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date	07/06/2023
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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what training in customer mental health they give to contractors providing assessments of benefits claimants.
tabling member printed	Baroness Browning
uin	HL8277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>We are fully committed to supporting those with mental health conditions. The assessment of mental, cognitive, and intellectual function is an integral part of the assessment process.</p><p> </p><p>All healthcare professionals (HPs) undertaking assessments on behalf of the department must be registered practitioners who have undergone comprehensive training in the functional assessment of disability, and mental health conditions. HPs continue to keep this knowledge up to date through continuous professional development.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, mental health function champions support HPs by providing additional expertise about mental health, cognitive, developmental, and learning disabilities, and can be referred to at any time during the assessment process.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 14/06/2023 11:01:59 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	236 label Biography information for Baroness Browning

1235833

registered interest
date	18/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Interest Rates
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 likelihood of negative interest rates being introduced in the current financial year.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL8277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Monetary policy, including decisions on Bank Rate, is the responsibility of the independent Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England. Therefore, the Government does not comment on the conduct of monetary policy.</p><p> </p><p>As noted in the minutes published on 17 September, the MPC will continue to review the appropriateness of a negative policy rate as a policy tool alongside its broader toolkit.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/10/2020 11:56:36 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

916571

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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: Food
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker how many kilogrammes of food the House of Lords has disposed of as waste in each of the last five years for which information is available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL8277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf.</p><p>Food and catering waste from catering facilities in both Houses is segregated from other waste at the kitchens; it is recovered offsite by means of anaerobic digestion to produce methane fuel and fertiliser. No catering waste from Parliament is sent to landfill.</p><p>The measurements of waste are not broken down by House.</p><p>In each of the last five financial years, the following amounts (kilogrammes) of food waste from catering facilities across Parliament were disposed of:</p><p>2013/14: 140,017kg</p><p>2014/15: 209,667kg</p><p>2015/16: 130,384kg</p><p>2016/17: 228,441kg</p><p>2017/18: 266,749kg</p><p> </p><p>The increase in the amount of food waste being disposed of is partly as a result of improvements in waste management; this has meant that an increasing proportion of food waste has been diverted from general waste into a dedicated food waste stream. Additionally, macerators have been removed from the Estate: food waste disposed of through macerators was not previously captured in the food waste stream. In both cases this has ensured that food waste is now sent to an anaerobic digestion facility, moving it up the waste hierarchy.</p><p>Food waste from offices is not currently segregated and is captured in the general waste stream and sent to an energy-from-waste facility. A system to collect this separately, together with compostable items, is to be introduced in the next couple of months.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 18/06/2018 16:11:46 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

518117

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date	09/05/2016
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	Rural Payments Agency: Performance Related Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Payments Agency will receive a bonus payment this year before payments to eligible farmers have been completed.
tabling member printed	Lord Willoughby de Broke
uin	HL8277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Senior Civil Servants (SCS) who are moderated as top performers at the end of the performance management year are eligible to receive a bonus payment.</p><p>The performance management year for the SCS runs from 1 April to 31 March. Performance markings for 2015/16 will be determined by the end of May 2016. Only then will the eligibility of SCS for bonus payments be known.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 11/05/2016 16:42:15 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1775 label Biography information for Lord Willoughby de Broke