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date	30/06/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bellamy on 28 June (HL Deb, col 580), what plans the Attorney General has to meet the Chairman of the Bar Association to discuss delays in dealing with rape cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL1397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>A key part the Attorney General’s role as head of the profession is meeting regularly with the leaders of the Professional bodies to discuss matters of relevance within the criminal justice system including the Chair of the Bar Council, the Chair of the Criminal Bar Association, the President of the Law Society and the Bar Circuit Leaders. These valuable and productive meetings enable the Law Officers to understand the issues affecting front-line practitioners, so that they are able to articulate their concerns to ministerial colleagues to ensure that in the development of government policy, the views of the profession are reflected and understood.</p><p> </p><p>Agendas for these meetings are prepared so as to allow flexibility, in order to allow for discussion of topical issues. Such issues include the views of practitioners on the Crown Court backlog, government initiatives such as the roll out of s.28 and how we are working together to improve the system performance in relation to rape cases.</p><p> </p><p>The regular monthly meetings of the Bar Council are attended either by the Attorney or the Solicitor General, so as to allow the Law Officers a full understanding of the issues that are affecting front-line practitioners.</p> answering member printed Lord Stewart of Dirleton question first answered 14/07/2022 12:11:34 answering member 4899 label Biography information for Lord Stewart of Dirleton
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

1485234

registered interest
date	30/06/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Covid-19 Inquiry
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when the terms of reference for the UK COVID-19 public inquiry, chaired by Lady Hallett, will be published; and what are the reasons for the delay.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL1398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The final terms of reference for the UK COVID-19 inquiry were published on 28 June 2022. This followed a full and extensive public consultation process led by the inquiry’s independent chair, in addition to engagement with the devolved administrations as required by the Inquiries Act 2005.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 13/07/2022 16:38:28 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

1460495

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Remote Working
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to encourage civil servants to return to work in the office.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL7979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, civil servants have been increasingly returning to the office.</p><p>The Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency has written to departments to underline the importance of workplace attendance and request that they review their existing guidance on the minimum number of days staff work in the office to ensure we are making efficient use of the government estate.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 28/04/2022 11:08:04 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

1455655

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: London Allowance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many civil servants who are currently primarily working from home received London weighting additional allowances in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL7446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2022 answer text <p>London weighting was removed as a prescribed central allowance in the 1990s. Civil Service pay arrangements have been delegated to individual departments for all grades below the Senior Civil Service, since 1996. London pay arrangements will therefore vary significantly between departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>There is no central source of data that links those working from home to pay conditions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 12/04/2022 12:34:38 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

1455658

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service Agencies: Incentives
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many executives in charge of government agencies receive annual bonuses; which executives receive such bonuses; and in each case, what is the value of those bonuses.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL7449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s commitment to transparency, departments have published aggregated annual information on their bonus spend on their own websites since 2011. This promotes scrutiny of how taxpayers’ money is spent. The latest data, which covers the performance years 2019/20 and 2020/21, was published on Government Departments’ websites on 31 March 2022. This data includes information on total bonus spend, the number of civil servants receiving bonuses, and the size of payments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Regarding the second question: executive agencies publish individualised data on payments received by their Board-level members in their Annual Accounts. This includes data on which executives receive bonuses, and the size of any payments. Since 2010, the Government has made bonuses across the Civil Service more tightly focussed on top performance; current spend on them is around 1 percent of the total Civil Service paybill.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL7447 question first answered 07/04/2022 16:36:04 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon