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1727789

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Members' Interests
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 4 September (HC2317), whether a Minister is required to declare a political donation as an interest to their Department if they make a Government decision that directly and personally financially benefits the donor; and what guidance (1) the Cabinet Office, and (2) the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests, have issued on such requirements, and on recusal processes in the event of conflicts of interest.
tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
uin	HL809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2024 answer text <p>There is an established process in place for the declaration and management of ministers’ private interests, which ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any potential or perceived conflicts of interest.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 19/09/2024 14:30:21 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

1727800

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Investment: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to appoint a new investment minister.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2024 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friends the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Business and Trade are responsible for this Government’s priority of growth and advancing opportunities for investment across the country.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 19/09/2024 14:30:32 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1727809

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Remote Working
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 13 August 2024 (HL548), what equivalent occupancy data has been compiled since the general election; and whether they will place all post-election data that is held for each department in the Library of the House.
tabling member printed	Lord Udny-Lister
uin	HL834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>The publication of this data was suspended in line with pre-election guidance for the duration of the Pre-Election Period. We will provide an update on future publication plans in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross grouped question UIN HL667 question first answered 16/09/2024 15:28:46 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	4898 label Biography information for Lord Udny-Lister

1727810

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Remote Working
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 13 August 2024 (HL548),  what is their policy on how often civil servants should work in the office rather than remotely.
tabling member printed	Lord Udny-Lister
uin	HL835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Current Civil Service guidance requires Civil Servants to attend the office or work face-to-face with colleagues at least 60% of the time. There are no plans to change those requirements.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 18/09/2024 14:17:35 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	4898 label Biography information for Lord Udny-Lister

1727811

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Remote Working
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 13 August 2024 (HL548), what is their policy on full-time civil servants working a four-day week on full-pay; and whether the ‘right to switch off’ will apply to civil servants on their fallow workday when working a four-day week.
tabling member printed	Lord Udny-Lister
uin	HL836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Departments are responsible for setting the terms and conditions of employment for their civil servants, in accordance with the rules of the Civil Service Management Code. Full time employees across the Civil Service generally work 42 hours gross (37 hours net) per week over 5 days. Some departments may have flexible working policies that allow employees to request compressed hours, where the same hours are worked, only compressed over a shorter period, with no change to pay. There are no flexible working arrangements that permit reduced hours or part time working in exchange for full time pay.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 18/09/2024 14:18:30 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	4898 label Biography information for Lord Udny-Lister

1727818

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Jess Sargeant
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 4 September (HL Deb col 1157), and to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 4 September (HC2317), whether Nick Thomas–Symonds declared, as a political donation in kind, the reported use of a seconded member of staff from Labour Together to (1) the Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office, or (2) to the Cabinet Secretary, before that member of staff, Jessica Sargeant, was appointed as a Deputy Director at the Cabinet Office by exception; whether they considered recusal; and whether Cabinet Office officials were informed of any political donations when they considered the delegated Recruitment Principles exception request for Miss Sargeant’s appointment to the Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Constitution Group.
tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
uin	HL811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2024 answer text <p>There is an established process in place for the declaration and management of private interests held by ministers, which ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any potential or perceived conflicts of interest.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 19/09/2024 15:22:21 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

1727459

registered interest
date	04/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Life Peers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to revise the factors they take into account when considering the suitability of individuals to be nominated for a life peerage.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Government committed in its manifesto to reform the process of appointments to the House of Lords to ensure the quality of new appointments and to seek to improve the national and regional balance of the second chamber and is actively considering how this can be achieved.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 18/09/2024 15:22:02 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1727460

registered interest
date	04/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	House of Lords: Membership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of fee-charging agencies offering coaching to prospective applicants for membership of the House.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Neither the Government nor the House of Lords Appointments Commission endorse any service or company charging for advice on how to make and complete an application to the House of Lords.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 18/09/2024 15:21:45 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1727469

registered interest
date	04/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the salaries and allowances of each of the Ministers and Whips in the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 sets out the terms on which salaries can be paid to government ministers. The salaries claimed by ministers and whips in the House of Lords are available on gov.uk at the following address:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data/salaries-of-members-of-his-majestys-government-april-2022-html#ministers-who-are-members-of-the-house-of-lords" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data/salaries-of-members-of-his-majestys-government-april-2022-html#ministers-who-are-members-of-the-house-of-lords</a></p><p> </p><p>A list of all government ministers, which indicates whether each minister receives a salary or is unpaid, is available on gov.uk at the following address:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, ministers who are members of the House of Lords are entitled under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 to receive the Lords Office-Holders Allowance (LOHA). It has been long-standing government policy over successive administrations for ministers whose main residence is in Greater London to waive their entitlement to claim this allowance and instead claim it at a reduced rate equivalent to the London Area Living Payment set annually by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority; details are available at the following address:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/nc7h1cs4q6ic/5j9dlpZsDtyFgqi43bBB91/7eaea5bcc329496878b420bf2e511586/Seventeenth_edition_of_the_Scheme_2024-25.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.ctfassets.net/nc7h1cs4q6ic/5j9dlpZsDtyFgqi43bBB91/7eaea5bcc329496878b420bf2e511586/Seventeenth_edition_of_the_Scheme_2024-25.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers who are members of the House of Lords who do not receive a salary may choose between claiming LOHA or the Lords Daily Attendance Allowance.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross attachment 1 file name Seventeenth_edition_of_the_Scheme_2024-25.pdf title Lords Office-Holders Allowance (LOHA) 2 file name Ministers - GOV.UK - GOV.UK.pdf title Government Ministers 3 file name Salaries of members of His Majesty's Government_ April 2022 (HTML) - GOV.UK.pdf title Salaries of HMG Officials question first answered 18/09/2024 15:21:26 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

1727473

registered interest
date	04/09/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Arms Length Bodies: Gender
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with arm’s-length bodies regarding civil action being taken against their staff due to gender-critical views.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The government cannot comment on individual cases of civil action within arm’s length bodies.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Sponsor departments are responsible for maintaining the relationship between the government and its arm’s length bodies. This includes ensuring appropriate discussions about ongoing issues are held.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Twycross question first answered 18/09/2024 14:15:19 answering member 4966 label Biography information for Baroness Twycross
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town