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516407

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date	27/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Profumo Inquiry
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the 100-year embargo on declassification of the papers of the 1963 Denning inquiry into the Profumo affair has been reduced to a shorter retention period.
tabling member printed	Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
uin	HL8045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lord to the answer given by my predecessor to his previous question on 13 December 2013. The Government is working with the National Archives to transfer the Denning papers to Kew. We will make a further announcement in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 12/05/2016 10:25:34 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4189 label Biography information for Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield

455972

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Extended Ministerial Offices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many extended ministerial offices have been established, and in which departments; which staff have been recruited to them; and which of those were drawn from outside the civil service.
tabling member printed	Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
uin	HL6552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>Extended Ministerial Offices have been established (or are being established) in the Cabinet Office, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Education, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Scotland Office.</p><p>The government regularly publishes information on the job titles and pay grades of senior civil servants along with the numbers of staff they manage and the budgets they are responsible for. A similar approach will apply to staff in extended ministerial offices.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 16/03/2016 17:28:01 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4189 label Biography information for Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield

386117

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Extended Ministerial Offices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which members of the Cabinet have established an extended ministerial office; and what are the names, skills and backgrounds of the staff recruited to serve in each.
tabling member printed	Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
uin	HL916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>No Extended Ministerial Offices have been established, but a number are being considered.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 13/07/2015 16:00:05 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4189 label Biography information for Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield

346817

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Emergencies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current equivalent of the Cabinet Office’s Central Government War Book of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, if any.
tabling member printed	Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
uin	HL55
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>With the end of the cold war, separate arrangements for civil defence and emergency planning were combined and underpinned by the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA). The traditional Government War Books were archived.</p><p>Details of specific plans and arrangements are not held together in one compendium. The National Security Secretariat retains an overview to ensure that relevant material can be accessed quickly if needed.</p><p>The Strategic Defence and Security Review will, among other things, consider the changing risk picture and whether changes are needed to our current posture and arrangements.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 09/06/2015 12:24:24 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4189 label Biography information for Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield