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539185

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date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Home Shopping
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what regulations protect the contact details of vulnerable people being passed to other commercial agencies when purchasing a product online or having one purchased on their behalf.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL1262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government takes the protection of people’s personal data very seriously. The handling and sharing of personal data is primarily governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), which establishes a legal framework of rights and obligations that protect individuals’ personal information.</p><p> </p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office, who is the independent regulatory body responsible for enforcing the DPA in the UK, has produced the guidance for the general public on such matters. This guidance can be found on its’ website at; <a href="http://www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-my-%20information-being-handled-correctly/" target="_blank">www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-my- information-being-handled-correctly/</a></p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 01/08/2016 14:14:50 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

539191

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to establish a scheme to retrain as trade negotiators people with experience of high level intergovernmental and global institutional practice.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL1267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has created the Department for International Trade, which is responsible for promoting British trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. We are building up our trade policy capability. ​The Department has begun a process to recruit and train staff to work on the UK’s trade policy. We will adapt the resource devoted to trade policy in line with future demands.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 25/07/2016 14:12:13 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

539207

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: Working Hours
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to issue instructions to NHS Trusts to draw up doctors' schedules that ignore the EU Working Time Directive.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to issue instructions to ignore the Working Time Directive (WTD).</p><p> </p><p>There will be no immediate changes to our relationship with the European Union. We remain a part of the EU until negotiations are concluded, which could take up two years or more if agreement isn’t reached. While the United Kingdom remains a member of the EU, we must meet our obligations as a member of the EU, including the WTD.</p><p><br> It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service trusts to ensure service rotas are compliant with the WTD.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 25/07/2016 10:42:56 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

539214

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gaming Machines
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in setting a date for the Triennial Review of gaming machine stakes and prizes.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Hindhead
uin	HL1290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>As previously stated in the House of Commons, Government is reviewing the situation and we hope to announce details of a review in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 25/07/2016 13:12:53 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4542 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Hindhead

539479

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the Law Officers referred a criminal sentence to the Court for Appeal for review on the grounds that it was unduly harsh in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	43056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>Whilst the Attorney General’s Office can ask the Court of Appeal to review a sentence which is considered to be unduly lenient, the Law Officers have no power to intervene when a sentence is too harsh. Therefore there have been no referrals to the Court of Appeal on the grounds that a sentence was unduly harsh.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/07/2016 10:43:25 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

539486

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what severance pay has been granted to the special advisers that left his Department in the last week.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	43066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>Severance payments are in the process of being calculated. Details of the costs will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 22/07/2016 10:02:34 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

539488

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Infrastructure and Projects Authority
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2016 to Question 42548, what the cost to the public purse is of employing the 37 people referred to in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	43173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>Having re-reviewed the numbers and status of the FTA I can confirm that 28 people in IPA are employed through Fixed Term Appointments (we have now removed people who have since moved on either due to their appointment coming to an end or moving to other roles either within Cabinet Office or across wider government).</p><p>These members of staff cost £1,937,818 annually out of an overall IPA budget of £14,463,994.</p><p>To put this in context IPA oversees projects with whole life costs of well over £500bn.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 22/07/2016 10:05:10 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

539489

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2016 to Question 42551, if he will take steps to improve take-up of the Accelerate programme by disabled members of staff.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	43174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>If the Accelerate programme runs in future years, then the Cabinet Office will promote take-up of the programme through the intranet and will support disabled applicants through the Cabinet Office Disability Network.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 22/07/2016 10:01:20 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

539518

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of differential rates of apprenticeship completion by sector; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	43219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>Apprenticeship achievement rates by sector subject area vary from 60.4% (Science and Maths) to 78.9% (Information and Communication Technology). With the exceptions of Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care, Arts, Media and Publishing and Science and Mathematics, the achievement rate for all Sector Subject Areas increased between the 2013/14 and 2014/15 academic years.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms are improving the quality of all apprenticeships. We have insisted that they must all be paid jobs with substantial training, develop transferable skills and have a minimum 12 months’ duration. Ensuring that, at the end of their apprenticeship, apprentices have transferable skills and can progress their career will all help encourage people to complete their apprenticeship.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 21/07/2016 16:53:46 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

539519

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what performance measures her Department plans to use to determine whether a Multi Academy Trust is permitted to expand.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	43220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>When schools are converting to academy status as part of a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) or joining an existing MAT, it is the Regional Schools Commissioner’s (RSC) role to decide, on behalf of the Secretary of State, whether to approve or decline the application.</p><p>When schools are converting to academy status as part of a MAT or joining an existing MAT, the RSC will want to be assured that the governance and leadership of the MAT is clear and robust and that the MAT has the capacity to drive improvement across all schools within it. Consideration will include, amongst other things, Ofsted judgements and published performance measures in relation to progress and attainment of academies already within the MAT, how these relate to the floor standard, and national and local averages, as well as improvement over time. The RSC will also consider the performance of the academy applying to join the MAT.</p><p>The White Paper <em>Educational Excellence Everywhere</em>, committed to increasing accountability by publishing data to show how MATs are performing. We began to deliver on this with the publication earlier this month of MAT performance measures for 2014-15, which can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-academy-trust-performance-measures-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-academy-trust-performance-measures-2014-to-2015</a></p><p>A key benefit of an academy-based system is that it can be responsive to performance, and the White Paper committed to testing further how we can develop a system with the right balance of intervention, review and stability. We want to continue to engage widely on this in upcoming months.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 25/07/2016 11:54:39 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms