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1659246

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what has been the average tenure of office notwithstanding machinery of government changes, during the past 10 years, of (1) the Prime Minister, (2) the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and (3) the Secretary of State for (a) Foreign Affairs, (b) Home Affairs, (c) Education, (d) Health, (e) Defence, (f) Transport, (g) Culture, Media and Sport, (h) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (i) Work and Pensions, (j) Northern Ireland, (k) Scotland, and (l) Wales.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL9981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not calculate the average tenure of ministerial office. However, details of ministerial office-holders are on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers. Details of the previous holders of each ministerial post dating back to 2010 are also available by selecting each ministerial role on this webpage, then 'previous holders’.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/09/2023 14:21:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1658890

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to deposit in the Library of the House all tender documents for modular classrooms since July 2023 under the Offsite Constructions Agreement (Framework Agreement RM6184).
	tabling member printed	Baroness Taylor of Bolton
	uin	HL9956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>It is not our intention to deposit the tender documentation into the Library of the House. It is the responsibility of individual customer authorities to publish contracting information on Contracts Finder and/or other transparency platforms.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/09/2023 14:42:09 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	407 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Bolton

1658883

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	China: Foreign Investment in UK
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the purchase of UK businesses by funds owned by the state of China; and what safeguards exist to protect national security in this situation.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL9949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>As an open economy, the government welcomes foreign trade and investment, including from China, where it supports growth and jobs in the UK, meets our stringent legal and regulatory requirements, and does not compromise our national security.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government has powers under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) to scrutinise and, where necessary, intervene in acquisitions of control over entities and assets in or linked to the UK that may pose national security risks. These powers apply to all acquirers regardless of nationality. The government will not hesitate to use our powers to protect national security where we identify concerns.</p><p><strong><br></strong>Further detail on investment screening activity is available in the NSIA Annual Report, which was published on 11 July 2023 and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-and-investment-act-2021-annual-report-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-and-investment-act-2021-annual-report-2023</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/09/2023 14:41:48 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1658483

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Freedom of Information: Special Advisers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they allow special advisers in government to review and delay responses to freedom of information requests.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL9872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>All Freedom of Information requests are processed according to the provisions of the Act. In 2022, government departments and other monitored bodies responded to 86% of requests within the permitted time limits. FOI statistics are published regularly and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a></p><p><strong><br></strong>It is in line with the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers to give assistance and advice on any aspect of department business, including on requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act, and to convey a minister’s views to officials. This has been the case under successive Administrations. The Cabinet Office has circulated a guidance note to cross-government practitioners which sets out the roles of special advisers in the process of responding to requests for information and which is available on Parliament’s website at <a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmpubadm/576/report.html#heading-1" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmpubadm/576/report.html#heading-1</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/09/2023 14:36:10 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1657686

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce additional legislation to protect (1) the UK internal market, and (2) Northern Ireland goods moving to Great Britain with unfettered access; and to outline the proposed timescale for such legislation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
	uin	HL9865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>We have guaranteed unfettered access for qualifying Northern Ireland goods moving directly from Northern Ireland to Great Britain and will extend these protections to qualifying goods moved via Ireland. Additionally, we will introduce new arrangements for traders moving food and feed on these routes, ensuring the benefits of unfettered access are more squarely focussed on Northern Ireland traders, while creating no new requirements. Details of these arrangements can be found in the Border Target Operating Model published on 29 August 2023. This reflects Northern Ireland’s integral place in the United Kingdom’s internal market.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 18/09/2023 14:14:58 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1248006

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	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 Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proportion of people who responded to the questions on ethnicity in the 2011 Census of England and Wales by identifying as Arab when considering recommending appointments to the House of Lords.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lea of Crondall
	uin	HL9855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held. The House of Lords Appointments Commission is an independent and advisory non-departmental public body.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 16/11/2020 12:09:27 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	2482 label Biography information for Lord Lea of Crondall

1248005

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Census: Ethnic Groups and Religion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to make changes in the 2021 Census to the questions on (1) religion, and (2) ethnicity, used in the 2011 Census of England and Wales; and if so, what any such changes are.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lea of Crondall
	uin	HL9854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>The Census (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/560) set out the questions for Census 2021 in England and include facsimiles of the paper questionnaires. The religion question is the same as that asked in the 2011 Census. For the ethnic group question, two substantive changes to the question used in 2011 have been made:</p><ul><li><p>a new tick-box response option for ‘Roma’</p></li><li><p>a write-in option for those selecting ‘African background’ within the ‘Black, Black British, Caribbean or African’ high-level category.</p></li></ul><p>People can still declare another religion or ethnicity, even if it is not a tick-box response option.</p><p> </p><p>The parallel Census (Wales) Regulations 2020 were made by Welsh Ministers and laid before the Welsh Parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 16/11/2020 12:08:52 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	2482 label Biography information for Lord Lea of Crondall

1247995

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Constituencies
	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 steps taken by the Office for National Statistics to ensure that parliamentary constituency boundary data for March is made available promptly to the Boundary Commissions ahead of the next review of constituency boundaries.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL9840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Hayward,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking about the steps taken by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to ensure that parliamentary constituency boundary data for 1 March is made available promptly to the Boundary Commissions ahead of the next review of constituency boundaries (HL9840).</p><p>The publication of Electoral Statistics for the 2 March 2020 is scheduled for the beginning of January 2021 and we are confident of publishing at this time. The publication was originally scheduled for October 2020 but problems with Electoral Registration Officers in England and Scotland supplying the required data to ONS and National Records for Scotland meant that the release was delayed. We have been in regular contact with the Cabinet Office and the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales to ensure that any issues are appropriately addressed. We remain on track to release the Electoral Statistics on the revised publication date.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 16/11/2020 12:08:20 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1657590

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Honours
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to reform the right of a Prime Minister who has served for a short period to submit a resignation honours list.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL9829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>It is a long-standing convention that outgoing Prime Ministers can draw up a ‘Dissolution’ or ‘Resignation’ List. This has been the case under past governments from across the political spectrum. This convention has been the case throughout the 20th Century, originating in the 19th Century.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 18/09/2023 14:16:39 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1248038

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Musicians: Free Movement of People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord True on 21 October (HL Deb, col 1538), whether their offer on mode 4 includes expanding the list of permitted activities to enable musicians' performing and touring activities.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
	uin	HL9825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is currently negotiating commitments with EU member states on ‘Mode 4’. A reciprocal agreement based on best precedence would mean that UK citizens will be able to undertake some business activities in EU member states without a work permit, on a short-term basis. The precise details, including range of activities, documentation needed, and the time limit, are under negotiation.</p><p>The Government recognises the importance of touring for UK musicians and appreciates the significant contribution of the UK music industry.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 16/11/2020 17:17:37 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty