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1051945

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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	Company Accounts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, and if so why, there is a difference between the statutory definition of a liability required for companies accounts as set out in Part 18 and Part 23 of the Companies Act 2006 and the Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, compared with the definition of a liability required in FRS102, set by the Financial Reporting Council; and what authority, if any, the Financial Reporting Council has to set standards with requirements that run contrary to requirements set out in statute.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL13280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government considers that there is no difference between the meaning of a liability, as recorded in companies’ accounts, in Parts 18 and 23 of the Companies Act 2006, compared with the definition of a liability in The Financial Reporting Standard (FRS) 102, which may be applied in accordance with Part 15 of the Act.</p><p> </p><p>The FRC issues the standards for the purposes of section 464 of the Companies Act 2006, having been prescribed as the standard issuing body by the Statutory Auditors (Amendment of Companies Act 2006 and Delegation of Functions etc) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1741). In doing so the FRC must adhere to the requirements set out in statute. Unquoted companies are required to use accounting standards issued by the FRC, including FRS 102, when preparing their accounts under the Companies Act, except where they choose to use International Accounting Standards.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/02/2019 16:18:18 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

1051968

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecutions
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 Manzoor on 29 January (HL12848), how many successful prosecutions there have been in the UK for female genital mutiliation; and how many prosecutions are pending.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL13299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Up until 31 December 2017, there have been two prosecutions in England and Wales (one in 2014, and one in 2016) but no convictions for the principal offence of female genital mutilation under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Data for 2018 will be published in May 2019.</p><p>Whilst not yet recorded in the official statistics, a jury convicted the first defendant of an FGM offence on 1 February 2019.</p><p>Information around pending prosecutions is held by the Crown Prosecution Service.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/02/2019 12:34:27 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1050774

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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 July to December 2018, on how many occasions the Scrutiny Reserve Resolution was overridden in (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons; and in respect of how many documents an override occurred in (a) both Houses, (b) the House of Lords, and (c) the House of Commons.
tabling member printed	Lord Boswell of Aynho
uin	HL13200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Between July and December 2018, 350 Explanatory Memoranda on EU proposals and other documents were submitted for scrutiny.</p><p>Across both Houses there were 35 occasions when the Government supported decisions in the EU Council of Ministers before the scrutiny procedures had been completed.</p><p>As with previous six-monthly periods, the largest category of instruments were fast-moving and sensitive Common Foreign and Security Policy/EU restrictive measures proposals where there were 27 such instruments adopted before scrutiny could be completed.</p><p>The figures requested are set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Department</p></td><td><p>(1 &amp; b). House of Lords override</p></td><td><p>(2 &amp; c). House Commons override</p></td><td><p>(a).No. of overrides in both Houses at same time</p></td><td><p>Total no. of overrides</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy</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>Cabinet 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>Digital, Culture, Media and Sport</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>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</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>Foreign and Commonwealth Office</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Treasury</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>Totals</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/02/2019 14:12:20 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	352 label Biography information for Lord Boswell of Aynho

1050778

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans are in place to allow visitors from Australia and Canada to use e-passport gates.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL13203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of the budget on 29 October 2018, the Government announced that, from this summer, nationals of Australia and Canada would be permit-ted to use ePassport gates when crossing the UK border. Nationals of Ja-pan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and the United States will also benefit from this change.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/02/2019 17:09:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1050779

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Wildlife: Smuggling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL13204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Combatting the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a priority for the UK Government and the UK plays a leading role globally. We are investing over £36 million from 2014 to 2021 on action to counter IWT, including work to reduce demand, strengthen enforcement, ensure effective legal frameworks and develop sustainable livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>The UK initiated and supported a series of international conferences, starting with the first conference in London in 2014, to drive the fight to eliminate IWT and in October last year brought together global leaders at the latest and most ambitious of these. The conference brought a new focus and determination to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, to build coalitions and to close markets for illegally traded wildlife products. Sixty-five countries, including the UK, have reaffirmed their commitment to counter the illegal trade and have declared what further action they will be taking. Full details of all the commitments made at the conference have been published in the 2018 London IWT conference declaration.</p><p> </p><p>New UK pledges made at the conference which complement our existing initiatives in this area include the following commitments:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>an additional £6 million for the UK’s IWT Challenge Fund;</p></li><li><p>£900,000 of new funding to develop a British military counter-poaching taskforce;</p></li><li><p>£2.1 million for public-private partnerships in Indonesia, to secure and extend critical habitats for species including the Sumatran tiger and Asian elephant;</p></li><li><p>£50,000 to support a new WILDLABS Tech Hub, which has since partnered with the Open Data Institute to reduce the level of illegal trade of wildlife by sharing data to develop innovative technologies;</p></li><li><p>up to £40,000 to create education packs for children in multiple languages which will teach them about key conservation and IWT issues, in partnership with Tale2Tail, a citizen ivory action group, and the WWF;</p></li><li><p>to establish a new global consortium made up of specialists in demand reduction and behaviour change, to make sure that our future work on IWT is as binding and effective as possible.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>At home we have passed tough new legislation to close our domestic ivory market. The Ivory Act 2018 effects a total ban on commercial dealing in elephant ivory that could directly or indirectly fuel poaching, with five narrow exemptions. When the ban comes into force it will be the toughest in Europe and one of the toughest in the world, with some of the strongest enforcement provisions.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/02/2019 12:43:49 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1050804

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Buscombe on 14 January (HL12638) and 22 January (HL12887), whether they will now answer the question asked, namely, why they no longer record centrally the information on domestic violence easements provided in the answer of the Minister of State for Employment on 10 February 2015 (HC223651).
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL13227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department still collects centrally information on domestic violence easements for Job Seeker Allowance claimants. However, this data is not considered robust enough to report in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>Since the introduction of Universal Credit, it has not been possible for the Department to report specific easements applied to individual claimants. This is because this has not been included in the Universal Credit Management Information build. We are committed to gathering better data to support claimants with complex needs and have registered this as part of the wider work programme for the Universal Credit, anything we do will be introduced incrementally and could be broad across complex needs rather than focusing on one particular group.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/02/2019 12:33:50 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1050808

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Assembly Members: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the total continuing payment to Members of the Legislative Assembly in each party in the Northern Ireland Assembly since the Assembly ceased to function; and what has been the overall payment to each of those party's staff during that period.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL13231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The budget for the payment of salaries to MLAs, along with the associated financial figures, is held by the Assembly Commission. This is the corporate body of the NI Assembly. They are the appropriate body to advise on exact figures paid. Details of this expenditure are not held by the Northern Ireland Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2019 15:41:51 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1050810

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 22 January (HL12844), what is the data source for their claim that the amount owed to smaller businesses in late payments has more than halved in the past five years; and what was the amount owed to small businesses in late payments in each of the past five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The statement in HL12844 was from Kelly Tolhurst MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy, and can be viewed<br>at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ending-late-payments-to-small-businesses</p><p><br>The overall level of late payment debt owed to small and medium sized businesses is reported by BACS Late Payment Data. In July 2017, this was reported as £14.2bn, more than halving from £30.2bn in 2012.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:37:52 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050811

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Procurement Review Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 23 January (HL12960), how many spot checks the Public Procurement Review Service will undertake to ensure public bodies are complying with their duty to report late payment performance, and by what date; and how many spot check exercises were previously completed by its predecessor the Mystery Shopper Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>There were 52 spot checks completed by the Mystery Shopper Service since the introduction of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Public Procurement Review Service has completed 88 checks within this financial year. There is an ongoing programme of spot checks which we target to the trends identified. We report findings from our spot check programme in the Public Procurement Review Service progress report which is produced annually.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:37:30 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1050812

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Procurement Review Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 22 January (HL12843), how many businesses had their late payment cases resolved by the Mystery Shopper Service in 2018; and what was the average value of those cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 the service resolved 54 payment cases for 22 different businesses. The mean value of outstanding amounts was £31,599.58. (Total range in values is from £98.65 to £275,112.00).</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 05/02/2019 12:37:03 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn