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541725

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to discuss European structural and investment funding with the Local Government Association and other interested parties.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL1402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p>The Government meets regularly with representatives of the Local Government Association and other partners, who are members of national and local European Structural and Investment Funds committees where these EU funds are discussed.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/08/2016 12:42:25 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

541727

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recommendations of (1) the report published by the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations <i>Remaking the State, </i>and (2) the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation <i>The Cost of the Cuts</i>, what assessment they have made of the impact of the cuts to preventative services over the course of the last Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL1404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2016 answer text <p>Preventative services can cover a wide range of areas, including adult and children’s social care, public health, crime, and homelessness. The Government has continually given local authorities more powers and flexibility, so they can target local services more effectively, because local authorities are best placed to determine how to deliver services in the light of local circumstances and available resources. Indeed, expenditure on homelessness prevention has for example increased by 83% between 2010 and 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Over the current spending review period, local government income sources like council tax receipts and business rates are forecast to increase. Overall, local government spending spending is forecast to be broadly flat in cash terms. Within this:</p><ul><li><p>Homelessness prevention funding for local authorities through the local government finance settlement is protected totalling £315 million by 2019/20.</p></li><li><p>Funding for Disabled Facilities Grant has doubled to over £500 million by 2019-20, which would fund around 85,000 home adaptations that year. We expect this to prevent 8,500 people from needing to go into a care home in 2019-20.</p></li><li><p>New measures announced at the spending review will mean a further £3.5bn for social care by the end of the Parliament.</p></li><li><p>Total local government spending continues to include over £1bn each year for early intervention.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also continuing to invest in key initiatives for children, including the Healthy Child and Troubled Families programmes. The latter has so far helped turn around the lives of over 100,000 of the hardest to reach families and will work with up to 400,000 more during this Parliament.</p></li></ul> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 29/07/2016 12:22:11 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

541728

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Action: Parliamentary Scrutiny
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each government department, from January to June 2016, on how many occasions the scrutiny reserve resolution in (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons, was overridden, and in respect of how many documents an override occurred in (1) both Houses, or (2) either House.
tabling member printed	Lord Boswell of Aynho
uin	HL1405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Between January and June 2016, 484 Explanatory Memoranda on EU documents were submitted for scrutiny.</p><p>There were 37 occasions when the Government supported decisions in the EU Council of Ministers before the scrutiny procedures had been completed by either one or both Scrutiny Committees.</p><p>In each case the Government explained to the Scrutiny Committees why it was important for the proposal to be supported before the scrutiny process could be completed or where the Committees were unable to provide a waiver for the Government to support the proposal whilst retaining the issue under scrutiny. As with previous six-monthly periods, the largest category of instrument were fast-moving EU restrictive measures where there were 27 such instruments (73% of the total number) which were adopted before scrutiny could be completed.</p><p>The figures requested are set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Department</p></td><td><p>(1). House of Lords Override</p></td><td><p>(2). House of Commons override</p></td><td><p>(1). No. of overrides in both Houses</p></td><td><p>(2). Total no. of overrides</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office*</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Culture, Media and Sport</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home Office</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Justice</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Work and Pensions</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totals</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* In addition to the formal overrides listed here, there were 27 occasions when Council Decisions were adopted prior to scrutiny by the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee due to their limite marking (ie internal EU limited distribution marking for content not intended to be in the public domain).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 05/09/2016 16:24:59 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	352 label Biography information for Lord Boswell of Aynho

541732

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Civil Society
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the implementation of the concept of the Big Society is still part of their programme, and if so, which initiatives remain and where departmental and ministerial responsibility now lies.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL1409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2016 answer text <p>The Big Society programme remains a key manifesto commitment of the government and is a responsibility of all departments.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s vision is to have a more engaged nation where we take greater responsibility for ourselves and for our neighbours.</p><p> </p><p>Programmes such as the National Citizen Service are helping to build a more responsible and more engaged society along with programmes such as Community Organisers, which is bringing local people together to take action on issues they care about. These are two examples of the current initiatives that are taking place.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 01/08/2016 14:16:13 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

541740

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	ARM: SoftBank
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have secured any commitments from SoftBank to avoid taking action through royalty payments or increased borrowing costs that would reduce or eliminate corporation tax payments made by ARM Holdings.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL1417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2016 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that corporation tax applies to profits generated from UK activities. It has taken a number of steps at both a domestic and international level to achieve this, including recently announced measures to protect the UK tax base from the payment of interest and royalties to overseas companies.</p><p>The government is not able to comment on how these steps will apply to individual taxpayers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 29/07/2016 12:20:27 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

541764

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	ICT: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they have in place to ensure that the digital skills of UK citizens are viable in the global marketplace and can compete with those of Brazilians and Indians, in the light of the recent study commissioned by Barclays which rated the digital skills of Brazil and India as greater than those in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL1441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2016 answer text <p>The recent Barclays’ study on digital skills ranked the UK favourably overall for digital skills (4th), ahead of both Brazil (9th) and India (7th).</p><p> </p><p>High-quality and relevant skills underpin productivity and growth and give people confidence to make the most of modern technology. Ensuring digital skills keep up to date with the pace of technological change is a challenge for all developed countries. We have therefore made significant improvements to education and training, including reforming the computing curriculum so all young people are taught coding in school.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to take action to ensure the UK is developing the digital skills individuals and businesses need. Reforms to our technical education system will provide people with the necessary digital skills as set out in our Post-16 Skills Plan. We have also recently introduced new innovative digital degree apprenticeships to enable young people to get an honours degree, alongside on the job training.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 01/08/2016 14:08:27 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

541772

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	British Chambers of Commerce
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what annual funding they have provided to the British Chambers of Commerce for each of the past four years; whether any payment has been made to that organisation beyond any annual budgetary allocation during each of the past four years; and if so, what was the amount of each such payment, and for what purpose each was made.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL1448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p>During the two-year pilot of the Overseas Business Network initiative (OBNi) (2013/14 and 2014/15), the former UK Trade &amp; Investment trialled a number of initiatives with the BCC for which they were granted £1.6m. This included accrediting the overseas service providers, mainly chambers of commerce, and co-ordinating UK-end activity.</p><p>In 2015/16, BCC were contracted to continue to accredit overseas delivery partners and deliver one global conference, for which they received a total of £334,225 (incl. of VAT). They will continue to accredit overseas chambers in the network in 2016/17, under contract up to a maximum value of £157,680 (plus VAT).</p><p> </p><p>BCC were also subcontracted by UKTI’s main contractor for its Inward Investment Programme between 2012 and 2014 for a total value of £2,552,704.</p><p> </p><p>The former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills made a number of relatively small payments to the BCC in each of the past four years, for things such as an exhibition stand at the BCC Annual Conferences and a small number of regional events. These payments total around £22,000 across the four years.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 04/08/2016 12:36:24 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

542087

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Hunting Act 2004
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been since 2010 under the Hunting Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	43936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the Hunting Act 2004 in England and Wales from 2010 to 2015 (latest available) is available in the outcomes by offence tables in the annual publication, which is linked below. The relevant section is ‘121A – Offences under the Hunting Act 2004’ in the summary non motoring offences section. Statistics covering 2016 are scheduled for publication in May 2017.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 05/09/2016 10:29:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

542092

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many trade negotiators are employed by the Government.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	43799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>You will be aware that my Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has created a new Department for International Trade, which is responsible for promoting British trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. We are building up our trade policy capability and are working closely with other Government Departments including the Department for Exiting the European Union, DEXEU. ​The Department for International Trade has begun a process to recruit and train staff to work on the UK’s trade policy. We will adapt the resource devoted to trade policy in line with future demands.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/09/2016 13:49:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

542095

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2016 to Question 41528, which government departments the Civil Service Chief People Officer, Rupert McNeil, has met in order to discuss future plans for those departments' skills and staff planning.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	43818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Civil Service constantly reviews its capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s agenda. Civil Servants regularly meet with external organisations and stakeholders to discuss how best to deliver that agenda, including seeking advice and assistance where appropriate. Following the decision to exit the European Union, Rupert McNeil, the Chief People Officer, is working closely with departments and functions across government to understand the capabilities required, including considering what new skills the Civil Service may require. To do that, he is in the process of meeting all Departmental Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Function.</p><p>Work is on-going to establish the new Department for Exiting the European Union and the new Department for International Trade and all departments are currently reviewing their own structures and resources to ensure we get the best deal for the whole of Britain.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 43819 43820 question first answered 05/09/2016 08:33:25 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland