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	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Hereditary Titles (Female Succession) Bill
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the Government objected to the Hereditary Titles (Female Succession) Bill on 22 March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	246970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of gender inequalities very seriously. I have carefully noted the points made about the current system of hereditary peerage in the context of the Hereditary Titles (Female Succession) Bill. However, this issue is complex and is linked with several equally complex issues, including the system of courtesy titles.</p><p>Under the current arrangements, the Equality Act 2010 provides that neither a life peerage nor a hereditary peerage (as an honour conferred by the Crown), is a public or personal office for the purposes of the Act. This exemption means the rules surrounding the by-elections of hereditary peers is ultimately a matter for the House of Lords in regulating its own affairs.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 30/04/2019 13:58:50 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

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	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost will be to the public purse of holding the elections to the European Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	246989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made it clear the UK intends to leave the EU with a deal and not take part in the European Parliamentary Elections (EPE) in May, however, all the necessary preparations will be made for the election to take place on 23 May.</p><p>As is normal practice the relevant Charges Order sets out further action, however the full cost of the election would not be known until after the poll, should it take place, once all expenses claims have been received and settled and invoices paid.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/04/2019 16:07:18 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma