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date	09/05/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the regulatory impact of the Financial Conduct Authority authorisation of insolvency practitioners.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL8245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The government consulted extensively on its reforms to the consumer credit market prior to the transfer of regulation from the Office of Fair Trading to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in April 2014. The result of that consultation included the exclusion for insolvency practitioners when acting in reasonable contemplation of being appointed as an insolvency practitioner (IP).</p><p> </p><p>It remains the government’s view that when an insolvency practitioner is no longer acting in reasonable contemplation of being appointed as an IP, they must be authorised by the FCA if they wish to continue providing debt advice. There are no immediate plans to review this exclusion. However, the government does maintain an interest in the impact of regulation on the debt advice market.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA is thoroughly assessing every debt management firm’s fitness to trade as part of the authorisation process. The size of the debt advice market will not be known until this process is complete. The government will stay in contact with the FCA throughout the authorisation process to monitor the impact on customer journeys and capacity.</p><p> </p><p>For IPs concerned about the potential burden of FCA authorisation, the FCA has been clear that it takes a proportionate approach to setting fees. This includes imposing tiered fees based on the income a firm generates from its credit activities, ensuring that the smallest firms pay the lowest fees. There also remain other options for smaller firms to consider, including the appointed representative regime.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley grouped question UIN HL8243 HL8244 question first answered 11/05/2016 16:10:04 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

916539

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date	04/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to introduce legislation to ban the practice of alleged domestic abusers cross-examining their alleged victims in the family courts.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL8245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>We remain fully committed to addressing the issue of abusers directly cross-examining their victims in family proceedings. We want to legislate to give family courts the power to stop this as soon as possible and are considering how best to proceed.</p><p> </p><p>Family judges already have a range of powers they can use to make sure difficult courtroom situations are handled sensitively for vulnerable witnesses, such as putting questions to the witness from the bench.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 19/06/2018 10:45:49 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1235720

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date	17/09/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Greece: Migrant Camps
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to support victims of the fire at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL8245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The UK is responding to requests by the Greek Government to provide specific humanitarian goods and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is urgently making plans for the delivery of these goods.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 01/10/2020 16:25:21 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1642408

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date	06/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Politics and Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what measures are in place to ensure that the devolved administrations and His Majesty's Government learn from each other and, where appropriate, co-ordinate policy decisions.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL8245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government and the devolved administrations jointly agreed improved ways of working in January 2022. The new intergovernmental system ensures that ministers and officials are working together, across all areas, maintaining open channels of communication, discussing best practice and sharing learning from across the governments. Tackling our challenges is a shared endeavour and already this year there have been over 60 ministerial meetings between the Government and DAs on a wide range of issues</p><p>This collaboration has been vital in ensuring UK-wide join up, from tackling cost of living pressures to delivering the Homes for Ukraine which has helped over 117,000 people.</p><p>As set out in the Levelling Up White Paper, the UK Government is determined to do more to enable the sharing of evidence between the government and devolved administrations. The Concordat on Statistics provides a framework for statistical co-operation between the government and devolved administrations, and the UK Statistics Authority continues to lead on a suite of work to improve the UK-wide coherency of evidence in public policy-making.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 19/06/2023 15:35:19 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth