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819332

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	Government Communications Centre
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 management of HM Government Communications Centre, in particular of whether (1) clear management guidelines and objectives are issued, (2) employees are enabled to work towards those objectives without undue bureaucracy, (3) financial management is adequate and ensures minimal waste of public money, and (4) resources are fully utilised.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We welcome the recent announcement by the Ethiopian Prime Minister on reforms to open up political dialogue, including the planned release of some imprisoned politicians. The British Government is in close contact with the Ethiopian authorities to seek more information on what this will mean in practice, including for British nationals currently imprisoned in Ethiopia. The UK has repeatedly raised human rights concerns with the Ethiopian government, including around the arrest and imprisonment of people for their political views.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre (HMGCC) follows government best practice in working to clear and strong management guidelines and performance objectives, and in the allocation of resources with an organisational strategic plan.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In line with its strategic plan, individual members of staff agree their objectives on an annual basis, and their performance is assessed regularly against a range of standard and professional competencies. Managers are given appropriate training and have full access to internal guidance and external best practice.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">HMGCC ensures that it maintains rigorous financial management and that resources are used fully in a timely and appropriate manner. HMGCC adheres to HMT's fees and charges guidance, Managing Public Money, relevant accounting and audit standards and other appropriate HMT guidance. HMGCC has for the last five years followed a programme of LEAN & Continuous Improvement, using best commercial practice to examine internal processes, derive improvements and measure effectiveness.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">HMGCC's use of resource has been approved by both internal and external audits.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/01/2018 16:03:40 question first ministerially corrected 18/01/2018 17:00:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon previous answer version 34736 answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

810592

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Radio Frequencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many fixed links are operating in the spectrum between 1350 MHz and 1400 MHz.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	120937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Given current use in the 1350 – 1375 MHz band it is not considered feasible to allow sharing in this band for Programme Making and Special Events. The band 1375 – 1400 MHz is used by the Ministry of Defence.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Ofcom have reported that within the band 1350 – 1375 MHz there are currently 817 links. The band 1375 – 1400 MHz is used by the Ministry of Defence.</ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 17/01/2018 16:42:50 question first ministerially corrected 18/01/2018 10:12:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 34887 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

809586

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment: Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what percentage of adults with a learning disability in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and Humberside and (c) Scunthorpe constituency were in paid work in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	120244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/12/2017 11:21:38 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 20:55:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ120244.pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 31627 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ120244 Nic Dakin (OW) holding .pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

809651

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information he holds on which cities in the UK have the highest suicide rates per 100,000 people in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/12/2017 11:13:31 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 20:54:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ120271 & PQ120272 UKSA.pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 31608 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ120271, 120272 Chris Runane holding (OW) .pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809689

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has answered 1675 Written Parliamentary Questions so far this session as of 21<sup>st</sup> December. Of these, 3 questions (0.18% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collated and 4 questions (0.24% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collected centrally.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has answered 1675 Written Parliamentary Questions so far this session as of 21<sup>st</sup> December. Of these, 4 questions (0.24% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collected and 3 questions (0.18% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collated centrally.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/12/2017 13:32:20 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 32489 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809744

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Gratuities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish the response to the consultation on Tips, gratuities, cover and service charges which closed on 27 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	120364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Neither my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State, nor I have had discussions with charities about the impact of these rules on their work.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The State aid rules apply to funding given to charities, as they would for any other body, where they are involved in economic activities. The rules are blind as to legal form; rather they are concerned with whether an entity is undertaking economic activities. And equally State aid may be granted legally to charities on the same terms as anyone else if it complies with the rules.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government is considering the responses to this consultation, and will respond in due course.</ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 22/12/2017 14:11:06 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 32347 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

806067

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	119165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>In the current parliamentary session (as at 13 December 2017) <del class="ministerial">2,365</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,258</ins> written PQs have been answered by the Department. 33 <del class="ministerial">(1.4%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">(1.46%)</ins> of which were answered advising that the requested information was not available due to disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 20:05:37 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 30513 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

806368

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what statutory requirements are imposed on local authorities in relation to youth service.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>Section 507B of the Education Act 1996 (as amended by the Education and Inspections Act <del class="ministerial">1996)</del> <ins class="ministerial">2006)</ins> requires local authorities to secure access to sufficient services and activities to improve young people’s well-being, so far as is reasonably practicable.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 22/12/2017 12:32:35 question first ministerially corrected 16/01/2018 13:25:59 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde previous answer version 32198 answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

805449

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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 Office: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It is our assessment that no legislation taken forward by the Northern Ireland Office since August 2014 has required the application of the Family Test by the UK Government.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Ministers. The Family Test was not designed to be a ‘tick-box’ exercise, and as such there is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Many of the policy areas linked to strengthening families in Northern Ireland are devolved matters. The UK Government is, though, helping families with the everyday cost of living by keeping taxes low, including taking 31,000 people in Northern Ireland out of paying income tax altogether (compared to 2015-16), freezing fuel duty for the eight successive year and increasing the National Living Wage again from April 2018, delivering a £600 annual pay-rise to full-time workers in Northern Ireland.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 22/12/2017 12:02:30 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:27:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 32276 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

802769

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Non-departmental Public Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what bodies for which his Department is responsible are required to lay reports before Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	118318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>The following entities which come within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) boundary are required to lay reports before Parliament:</p><p> </p><p>Armed Forces' Pay Review Body</p><p>Defence Equipment and Support</p><p>Defence Electronics and Components Agency</p><p>Defence Science and Technology Laboratory</p><p>Greenwich Hospital and Travers Foundation</p><p>National Army Museum</p><p>National Employer Advisory Board</p><p>National Museum of the Royal Navy</p><p>Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations</p><p>Royal Air Force Museum</p><p><ins class="ministerial">Royal Hospital Chelsea</ins></p><p>Service Complaints Ombudsman</p><p>Single Source Regulations Office</p><p>United Kingdom Hydrographic Office</p><p> </p><p>A list of the bodies for which the MOD is responsible can be found on the gov.uk website and in the MOD Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17 (HC 21) at Note 22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 15/12/2017 14:48:27 question first ministerially corrected 21/12/2017 17:41:57 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin previous answer version 30060 answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock