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693138

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2017 to Question 63244, whether the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund (PCPF) Trustee appointed by the Minister for the Civil Service has independently verified the professional advice received by the PCPF Trustee on the long-term risks to financial performance of the PCPF of that fund's investments in the fossil fuel extractive industry.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	65136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>There is no requirement or expectation for independent verification of professional advice.</p><p>Investment decisions within the Parliamentary Contributory Pensions Fund, including consideration of risks arising from investments in the fossil fuel extractive industry, are a matter for the Trustees who receive professional advice regarding decisions about the management of scheme assets.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 28/02/2017 11:34:50 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

692438

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the Financial Reporting Council placed the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund in the secondary tier for compliance with the Financial Stewardship code; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	64885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>The Financial Reporting Council assessed asset owners based on the quality of their written statement of compliance with the Stewardship Code.</p><p> </p><p>The Stewardship Code is available at <a href="http://www.frc.org.uk/Our-Work/Publications/Corporate-Governance/UK-Stewardship-Code-September-2012.pdf" target="_blank">www.frc.org.uk/Our-Work/Publications/Corporate-Governance/UK-Stewardship-Code-September-2012.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Trustees’ Secretariat are revising their statement of compliance to more accurately reflect the stewardship work that is currently being undertaken by the PCPF. The Fund aims to achieve tier 1 status once this work is complete.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 02/03/2017 13:26:13 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

692439

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2017 to Question 63244, from which organisations or individuals the Trustees of the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund (PCPF) sought professional advice regarding the long-term risks to the financial performance of the PCPF of that fund's investments in the fossil fuel extractive industry.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	64917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The professional investment advisors appointed by the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund Trustees are Hymans Robertson.</p><p>They have been employed by the PCPF Trustees as their professional investment advisors since 2008. The Trustees follow standard public procurement guidelines to appoint all professional advisors to the Fund.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/03/2017 10:12:30 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

685403

registered interest
date	06/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2017 to Question 61923, what assessment he has made of the long-term risks to the financial performance of the Parliamentary Contributory Pensions Fund of that funds' investments in the fossil fuel extractive industry.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	63244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>Investment decisions within the Parliamentary Contributory Pensions Fund, including consideration of risks arising from investments in the fossil fuel extractive industry, are a matter for the Trustees who receive professional advice regarding decisions about the management of scheme assets.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/02/2017 09:48:29 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

679106

registered interest
date	26/01/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions Ministers or officials of his Department have had with representatives of the Parliamentary Contributory Pensions Fund on the review of its Statement of Investment Principles.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	61923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2017 answer text <p>The Chair of Trustees of the Parliamentary Contributory Pensions Fund, Brian Donohoe MP, wrote to me in January to consult me about their review of the scheme’s Statement of Investment Principles (SIP). I have written back to the Trustees with my response.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 03/02/2017 09:32:37 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

516701

registered interest
date	28/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 84 of the Equality Analysis on the new contract for doctors and dentists in training in the NHS, published in March 2016, whether his Department plans to accept the recommendation for amendment of the draft new junior doctor contract to address the position of part-time doctors and advance equality of opportunity between women and men doctors; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	35973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Yes. This is explicit in paragraph 60 of Schedule 2 of the Terms and Conditions of Service published by NHS Employers on 31 March 2016.</p><p>In addition amendments have also been made to the provision for on-call availability with respect to doctors working less than full-time, transitional arrangements have been amended so that doctors who take approved time out of training are not disadvantaged on return to training and so that those doctors who have not completed their training by the end of the transition period (2019/20), because they are working less than full time, or need to take an approved break from training can have the transitional protection period extended by up to three years until August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 05/05/2016 08:39:03 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

513009

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Improvement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the legal status of NHS Improvement is; how and to whom that body is accountable; and what functions he has in relation to that body.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	34009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>NHS Improvement has brought together two distinct legal entities: Monitor, a non-departmental public body and the NHS Trust Development Authority, a special health authority, under a single leadership and operating model. It is a combination of the continuing statutory functions and legal powers vested in these organisations.</p><p> </p><p>They will continue to maintain their current legal underpinnings as two separate bodies, although they will function as a single organisation to manage NHS trusts and foundation trusts more effectively in the interests of patients and taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement will be accountable directly to Parliament, the Secretary of State and the Department’s Principal Accounting Officer for discharge of Monitor’s statutory and regulatory functions and to the Secretary of State and Principal Accounting Officer for the specific functions of the Trust Development Authority.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 22/04/2016 13:43:28 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

506542

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Improvement: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will designate NHS Improvement as a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	32973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>NHS Improvement is the operational name for an organisation that brings together Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority. It is a combination of the continuing statutory functions and legal powers vested in these organisations. Both these bodies are public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, and so NHS Improvement will continue to be subject to FOI requirements.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/04/2016 10:35:13 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas