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date	22/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times alternative dispute resolution has been used to seek settlements with HS2 landowners.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>HS2 Ltd routinely offers Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to affected parties to resolve disputes in cases where it is not possible to reach agreement by direct negotiation.</p><p> </p><p>Referrals to ADR require the agreement of both HS2 Ltd and the affected party. To date, three statutory blight cases have been determined through ADR. Guidance on ADR was published by HS2 Ltd on 30 May 2018.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 06/07/2020 14:22:59 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

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date	01/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Peers: Correspondence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to ensure that letters from Members addressed to ministers are sent straight to the Minister's Private Office and not to the general correspondence section of Departments.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL5977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Letters from members of parliament and peers are given priority over correspondence from the general public. Performance tables are published to show how promptly they reply.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 12/03/2018 15:41:56 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

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date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Management Consultants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they propose to cap the rates paid by NHS bodies to management consultancies, similar to their policy with regard to staff agencies.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL5977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>Cabinet Office have published guidance on the use of management consultants <em>Cabinet Office controls guidance: version 4.0 </em>which government departments and their arms length bodies are required to follow. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Health Service providers follow a similar consultancy spending approvals process as defined by Monitor and the Trust Development Authority (TDA). Monitor has published the following guidance for foundation trusts <em>Consultancy spending approval process: Initial guidance to NHS foundation trusts</em>, with TDA publishing similar for NHS trusts <em>Consultancy spending controls: Initial Guidance to NHS Trusts</em>. Copies of the guidance are attached. <br></p><p>At this time, these do not include any directive to set caps on rates paid to management consultancies.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Cabinet Office consultancy guidance.pdf title Cabinet Office guidance 2 file name Monitor consultancy guidance.pdf title Monitor guidance 3 file name TDA consultancy guidance.pdf title TDA guidance question first answered 22/02/2016 17:25:18 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath