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1111068

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date	10/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Interserve
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the Cabinet Office designation of Interserve as a high risk supplier in June 2018, how that designation was communicated to all Government departments and agencies.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill
uin	HL15197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>As stated in the Strategic Supplier Risk Management Policy that applied in June 2018, the Government does not publish whether or not a strategic supplier is designated as high risk. This Policy was withdrawn and replaced with a new approach to the monitoring and management of strategic suppliers through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the government and each of its strategic suppliers.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 23/04/2019 08:48:56 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3125 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill

1111078

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Environment Protection: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of income that has been raised by HM Treasury from the Carbon Price Support in each year since it was introduced on 1 April 2013 to the present.
tabling member printed	Lord Teverson
uin	HL15204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>Carbon Price Support (CPS) is implemented through the CPS rates of both Climate Change Levy and Fuel Duty.</p><p>It is estimated that since April 2013 £5bn has been received from CPS, broken down by year as shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£bn</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>* = data only available for part of year.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 25/04/2019 10:53:26 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3789 label Biography information for Lord Teverson

1110675

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions: Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what evaluation they have made of the proposal by the retailer Timpsons that national insurance holidays be introduced as an incentive for employers to take on former prisoners, armed forces veterans, or long-term unemployed individuals.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL15139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed in its manifesto to introduce a National Insurance holiday for employers who take on:</p><p>- those who have committed a crime but who have repaid their debt to society;</p><p>- veterans;</p><p>- and those who have been unemployed for over a year.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out any changes as part of the annual fiscal event process, in the context of broader government work on employment support, and the wider public finances.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 25/04/2019 10:55:06 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1110683

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inheritance Tax: Siblings
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 Bates on 9 April (HL14826), what considerations led them to set aside their proposal to establish a working party on the fiscal disadvantages experienced by sibling couples.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL15147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government keeps all taxes under review. The Office of Tax Simplification are reviewing inheritance tax and will make recommendations that the Government will consider.</p><p> </p><p>The inheritance tax treatment of married couples and civil partners reflects their unique legal relationship, and extending this treatment to siblings would incur an Exchequer cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 25/04/2019 10:53:04 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

1110702

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
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 adequacy of their vetting procedures when awarding contracts for Government support services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill
uin	HL15166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government requires that National Security Vetting is conducted to the same standard for all employees in sensitive roles, including those working for government support services. Vetting is conducted centrally by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV). Vetting policy, which sits with the Cabinet Office, applies equally to government personnel and private-sector employees on government contracts.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Cabinet Office encourages all government departments to uphold a set of minimum personnel security standards and these may be applicable for certain industry roles. ‘Support services’ is a broad category and could include everything from cleaning and catering to IT provision, security and administration. In that context different roles will have very different requirements and approaches are flexed depending on the risk. It is the responsibility of individual government departments to determine their security needs for each contract that they enter into. The requirement for vetting will be decided based on a given role’s access to sensitive assets, facilities or materials.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>The procedures by which a private-sector company or contractor can gain a vetting clearance are currently designed to prioritise security as opposed to ubiquity; individuals must be able to demonstrate they will be working on an active government contract before being granted a clearance. This ensures tighter control of who is cleared, for what purpose and for how long.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>A comprehensive, cross-government review of National Security Vetting is underway. This will examine potential reforms in vetting for the private-sector – including how we can improve the timeliness of security clearance and reduce the administrative burden of it for small and medium enterprises.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 23/04/2019 08:50:00 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3125 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill

1110704

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	World Economy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of a recent International Monetary Fund forecast regarding the impact of a no-deal Brexit as a risk to global economic growth.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL15168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The government has not assessed the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook April 2019 publication. The IMF is an independent organisation. Their analysis of the UK and global economy represents their own views.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 25/04/2019 10:52:11 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1110148

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector
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 relative merits of public services being run directly by public service operations in comparison to private contractors.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL15116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Outsourcing is an important component in a “mixed economy” of government service provision which includes in-house and the voluntary sector. Research commissioned by the previous government has shown that outsourcing can deliver savings of some twenty to thirty percent.</p><p>Decisions on whether to outsource any particular service are made on a case by case basis according to Treasury guidance and the newly published Outsourcing Playbook. This guidance aims to ensure government makes well evidenced assessments when deciding whether to outsource a public service and helps government and industry work better together to deliver high quality public services.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 23/04/2019 08:50:42 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

1109890

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Yemen: Arms Trade
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 Ahmad of Wimbledon on 28 March (HL14604), whether third parties have provided information specifically about weapons made or sold by British companies and then used in Yemen; and if so, whether they will publish (1) that information, and (2) their assessment of it.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL15082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>We are aware that some UK licensed weapons have been used by Saudi Arabia in the conflict in Yemen. We examine every export licence application rigorously on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, including an assessment of whether there is a clear risk that the items might be used in the commission of a serious violation of international humanitarian law (IHL). We regularly raise the importance of compliance with IHL with the Saudi Arabian Government and other members of the Coalition and draw on a range of sources in making assessments, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international organisations and continue to monitor the situation closely, seeking further information where appropriate. We welcome any further information NGOs and international organisations can provide. The Department for International Trade publish export licensing statistics quarterly, which can be found on the gov.uk website.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 18/04/2019 14:37:30 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans