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576776

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Royal Naval Reserve
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what vessels of all types are available to the Royal Naval Reserve for training.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Royal Naval Reserve has access to all types of Royal Navy vessels to deliver effective and quality training opportunities for all Royal Naval Reservists, depending on their specialisation.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 09/09/2016 12:57:39 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

576781

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the change in defence spending has been since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	45162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Spending Review 2015 set out the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) budget for the rest of this Parliament reflecting the Government's commitment to spend at least 2% of GDP on defence. The MOD budget will increase by 0.5% above inflation each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21, during which time the Department will have access to the new Joint Security Fund.</p><p>The Defence Budget for 2016-17 is £35 billion.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/09/2016 12:40:53 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

576946

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to complete the roll-out of smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	45091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is requiring energy suppliers, as part of their licence conditions, to take all reasonable steps to roll-out smart meters to all their domestic and smaller non-domestic customers by 31 December 2020. Good progress is being made with more than 3.6 million meters now operating under the Programme.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/09/2016 14:43:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

576219

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many women born in the 1950s received Automated Pension Forecasts in the years 2003 to 2006, and of those, how many were also sent the official PM6 leaflet <i>Pensions for Women – Your Guide</i>.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL1459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 09/09/2016 11:46:46 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

576262

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Devolution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to respond to the Constitution Committee’s report, <i>Inter-governmental relations in the United Kingdom</i>, published on 27 March 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL1502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>I would like to thank the Constitution Committee for their report ‘Intergovernmental relations in the UK’ which was published in March 2015. As the former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster noted in his initial response to the Committee, the report was timely as it followed the launch of a joint review of intergovernmental relations in the United Kingdom which was commissioned by the Prime Minister and heads of the Devolved Administrations at the Joint Ministerial Committee Plenary JMC(P) meeting in December 2014.</p><p>The review was undertaken by senior officials within each of the four administrations and the recommendations have been considered. It is anticipated that the review’s findings will be considered at the next Plenary meeting of the JMC later this year. The Committee has agreed that the Government issue a full response to its report following the JMC(P) meeting.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 09/09/2016 11:15:50 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

576280

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to review their policy of freezing state pensions of British citizens residing in overseas countries, where there is no existing reciprocal social security arrangement in place.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL1520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government has a clear position, which has remained consistent for around 70 years: UK State Pensions are payable worldwide and uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so - for example in countries where a reciprocal agreement is in place that allows for uprating. There are no plans to change this or to assess the impact of British citizens’ choosing to retire abroad.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1521 HL1522 question first answered 09/09/2016 12:03:42 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

576281

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to negotiate extending reciprocal social security arrangements to overseas countries so as to facilitate an annual increase in the state pension for British citizens who retire to those countries.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL1521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government has a clear position, which has remained consistent for around 70 years: UK State Pensions are payable worldwide and uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so - for example in countries where a reciprocal agreement is in place that allows for uprating. There are no plans to change this or to assess the impact of British citizens’ choosing to retire abroad.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1520 HL1522 question first answered 09/09/2016 12:03:42 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

576282

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the average annual cost or saving to the public purse when a British citizen chooses to retire abroad rather than remain in the UK, assuming a continuing increase in the state pension.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL1522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government has a clear position, which has remained consistent for around 70 years: UK State Pensions are payable worldwide and uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so - for example in countries where a reciprocal agreement is in place that allows for uprating. There are no plans to change this or to assess the impact of British citizens’ choosing to retire abroad.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1520 HL1521 question first answered 09/09/2016 12:03:42 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

576335

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: European Union
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many civil servants, and of what rank, work in EU units or sub-departments within all UK Government ministerial departments.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union has responsibility for overseeing preparations for the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and conducting these withdrawal negotiations in support of the Prime Minister. In doing this it is working very closely with other government departments.</p><p>Workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each individual department to determine and therefore the information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>The Civil Service constantly reviews its capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s agenda and following the EU referendum decision it is critical for the Civil Service to ensure it has the right skills and capabilities to deliver its manifesto commitments and consider all the implications of the EU exit.</p><p>Cabinet Office is working with all departments across the Civil Service to better understand their resourcing requirements following the decision to exit the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 09/09/2016 10:55:25 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

576360

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Credit Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, from which sources does the Government receive credit card fees from people paying for services offered by its departments and agencies; and what the total amount received was in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	45025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not collect data on behalf of Government on the receipt of credit card fees from people paying for services offered by its departments and agencies. If available, individual departments and agencies will hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/09/2016 12:45:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders