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1134885

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Sexual Harassment: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making an employer legally liable if they fail to protect their staff from sexual harassment at work.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	269629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2019 answer text <p>Under the existing law employers are already liable for harassment carried out by their employees at work, unless they have taken ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent it. A duty on employers to prevent harassment would not therefore change the legal responsibility of employers to take steps to prevent sexual harassment in their workplaces.</p><p>However, following a recommendation by the Women and Equalities Select Committee for an explicit duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, the Government launched a consultation this month which will explore the evidence for introducing such a duty.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/09/2019 16:29:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1134934

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on ensuring more effective prosecutions of cases involving violent criminals.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	269684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has not met the Director of Public Prosecutions recently to discuss prosecutions of cases involving violent criminals.</p><p>However, an effective law enforcement and criminal justice response is a very important part of the Government’s Serious Violence Strategy, and the Home Secretary and Ministers have regular discussions with senior police officers.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/07/2019 15:38:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1135073

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Southern Water
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they were advised that Southern Water had been allowing sewage and waste water to spill into the environment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL16700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency commenced a criminal investigation into Southern Water in 2016 due to suspected permit breaches at a number of its sites. The matter is ongoing and it would be inappropriate to give further details at this stage.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 11/07/2019 15:23:53 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1135060

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Conferences
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 25 June (HL16233), whether, when making decisions about whether to refuse visa applications to participants at conferences, including the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development held in Westminster on 11 June, they take into account whether a conference has been sponsored or part funded by a government department; and what assessment, if any, they make of the impact on the public purse and the reputation of the UK of a visa refusal for such a conference.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL16687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>All UK Visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with the UK Immigration Rules https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules which set out the requirements to visit the UK. These requirements apply to all visitors to the UK and the onus is on the applicant to demonstrate that they satisfy the immigration rules.</p><p>Among the points on which the applicant must satisfy the decision maker is that they are a genuine visitor who will leave the UK at the end of their visit and will not make the UK their main home through frequent or successive visits. When assessing a visit visa application decision makers follow publicly available guidance: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/793361/Visit-guidance-v8.0ext.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/793361/Visit-guidance-v8.0ext.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/07/2019 16:21:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Visit-guidance-v8.0ext.pdf title Visit guidance
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1135074

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Southern Water
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the locations of the Southern Water sewage spills; and whether that information is publicly available.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL16701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has a live investigation into Southern Water so it would be inappropriate to give further details at this stage.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 10/07/2019 15:27:30 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1135075

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Sewage: Pollution
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to ensure that consumers are notified of having sewage and waste water spillages in their locality.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL16702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) operates a daily pollution risk forecasting service via the internet which notifies the public of pollution risks at England’s 421 designated bathing waters, during the bathing season (May-September). This service makes pollution forecasts based on known issues affecting bathing water quality (e.g. periods of heavy rainfall) and includes information of ongoing real-time pollution incidents. <br> <br> The information the EA provides is also made available to the public by Surfers Against Sewage who include it in their Safer Seas Service application, alongside information on spills from storm overflows that is provided by water companies.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the EA is working with water companies on a programme to secure Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) on the vast majority of inland and coastal storm overflows in England by 2020. EDM measures the performance of storm overflows in terms of how often and for how long they spill which allows high risk overflows to be identified prior to evidence of environmental impact. This information is used to inform future improvement programmes for storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>For storm overflows that discharge to sensitive waters such as to bathing beaches or other inland high amenity areas, we require the water companies to install automated communications telemetry, so that they know in real time when a storm overflow has discharged. Some water companies are extending this real time reporting for the majority of their storm overflows.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 10/07/2019 13:28:10 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1135076

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Sewage: Water Treatment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the maximum (1) individual, and (2) corporate penalties, for falsifying data provided to Ofwat on the performance of sewage treatment sites.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
	uin	HL16703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>Ofwat’s powers allow it to take action against a company rather than an individual. Under section 22A of the Water Industry Act 1991 Ofwat can impose financial penalties of up to 10 per cent of a company’s annual turnover for a breach of legal obligation. Misreporting is classified as a breach of a water company’s licence condition. Calculation of turnover is made in relation to either the water business or the sewerage services business, unless the breach relates to both parts of the business.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 10/07/2019 13:28:41 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1135084

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Poverty: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Buscombe on 17 June (HL Deb, col 653), why child poverty has been “rising almost entirely in working families”.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
	uin	HL16711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Institute for Fiscal Studies published “Living Standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2019” on 19 June which acknowledged that the rise of in-work relative poverty is a complex issue with no easy answer. They cited a number of reasons, including that there are more people in work overall and far fewer workless households, for example, there are 667,000 fewer children in workless households compared with 2010. Furthermore, far fewer pensioners are poor than ever before, primarily driven by increased government spending on pension benefits. This has raised the relative poverty line resulting in more ‘in work’ households falling below the line in recent years than they would have done without these increases in pensioner incomes.</p><p>The IFS estimated that the remaining third of the increase is due to two main factors: that earnings have risen less quickly towards the bottom of the distribution than the top and that housing costs have risen faster for poorer households than richer ones.</p><p>We know that there is more to do to support working people. The Chancellor has set out the Government’s ambition to end low pay across the UK. The National Living Wage, rose to £8.21 an hour in April 2019 and is expected to benefit over 1.7m people. The government is working to ease issues around high housing costs by delivering over 1.3 million extra homes in England since 2010. The Government is now on track to raise housing supply to 300,000 per year on average by the mid-2020s. Over £44 billion of new financial support will be available for housing over the next five years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 10/07/2019 16:48:19 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

1135093

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Emergency Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make it mandatory for emergency vehicles and motorcycles to use auditory warnings as well as flashing lights when travelling on the wrong side of any road.
	tabling member printed	Lord Steel of Aikwood
	uin	HL16720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>Emergency service drivers are empowered to use certain road traffic exemption in the course of their duties. Decisions on when to exercise these exemptions is an operational matter.</p><p>In the Government’s response to “The Law Guidance and Training Governing Police Pursuits” consultation we committed to undertaking a review of existing emergency service exemptions to traffic law to ensure that they are appropriate. Part of the review will consider how emergency services use exemptions safely.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/07/2019 16:05:08 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	949 label Biography information for Lord Steel of Aikwood

1135094

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 25 June (HL16054), whether they will now answer the question put, namely what assessment they have made of the impact of the ban on direct flights to Sharm el-Sheikh on the current UK terrorist threat level; and whether they will reconsider this ban if it is found to have increased the threat level.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stone of Blackheath
	uin	HL16721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my previous response.</p><p>The threat level to the UK from international terrorism is kept under constant review by the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, whose judgements about the threat level are made on the basis of the very latest reporting and intelligence. This can change at any time as different information becomes available.</p><p>The current threat level from international terrorism is judged to be SEVERE, meaning an attack is highly likely.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/07/2019 16:04:29 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2222 label Biography information for Lord Stone of Blackheath