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1138294

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date	10/07/2019
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	Government Bills
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, further to her Written Answer on 3 July (HL16472), what steps are being taken to increase the proportion of government bills published in draft and submitted for pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint committee or committee of either House.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL17091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is supportive of the role of pre-legislative scrutiny, and looks to take steps wherever possible to facilitate it. In the 2016-17 session, the Government published 3 draft bills. In this session we have published ten draft pieces of legislation for pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint committee or a committee of either house, these were: Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill; Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill; Draft clause on the Personal Injury Discount Rate - subsequently included in the Civil Liability Bill; Draft Tenants Fees Bill; Draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill 2017; Draft Finance Bill; Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill; Draft Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill; Draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill; Draft Domestic Abuse Bill.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 23/07/2019 16:37:03 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1137091

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Legislation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many post-legislative reviews by Government departments have been completed and published since 1 January 2018; and in what form they were published.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL16955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Effective post-legislative scrutiny is fundamental to driving up standards of legislation. The Government is committed to providing Parliament with information to assist in this vital role through the submission of a memorandum to the relevant departmental select committee with a preliminary assessment of how the act has worked in practice within five years of Royal Assent.</p><p>The Government does not centrally hold information on the post-legislative reviews completed by Departments and published since 1 January 2018; the optimum moment for post legislative memoranda to be submitted is a matter for individual departments in discussion with the relevant departmental select committee. Memoranda are laid before Parliament as command papers and published on gov.uk. It is of course for the relevant committee to decide whether it wishes to conduct further post-legislative scrutiny but the Government would welcome further scrutiny of these memoranda.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/07/2019 14:56:10 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1133052

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Legislative Process
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the recommendations in the report of the House of Lords Constitution Committee The Legislative Process: Preparing Legislation for Parliament (HL Paper 19), published in October 2017, they have not accepted and implemented.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL16470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The then Leader of the House of Commons responded to the Committee's report on 26 January 2018. In her response she committed to asking officials to consider carefully where the Committee's recommendations can be factored into our processes.</p><p><br>The Committee made two recommendations that the Government cannot support, relating to consultations and a legislative standards committee. First, on consultations, the Government agrees that timelines for consultations should be proportionate and realistic to allow stakeholders sufficient time to provide a considered response. However, within these parameters, consultation lengths should be adaptable to the complexity of policy and legislative. Second, on a legislative standards committee, the Government is committed to bringing forward well-drafted legislation of the highest quality but does not believe a legislative standards committee would add to this process.The PBL Committee already serves as a strict gatekeeper to legislation being introduced to Parliament. Furthermore, it is generally not possible to separate views on the standards of a bill from views on the appropriateness of the underlying policy, for which the bill stages in each House already provide the appropriate forum for debate and scrutiny. The Committee’s remaining four recommendations continue to be useful to Government and, as the then Leader of the House of Commons said in her response, are being factored into our processes as appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 02/07/2019 16:01:04 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1133053

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	Select Committee Reports (Government Responses)
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Leader of the House how many, and which, reports from House of Lords select committees published since January 2018 have not received a substantive Government response within two months of publication.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL16471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Since 1 January 2018, there have been 25 reports which did not receive Government responses within two months of publication. There are currently five reports that have yet to receive a substantive Government response within two months of publication. These are: Brexit: The Customs Challenge (EU External Affairs Sub-Committee); Brexit: The Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration (EU Committee); Measuring Inflation (Economic Affairs Committee); Beyond Brexit: How to win friends and influence people (EU Committee); and Forensic science and the criminal justice system: a blueprint for change (Science and Technology Committee).</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 03/07/2019 12:28:49 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1133054

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	Government Bills
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Leader of the House how many Government Bills since May 2015 have been published in draft and referred for pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint committee or committee of either House; and what proportion these constitute of all Government Bills introduced in that period.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL16472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Since May 2015, 13 Government Bills have been published in draft and referred for pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint committee or committee of either House; this constitutes 14.43% of all Government Bills introduced in that period.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 03/07/2019 12:27:13 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth