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1002220

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	19/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:43:19
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:55:54 04/12/2018 13:43:03
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	identifier	HL11241
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/12/2018 13:10:58
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the estimated cost to the House of (1) restoration, (2) repair, and (3) fire protection work underway in (a) the Palace of Westminster, (b) Fielden House, and (c) Millbank House.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL11241
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL11241
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>‘Restoration’ has been taken to include work currently underway on the Estate to restore or conserve areas of the historic building fabric, including but not limited to the restoration work in Westminster Hall and the Encaustic Tile project. It does not include the estimated costs of the Restoration and Renewal Programme. ‘Repair’ includes project works underway on the estate but does not include general day to day maintenance. Fire protection work costs are based on the Fire Life Safety Works Programme.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Palace of Westminster</p></td><td><p>Millbank House</p></td><td><p>Fielden House</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Restoration</p></td><td><p>External Courtyards Conservation work (Phase 1) current approved cost: £20.2m; Westminster Hall current approved cost: £12.1m (subject to review); Elizabeth Tower current approved cost: £61.1m (subject to review); Cast Iron Roofs current approved cost: £84.4m; Encaustic Tiles current approved cost: £14.3m.</p></td><td><p>There is no restoration work currently underway.</p></td><td><p>There is no restoration work currently underway.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Repair</p></td><td><p>Works to the Palace in 2017/18 totalled £2m; works in 2018/19 are forecast to cost £2.8m.</p></td><td><p>Works to 5 Great College Street and its integration into Millbank House total £42.9m.</p></td><td><p>Planning is underway for the refurbishment of Fielden House. Surveying work is expected to commence in December 2018. The surveying working is required to finalise the business case. Until it is finalised it is not possible to provide an estimate.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fire Protection</p></td><td><p>The approved business cases forecast expenditure of £90m for fire safety work underway in the Palace of Westminster. The forecast expenditure of a project within the Fire Safety programme is currently being revised.</p></td><td><p>The cost of fire protection in the Great College Street area of Millbank House has been integrated into the project itself and therefore is included in the repair figure above. The cost of Fire Protection in 1&amp;2 Millbank is currently forecast at £1.6m excluding risk and optimism bias (OB) and £2.1m including risk and OB.</p></td><td><p>The cost of making Fielden House Fire Life Safety compliant will form part of the refurbishment project. Therefore, it is not possible currently to confirm how much it will cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> question first answered 04/12/2018 13:10:58 answering member 4148
	creator	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1003680

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/11/2018
	date	09/11/2018
	date tabled	09/11/2018
	ddp created	09/11/2018 16:43:06
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	ddp modified	09/11/2018 16:57:54 23/11/2018 14:44:03
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Billing
	house id	1
	identifier	189562
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	23/11/2018 14:12:04
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of contracts issued by his Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 189562
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	189562
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Wherever possible the Attorney General’s Office and the Law Officers Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, the Serious Fraud Office, The Government Legal Department and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) let contracts over £10,000 using call-off contracts from frameworks procured by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). These frameworks include provision for payments to sub-contractors within 30 days of receipt of undisputed invoice.</p><p>Central records are not held for procurements partially, or fully, managed outside the procurement service. To confirm that these contracts include provisions for prompt payment of sub-contractor invoices would require a manual check of all procurement records, which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> question first answered 23/11/2018 14:12:04 answering member 4106
	creator	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1002183

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:25:28
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	06/11/2018 16:35:16 20/11/2018 17:14:02
	hansard heading	Parental Leave
	house id	1
	identifier	188224
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/11/2018 16:43:25
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the average amount of parental leave taken by (a) women and (b) men in (i) England, (ii) London and (iii) the London Borough of Lewisham in each of the last five years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188224
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188224
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The most recent official data on average length of family-related leave taken by parents is from the Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey in 2009, which collected data from parents of children born in 2008 across Great Britain.</p><p>This shows that in 2008,</p><ul><li>mothers took an average of 39 weeks of maternity leave, up from 32 weeks in 2006.</li><li>amongst fathers who took some paternity leave, 16% took more than two weeks, 50% took two weeks and 34% took less than two weeks of leave.</li></ul><p>This does not contain information on average weeks of unpaid Parental Leave, nor of Shared Parental Leave which was introduced in 2015.</p><p>Information on the amount of leave taken at the regional or local level is not available.</p><p>The full Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey 2009/10 Research Report can be found here:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214367/rrep777.pdf</p><p>We are currently evaluating the Shared Parental Leave and Pay schemes. As a part of this, we are commissioning a new survey which will provide updated information. Subject to the progress of data collection, we anticipate publishing findings in Summer 2019.</p> question first answered 20/11/2018 16:43:25 answering member 4487
	creator	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1002150

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:24:14
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:43:34 21/11/2018 17:31:02
	hansard heading	Fossil Fuels
	house id	1
	identifier	188093
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	21/11/2018 16:59:27
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the viability of removing fossil fuels from the UK's energy generation mix.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188093
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188093
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Our Clean Growth Strategy set out the Government’s ambition for a diverse electricity system that supplies our homes and businesses with secure, affordable and clean power.[1]</p><p>We have already committed to phasing out generating power from coal by 2025[2] and recognise that reducing emissions in the power sector means developing low carbon sources of electricity that are both cheap and clean.</p><p> </p><p>There is a number of decarbonisation pathways that balance the role of clean power sources with the use of fossil fuel generation such as from gas. These include those outlined in our Clean Growth Strategy[3], and the latest BEIS Energy and Emissions Projections.[4]</p><p> </p><p>[1] See: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy</a></p><p>[2] See: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/coal-generation-in-great-britain-the-pathway-to-a-low-carbon-future" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/coal-generation-in-great-britain-the-pathway-to-a-low-carbon-future</a></p><p>[3] See: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy</a></p><p>[4] See: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2017</a></p> question first answered 21/11/2018 16:59:27 answering member 3974
	creator	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

964005

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/09/2018
	date	24/07/2018
	date tabled	24/07/2018
	ddp created	03/09/2018 17:16:43
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	04/09/2018 14:55:04 07/01/2019 17:49:01
	hansard heading	UK Relations with EU
	house id	1
	identifier	169344
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	07/01/2019 17:17:35
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions officials in his Department's Europe Unit had with representatives of EU member states and EU institutions prior to 12 July 2018 on the content of the White Paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 169344
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	169344
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In the run up to the publication of the White Paper, there was regular engagement with our EU counterparts, but no copies were shared with other Member States.</p><p> </p><p>Work to support this required a cross-government effort, including close collaboration the Cabinet Office Europe Unit, the Department for Exiting the European Union and other Government departments.</p><p> </p> question first answered 07/01/2019 17:17:35 answering member 15
	creator	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1002498

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/11/2018
	date	06/11/2018
	date tabled	06/11/2018
	ddp created	06/11/2018 20:33:32
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/11/2018 20:36:09 20/11/2018 17:39:01
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Questions
	house id	2
	identifier	HL11339
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/11/2018 17:07:56
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) oral questions, and (2) written questions, tabled by members of the House of Lords they considered not to relate to matters of Government responsibility in the last 3 months.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL11339
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL11339
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p><strong>The requested information is not readily available. The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</strong></p> question first answered 20/11/2018 17:07:56 answering member 57
	creator	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

1002497

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/11/2018
	date	06/11/2018
	date tabled	06/11/2018
	ddp created	06/11/2018 20:33:31
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/11/2018 20:36:07 20/11/2018 17:39:03
	hansard heading	Former Prime Ministers
	house id	2
	identifier	HL11338
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/11/2018 17:07:34
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what costs were incurred in relation to each former Prime Minister for (1) policing, and (2) transport, including use of the RAF Voyager aircraft reserved for royal and government travel in each of the last three years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Stevens of Ludgate
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL11338
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL11338
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Cabinet Office’s transparency data publications cover the current Prime Minister only. Details of the Prime Minister’s overseas travel are published quarterly and are available on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</a></p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide detailed information on the costs incurred for security to protected individuals or groups. To do so would compromise the integrity of the security arrangements of the individuals concerned.</p> question first answered 20/11/2018 17:07:34 answering member 57
	creator	2227 label Biography information for Lord Stevens of Ludgate
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	2227 label Biography information for Lord Stevens of Ludgate

1002492

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/11/2018
	date	06/11/2018
	date tabled	06/11/2018
	ddp created	06/11/2018 20:33:25
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/11/2018 20:35:57 20/11/2018 17:41:01
	hansard heading	Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group
	house id	2
	identifier	HL11333
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/11/2018 16:57:28
	question first ministerially corrected	20/11/2018 17:09:59
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what role, if any, the Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group (NSSIG) has within the Cabinet Office; and how the role and responsibilities of the NSSIG differs from those of the Integrated Delivery Board.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL11333
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL11333
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The requested information is not readily available. The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. </del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong><em> </em></strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">National Security Strategy and Implementation Groups (NSSIGs) were established after the 2017 National Security Capability Review to support the delivery of national security priority programmes, including by better utilising the full range of national security capabilities. Each NSSIG is chaired by a Senior Responsible Official (SRO), who is accountable to the National Security Council.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Gulf Delivery Board has not met since the establishment of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG, which subsumed its primary roles and responsibilities in April 2018. Cabinet Office officials are members of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG and attend all meetings. The Cabinet Office also provides some secretariat support to the NSSIG, alongside that provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</ins></p><p> </p> question first answered 20/11/2018 16:57:28 answering member 57
	creator	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

998905

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/11/2018
	date	31/10/2018
	date tabled	31/10/2018
	ddp created	31/10/2018 21:30:06
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	31/10/2018 21:35:35 20/11/2018 17:57:01
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Data Protection
	house id	2
	identifier	HL11157
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/11/2018 17:56:10
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 5 June (HL7937), what is the status of their review of existing electoral registration legislation; and what discussions on supporting democratic engagement they have held with political parties.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Gilbert of Panteg
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL11157
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL11157
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government has been working to ensure there is legal and operational clarity for political parties and elected representatives, including considering the scope for amendments to secondary legislation on electoral registers to reflect changes made in the Data Protection Act 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We intend to discuss this further with the Parliamentary Parties Panel in due course.</p> question first answered 20/11/2018 17:56:10 answering member 57
	creator	4543 label Biography information for Lord Gilbert of Panteg
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4543 label Biography information for Lord Gilbert of Panteg

964398

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/09/2018
	date	03/09/2018
	date tabled	03/09/2018
	ddp created	03/09/2018 17:31:11
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	03/09/2018 18:05:09 10/01/2019 13:09:01
	hansard heading	Lutfur Rahman
	house id	1
	identifier	169062
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/01/2019 12:38:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government Minister authorised the press statement issued by the Cabinet Office Press Department on 15 July 2018 on the legal costs associated with the Tower Hamlets Election Court case against Lutfur Rahman.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 169062
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	169062
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In order to satisfy the high volume and varied nature of media queries in a prompt manner, not all responses issued by departmental spokespeople to journalists are required to be individually approved by ministers. Information is routinely provided by government media officers to help journalists understand the policies and the background of the department’s policy</p> question first answered 10/01/2019 12:38:00 answering member 1609
	creator	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead