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date	22/06/2020
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	Post Office: Accounting Officers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any significant initiatives, policies, programmes or projects of the Post Office were overseen by the Government since 1 January 2000; and if so, what they were and how were they managed.
tabling member printed	Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
uin	HL5974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government has not overseen any specific project at the Post Office. It is important that the company is allowed to run as an independent, commercial business, albeit in compliance with the principles set out in Managing Public Money.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has appointed a Non-Executive Director (NED) on the POL Board since its separation from Royal Mail in 2012. From 2014 onwards this role has been performed by UKGI (previously the Shareholder Executive).</p><p> </p><p>Before 2012, there was no representation at Board level (within Royal Mail Group). The Shareholder Executive provided a monitoring function and reported to the relevant department (BEIS, BIS, BERR and DTI).</p><p> </p><p>The BEIS Permanent Secretary has some key controls of the Post Office – namely approval of the annual business plan, some financing aspects of the company and approval of any specific commitments above £50m.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/07/2020 14:33:41 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

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date	01/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
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 Young of Cookham on 27 February (HL4733), whether, following the meeting between Carillion and the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice in October 2017, other Government departments with Carillion contracts were alerted to likely contract failures and the company’s precarious financial position.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL5974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>Senior officials from Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison &amp; Probation Service were present at the meeting between Carillion and the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in October 2017. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the performance of Carillion in delivering facilities management services to 50 prison establishments in the Southern England prison estate.</p><p> </p><p>A note of the meeting was taken, as with all Ministerial meetings. The meeting focussed upon performance, compliance and opportunities for rehabilitation.</p><p> </p><p>The information that was discussed at the meeting was either already known by Government or it was information that was in the wider public domain.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL5972 HL5973 question first answered 21/03/2018 17:03:34 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton