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388021

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Ministry of Justice have given to ensuring that action is taken against all those who have not complied with their registration obligations; what weight the possible disadvantage to those who have paid their due fees is given in deciding whether to prosecute non-registration; and what assessment they have made of whether all those involved in the administration of justice are compliant.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Data Protection Act 1998 requires every data controller who is processing personal information to register with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) unless they are exempt. Failure to do so is a criminal offence.</p><p>The ICO’s website sets out the criteria for notification and provides guidance on the level of fee organisations should be paying. The ICO have also made it easier for organisations to notify and pay the fee by introducing online payments.</p><p>In 2014/15 the ICO brought eight prosecutions against organisations for non-notification and two prosecutions for wrong purposes.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice and the ICO are looking at the current funding model as part of negotiations on the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL1144 HL1146 question first answered 21/07/2015 13:14:42 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

388022

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Life Peers: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons nominated for a peerage for each of the political parties have been referred to the House of Lords Appointments Commission since 30 March.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL1148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my written answer of 23 June 2015 (HL371, HL372, HL373 and HL509), which I attach for ease of reference.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL1149 HL1151 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:50:55 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston attachment 1 file name HL371, HL372, HL373, HL509.pdf title HL371, HL372, HL373, HL509
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

388023

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Life Peers: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what dates in 2015 the names of persons nominated for a peerage were first communicated to the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL1149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my written answer of 23 June 2015 (HL371, HL372, HL373 and HL509), which I attach for ease of reference.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL1148 HL1151 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:50:55 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston attachment 1 file name HL371, HL372, HL373, HL509.pdf title HL371, HL372, HL373, HL509
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

388024

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Life Peers: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what dates since 30 March the House of Lords Appointments Commission has met to consider nominations for a peerage.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL1150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The independent House of Lords Appointments Commission (HoLAC) accounts for its proceedings in its Annual Report and publishes minutes of Commission meetings on its website: <a href="http://lordsappointments.independent.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://lordsappointments.independent.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 21/07/2015 17:29:29 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

388025

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Life Peers: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are still committed to greater proportionality in the appointment of members to the House of Lords; and if not, what consultations took place prior to their decision not to continue with this commitment.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL1151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my written answer of 23 June 2015 (HL371, HL372, HL373 and HL509), which I attach for ease of reference.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL1148 HL1149 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:50:56 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston attachment 1 file name HL371, HL372, HL373, HL509.pdf title HL371, HL372, HL373, HL509
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

388026

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Jobseeker's Allowance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the guidance issued to Jobcentre Plus staff regarding tailored conditionality for claimants applying for Jobseeker's Allowance while awaiting a mandatory reconsideration decision on their Employment and Support Allowance claim.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL1152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Jobcentre Plus guidance that covers this subject area is the: Labour Market Conditions Guide (availability and actively seeking work section); ESA to JSA Transitions Guide; and Claimant Commitment guidance. These will be placed in the Library of the House as requested.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted, however, that all Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants should have their conditionality tailored to their individual personal circumstances regardless of their reasons for claiming.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 21/07/2015 15:41:32 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

388027

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many, and what proportion of, households affected by the proposed reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year receive (1) Employment and Support Allowance, and (2) Income Support.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL1153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July. The impact assessment is now available on Parliament’s website, and a copy is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 21/07/2015 15:32:41 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Impact Assessment.pdf title Imapct Assessment
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

388028

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Welfare Assistance Schemes: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to make the planned further £74 million of funding available to upper tier local authorities for local welfare assistance schemes in 2016–17.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL1154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Future arrangements for all local authority funding are a matter for the next Spending Review period and Local Government Finance Settlement consultations, which are led by DCLG. The outcome of these discussions will be made clear at the appropriate time.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 21/07/2015 16:13:16 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

388030

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage corporations to sponsor women’s football teams and other initiatives.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Women and Sport Advisory Board convened under the 2010-2015 coalition Government identified commercial investment in women’s sport as one of the themes for wider consideration in its final report, published March 2015. This Government wishes to look more widely at how it can make sport financially sustainable, and women’s sport, including women’s football, forms part of this work. The Minister for Sport and Tourism held a round-table session with representatives from National Governing Bodies, media bodies, sponsorship agencies, brands and a consultancy specialising in data intelligence in order to discuss the issues further. The findings will feed into the forthcoming Sport Strategy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/07/2015 14:50:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

388041

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Zimbabwe: Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in any discussions they are having with the government of Zimbabwe on the subject of pensions owed to former Rhodesian or Zimbabwean public servants.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL1167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The British Government continues to remind the relevant authorities in Zimbabwe of their legal commitment to former employees of the Southern Rhodesia government. Following our most recent approach, the Government of Zimbabwe last wrote to us on 27 May. They explained that pension repayments remain affected by current financial constraints in Zimbabwe and the state of the wider economy. Nonetheless, at our prompting they committed to continuing to seek a solution.</p> answering member printed Earl of Courtown question first answered 21/07/2015 14:51:04 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad