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1204234

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Insolvency: Subsidiary Companies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of businesses using pre-pack administration processes to buy back subsidiaries at a discounted rate while failing to repay creditors.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL5791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service has carried out an assessment of the impact of voluntary measures introduced in 2015 to improve transparency and confidence in pre-pack sales to connected parties in administration. The findings will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>There is some protection in insolvency legislation for unsecured creditors in the form of the “prescribed part”, which is the amount of a company’s assets that must be reserved for the benefit of unsecured creditors when it enters administration.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/06/2020 15:15:01 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1204236

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Insolvency: Tax Havens
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the use of pre-pack administrations by businesses that have previously extracted large dividends through subsidiaries based in tax havens.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL5792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>There has been no assessment by Government of the use of pre-pack administrations by businesses that have previously extracted large dividends through subsidiaries based in tax havens.</p><p> </p><p>The Insolvency Service has, however, carried out an assessment of the impact of voluntary measures introduced in 2015 to improve transparency and confidence in pre-pack sales in administration. The findings will be published in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/06/2020 15:17:13 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1204237

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Insolvency: Small Businesses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of pre-pack administrations on SME creditors.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL5793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has not carried out a specific assessment of the impact of prepacks on SMEs. However, the Insolvency Service has reviewed the impact of voluntary measures introduced in 2015 to improve transparency and confidence in pre-pack sales in administration, including the impact on creditors and its findings will be issued in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/06/2020 15:17:24 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1204238

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the Pre Pack Pool Oversight Group’s suggestion that the Pre Pack Pool is “unsustainable” unless referrals of pre-pack sales to the Pool are made mandatory.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL5794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>There has been a very low number of referrals to the Pre-Pack Pool which was set up by industry to provide opinions on a voluntary basis on pre-pack sales in administration to connected parties.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Government continues to work with regulators and industry stakeholders to discuss options for strengthening the professional standards for insolvency practitioners to give greater assurance to creditors where a sale is to a connected party.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/06/2020 15:17:40 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1204239

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make it mandatory for large businesses to notify the Pre Pack Pool of proposed Pre-pack administration deals.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL5795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service continues to work with regulators and industry stakeholders to discuss options for strengthening the professional standards for insolvency practitioners and give greater assurance to creditors where a sale in a prepack administration is to a connected party.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/06/2020 15:17:58 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1204240

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
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	Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the effectiveness of the Pre Pack Pool, and (2) the proportion of eligible cases being referred for review dropping to 10 per cent, according to the Pre-Pack Pool’s latest Annual Report.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL5796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Pre-Pack Pool is one of a number of voluntary measures introduced in November 2015 to improve transparency and confidence in pre-pack sales in administration. The Insolvency Service has carried out an assessment of the impact of these measures and will publish its findings in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 29/06/2020 15:18:16 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1195975

registered interest
date	14/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime rates; and what plans they have to address any rise in cybercrime linked to COVID-19.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL4521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office and its operational partners continue to monitor and respond to the cyber crime threat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current assessments have not indicated an increase in reporting linked to COVID-19. However, cyber criminals are exploiting COVID-19 as an unparalleled opportunity to conduct criminal activity using social engineering, capitalising on people’s anxieties about the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>On 21 April, the Government launched a revised Cyber Aware campaign to coincide with the launch of the NCSC’s new Suspicious Email Reporting service. The NCA have also launched an advertorial on the popular Games Radar website to deliver PREVENT messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic as the public spend more time online. The advert is designed to deter young people away from becoming involved in cyber-criminality.</p><p>We have also recently launched a gov.uk page on coronavirus-related fraud and cybercrime. The page includes easy-to-follow steps for people to better protect themselves and signposts other relevant advice and tips. It can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-fraud-and-cyber-crime.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/05/2020 14:02:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1195976

registered interest
date	14/05/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Cyber Security Centre: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the budget of the National Cyber Security Centre in (1) 2016/17, (2) 2017/18, (3) 2018/19, and (4) 2019/20; and what is it for 2020/21.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL4522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2020 answer text <p>The National Cyber Security Strategy supported by a £1.9 billion investment through the National Cyber Security Programme, is delivering transformational change, building new capabilities and intervening to protect the UK from cyber attacks.</p><p>We established the National Cyber Security Centre in October 2016 as part of the National Cyber Security Strategy to bring together our best intelligence and expertise into a single national technical authority, driving improvements in detection, defence and incident management.</p><p>Our manifesto committed to investing more in cyber security, embracing new technologies and legislating to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 29/05/2020 09:43:01 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1195977

registered interest
date	14/05/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make additional resources available to the National Cyber Security Centre to address any rise in cybercrime linked to COVID-19; and, if so, what those resources will be.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL4523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/05/2020 answer text <p>The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is deploying its full range of capabilities in tackling the cyber threat during the Covid-19 crisis.</p><p>The NCSC, National Crime Agency and partners in the UK and overseas are working together to tackle cyber threats, publishing guidance and identifying and removing malicious sites. This includes working closely with the NHS to keep their systems and the healthcare sector safe as we see a greater demand on their services during this period. We are able to draw upon these resources, because of the implementation of the 2016 National Cyber Security Strategy.</p><p>The Covid-19 crisis means that the UK is now more reliant on home working and online services than ever before. In April, the NCSC, alongside Cabinet Office, DCMS and Home Office relaunched the Cyber Aware campaign, which advises the public of the simple steps they can take to protect themselves online.</p><p>We recognise the importance of not losing momentum on our response to cyber security and of continuing to build on the capabilities we have developed; this will be considered as part of the Government's next Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 28/05/2020 11:58:01 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1182483

registered interest
date	03/03/2020
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	Business: 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 Callanan on 26 February (HL1665), what proportion of businesses who have signed up to the Prompt Payment Code have their (1) procurement and purchasing policy, (2) 'how to get paid' details, and (3) responsible board director, listed on the Prompt Payment Code website.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL2185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>Data provided by the Chartered Institute of Credit Management states that (1) 6% of Code signatories (153 of 2,472) have provided their procurement and purchasing policy; (2) 49% (1,205 of 2,472) have provided their ‘how to get paid’ details; and 54% (1,329 of 2,472) have provided their responsible board director information for inclusion on the Prompt Payment Code website.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 16/03/2020 12:48:45 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn