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753953

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many mass marketing scams targeting energy customers there have been since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL1099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>National Trading Standards (NTS) work with various bodies including the police to tackle mass marketing frauds across all sectors, including energy.</p><p>The NTS scams teams work with local authorities to provide support to victims. The team currently has agreements with nearly two hundred local authorities to provide additional support for victims in their areas to help them rebuild their lives. The Department does not hold data on number of mass marketing scams targeting energy customers, the number of victims targeted or the amount of money they have lost.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL1098 HL1100 HL1101 question first answered 27/07/2017 08:38:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

753954

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many victims of mass marketing scams targeting energy customers since 2016 have required assistance from (1) local authorities, and (2) National Trading Standards.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL1100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>National Trading Standards (NTS) work with various bodies including the police to tackle mass marketing frauds across all sectors, including energy.</p><p>The NTS scams teams work with local authorities to provide support to victims. The team currently has agreements with nearly two hundred local authorities to provide additional support for victims in their areas to help them rebuild their lives. The Department does not hold data on number of mass marketing scams targeting energy customers, the number of victims targeted or the amount of money they have lost.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL1098 HL1099 HL1101 question first answered 27/07/2017 08:38:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

753956

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how much money the victims of mass marketing scams targeting energy customers have lost since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL1101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>National Trading Standards (NTS) work with various bodies including the police to tackle mass marketing frauds across all sectors, including energy.</p><p>The NTS scams teams work with local authorities to provide support to victims. The team currently has agreements with nearly two hundred local authorities to provide additional support for victims in their areas to help them rebuild their lives. The Department does not hold data on number of mass marketing scams targeting energy customers, the number of victims targeted or the amount of money they have lost.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL1098 HL1099 HL1100 question first answered 27/07/2017 08:38:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

753901

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Construction
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how they intend to finance the construction of HS2 Phase 1; and whether they intend to use a Public Private-Partnership arrangement for any of the construction work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL1048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>Delivery of HS2 is being taken forward on the basis of public funding by HM Treasury. A long-term funding envelope of £55.7bn (2015 prices) was set out in Spending Review 2015, of which £27.18bn is allocated to Phase 1.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to explore opportunities for private financing, where this offers value for money to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 27/07/2017 09:11:37 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

753918

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure full cooperation between international jurisdictions to facilitate legal action against alleged abuses propagated within the secondary ticketing market.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	uin	HL1064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is currently undertaking an enforcement investigation and will liaise with other international enforcement bodies as necessary to progress the investigation.</p><p>The CMA is the lead UK member in the Consumer Protection Cooperation partnership and has strong working relationships with other countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 14:03:49 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

753917

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the secondary tickets market meets expected standards of consumer protection and fairness; if it does not, whether they intend to lay secondary legislation under the Consumer Rights Act 2015; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	uin	HL1063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government appointed Professor Waterson to review consumer protections in the secondary ticketing market. He produced his report last year and in March 2017 the Government responded accepting his report in full and included amendments to the Digital Economy Act designed to enhance protections further. The Government has no plans to introduce additional legislation on the matter under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 14:06:10 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

753904

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what meetings they have had in the last two years under the P5 Process with the five nuclear weapons states recognised under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
	uin	HL1050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK hosted the Conference of P5 Nuclear Weapon States in London in 2015, and the US hosted the Conference in Washington in September 2016. There has been ongoing dialogue between conferences.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/07/2017 14:09:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

753939

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed Two: Redundancy Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to recover the unapproved redundancy payments of £1.76 million to HS2 staff as reported by the National Audit Office; and why HS2 ignored the instruction of the Department for Transport not to make enhanced redundancy payments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL1084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>Owing to a failure of internal process by HS2 Ltd an instruction from the Department for Transport not to enhance redundancy payments was not communicated down the organisation and as a result HS2 Ltd operated compulsory and voluntary redundancy schemes on enhanced terms without receiving authority from the Department for Transport or Her Majesty’s Treasury.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd have a legal obligation to honour the redundancy payments made to individuals who were employed and will not be seeking their recovery.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd will manage these payments within their existing budgets and as such the Department for Transport will not be providing any additional funds to cover these costs.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd are putting in place controls to ensure that this does not happen again and are working to implement the recommendations of the NAO in full.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 27/07/2017 09:12:41 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

753896

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Libya: EU Immigration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is the closest distance to the Libyan coast that EU migrant search and rescue missions operate; whether migrants picked up at a certain distance are returned to Libya and not brought to the EU; and if so, what is that distance.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL1042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>Vessels engaged in Operation Sophia, the EU Naval Force Mediterranean, and Operation Triton, the EU's border control and surveillance mission, are not currently authorised to operate in Libyan territorial waters, which, though disputed, are considered, for the purposes of EU operations, to extend 12 nautical miles from the coastline. No-one rescued by these vessels is taken to Libya.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/07/2017 14:08:48 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

753946

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Navy: Engineers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether there has been an improvement in the recruitment and retention of engineer officers and senior engine room ratings in both the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary following the recent Ministry of Defence studies into remuneration packages.
	tabling member printed	Lord MacKenzie of Culkein
	uin	HL1092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) have a number of measures, both remunerative and non-remunerative, to improve the recruitment and retention of engineers. Given the range of measures in place, it is not possible to attribute the overall effect on retention and recruitment to a particular measure or study.</p><p>There are positive signs for the RN in terms of engineering officer and rating recruitment and retention, and for RFA retention. However, like many employers in the maritime sector, both the RN and the RFA face a significant challenge in recruiting engineering expertise, and they will continue to assess their personnel requirements and the ways in which this situation can be addressed.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 27/07/2017 13:26:04 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	2507 label Biography information for Lord MacKenzie of Culkein