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1342631

registered interest
date	30/06/2021
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, in the hereditary peers' by-election following the retirement of the Countess of Mar, (1) how many peers were entitled to vote, (2) how many peers voted, (3) how many ballot papers were spoiled, and (4) what was the percentage turnout.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL1600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2021 answer text <p>The details of the by-election to replace the Countess of Mar are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Vacancy Created By: </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Members eligible to vote:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Members who voted:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of spoiled ballot papers:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage turnout: </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Countess of Mar</p></td><td><p>783</p></td><td><p>317</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 08/07/2021 14:23:04 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1331031

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
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	Animal Welfare
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which parts of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill would not have been allowed had the UK remained a member of the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill goes further than Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU in a number of ways. In particular The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill introduces a proportionate accountability mechanism, involving the Animal Sentience Committee. It applies to all policy areas and has no exemptions.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 22/06/2021 12:49:29 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1330340

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what plans he has to arrange for media access to the counts for by-elections of hereditary peers.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Procedure and Privileges Committee agreed on 2 March that the forthcoming hereditary peer by-elections to replace the Earl of Selborne, Lord Denham, Lord Selsdon, the Countess of Mar, Lord Rea and Lord Elton should be carried out using electronic means. Electors will vote using a secure on-line portal. The count will be an electronic process with the manual addition of a small number of postal ballots. There are no plans to allow media access to the count as it is an electronic process. Full details of the results will be available to the media and other interested parties on-line after the result has been announced in the Chamber.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/06/2021 14:49:20 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1301574

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel on 22 February (HL13173) and 9 March (HL13586), to list in the body of their answer which specific countries they have secured continuity trade agreements with since the UK’s departure from the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL14087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>In addition to our deal with the EU, we have secured trade agreements with 66 non-EU countries, covering £890 billion of trade in total (2019 data). These are:</p><p>Albania;</p><p>Antigua and Barbuda;</p><p>Barbados;</p><p>The Bahamas;</p><p>Belize;</p><p>Botswana;</p><p>Cameroon;</p><p>Canada;</p><p>Colombia;</p><p>Côte d’Ivoire (The Ivory Coast);</p><p>Costa Rica;</p><p>Chile;</p><p>Dominica;</p><p>The Dominican Republic;</p><p>Ecuador;</p><p>Egypt;</p><p>El Salvador;</p><p>Eswatini (Swaziland);</p><p>The Faroe Islands;</p><p>Fiji;</p><p>Ghana;</p><p>Grenada;</p><p>Guyana;</p><p>Guatemala;</p><p>Georgia;</p><p>Honduras;</p><p>Iceland;</p><p>Israel;</p><p>Japan;</p><p>Jordan;</p><p>Jamaica;</p><p>Kenya;</p><p>Kosovo;</p><p>Lebanon;</p><p>Lesotho;</p><p>Liechtenstein;</p><p>Mexico;</p><p>Morocco;</p><p>Moldova;</p><p>Mozambique;</p><p>Mauritius;</p><p>Nicaragua;</p><p>Norway;</p><p>North Macedonia;</p><p>Namibia;</p><p>Peru;</p><p>Panama;</p><p>Papua New Guinea;</p><p>The Palestinian Authority;</p><p>Saint Lucia;</p><p>St. Vincent and the Grenadines;</p><p>Samoa;</p><p>The Solomon Islands;</p><p>St. Kitts and Nevis;</p><p>The Seychelles;</p><p>South Africa;</p><p>Switzerland;</p><p>Singapore;</p><p>South Korea;</p><p>Suriname;</p><p>Trinidad and Tobago;</p><p>Tunisia;</p><p>Turkey;</p><p>Ukraine;</p><p>Vietnam; and</p><p>Zimbabwe.</p> answering member printed Lord Grimstone of Boscobel question first answered 17/03/2021 17:06:34 answering member 4876 label Biography information for Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1301048

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Labour Party and Liberal Democrats: Peers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord True on 11 February (HL12711) and 8 March (HL13422), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, what is their assessment of the equivalent figures for (1) the Labour, and (2) the Liberal Democrat, Party when following a similar methodology to the one used to determine underrepresentation of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL14037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2021 answer text <p>Reflecting the method in my previous answers, the Liberal Democrat party is over-represented; the Conservative Party is significantly under-represented; the Labour Party has a proportion of seats in this House that is less than its seat share in the Commons, but not by a significant amount.</p><p> </p><p>Notwithstanding that, there are different ways of assessing the issue. For example, one may wish to consider the share of this House excluding cross-benchers and bishops, or look at composition of peers taking a political whip. Under both measures, Liberal Democrats are significantly over-represented.</p><p> </p><p>The noble Lord will be able to make his own further calculations from public domain information, if he wishes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 25/03/2021 16:28:39 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1289168

registered interest
date	23/02/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel on 22 February (HL13173), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, further to the UK's departure from the EU, with which countries they have signed continuity trade agreements.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL13586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>We have secured trade agreements with 65 countries, plus the EU, covering £890 billion of trade in 2019, equivalent to 63% of the United Kingdom’s total trade.</p><p>On 2<sup>nd</sup> March, HM Government signed a Trade Partnership Agreement with Ghana.</p><p>Some countries with which we have signed agreements have not been able to bring the agreement into effect or have not been able to do so fully. They are in the process of completing the final necessary steps to allow the agreements to enter into effect fully. This is the case for Canada, Jordan and Mexico.</p><p>We have set out on GOV.UK the signed agreements that entered into effect on 1<sup>st</sup> January and have published advice for those agreements that are not in place fully. The link can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Grimstone of Boscobel question first answered 09/03/2021 11:26:22 answering member 4876 label Biography information for Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1288335

registered interest
date	22/02/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Labour Party and Liberal Democrats: Peers
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 True on 11 February (HL12711), what is their assessment of the equivalent figures for (1) the Labour, and (2) the Liberal Democrat, Party when following a similar methodology to the one used to determine underrepresentation of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL13422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>Based on that methodology, my assessment is that the Liberal Democrat Party, in particular, is significantly over-represented in the House of Lords.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 08/03/2021 16:35:09 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1285395

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the UK's departure from the EU, which countries they have signed continuity trade agreements with.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL13173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>We have secured trade agreements with 64 non-EU countries. Total trade with these countries was worth £216 billion in 2019. This accounts for 97% of the value of trade with non-EU countries that we set out to secure agreements with at the start of the trade continuity programme.</p><p> </p><p>After the transition period began, we expanded the ambition of our programme above and beyond this original scope, securing agreements with Japan, Turkey, Vietnam and Singapore, which together accounted for £71 billion of trade in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>All countries with which the United Kingdom has a trade deal are set out on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries" target="_blank">GOV.UK.</a></p> answering member printed Lord Grimstone of Boscobel question first answered 22/02/2021 14:00:57 answering member 4876 label Biography information for Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1285396

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Deployment
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 Goldie on 6 August 2020 (HL7356), how much have the ten largest deployments of UK armed forces overseas increased or decreased over the past five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL13174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>A summary of the ten largest deployments of military personnel over the past five years has been extracted from the annual statistics published on GOV.uk, and captured in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1-Apr-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1-Apr-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1-Apr-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1-Apr-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1-Apr-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1-Apr-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Overseas</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,300</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,560</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9,260</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9,040</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,220</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,050</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Cyprus</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,400</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,250</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,250</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,150</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,290</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>United States</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>610</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>670</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>820</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>920</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>790</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>730</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Germany</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,310</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,870</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,580</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,850</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>540</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Belgium</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>310</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>290</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>290</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>280</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>290</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>290</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Canada</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>280</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>290</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>280</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>310</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Kenya</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>200</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>250</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>250</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>250</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Italy</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>180</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>180</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>180</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>190</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>180</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>180</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gibraltar</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>170</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Brunei</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>170</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>170</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>180</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>160</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Saudi Arabia</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>120</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>130</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>120</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>120</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>120</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>130</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Source: Defence Statistics</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Annual statistics on the locations of UK Armed Forces across the globe can be accessed using the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/location-of-all-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-annual-statistics-index" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/location-of-all-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-annual-statistics-index</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 23/02/2021 17:34:06 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1281896

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conservative Party: Peers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord True on 27 January (HL Deb, col 1600), what is the statistical basis for the statement that "the Conservative Party has been underrepresented in your Lordships’ House".
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL12711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>The Conservative voice is under-represented in the Lords and has been for some time. The Conservative Party has been the largest party in the 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections. In the 2019 general election, Conservatives won 56 per cent of the seats. Yet the Conservative Party still only has 33 per cent of the seats in the Lords, a figure which has remained substantively unchanged despite that repeated pattern of strong electoral support.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 11/02/2021 17:59:57 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott