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1658454

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answers on 30 January (HL4799) and 13 February (HL5334), which stakeholders requested traffic marshals prior to their introduction and to whom those requests were communicated.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL9890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>A wide range of stakeholders were engaged before the implementation of the one-way traffic management system by Strategic Estates Construction Management Team. The key stakeholder groups were Parliamentary Safety Assurance Board (PSAB) and the Logistics Steering Group, a sub-group of PSAB. Concerns for stakeholders were the management of interface between pedestrians and traffic, the need to accommodate quick changes to traffic management due to events or incidents, and that Police are there for security and not to direct traffic. As such, traffic marshals were identified as best practice to meet the needs of the Estate. The traffic management solution, including use of traffic marshals, was approved by PSAB and the Logistics Steering Group prior to implementation.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 19/09/2023 14:19:16 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1587982

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answers on 30 January (HL4799) and 13 February (HL5205), whether a review will be conducted of the cost involved of having traffic controllers stationed on the parliamentary estate during the current building works; and what assessment has been made of the proportionality of that cost to the risks identified.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL5748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>Strategic Estates are reviewing the number of traffic marshals on the Parliamentary estate, including the cost. A period of review is necessary to analyse the operation and impact of the one-way system and the role of traffic marshals. The review will look to reduce the number of marshals, if appropriate.</p><p>When building work is undertaken on the estate there is an obligation to do everything reasonably practicable to ensure safety and minimise the impact to the business of both Houses. The introduction of traffic marshals was based on risk assessments and follows the published guidance from the Health and Safety Executive. The guidance states that pedestrians and traffic should be segregated on construction sites. As this is not possible on the Parliamentary Estate, additional mitigations are required. It is deemed, therefore, that traffic controllers on the estate are necessary while construction work is taking place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 07/03/2023 12:35:17 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1584728

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 1 February (HL4851), who he consulted when preparing his answer; and what oversight mechanisms exist to scrutinise the design and cost of security projects for the House of Lords.
	tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
	uin	HL5454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Security Department and Strategic Estates teams were consulted when preparing the answer to HL4851, along with House of Lords Administration officials.<br></p><p>The design and cost of security projects for Parliament go through rigorous internal scrutiny. The Clerk of the Parliaments and Clerk of the House, as Accounting and Corporate Officers, have responsibility for approving final business cases for security projects across the Parliamentary Estate, subject to advice from the Finance Directors and other relevant officials.<br></p><p>The Clerk of the Parliaments’ decisions on security projects are informed by consultation with the House of Lords Commission, which ensures that the impact on Members is taken into account, and by the Finance Committee which receives regular reports regarding security expenditure. There is also significant oversight by the Finance Director. The Clerk of the House is informed by the equivalent groups and individuals in the House of Commons. Ultimately it is not the House that makes the final decision because security is a bicameral issue, and legal responsibility for safety sits with the Clerk of the Parliaments and Clerk of the House.<br></p><p>Governance of the Security Programme for Parliament is provided by the Quarterly Review Group (QRG). Membership includes the Clerk of the House of Commons and Clerk of the Parliaments, the Finance Directors of both Houses, the Chief Operating Officer of the House of Lords and DG Operations of the House of Commons, and a non-executive external advisor (the Director of Property for the Royal Household).<br></p><p>The Parliamentary Security Department and Strategic Estates also consult external experts, including the Metropolitan Police Service, the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, and Historic England to inform the Security Programme.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/02/2023 11:56:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

1583967

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2023
	answering body	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept id	213
	answering dept short name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept sort name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the total expenditure on Restoration and Renewal to date; and whether he can provide a breakdown on how it has been allocated.
	tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
	uin	HL5392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body and Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority were established in April and May 2020 respectively. From their establishment until the end of March 2022, those bodies spent £216.5m on the Restoration and Renewal Programme (this includes £5m of costs in April 2020 before the Delivery Authority was formally incorporated). A breakdown is provided in the table below.</p><p>The total forecast spend for the current financial year (2022-23) is £80m for the Delivery Authority and £7m for the Sponsor Body/R&amp;R Client Team (the Client Team having taken over the sponsor function for the programme from the Sponsor Body on 1 January 2023).</p><p>Both the Sponsor Body and Delivery Authority routinely published information on costs, for instance in quarterly reports, annual reports, and memoranda provided to the Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission. This transparency will continue under the R&amp;R Client Team.</p><p><strong>Expenditure on the Restoration and Renewal Programme</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br> <strong>Spend area</strong></p></td><td><p><br> <strong>Total spend in 2020-21 and 2021-22 (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Sponsor Body costs</p></td><td><p><br> 26.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Palace of Westminster Design</p></td><td><p><br> 56.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> House of Lords Decant</p></td><td><p><br> 9.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Heritage Collections Decant</p></td><td><p><br> 2.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Programme Management</p></td><td><p><br> 40.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Delivery Authority Corporate Functions</p></td><td><p><br> 23.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Data and Digital</p></td><td><p><br> 55.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Non-cash adjustments and central provisions</p></td><td><p><br> 2.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Total</p></td><td><p><br> 216.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These figures do not include House of Lords staff costs or costs of parliamentary scrutiny of R&amp;R through committees or in the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/02/2023 16:48:57 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

1583128

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 30 January (HL4799), what training is given to the traffic marshals; how long is the duration of the training; what qualifications they are required to possess; and what legal authority they have to direct and stop traffic.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robathan
	uin	HL5334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>Traffic marshals require specialist training specific to their role. As a minimum, the Parliamentary Marshal team has National Plant Operators Registration Scheme (NPORS) Vehicle Banksman Training.<br></p><p>Training includes a minimum of one day practical (on-site) training and additional classroom training. All candidates are required to complete the NPORS health and safety test and assessment. On successful completion candidates are issued with a NPORS Operators’ Card which is valid for five years.<br></p><p>Some Marshals, including those who are supervisors or managers, have chosen to gain additional qualifications. These include:<br></p><ul><li>The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Vehicle Marshal</li></ul><ul><li>Construction Plant Competence Scheme Plant and Vehicle Marshal A73<br></li></ul><p>The Traffic Marshals direct vehicles and pedestrians on the Parliamentary estate to minimise the potential for incidents and to mitigate risk identified within the traffic management risk assessments. The team do not have legal authority to stop vehicles.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/02/2023 11:06:53 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	334 label Biography information for Lord Robathan

1568377

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what recent estimate he has made of the cost of replacing the door at Peers Entrance; and how this differs from the original estimate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
	uin	HL4851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>The cost of works to replace the door at Peers’ Entrance has increased due to delays caused by issues unearthed during initial surveys and other works taking place in the nearby area. Increases were also caused by inflation, which meant tender returns came back higher than estimated.</p><p>For security reasons, the Houses do not publish capital expenditure on security mitigating projects as providing this level of detail could enable an individual to infer the extent and nature of the works, and thus the vulnerabilities which they were intended to mitigate.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 01/02/2023 15:11:09 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

1567021

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the cost of the traffic controllers stationed on the road between Black Rod's Entrance and New Palace Yard during the current building works; how long will those staff be employed; and what evidence there is for the need for those controllers, illustrated by (1) vehicle, or (2) pedestrian, casualties over the last 10 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robathan
	uin	HL4799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>There are four traffic marshals stationed on the road between Black Rod’s Garden and New Palace Yard (also called the ‘spine road’); there is one marshal in Royal Court, two along the road itself, and one in Speaker’s Court.</p><p>Other marshals are located elsewhere -one at Carriage Gates, one outside Westminster Hall, one on the Corus Lane/Peers’ Car Park and one in Black Rod’s Garden. There is also one marshal supervisor and two relief marshals to provide shift and break cover. This makes 11 marshals. The total cost for all marshals per week is £12,588.</p><p>Marshals will be in place while construction work is underway as part of the New Palace Yard Security Project. The intention is to reduce the number of marshals on the spine road, and elsewhere in the Palace, once users become more confident with the new arrangement. Strategic Estates are tracking and reviewing the system daily. Any remaining marshals may be deployed where our current monitoring of the one-way system identifies the most need.</p><p>The need for traffic marshals is not a consequence of vehicle or pedestrian causalities but is based on risk assessments, traffic modelling carried out prior to the operation of the one-way system, stakeholder requests, and construction industry best practice. On construction sites pedestrians and traffic are almost always segregated, but where this is not possible, such as on the Parliamentary Estate, additional mitigations are required.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 30/01/2023 16:48:32 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	334 label Biography information for Lord Robathan

1672031

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2023
	answering body	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept id	213
	answering dept short name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept sort name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, following the professional and technical advice received by both Houses that a partial decant is both more risky and expensive than a full decant, why a partial decant is still being considered as an option for Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster.
	tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
	uin	HL458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>In July 2023 the Restoration and Renewal (R&amp;R) Client Board endorsed the R&amp;R Programme Board’s recommended shortlist of R&amp;R delivery options. This included a “full decant” option where both Houses move out of the Palace at the same time (with the Commons prioritised for earlier return) and an option whereby the House of Commons would maintain a “continued presence” in varying locations in the Palace during the works and the House of Lords would move out of the Palace. The Client Board has also requested that a fallback option of enhanced maintenance and improvement forms part of further detailed design work on these options to inform a decision on the preferred way forward in due course, currently expected in 2025.</p><p>The Client Board considered it important that more than one option should be subject to further detailed design work and analysis in order to meet the spirit of the new mandate for R&amp;R agreed by both Houses last year and to reflect that members of both Houses have differing views about how the programme can best be delivered.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/11/2023 17:55:12 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

1545540

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2022
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether (1) acquired, or (2) restored, buildings as part of the Restoration and Renewal project will have a target of 15 per cent female-only toilet facilities.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL3784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The two Houses have recently agreed a new approach to the restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster, as set out in the Joint Report of the two Commissions (HL Paper 19) and in the resolution passed by the House on 13 July [HL deb. Col. 1497]. The new approach asks for different levels of ambition and a broader range of options for delivering the works to be considered. At this early stage in the development of proposals no targets have been agreed for the provision of toilet facilities in either (1) acquired or (2) restored buildings. Proposals for the restoration works require parliamentary approval, as set out in section 7 of the Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/12/2022 12:09:32 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1693107

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	answering body	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept id	213
	answering dept short name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept sort name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what has been the cost of the Restoration and Renewal programme to date; and whether there are any plans to scale-back future costs.
	tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
	uin	HL2963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The total cost of the R&amp;R Programme, from 2020-21 until the end of 2022-23, is £297m. This includes the costs of the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body and Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority which were established in April and May 2020 respectively (including £5m of costs in April 2020 before the Delivery Authority was formally incorporated). It also includes the costs of Restoration and Renewal Client Team, which took over the sponsor function for the programme from the Sponsor Body in January 2023.</p><p>The total forecast spend for the current financial year (2023-24) is £83m, which includes the costs of the Delivery Authority and the R&amp;R Client Team.</p><p>The Delivery Authority’s Main Estimate for 2024-25 is currently subject to parliamentary scrutiny and approval. As well as parliamentary approval being required for the initial budget provision, the Delivery Authority’s expenditure is subject to regular scrutiny and challenge throughout the financial year including by the R&amp;R Client Team and House finance teams, Delivery Authority Board, R&amp;R Programme Board, R&amp;R Client Board and Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission.</p><p>The Delivery Authority’s funding is based on what is required to deliver the key activities tasked to it by the R&amp;R Client Team. The Delivery Authority seeks to ensure that its expenditure remains taut and proportionate for the activities required to deliver the Programme and constantly re-assesses its resources, scaling up or down as appropriate. The R&amp;R Programme routinely publishes information on costs, for instance in quarterly reports, annual reports, and memoranda provided to the Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 13/03/2024 13:26:23 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott