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523368

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date	07/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Sheffield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Written Statement of 26 May 2016, HCWS30, how many roles there are (a) at and (b) below Senior Civil Service level based in the Sheffield office at St Paul's Place.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	39618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>As at 31 May 2016 the number of employees of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, working in the Sheffield office at St Paul's Place at (a) Senior Civil Service level and (b) below Senior Civil Service level, are shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Grade</p></td><td><p>Employees</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Senior Civil Service level</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Below Senior Civil Service level</p></td><td><p>214</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/06/2016 10:44:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

523382

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Freedom of Information requests have been refused by his Department in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	39724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>Statistics in relation to Freedom of information requests are publically available on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/06/2016 13:15:53 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

523383

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials of his Department have specific policy responsibility for deregulation.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	39723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to him on 11 March 2016 to UIN: 29744.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/06/2016 13:17:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

523392

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in his Department have applied for special leave to carry out work for non-governmental departments in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	39680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/06/2016 13:20:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

523489

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
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	Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will suspend arms export licences and reject new applications for arms exports to Saudi Arabia while there is a risk that they could be used in contravention of international humanitarian and human rights law.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	39818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government takes its arms export responsibilities very seriously and operates one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world. All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, taking account of all relevant factors at the time of the application.</p><p>Risks around human rights violations are a key part of our assessment against the Consolidated Criteria. A licence will not be issued for any country, including Saudi Arabia, if to do so would be inconsistent with any provision of the mandatory Criteria, including where we assess there is a clear risk that the items might be used for internal repression or in the commission of a serious violation of International Humanitarian Law.</p><p>Our export licensing system allows us to respond quickly to changed circumstances, with the option to suspend or revoke any export licence, where we consider that this is a necessary step. The Government is confident in its robust case-by-case assessment and is satisfied that extant licences for Saudi Arabia are compliant with the UK’s export licensing criteria.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 10/06/2016 11:45:03 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

523691

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
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	Brexit: Gibraltar
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 6 June (HL Deb, col 626), on how many occasions since its inception has the Pensions Regulator used provisions for dawn raids, and how it determines the circumstances in which such provisions should be employed.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Pensions Regulator has a power to request information which it exercises regularly and successfully. This means that it is often not necessary to use the powers under section 73 (inspection) or section 78 (warrants) of the Pensions Act 2004.</p><p> </p><p>Under section 78, a justice of the peace may issue a warrant where there are reasonable grounds for believing that there are -</p><p> </p><ul><li>relevant documents which would be removed, or made inaccessible, from the premises, or hidden, tampered with or destroyed,</li></ul><p>or that</p><ul><li>an offence has been committed, or</li><li>a person will do any act which constitutes a misuse or misappropriation of the assets of an occupational pension scheme or a personal pension scheme.</li></ul><p> </p><p>This power is only used in extreme circumstances, and such cases usually involve suspicions of wider criminal activity. Since 2004, the Regulator has used its powers to either inspect premises or issue a warrant on five occasions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 10/06/2016 11:05:52 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

522852

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
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 impact that the decision by the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) to allow competition on the East Coast Main Line will have on the reliability and timekeeping of the existing East Coast Main Line franchise and other operators using the railway; and what assessment they have made of the impact the proposed improvements to the infrastructure being made by Network Rail in Control Periods 5 and 6 and the ORR decision on competition will have on the existing standard of performance.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has not itself undertaken an analysis of the effects of the ORR’s decisions on access to the East Coast Main Line on the reliability and performance of services on the route. In correspondence to the ORR ahead of its decision, the Department expressed concern about the potential adverse performance impacts of allowing additional open access operation on the route.</p><p> </p><p>The potential additional capacity which would be provided by the enhancements to the route currently being planned by Network Rail over Control Periods 5 and 6 has been taken into account by the ORR in its decisions on access.</p><p> </p><p>We now look to Network Rail and the relevant train operators to work together through the normal industry processes, under the oversight of the ORR, to ensure that the resulting pattern of services operates as effectively as possible for passengers and freight users of the line, and to ensure that any negative impacts on performance are minimised.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:07:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522853

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the new open access operators using the East Coast Main Line will pay access charges that provide for fair competition with other operators, including VTEC; who determines those charges; and whether those charges reflect the opportunity costs that arise from using trains offering less seating capacity than the principal franchisee’s trains.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>Setting the framework for track access charges is the responsibility of the independent regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (the ORR). The ORR will set the charging framework for all operators as part of the regulatory process leading up to the next control period (April 2019-2024). As part of that process, the Government has clearly indicated that it supports fairer charges for open access operators and has set out its desire to see changes to those charges as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Track access charges are not set on the basis of opportunity costs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:06:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522854

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how long it has been since the Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services arrangements under which revenue is shared between operators were last updated; who is responsible for updating those arrangements; and whether that process is open to public scrutiny.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold information on when Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services (ORCATS) was last updated. Any changes to ORCATS allocations is a matter for the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). However we understand from ATOC that as the way in which ORCATS currently works is built into the planning assumptions made by franchise bidders, there is no intention to change the actual way in which ORCATS works. The increase in future ticketing, such as smartcards and barcodes, will in time lead to actual usage based allocations being used, but for now the ORCATS model remains the industry method of allocation.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be obtained from ATOC who can be contacted at:</p><p> </p><p>ATOC Ltd</p><p>2nd Floor</p><p>200 Aldersgate Street</p><p>London<br>EC1A 4HD</p><p><a href="mailto:enquiry@atoc.org" target="_blank">enquiry@atoc.org</a></p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:05:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522856

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are aware of any assessment of the impact on operational resilience by an experienced and professional railway operator of the decision by the Office of Road and Rail to allow further open access operators onto the East Coast Main Line.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is not aware of any assessment of operational resilience in connection with the decision to extend open access operations on the East Coast Main Line. We expect Network Rail as network operator to ensure that their routes are able to operate effectively, whichever train operators are running on them.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:06:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw