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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	King's Guards: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has taken recent steps to end the use of real bear fur for the King’s Guard’s caps.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	10148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is open to considering the use of using human-made materials to replace natural fur items where they provide a suitable, affordable and sustainable alternative. As such we are prepared to assess accredited testing results of material to establish whether a synthetic alternative could meet the Department’s requirements for a replacement bearskin cap material.</p><p> </p><p>However, to date, and to the Department’s knowledge, an alternative has yet to meet the standards required to provide an effective replacement for the bearskin ceremonial caps.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 10091 10149 10427 question first answered 25/01/2024 17:57:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1329493

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date	04/06/2021
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	Companies: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Corporate Governance Code’s comply or explain regime.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	10148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2021 answer text <p>The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is responsible for the UK Corporate Governance Code. The FRC reviews the quality of reporting annually. The most recent review was published in November 2020 (<a href="https://www.frc.org.uk/getattachment/c22f7296-0839-420e-ae03-bdce3e157702/Governance-Report-2020-2611.pdf" target="_blank">Review of Corporate Governance Reporting</a>) and assessed reporting of a sample of 100 companies in the FTSE350. This was followed by the publication in February 2021 of a report <a href="https://www.frc.org.uk/getattachment/6a4c93cf-cf93-4b33-89e9-4c42ae36b594/Improving-the-Quality-of-Comply-or-Explain-Reporting.pdf" target="_blank">“Improving the quality of ‘comply or explain’ reporting</a>” which encouraged companies to offer better transparency when departing from Code Provisions, and set out the elements to be included within a good quality explanation.</p><p> </p><p>The FRC also works with independent organisations to research specific areas of reporting. This year two reports have been issued, one on remuneration reporting (May 2021) undertaken by the University of Portsmouth and the second an assessment of workforce engagement (June 2021) undertaken by Royal Holloway, University of London and the Involvement and Participation Association.</p><p>All these reports demonstrate areas of innovation, good practice and improved transparency by companies following the Code.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 09/06/2021 14:13:50 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

759794

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	International Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether and to what extent her Department has implemented its commitments made at the 2005 Paris Declaration, the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action and the 2014 Busan Declaration to align aid programmes with local priorities.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	10148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>The ‎Aid Reviews, Civil Society Partnership Review and Economic Development Strategy set out the Department's high ambition on delivering effective development partnerships, including with partner countries. We continue to promote development effectiveness with our international partners, such as the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, which has responsibility for reporting on global progress with development effectiveness commitments.</p><p>‎DFID's internal guidance encourages alignment of programmes with developing countries’ own strategies for poverty reduction; and providing assistance in a way that strengthens local responsibility, capacity, accountability and leadership.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/09/2017 08:42:00 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds