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513429

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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	Genocide
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government under what conditions they would refer an incident or a series of incidents of suspected mass killings or alleged human rights abuses to the UN Security Council for a determination on whether genocide was occurring as defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL7686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that recognition of genocides should be a matter for international courts, not political bodies. It should be a legal, rather than political determination, decided by international judges after consideration of all the evidence available in the context of a credible international judicial process.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 26/04/2016 13:27:05 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

513430

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Transgender People: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what advice the Department for Work and Pensions gives to trans individuals about how their confidentiality is maintained by that department on its database.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL7687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides its staff with information about providing services for transgender customers but does not provide information relating to data confidentiality specifically for transgender customers. DWP has a Personal Information Charter which informs all customers of the standards they can expect when we handle their personal information.</p><p> </p><p>The DWP Special Customer Records (SCR) policy provides additional controls to transgender customers. These additional controls include clerical records being held securely by a senior manager, and access to computer records only being allowed to specific employees for specific business reasons and automatic notification of any unauthorised attempt to access records.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 03/05/2016 14:58:24 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

513431

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what advice trans individuals are given about how to manage the accuracy and maintain the integrity of their data on the Department for Work and Pensions database.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL7688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides its staff with information about providing services for transgender customers but does not provide information relating to the management of data accuracy or maintenance of data integrity specifically for transgender customers. DWP have a Personal Information Charter which informs all customers of the standards they can expect when we handle their personal information.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 25/04/2016 15:37:56 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

513432

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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	Thames Tideway Tunnel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why water customers are being required to pay for the financing and legal fees of the shareholders of the consortium, Bazalgette Tunnel Ltd., which was awarded the licence for the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>A water and sewerage company’s management and investors are responsible for determining the company’s capital and financing structure. This is an important feature of the water industry as it encourages investment by enabling a company to put in place a structure that works for it. However, accountability for a water or sewerage company’s capital and financing structure rests with investors and not customers.</p><p> </p><p>Bazalgette Tunnel Ltd (trading as Tideway) is an infrastructure provider, appointed and licenced under the Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/ 1582). Any costs incurred by Tidewayand its shareholders for its financing and other corporate arrangements are prevented under their project licence from being met by customers and are instead borne by the shareholders. This includes costs incurred both before and after licence award in August 2015.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/04/2016 12:29:33 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

513433

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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	Thames Tideway Tunnel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government under what legislative provision OFWAT is able to waive the need for a public procurement process for lawyers and financiers for the Thames Tideway Tunnel for services contracts with fees of open-ended value, in the light of the limit for services contracts under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 of £345,028.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The statutory provision is regulation 6(8) of the Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/ 1582) (&quot;the SIP Regulations&quot;). This confers a power on Ofwat to waive the requirement imposed on a licensed infrastructure provider (being Tideway, in respect of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project) to put certain contracts out to tender under a modified version of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 as set in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the SIP Regulations. Tideway is neither a contracting authority nor a utility within the meaning of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and so is not subject to the normal procurement rules.</p><p> </p><p>Following a public consultation, Ofwat issued two notices under this provision that waived Tideway’s obligation to comply with the modified version of the Utilities Contracts Regulations in certain limited and defined circumstances. The second notice issued by Ofwat provided Tideway with a narrow exemption for certain specified professional services relating to their financing and corporate arrangements, and only to the extent that those services will be paid for by its shareholders rather than customers.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/04/2016 12:30:32 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

513434

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Thames Water: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their current initiatives on the use of tax havens and issues about the use of off-shore companies, what assessment they have made of the use by Thames Water of a Cayman Islands company to raise over £5 billion of debt, and of Thames Water being owned and controlled from Luxembourg.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not disclose details of its work on the affairs of particular taxpayers.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 03/05/2016 15:57:30 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

513435

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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	Thames Tideway Tunnel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Minute to Parliament describing the contingent liability with an indicative value of up to £500 million, as created by the Market Disruption Facility agreed and signed by the Secretary of State and Bazalgette Tunnel Limited on 24 August 2015 in connection with the Thames Tideway Tunnel project was published, in the light of the fact that the potential exposure of the public purse exceeds £300,000; and when a Minute to Parliament was published in respect of the further contingent liability created by the Secretary of State in connection with the same project through his agreement to the Contingent Equity Support Agreement, signed on the same day with the same party, in the light of the fact that the liability could be as great or greater than that in the Market Disruption Facility.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>Defra did not submit departmental Minutes on the various limbs of the Government’s contingent financial support package for the Thames Tideway Tunnel because the Secretary of State has statutory authority to give financial assistance for major water or sewerage infrastructure projects under section 154B of the Water Industry Act 1991. This is consistent with the approach set out in HM Treasury’s guidance, Managing Public Money, paragraph A5.4.21 &amp; Box A5.4C.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/04/2016 12:31:00 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

513436

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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	Ofwat: PwC
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Chief Executive of the Water Regulator OFWAT was permitted to participate in a promotional video for the services of PwC, which is adviser to the Regulator both for PR14 and the Thames Tideway Tunnel, many of the UK water companies, and the owners of Thames Water, the sponsor for the Tideway Tunnel; and whether this is contrary to the Civil Service Management Code, clause 4.1.3.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>OFWAT’s Chief Executive took part in a digital case study describing the challenges of its 2014 price review (PR14) and the role of Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) as the PR14 delivery partner, contracted through open competition, to bring new skills and knowledge to OFWAT’s workforce to help secure a successful outcome. The case study was produced after the PR14 programme had ended and reflected the conclusion from OFWAT’s ‘lessons learned’ exercise that the delivery partner arrangement had been successful.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/04/2016 12:51:11 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

513437

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Yazidis have been given asylum in the UK under (1) the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme, (2) the Gateway Protection Programme, and (3) the Mandate Refugee Scheme, in the last six months.
tabling member printed	Baroness Berridge
uin	HL7694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We continue to work closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to identify appropriate cases that they deem in need of resettlement for the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, the Gateway Protection Programme and the Mandate Refugee Scheme.</p><p>Statistics on arrivals under each of these schemes are published in the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p>The next set of statistics will be in the quarterly release on 26 May 2016 and will cover the period January – March 2016. We do not publish a breakdown of these statistics by religion or ethnicity.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/05/2016 13:33:47 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge

513438

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Departmental Records
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there exists a 10-year rule under which departmental papers and records may be destroyed, and if so, where that rule is set out.
tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
uin	HL7695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>There is no ten year rule for the destruction of records created by ministers. Departments work to the guidance published by The National Archives on the appraisal and selection of official records which are retained and transferred for permanent preservation.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 03/05/2016 15:01:26 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone