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1690615

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Road Traffic Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his remarks on 8 February (HL Deb col 1740), whether he has had discussions with the Finance Committee over any possible review of the costs and process of managing the traffic marshals on the parliamentary estate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL2634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The Finance Committee considered the use and cost of traffic marshals on the parliamentary estate at its meeting in February. Once agreed, the minutes of that discussion will be available on the Committee’s website.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/03/2024 16:26:42 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1690617

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Road Traffic Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his remarks on 8 February (HL Deb col 1740), whether any of the 'near misses' referred to occurred within 30 metres of a marshal on duty; and if so, how many marshals would have been within that approximate distance at the time.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL2636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The eight near misses I referred to on 8 February (HL Deb col 1740) did not occur within 30 metres of a marshal on duty, with half occurring outside the working hours of the marshals. The near misses demonstrate the inherent risk in a mixed-use occupied estate, even during quieter times of the day or night. They highlight the importance of a range of mitigations to that risk, including the use, where appropriate, the use of traffic marshals.</p><p>Please see the attached table for further information.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/03/2024 16:29:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble attachment 1 file name HL2636 Table.docx title Table mentioned.
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1690616

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Road Traffic Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his remarks on 8 February (HL Deb col 1740), what are the 8 'near misses' referred to, broken down by (1) date, (2) time, and (3) location; and how many of those incidents involved pedestrians.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL2635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>Two of the eight near misses referred to involved pedestrians. All of the near misses demonstrate the inherent risk in a mixed-use occupied estate, where it is not possible to segregate pedestrians and traffic, and the importance of a range of mitigations to that risk, including the use, where appropriate, the use of traffic marshals.</p><p>Please see the attached table for date, time, and location of the near misses.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/03/2024 16:27:32 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble attachment 1 file name HL2635 Table.docx title Table mentioned.
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1658457

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs And Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answers on 30 January (HL4799) and 13 February (HL5334), why the risk assessment undertaken made no reference to (1) existing control measures, or (2) the high level of driver certification of most drivers using the parliamentary estate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL9893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>The risk assessment did take into consideration existing control measures.</p><p>There are users with differing levels of driver certification on the estate and this is taken into consideration when implementing traffic control measures. Moreover, a large proportion of drivers with a high level of driver certification using the Estate does not lessen Parliament’s legal responsibilities, or commitment to industry best practice, to provide safe access and egress for pedestrians through segregation or management of areas where vehicles and pedestrians share the same space.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 19/09/2023 14:21:21 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1690619

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Pedestrians and Road Traffic
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, further to his Written Answer on 19 September 2023 (HL9892), what assessment he has made of the accuracy of those figures.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL2638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The answer given on 19 September 2023 (HL9892) of circa 3,500 vehicles per week in sitting times and 2,500 in recess reflects the rough average of vehicle movements. As more information has been collected by Strategic Estates, the accuracy of the vehicle movement recording has improved and the more up to date figures give an average of 4,052 vehicles in sitting times and 2,285 in recess.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/03/2024 16:30:11 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1672031

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2023
	answering body	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept id	213
	answering dept short name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	answering dept sort name	Restoration and Renewal Client Board
	hansard heading	Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker, following the professional and technical advice received by both Houses that a partial decant is both more risky and expensive than a full decant, why a partial decant is still being considered as an option for Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster.
	tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
	uin	HL458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>In July 2023 the Restoration and Renewal (R&amp;R) Client Board endorsed the R&amp;R Programme Board’s recommended shortlist of R&amp;R delivery options. This included a “full decant” option where both Houses move out of the Palace at the same time (with the Commons prioritised for earlier return) and an option whereby the House of Commons would maintain a “continued presence” in varying locations in the Palace during the works and the House of Lords would move out of the Palace. The Client Board has also requested that a fallback option of enhanced maintenance and improvement forms part of further detailed design work on these options to inform a decision on the preferred way forward in due course, currently expected in 2025.</p><p>The Client Board considered it important that more than one option should be subject to further detailed design work and analysis in order to meet the spirit of the new mandate for R&amp;R agreed by both Houses last year and to reflect that members of both Houses have differing views about how the programme can best be delivered.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 29/11/2023 17:55:12 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

1677573

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Road Traffic Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether traffic marshals were first employed on the Westminster estate because a specific safety risk was identified; and if so, what alternative forms of mitigation were considered and what cost was identified in relation to each alternative.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hayward
	uin	HL1102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The nature of the estate means that full segregation of works traffic from pedestrian routes is not possible, unless large sections of the estate were closed during construction works. As outlined in the response to QWAs <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-02-21/hl5748" target="_blank">HL5748</a> and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-09-05/hl9893" target="_blank">HL9893</a>, the current need for traffic marshals on the estate is a result of construction work underway as part of the New Palace Yard Security project. This means that the safety benefits of traffic marshals cannot be achieved by other means. As corporate officers, the Clerks of both Houses are legally responsible for the safety of members, staff and visitors on the estate. The need for marshals has been identified through risk assessments, up to date guidance from the Health and Safety executive, and construction industry best practice.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 19/12/2023 17:08:40 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	863 label Biography information for Lord Hayward

1701619

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Telephone Systems
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether the Parliamentary Digital Service plans to replace the Polycom telephone system on the parliamentary estate and, if so, what is the budget for this project.
	tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
	uin	HL3850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chair of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf. The Voice Programme has been set up to address service quality and user experience priorities regarding telephony in Parliament. The programme’s high-level benefits include increasing business resilience and value for money and improving customer experience across telephony services. The programme is upgrading and replacing the existing telephony infrastructure (a combination of on premise MS Teams and Skype for Business) and has completed procurement of a unified communications service, to be implemented later this year, that will deliver resilient telephony. Initially, the new service is expected- to re-utilise the existing Polycom telephone handsets, however, replacement telephone handsets will be introduced as part of product lifecycle replacement.</p><p>The House of Lords Services Committee, the House of Commons Administration Committee and the Business Resilience Board are being consulted on implementation plans for the new service.</p><p>The Investment Committee and Accounting Officers have approved a business case for the Voice Programme which has an approved whole life cost of £6.37m. These costs cover implementation, programme resources, licences, and support costs until FY28/29.</p> answering member printed Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall question first answered 30/04/2024 11:19:05 answering member 2506 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
	tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

1697255

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	House of Lords: Bishops
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether the House of Lords funds the purchase and ongoing maintenance, including laundry, of robes worn by the Lords Spiritual.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone
	uin	HL3366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The House does not fund the purchase or maintenance of the robes worn by the Lords Spiritual.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 25/03/2024 17:03:22 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	106 label Biography information for Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone

1664768

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2023
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Peers: Leave of Absence
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether letters applying for Leave of Absence from the House of Lords are in the public domain.
	tabling member printed	Lord Young of Cookham
	uin	HL10601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>No. Members applying for leave of absence are required under Standing Order 21 to specify in their written application both their reason for seeking leave of absence and either a date by which they expect to return to the House or, if they are unable to specify a date, the circumstances which will allow their return. Letters requesting leave of absence may therefore contain sensitive personal information, which it would be inappropriate to disclose.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 24/10/2023 14:42:16 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham