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date	03/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Unemployment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are their definitions of worklessness and workless family, and how those definitions were decided.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL3232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 16:34:10 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley attachment 1 file name HL3232.pdf Attachment.pdf title Attachment from ONS
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

425874

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Strategic Defence and Security Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect the Strategic Defence and Security Review to be (1) completed, and (2) published.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL3272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>Work on the Strategic Defence and Security Review is progressing well and we expect it to be completed and published by the end of the year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 16:35:10 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

425880

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether steps are being taken to amend European Union procurement rules to ensure more United Kingdom companies' involvement in government projects.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL3278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The new EU Directive on Public Procurement was transposed in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, which came into effect earlier this year. The Regulations implement a range of reforms, including offering flexibility for contracting authorities to take into account relevant wider social and economic considerations, where consistent with best value for money, in Government procurement activities. We have also published new Cabinet Office guidance which will help steel suppliers compete on a level playing field with international suppliers for major government contracts.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 16:34:58 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

425892

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
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 Bridges of Headley on 21 July (HL1392), whether, in the light of the collapse of Kids Company, they will now publish a list of charities receiving significant donations from government departments or the National Health Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The 2014/15 government Grants Register will be published in the coming months by the Grants Efficiency Programme in the Cabinet Office. The Register includes high level details on all central government grant schemes, not just those to charities. It does not include details of all recipients or grants made by the NHS or local authorities. To improve sharing of information on grant awards, the Grants Efficiency Programme is developing a grants data repository.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 16:43:06 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

425258

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will ensure that local electoral registration offices in England and Wales work closely with schools, as has been done in Northern Ireland, to increase the number of young people registered to vote.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL3184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) in Great Britain already work with their local schools and colleges to identify and register young people.</p><p>In a report before the start of the current canvass of electors in Great Britain, the Electoral Commission called on all EROs to update their local public engagement strategies for the canvass. The Commission noted that strategies should reflect the activity EROs intended to carry out to target under-registered groups, such as attainers.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 16:32:59 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

425276

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Natural Disasters
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.
tabling member printed	Lord Crisp
uin	HL3202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK adopted the Sendai Framework in March 2015. The UK has a range of robust mechanisms in place for dealing with disasters and reducing disaster risk. The National Focal Point for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, recently attended the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, the regional body responsible for tracking progress against the Sendai targets. Implementation of the Sendai Framework is at an early stage, but work is ongoing within the UK to further improve domestic disaster risk reduction, and sharing best practice and building capability overseas – including through peer review, highlighted in the Sendai Framework as a means to strengthen disaster risk governance. The UK volunteered to be the subject of the first international peer review in 2012, and UK experts have subsequently taken part in peer reviews in Bulgaria and Finland.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 12:21:22 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	3783 label Biography information for Lord Crisp

425294

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Telephone Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bates, Lord Faulks, and Lord Bridges of Headley on 21 September (HL2010, HL2011, HL2014), to what extent they are examining the potential use of Automatic Speaker Verification in respect of the detection of fraudulent telephone access to government services.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL3220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The government currently has no plans to introduceAutomatic Speaker Verification in respect of the detection of fraudulent telephone access to government services.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 17/11/2015 12:20:48 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk