Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label attachment file name title
tabling member	label

Search

1688048

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have further plans to reform or improve controls around high exit payments in the public sector, and whether they are considering reintroducing a cap on very high public sector exit payments.
tabling member printed	Lord Kempsell
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government maintains its commitment to ensuring that public sector exit payments are fair and proportionate to employers, employees and taxpayers. We continue to look at different options to tackle large exit payments and consulted on introducing additional controls in 2022. The Government is considering the responses to this consultation and will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 19/02/2024 16:13:29 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4988 label Biography information for Lord Kempsell

1505663

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sitel and Teleperformance: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether (1) SITEL UK, or (2) Teleperformance, provide a call charge service; and if so, whether the fee has changed from £1.37 per minute.
tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>From 5<sup>th</sup> October 2020 customers applying for visas from outside the UK who choose to make contact by e-mail will be charged £2.74 per e-mail. This includes the initial e-mail enquiry plus any follow-up e-mails to and from the contact centre relating to the same enquiry. E-mails are sent via a web message form on www.gov.uk.</p><p>Customers calling UKVI from outside the UK will be charged 69p per minute (plus their local network charge).</p><p>These charges were reduced by 50% against the previous charges (£1.37 per minute for calls and £5.48 per email enquiry).</p><p> </p><p>The previous charges were reviewed in 2020. As part of that review, operational commercial improvement opportunities were identified, enabling the charges to be reduced.</p><p> </p><p>The supplier of UKVI’s international email and telephony services and in country telephony services changed from Sitel, to Teleperformance during a handover period between 31<sup>st</sup> March 2021 and 28 April 2021.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL2245 question first answered 21/09/2022 08:59:34 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

1348916

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Shoreline Management Plans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement the recommendation of the Climate Change Committee in its 2021 Progress Report to Parliament, published on 24 June, to make Shoreline Management Plans statutory.
tabling member printed	Lord Walney
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2021 answer text <p>We will formally respond to the Climate Change Committee’s detailed recommendations in October.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Adapting to the current and predicted changes to our climate is vital. The UK is already leading the fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency is working with coastal protection authorities on a £1 million refresh of Shoreline Management Plans. This will ensure that they are up to date, using the best evidence in their recommendations and focus attention on priority areas for investment and adaptation.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, the Government published our long-term Policy Statement which sets out our ambition to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk. The Policy Statement includes five policies and over 40 supporting actions which will accelerate progress to better protect and better prepare the country against flooding and coastal erosion in the face of more frequent extreme weather as a result of climate change.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a commitment to review national policy for Shoreline Management Plans to ensure they are transparent, continuously review outcomes and enable local authorities to make robust decisions for their areas. As part of this we will engage with stakeholders, including the Environment Agency and Coastal Protection Areas to consider the Committee’s views that Shoreline Management Plans should be made Statutory.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 03/08/2021 13:19:17 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

1182924

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Climate Change
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the Gulf Stream is slowing; and whether any such slowing is having an effect on (1) the UK's climate, and (2) any increase in extreme weather events, including flooding.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The Gulf Stream is a small part of a large, global-scale ocean ‘conveyor belt’ of circulation, driven by winds and by differences in temperature and salinity, known as the ‘Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation’ (AMOC). The AMOC has been measured since 2004 by an international observation system called RAPID, in which the UK plays a leading role. These measurements have shown a slowing over the last decade, however much of this may be from natural variability.</p><p> </p><p>A recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in the Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, found some evidence to indicate the AMOC has already weakened relative to the pre-industrial period (1850 – 1900), and finds it very likely that the AMOC will continue weakening over the rest of the 21<sup>st</sup> Century.</p><p> </p><p>A large slowing of the AMOC would be expected to cause more winter storms over northern Europe, a decrease in marine biological productivity in the North Atlantic and changes in sea level. These effects would be superimposed on the effects of climate warming due to greenhouse gases, and they are included in the climate model projections used by the IPCC. At this stage we do not have evidence that the observed weakening of the AMOC has had a detectable impact on the UK climate.</p><p> </p><p>The second Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) published in 2017 identifies risks to flooding and coastal change as one of the UK’s top six risks from climate change. The second National Adaptation Programme (NAP) published in 2018, sets out a plan of actions across Government to address these risks (amongst others identified in the CCRA) over the following 5 years. In addition, updated UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) are a key tool to help the Government, businesses and the public understand the future climate and enable them to make climate-resilient decisions.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 17/03/2020 17:55:06 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

773532

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Credit: Interest Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the consumer and systematic risk arising from high-cost credit products.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market, transferring regulatory responsibility to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 1 April 2014. Since the transfer, the FCA has taken a proactive approach on consumer credit, to ensure that all consumers who use high-cost credit products are treated fairly. The Government welcomes the ongoing work of the FCA to review the high-cost credit market.</p><p> </p><p>The government established an independent Financial Policy Committee (FPC) and gave the FPC a primary objective to identify, monitor and take action to remove or reduce systemic risks with a view to protecting and enhancing financial stability. To ensure lenders are resilient to defaults related to consumer credit, the FPC has acted to accelerate its analysis of credit losses that banks could incur in the very deep recession encapsulated in the 2017 annual stress test scenario. The FPC has stated that regulatory capital buffers for individual firms will be set following the full stress test results so that each bank can absorb its losses on consumer lending, alongside all the other effects of the stress scenario on its balance sheet.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 30/10/2017 16:28:28 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

600494

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what data they collect, and with what frequency, regarding homelessness applications.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gould of Potternewton
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>English local authorities submit data on homelessness applications to the Department on a quarterly basis on the P1E form. A copy of the form (attached) can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/homelessness-data-notes-and-definitions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/homelessness-data-notes-and-definitions</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL2246 question first answered 20/10/2016 16:20:08 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 161013 PIE Form HL2247.xls title PIE Form
tabling member	3573 label Biography information for Baroness Gould of Potternewton

418812

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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	Syria: Armed Conflict
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure the protection of civilians from war crimes committed in the conflict in Syria.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2015 answer text <p>We have a long-standing commitment to accountability for human rights violations and abuses. We will continue to press for the protection of civilians in the UN Security Council where we have secured vital resolutions to improve humanitarian access and seek accountability for chemical weapons attacks. These resolutions have also consistently called for an end to attacks on civilians.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to support the UN Commission of Inquiry’s investigations into human rights violations and abuses in Syria. In partnership with other donor countries, we are funding the collection of documentary evidence for use in possible legal processes in the future. Last year the UK co-sponsored a UN Security Council resolution to refer all those responsible for war-crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, regardless of affiliation, to the International Criminal Court. Russia and China chose to veto this resolution.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 24/09/2015 15:42:17 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

100041

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	European Union
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to repatriate powers from the European Union; and if so, which powers.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL2247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reforming the EU to the benefit of all Member States, to make it more competitive, democratically accountable and fair for those inside and outside the Eurozone. Political parties have set out their position on the question of the appropriate exercise of competence in the EU. The Government’s policy is clear: we need an EU where decisions are taken at the right level, with issues best left to member states decided at the national level. We have already shown that such reform is possible: cutting the EU budget; ending the UK’s bailout obligations; cutting red tape in line with Business Taskforce recommendations; ensuring our fish stocks are managed regionally rather than centrally, agreeing three major Trade Agreements and launching trade talks with the US.</p><p>Support for EU reform is growing: this summer, the President-elect of the European Commission committed to explore improving the interaction between the Commission and national parliaments, which he recognised have a key role to play in enforcing the principle of subsidiarity; to completing the internal market in products and services; to creating the right regulatory environment and promoting a climate of entrepreneurship and job creation; and to working for a deal that “accepts the specificities of the UK in the EU, while allowing the Eurozone to integrate further.” The European Council also recognised the need for reform. It concluded in June that there was a need to protect the right to free movement from “misuse or fraudulent claims” and that “the concept of ever closer union allows for different paths of integration.”</p><p>The Government’s proposals for EU reform will continue to respect the UK’s obligations under the existing Treaties.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL2246 HL2249 question first answered 03/11/2014 15:07:43 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon