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513889

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date	19/04/2016
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees, in the light of the publication on 19 April of the result of the Hereditary Peers By-election, whether he will publish the contract with Electoral Reform Services to supervise and conduct the poll and count.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL7763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The House has engaged Electoral Reform Services (ERS) to assist with each hereditary peers’ by-election. When the need for a by-election arises ERS are engaged under a standing agreement to administer and supervise the by-election and provide assurance that it conforms to good electoral practice.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 28/04/2016 11:30:21 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

512773

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	EU Enlargement
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 Anelay of St Johns on 7 March (HL6442), whether they support the application to join the EU of (1) Turkey, (2) Macedonia, (3) Montenegro, (4) Albania, and (5) Serbia.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL7662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>We support all five countries' aspiration to join the EU as an important means to drive reform. Turkey’s accession process remains the most effective mechanism to support continuing reform in Turkey. In the Western Balkans, the prospect of EU membership is helping to build stability and promote cooperation on issues that matter to the UK, including organised crime and illegal migration. The strict conditionality of the enlargement process means that it takes many years for a country to complete accession negotiations, undertake reforms and achieve the progress needed to meet EU membership criteria. Any decision to enlarge the EU requires the unanimous agreement of the governments of all existing Member States and ratification in accordance with each country’s constitutional arrangements. In the case of the UK, under the European Union Act 2011 ratification cannot take place without an Act of Parliament to approve the new accession. We can therefore ensure that our requirements are respected in any future EU enlargement. The UK will insist that controls on free movement cannot be lifted until accession countries’ economies have converged much more closely with existing Member States.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 27/04/2016 15:03:09 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

455137

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	EU Enlargement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which countries have expressed an interest in applying for membership of the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL6442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) states that any European State which respects its values and is committed to promoting them may apply to become a member of the Union. The Council currently recognises five candidates for EU membership: Turkey, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania and Serbia. Turkey, Montenegro and Serbia have started accession negotiations. Albania and Macedonia have Candidate Status but have not started accession negotiations. Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted its membership application on 15 February 2016. The General Affairs Council will revert to Bosnia and Herzegovina's application once it deems that sufficient progress in the implementation of the Reform Agenda has been achieved. Kosovo is recognised as a potential candidate and has signed and concluded a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU. Iceland started negotiations in 2013, but last year requested that it no longer be considered a candidate country.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 07/03/2016 16:02:20 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

439740

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the Leader of the House on 17 December that the convention on statutory instruments "has now broken" (HL Deb, col 2197), on how many occasions since the second World War such a breakage has occurred.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL4793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>Prior to October 2015, the House of Lords had rejected statutory instruments on four occasions since World War II. None of those occasions concerned a statutory instrument implementing a budget measure intended to deliver £4.4bn of savings that had already been approved by the House of Commons - thereby overruling the elected House on a matter of public spending - nor is it precedented for the House of Lords to decline to consider a statutory instrument until the Government has made specific changes to the policy underpinning it. The House's decision to withhold agreement to the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 therefore broke new ground, and may be regarded as a breach of the convention underpinning the House's powers in regard to secondary legislation as well as the longer-standing convention regarding the financial primacy of the House of Commons.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 08/01/2016 14:52:10 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

439741

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Life Peers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many life peerages have been created since the 2010 election, and how many of those were (1) Conservative, (2) Liberal Democrat, (3) Labour, and (4) Crossbench, peerages.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL4794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>Peerages created since the 2010 election are listed below:</p><br /><p>Conservative: 109</p><br /><p>Labour: 55</p><br /><p>Liberal Democrat: 51</p><br /><p>Crossbench/Independent/other: 30</p><br /><p>Of the peers appointed since the 2010 election 22.4 per cent have taken the whip of her majesty’s official opposition. This compares to 15.7 per cent of those created between the 1997 and 2010 general elections.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 08/01/2016 14:51:11 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

435698

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Lord Privy Seal on 3 December (HL3732), when were the three occasions on which the House withheld its agreement to an affirmative instrument between World War II and 2010, and which instrument was not agreed to on each occasion.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL4273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The three occasions on which the House withheld its agreement to an affirmative instrument prior to 2010 were on 18 June 1968; 22 February 2000; and 28 March 2007. The instruments not agreed to were the Southern Rhodesia (United Nations Sanctions) Order 1968; the Greater London Authority (Election Expenses) Order 2000; and the Gambling (Geographical Distribution of Casino Premises Licences) Order 2007, respectively.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 21/12/2015 12:27:26 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

435699

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	House of Lords Composition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Lord Privy Seal on 12 November (HL3121), how many members there were in the House of Lords of (1) the government party, or parties, and (2) the official opposition party, in each year since 1997.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL4274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>For each of the sessions requested, I have set out below the number of those peers eligible to take part in the work of the House of Lords sitting on the Government benches and those of the benches of HM Official Opposition.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Governing Party/Parties</p></td><td><p>HM Official Opposition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>97-98</p></td><td><p>Lab: 176</p></td><td><p>Con: 478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>98-99</p></td><td><p>Lab: 193</p></td><td><p>Con: 484</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>99-00</p></td><td><p>Lab: 201</p></td><td><p>Con: 232</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>00-01</p></td><td><p>Lab: 195</p></td><td><p>Con: 225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01-02</p></td><td><p>Lab: 190</p></td><td><p>Con: 217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>02-03</p></td><td><p>Lab: 185</p></td><td><p>Con: 210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03-04</p></td><td><p>Lab: 201</p></td><td><p>Con: 202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04-05</p></td><td><p>Lab: 199</p></td><td><p>Con: 205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05-06</p></td><td><p>Lab: 212</p></td><td><p>Con: 208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06-07</p></td><td><p>Lab: 217</p></td><td><p>Con: 202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>07-08</p></td><td><p>Lab: 214</p></td><td><p>Con: 199</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08-09</p></td><td><p>Lab: 212</p></td><td><p>Con: 189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>09-10</p></td><td><p>Lab: 211</p></td><td><p>Con: 185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-12</p></td><td><p>Con: 214 Lib Dem: 90</p></td><td><p>Lab: 235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12-13</p></td><td><p>Con: 212 Lib Dem: 89</p></td><td><p>Lab: 222</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13-14</p></td><td><p>Con: 220 Lib Dem: 99</p></td><td><p>Lab: 218</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14-15</p></td><td><p>Con: 226 Lib Dem: 103</p></td><td><p>Lab: 216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-16 (as at 21/12/15)</p></td><td><p>Con: 251</p></td><td><p>Lab: 213</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 21/12/2015 17:51:32 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

429482

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
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 Stowell of Beeston on 12 November (HL3120), on which occasions since 2010 the House has withheld its agreement to an affirmative instrument.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL3732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The House of Lords has withheld its agreement to an affirmative instrument on two occasions since 2010: on 3 December 2012 (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2012) and on 26 October 2015 (Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulations 2015).</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Prior to 2010, the House had withheld its agreement to an affirmative instrument on three occasions since World War II.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 03/12/2015 15:18:18 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

425856

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
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	Common Agricultural Policy
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 Gardiner of Kimble on 27 October (HL2665), how much of the 2015 Common Agricultural Policy budget has been, or will be, spent in support of United Kingdom agriculture.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL3254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>In 2015, the UK has been allocated around 7% of the total CAP budget, equivalent to a total of €4 billion.</p><br /><p>In pounds sterling, based on the average European central Bank exchange rate for September used for calculating direct payments, this equates to a total of £2.9 billion. Of this amount, £2.3 billion is allocated to Pillar 1 direct payments and £620 million to Pillar 2 rural development.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 16/11/2015 09:28:59 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

425857

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
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	European External Action Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current cost of the EU delegations and offices in third countries, and where those delegations and offices are located.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL3255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>Overall figures on the cost of EU Delegations overseas for the 2014 financial year have been taken from the Draft General Budget of the EU for the Financial Year of 2016 and are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Remuneration and allowances €</p></td><td><p>Other administrative expenditure €</p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL €</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Delegations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>162.395.182</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>141.772.693</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>304.167.875</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A full breakdown of the total cost has been extracted and is in the document attached. The figures listed are in Euros.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/11/2015 17:25:44 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns attachment 1 file name EEAS ADMIN EXP.pdf title EEAS Admin Expenditure
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott