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1111068

registered interest
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 This Policy was withdrawn and replaced with a new approach to the monitoring and management of strategic suppliers through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the government and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

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

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

1109889

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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 what plans they have, if any, to assess the likely level of personation that could occur at polling stations in the May 2019 local elections; and whether they will obtain from Electoral Registration Officers for those elections the number of tendered ballot papers issued in each local authority area.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL15081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collate information on allegations of electoral fraud, including personation, at elections and in due course will publish a report covering all polls held in 2019.</p><p>The Government has no plans to ask Electoral Registration Officers to provide information on the number of tendered ballot papers issued in each local authority. Whilst details of tendered ballot papers issued 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 question first answered 11/04/2019 11:34:10 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

1109565

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many electors were removed from the electoral registers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in each year since the EU referendum in 2016; and what percentage of the register this represents.
tabling member printed	Lord Hughes of Woodside
uin	HL15034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Information on annual deletions from and additions to the electoral registers by nation is not held centrally by the Government. Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains their own register for the area for which they are responsible. Headline registration statistics are collated and published annually by the Office for National Statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL15035 question first answered 11/04/2019 11:35:22 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1051 label Biography information for Lord Hughes of Woodside

1109566

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many electors have been added to the electoral register of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2016; and what percentage this represents in each case.
tabling member printed	Lord Hughes of Woodside
uin	HL15035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Information on annual deletions from and additions to the electoral registers by nation is not held centrally by the Government. Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains their own register for the area for which they are responsible. Headline registration statistics are collated and published annually by the Office for National Statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL15034 question first answered 11/04/2019 11:35:22 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1051 label Biography information for Lord Hughes of Woodside

1109581

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Resignations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many ministers, including Government Whips, have resigned since the 2017 General Election.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL15050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer my noble friend to my answer of 4 December 2018 [HL 11735], since when nine ministers have resigned from the Government.</p><p> </p><p>The number of ministers appointed to Her Majesty's Government, and the roles to which they are appointed, will vary from time to time. Since 4 December, nine ministers have joined the Government.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 17/04/2019 12:16:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

1109306

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Elections: Candidates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether UK parliamentary candidates are permitted to sign a pledge to another nation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL15023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Candidates at UK parliamentary elections must comply with the requirements for standing as a candidate at these elections. Otherwise, candidates enjoy the same freedom of expression as applicable to all citizens.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 11/04/2019 16:05:16 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1108837

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Conditions of Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have received about parity of conditions between employees of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL14944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has not assessed or received any representations on the parity of conditions between employees of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Further to my response to the Noble Lord Goodlad on the 21 March (HL14735), the Government can confirm that terms and conditions for civil servants below the Senior Civil Service have been to a great extent, and within certain central parameters, in particular those set out in the Civil Service Management Code, formally ‘delegated’ to departments. Accordingly, inter-departmental differences in relation to terms and conditions exist.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Diplomatic Service is a separate Civil Service from the main (UK) Civil Service and is managed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 08/04/2019 12:12:37 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1105824

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Honours
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 26 March (HL Deb, col 1709), what plans they have to fill the vacancies in the Order of the Companions of Honour.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL14910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>There are currently only two vacancies in the Order of the Companions of Honour. The maximum membership of the Order is 65 people. There have been 28 appointments to the Order since 2014, including five appointments in 2018 and one in 2019. The independent honours committees work closely with Government departments to seek and attract nominees with a wide breadth of outstanding achievement. The committees actively seek to make use of the Order.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 02/04/2019 12:44:35 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden