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782429

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date	02/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Mothers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consultations they have conducted in preparation for their strategy on female offenders to ensure that the criminal justice system creates an environment which promotes the reunification of imprisoned mothers with their children; and what assessment they have made of the impact, both short and long term, of such imprisonment on children living in care.
tabling member printed	Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill
uin	HL2852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We are developing the Female Offender Strategy in consultation with a wide range of stakeholders. We issued a Call for Evidence in March 2017 and regularly consult with key stakeholders through our Advisory Board on Female Offenders, which is chaired by the Minister with responsibility for female offenders. The Minister has met with a number of organisations to discuss a wide range of issues pertinent to female offenders, including the imprisonment of mothers and the impact on their children.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has not made any formal assessment of the impact of parental imprisonment in children living in care, but the Government has funded a contract worth over £1.4m for Barnardo’s to operate the i-HOP service – an England wide one-stop information service for all professionals who come into contact with the children and families of offenders – to share evidence on practice and advise commissioners and practitioners on the options available to support the families of offenders.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 16/11/2017 16:10:49 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4179 label Biography information for Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill

782432

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new civil service posts have been created to date to deal with new functions and obligations arising from Brexit; what is the annual cost of those appointments; in which departments those personnel are employed; and what specialist roles are being filled.
tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
uin	HL2855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The whole of Government is preparing for the UK to make an orderly and successful exit from the European Union, and we are equipping ourselves with the right people and the right skills across Government to make this happen. Whilst workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each department to determine based on their individual operational and policy requirements, the Civil Service constantly reviews its capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s commitment to leave the EU and get the very best deal for the UK. Civil Service HR is working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union to support departments, functions and professions in continuing to develop plans to address their emerging capacity and capability requirements.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL2857 question first answered 15/11/2017 17:55:13 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

782434

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU to the House of Lords EU Select Committee on 31 October, what estimate they have made of the annual cost of recruiting 8,000 new civil servants to deal with the changes and obligations that they anticipate will arise because of Brexit; which departments will require the new staff; and what specialist roles will be filled.
tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
uin	HL2857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The whole of Government is preparing for the UK to make an orderly and successful exit from the European Union, and we are equipping ourselves with the right people and the right skills across Government to make this happen. Whilst workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each department to determine based on their individual operational and policy requirements, the Civil Service constantly reviews its capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s commitment to leave the EU and get the very best deal for the UK. Civil Service HR is working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union to support departments, functions and professions in continuing to develop plans to address their emerging capacity and capability requirements.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL2855 question first answered 15/11/2017 17:55:13 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

782449

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy on whether school governors should be paid.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government strongly supports the principle that being a school governor should be a voluntary activity. There is currently a prohibition against payments to governors of maintained schools and payments can only be made to academy trustees in very limited circumstances and subject to approval by the Charity Commission.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 16/11/2017 12:08:47 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

782450

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there is a cap on the amount of money that can be paid to the chief executive of a multi-academy trust.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>It is essential that we have the best people to lead our schools if we are to raise standards. The responsibilities of school leaders have changed significantly in recent years, with many now running several academies in a multi-academy trust (MAT).</p><p> </p><p>Academy trusts are free to set their own salaries for staff and we would expect this to reflect the size and complexity of the trust, as they must deliver value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017 Academies Financial Handbook, a copy of which I have placed in the House Library, emphasises that decisions about levels of executive pay must follow a robust evidence-based process and are reflective of the individual’s role and responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>Trusts must disclose senior staff pay annually in their audited accounts. The academies’ sector annual report and accounts we have published means there is now more information available than ever about academy trusts’ finances. The Education and Skills Funding Agency follow up where non-compliance is identified. Disclosure must include: the number of employees earning more than £60k, set out in £10k bands; names of all trustees who received remuneration in each band, and the amounts they received. This will consist of the salaries of the principal in a single academy trust and the chief executive in a MAT, unless in the exceptional case they have chosen not to be a trustee.</p><p> </p><p>Payments by academy trusts to their trustees must be disclosed in the trust’s annual accounts. These are independently audited and published for transparency. The disclosures will comprise payments to those staff who are also trustees, paid in their capacity as staff not as trustees. In addition, Charity Commission approval would be required if an academy trust wished to pay an individual for acting as trustee.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL2874 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:08:16 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

782451

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many current trustees of multi-academy trusts are paid; and whether there is a cap on the amount they can be paid.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>It is essential that we have the best people to lead our schools if we are to raise standards. The responsibilities of school leaders have changed significantly in recent years, with many now running several academies in a multi-academy trust (MAT).</p><p> </p><p>Academy trusts are free to set their own salaries for staff and we would expect this to reflect the size and complexity of the trust, as they must deliver value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017 Academies Financial Handbook, a copy of which I have placed in the House Library, emphasises that decisions about levels of executive pay must follow a robust evidence-based process and are reflective of the individual’s role and responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>Trusts must disclose senior staff pay annually in their audited accounts. The academies’ sector annual report and accounts we have published means there is now more information available than ever about academy trusts’ finances. The Education and Skills Funding Agency follow up where non-compliance is identified. Disclosure must include: the number of employees earning more than £60k, set out in £10k bands; names of all trustees who received remuneration in each band, and the amounts they received. This will consist of the salaries of the principal in a single academy trust and the chief executive in a MAT, unless in the exceptional case they have chosen not to be a trustee.</p><p> </p><p>Payments by academy trusts to their trustees must be disclosed in the trust’s annual accounts. These are independently audited and published for transparency. The disclosures will comprise payments to those staff who are also trustees, paid in their capacity as staff not as trustees. In addition, Charity Commission approval would be required if an academy trust wished to pay an individual for acting as trustee.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL2873 question first answered 16/11/2017 12:08:16 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

782452

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the difference between (1) a multi-academy trust with only one school, and (2) an academy.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>A multi-academy trust (MAT) is an independent charitable company that is set up to run more than one academy. A MAT may be set up with one academy initially, with the intention of identifying other schools to join the trust later. An “academy” is a school or educational institution established under academy arrangements, as per the Academies Act 2010.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 16/11/2017 12:06:21 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

782453

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government under what authority the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has agreed a definition of racially and religiously aggravated crime that is wider than the legal definition under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and Criminal Justice Act 2003, as indicated in the CPS Public statement on prosecuting racist and religious hate crime published in August.
tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
uin	HL2876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>In order to charge and prosecute hate crimes, the CPS uses the legal definition provided by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and Criminal Justice Act 2003. The shared police and CPS definition of hate crime is based on the perception of the victim or any other person and allows for case flagging and monitoring as well as appropriate victim support, it does not affect the charge.</p><p>This flagging definition comes from the recommended definition in the Macpherson report which was published in 1999 as a result of the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The Macpherson Report found a lack of confidence within communities that hate crime was being treated seriously by the police and Criminal Justice System and recommended that the definition of a racist incident should be, ‘any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person’. Putting the victim’s perception at the heart of the definition gives a clear signal that, once flagged as a hate crime, an appropriate investigation will follow and evidence to support the law on hostility will be proactively sought. The definition seeks to encourage victims to report and to increase confidence in the Criminal Justice System.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/11/2017 16:44:23 question first ministerially corrected 20/11/2017 11:19:23 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton previous answer version 22806 answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

782626

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what process the Government follows to identify new and emerging suppliers of goods and services for the Government.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	111032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We are doing more than ever to break down barriers for new and innovative businesses that want to supply to the public sector.</p><p> </p><p>We are improving pre-procurement dialogue with suppliers to help us develop a more strategic relationship with industry.</p><p> </p><p>The Small Business Research Initiative (<a href="https://sbri.innovateuk.org/" target="_blank">https://sbri.innovateuk.org/</a>), which was set up to connect public sector challenges with innovative ideas from industry, generates new business opportunities for companies, and provides a route to market for their ideas.</p><p>Finally, we are planning to set out the conditions for success that need to be in place in departments to drive innovation.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/11/2017 16:00:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett