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1650114

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Treasury: Flags
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their reason for replacing the Union Jack flag flying above His Majesty's Treasury with a flag to celebrate Gay Pride.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL9018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>Following instruction from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (the government department responsible for informing other departments regarding flag flying protocol), for the assigned period the flag in recognition of Pride month was flown over 100 Parliament Street. This is the official and principal address and entrance for the following Departments:</p><ul><li><p>HM Revenue and Customs</p></li><li><p>Department of Culture, Media and Sport</p></li><li><p>Department of Science, Innovation and Technology</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>The Union Flag was flown during the same period at 1 Horse Guards Road, the official and principal address and entrance for the following Departments:</p><ul><li><p>HM Treasury</p></li><li><p>UK Export Finance</p></li><li><p>Northern Ireland Office</p></li><li><p>Cabinet Office</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>This has been confirmed with the operatives who manage the flags process for designated flying days.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 18/07/2023 15:12:58 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1602992

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: CCTV
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the security cameras installed in the combined government offices at Quay House in Peterborough, which includes the offices of the Passport Office, Natural England and Joint Nature Conservation Committee, are supplied by Hikvision. [I]
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL6293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive administrations, it is not government policy to comment on the security arrangements of government departments. Specific details regarding the security systems used by departments are withheld on national security grounds.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/03/2023 17:01:35 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1600116

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what internal disciplinary action has been taken against officials who were fined for breaking Covid rules.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>The Metropolitan Police have made clear that they have issued Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) in private and the identities of recipients will not be released to the public or to their employer.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations, the Government does not comment on individual personnel matters.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/03/2023 12:14:24 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1600117

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many civil servants were employed in each government department in each year from 2015 to the present day.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>Civil service headline employment numbers by government departments on both a headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE) basis are published each quarter by ONS as part of their Quarterly Public Sector Employment release. The quarterly data from June 2011 to September 2022 (the latest published data) are available at Table 9 of each of the quarterly datasets from the link below, and has been collated into the attached.</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 06/03/2023 11:46:19 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name QPSES Civil Service Headcount 2015-2022.xlsx title Civil Service Employment Data
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1599718

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Relations with EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which official or officials recommended that the President of the European Commission should have a high-level political meeting with HM The King.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government operates on the principle of collective responsibility. The Government would not normally comment on the internal processes of how such advice is determined.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 13/03/2023 13:00:32 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1599719

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many civil servants who were issued fixed-penalty notices in relation to gatherings in Downing Street that broke the COVID-19 rules, are still working in any of the buildings in Downing Street.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information; this was an operational matter for the Metropolitan Police.</p><p><br>Notwithstanding, I would refer the noble peer to the report published by the Second Permanent Secretary of 25 May 2022, and the Government's response of 25 May 2022, Official Report, House of Commons, Cols. 295-297.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/03/2023 15:38:51 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1583445

registered interest
date	02/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: a:gender
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the activities of a:gender within Government departments, including its support for a statement by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention dated 29 November 2022 which describes the gender critical movement as “fascist” and “genocidal”.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>A:gender is one of the cross-government networks which operates across the Civil Service. All of these networks are expected to operate within the Civil Service Code and its values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/02/2023 14:09:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

709123

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Regulation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the creation of an international financial services regulator to take on the role of financial services regulation currently undertaken by EU and UK organisations.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>We retain our commitment to close international regulatory cooperation, including with the remaining EU. The detail of how existing cooperation will translate into our future relationship will be an important part of discussions with European partners.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 14/03/2017 15:41:26 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

683624

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Wines: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many imported bottles of wine were sampled in each of the last five years, in order to check for fraud and forgery, broken down by samples from (1) EU member states, and (2) the rest of the world.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is responsible for protecting the Exchequer from alcohol duty fraud. The majority of this fraud in the UK relates to the diversion of genuine products, without payment of duty. HMRC has a published strategy for dealing with alcohol fraud. This is risk-based and sampling does not form part of this approach.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/02/2017 14:29:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

670155

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Overseas Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the report by the Cambridge Centre for Business Research in its report <i>The Macro-Economic Impact of Brexit</i>, as revised in January 2017, which concluded that the pre-referendum analysis by HM Treasury of the potential impact of Brexit on various outcomes for trade outside the EU was flawed, who drafted the forecasts, and what ministerial scrutiny was given to those forecasts prior to publication.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Treasury published its analysis on the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives in April 2016, and it was approved by ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to undertake a range of analysis to inform the UK’s position for the upcoming EU exit negotiations. We are seeking the best possible arrangements for the United Kingdom and the work being conducted reflects this.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/01/2017 16:08:09 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra