and expenses saving employers an estimated £25 million per annum.</p><p> </p><p>The government also takes action where appropriate to raise awareness of reliefs which support small businesses. For example, at Autumn Budget 2017 the Government announced an R&amp;D tax credits awareness campaign directed primarily towards Small and Medium Enterprises.</p></li></ul> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/03/2018 14:50:24 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

850557

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Roads: City of Westminster
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether, following several recent closures of Abingdon Street to through-traffic for vehicles, he has any plans to initiate discussions with the Mayor of London, Transport for London, Westminster City Council and other stakeholders to propose its permanent closure to vehicle traffic.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL5902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The House of Lords Commission has agreed to support work led jointly by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Westminster City Council (WCC) to consider the feasibility of improvements to the Streetscape around the Palace of Westminster. This work is at very early stages and the GLA and WCC would conduct a public consultation before any detailed design is commenced.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 01/03/2018 15:28:26 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

850565

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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' Interests
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether he intends to review whether Peers should declare their membership of the Freemasons and other similar organisations with secret ceremonies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hoyle
	uin	HL5909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>While the House of Lords Code of Conduct does not require members to register membership of the Freemasons or similar societies, it may in some circumstances be necessary for them to declare it in the course of proceedings. This is the same position as in the House of Commons. There are currently no plans to review the matter.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 06/03/2018 13:41:28 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	1000 label Biography information for Lord Hoyle

856330

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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: Waste Disposal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what will happen to the various items, including green-shaded lights, computers, air conditioning units, microwaves, laptops, telephones and fridges, which are being temporarily stored in Boiler House Court.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL6118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>Boiler House Court is used for temporary storage of items for disposal awaiting weekly collection by the House's Approved Authorised Treatment Facility.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 15/03/2018 11:46:53 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer