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905321

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government at what level in Government the drafting instructions to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel for the original clause 11 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill were approved; and whether they were approved at Ministerial level.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL7912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The policy for clause 11 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, as introduced to Parliament, was approved by the Cabinet through the standard processes for collective agreement. Drafting instructions to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to give legal effect to this policy were approved at official level in accordance with normal practice. The final drafting of the clause was then collectively agreed by the Cabinet for introduction of the Bill.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:11:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

904248

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Security
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to incorporate the Chilcot Checklist into the Cabinet Manual.
tabling member printed	Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
uin	HL7826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Chilcot Checklist is a guide to aid decision-making during planning and implementation, developed by Partners Across Government. It aligns with both military values and the Civil Service Code.</p><p> </p><p>We will undertake an update of the Cabinet Manual once the UK has left the EU, and will determine at that time what revisions are necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:04:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4189 label Biography information for Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield

901412

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the role of the House of Lords Appointments Commission in relation to the forthcoming hereditary by-election.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL7739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The House of Lords Appointments Commission does not have a role in the hereditary by-election process. Under the Standing Orders of the House, this process is conducted in accordance with arrangements made by the Clerk of the Parliaments.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:01:16 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

901414

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Politics and Government: Sexual Harassment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to updating (1) the Ministerial Code of Conduct, (2) the Special Advisers Code of Conduct, and (3) the Civil Service Code of Conduct, in response to allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in public life and the awareness raised by the MeToo campaign.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL7741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Ministerial Code was revised in January 2018 to include new wording to make clear that harassing, bullying or other inappropriate or discriminatory behaviour wherever it takes place is not consistent with the Ministerial Code and will not be tolerated. We will be looking to make similar amendments to the Civil Service Code and the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:02:58 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

901417

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the breakdown by sector in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL7744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Kennedy of Southwark, dated 17 May 2018.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em></em></p><p>Dear Lord Kennedy,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the breakdown is, by sector, in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018 <strong>(HL7744).</strong></p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) trade statistics are currently produced on a product basis and not by industry sector. However, we are engaged in a wide development of UK trade statistics and are working towards producing our trade statistics by industry sector for the latter end of 2018. Further details can be found in our published trade development plan.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p>You can find data on trade in goods and services in the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/3tradeinservicesthepinkbook2016" target="_blank"><em>Quarterly Balance of Payments</em> release. </a>This data is broken down by service type and by goods commodity group. The latest data available is from 2017, and 2018 Quarter 1 data will be released on 29 June 2018. You can find the data on the ONS website[2], Table E for goods and Table F for services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we produce trade in goods further detail on a quarterly basis by <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08" target="_blank"><em>Classification of Product by Activity</em></a>, the latest data for which covers 2017 Quarter 4. This data can be accessed on the ONS website[3]; in Table 1 for total exports, Table 3 for EU exports and Table 5 for non-EU exports:</p><p> </p><p>You may also wish to note the latest export figures at an aggregate level via the UK Trade statistical bulletin[4] and corresponding publication[5].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/uktradedevelopmentplan/2017</p><p>[2]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/balanceofpaymentsstatisticalbulletintables</p><p>[3]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08</p><p>[4]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018</p><p>[5]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018/relateddata.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:13:13 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

901062

registered interest
date	09/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	British Constitution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Cabinet Office is presently structured at official level to address holistically the constitution of the UK; and, if so, how.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL7706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Constitution Group, based in the Cabinet Office, sits within the wider UK Governance Group which is also made up of the Scotland Office, the Office of the Advocate General and the Wales Office. Close links are also maintained across Whitehall departments in order to ensure constitutional issues are properly considered including in the appropriate Cabinet Committee.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:12:14 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

901067

registered interest
date	09/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many allegations of personation or attempted personation in the 2018 local elections in England have been reported to the police.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL7711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collates information on allegations of electoral fraud at elections and in due course will publish a report covering polls held in 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:07:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901069

registered interest
date	09/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to contact Returning Officers responsible for the conduct of the local elections in England in 2018 to ask how many tendered ballot papers were issued as a result of people turning up to a polling station to find that their vote had already been cast.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL7712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to ask Returning Officers to provide this information. It is for the Returning Officers to ensure they run free and fair elections. It is open to candidates, parties and accredited observers to scrutinise polls and raise any issues. Whilst details of tendered ballot papers issues are recorded at each polling station, numbers are not totalled and there is no requirement to record this number.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7713 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:08:27 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901070

registered interest
date	09/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Election 2017
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to contact Returning Officers responsible for the General Election in 2017 in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland, to ask how many tendered ballot papers were issued as a result of people turning up to a polling station to find that their vote had already been cast; and whether they will do so before 8 June when such lists will be destroyed.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL7713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to ask Returning Officers to provide this information. It is for the Returning Officers to ensure they run free and fair elections. It is open to candidates, parties and accredited observers to scrutinise polls and raise any issues. Whilst details of tendered ballot papers issues are recorded at each polling station, numbers are not totalled and there is no requirement to record this number.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7712 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:08:27 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901071

registered interest
date	09/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to provide funding for, and ask the Electoral Commission to undertake, a representative survey of people taken from the marked registers showing that a vote had been cast in their name at a polling station in the 2018 local elections so as to obtain an indication as to how many of them did not vote, but had a vote claimed by another person who attended the polling station.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL7714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level and is taking steps to ensure our elections are even more secure. At the 2018 local elections a number of local authorities volunteered to conduct Voter ID pilots to ensure that voters provided a form of identification before voting.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission will produce its own reports on the 2018 polls and will collate information on allegations of electoral fraud. The Government has no plans to ask the Electoral Commission to conduct an additional survey.</p><p> </p><p>Three further areas, Tower Hamlets Peterborough Slough undertook postal vote pilots looking at the security of postal votes. The Cabinet Office and Electoral Commission will undertake detailed evaluation of the pilots.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7715 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:09:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard