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date	24/04/2017
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	Security Guards: Conditions of Employment
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 recent ruling in respect of the employment status of Uber drivers on the security industry; and what is their assessment of the use of zero-hour or self-employment contracts in the security industry.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL6771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government cannot comment on individual cases. The Government has not made any assessment of the use of zero-hour or self-employment contracts in the security industry.</p><p>The availability of atypical or non-standard forms of employment provide a number of benefits for workers who cannot or do not want to commit to ‘standard’ full-time employment. This Government is absolutely clear that employers must take their employment law responsibilities seriously and cannot simply opt out of their responsibilities. We believe everyone deserves to be treated fairly at work.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/04/2017 13:56:16 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

723742

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Supermarkets: Marketing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have that UK supermarkets sell products using the names of non-existent farms and other businesses.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL6784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial"><em>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</em></del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Brand names can be used but this must be done in line with the Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 which prohibits food labelling from misleading the consumer. The way that product brands influence consumers’ choices will vary between cases, depending on the circumstances. Enforcement authorities will take action if there is evidence that a food business operator is labelling food in a way that is misleading.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/04/2017 10:58:14 question first ministerially corrected 27/04/2017 15:06:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble previous answer version 46575 answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

723765

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	White Helmets
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 value of the White Helmets in humanitarian work in the Syrian conflict.
tabling member printed	Lord Eames
uin	HL6807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Syria Civil Defence (SCD), also known as the White Helmets, plays an invaluable role in rescuing people from the devastation caused by Syrian and Russian air and missile strikes. The 107 SCD teams, of over 3100 volunteer women and men, deliver community-based services to approximately four million Syrian civilians living in opposition-controlled areas. To date they have saved over 85,000 lives and conducted extensive mine risk awareness campaigns to help civilians protect themselves from unexploded ordnance. 167 SCD volunteers have been killed and another 480 seriously injured while carrying out their life-saving work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 27/04/2017 12:20:19 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2793 label Biography information for Lord Eames

723222

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any training (a) has taken place and (b) has been planned for officials of his Department on how to deal sensitively with women whose third or subsequent child was conceived as a result of rape.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	71554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Universal Credit Work Coaches undertake comprehensive learning to equip them with the tools, skills and behaviours required to provide a high quality service to all claimants. All DWP staff undertaking customer-facing roles go through a programme of learning and development to equip them to support vulnerable people who access our services.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a learning product called “Supporting Customers with a Vulnerability”, and which staff undertake as part of their foundation learning for a role where they interact directly with DWP customers. We have worked with external bodies, including organisations that provide support to vulnerable customers, on a number of our technical learning products.</p><p> </p><p>For the most sensitive cases the training emphasises that Work Coaches should not make judgements alone on how to handle, and they should listen to the advice of experts in the area on how to handle.</p><p> </p><p>As we expand Universal Credit, we continually review and develop the vulnerable claimant journey. This includes looking at how we identify vulnerable people, how we support them and how we refer them to local services delivered in partnership activity.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/04/2017 13:06:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 46579 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff