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1272437

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS Test and Trace: Civil Servants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many people employed by NHS Test and Trace have left their roles; and how many such people were subject to the Business Appointment Rules for Civil Servants.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2021 answer text <p>The NHS Test and Trace workforce consists of a combination of; civil servants employed by the programme and also on loan from across Government, secondees from the public and private sector, contractors and consultants. Since May 2020 our data shows that a total of 630 people have left their role on NHS Test and Trace. 220 of these were civil servants, of which 19 have left the Civil Service completely and are therefore subject to the Business Appointment Rules.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 15/02/2021 13:25:31 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1336850

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Access to Information Central Clearing House: Freedom of Information
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) what the annual budget is for the running of the Clearing House for Freedom of Information requests, and (2) to give a breakdown of that budget.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL1127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information</a>.</p><p>Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL1123 HL1124 HL1125 HL1126 question first answered 29/06/2021 16:21:06 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1316457

	registered interest
	date	19/05/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Bethell on 19 May (HL236), why they consider the list of companies that were placed on the “VIP” fast-track for potential contracts related to the COVID-19 pandemic to be commercially sensitive, given that the question put sought no contractual or payment information; and whether they will now answer the question put.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/05/2021 answer text <p>The Department has to consider the position of suppliers which were referred to the high priority channel in terms of the likely publicity and attention releasing a list would attract. The impact on a supplier’s reputation, unrelated to the terms of their particular contract with the Department or ability to deliver the contracted outcomes, can affect a supplier’s competitive position in their respective market and confidence that its customers and investors may have in its commercial operations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 28/05/2021 11:56:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1378722

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Children in Care: Mental Capacity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Deprivation of Liberty orders were issued each month since July to individuals in care who were under 16 years old.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL4043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the number of deprivation of liberty orders in relation to individuals in care who were under 16 years old.</p><p>Applications for deprivation of liberty orders can be made by local authorities when they need to accommodate a child in a non-secure placement. Cafcass – the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service – collect the data on these applications from local authorities and 164 deprivation of liberty applications were made in the period 1 July – 31 October 2021.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 29/11/2021 17:39:50 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1314732

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many EU citizens have been denied entry to the UK at the border since 1 January; and, of those denied entry, how many were detained.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>EU citizens are our friends and neighbours and we want them to stay in the UK, which is why we launched our ground-breaking EU Settlement Scheme. Those who do not have status under the EUSS, can enter the UK for up to six months as visitors, visa free. However, now freedom of movement has ended, those coming to work or study must prove they meet our entry requirements. We urge people to check the requirements before travelling.</p><p>Border Force treat all arrivals with respect and consider each passengers situation on an individual basis to check that everyone entering the UK has the right to do so.</p><p>We have issued instructions to our officers to reinforce the principle that in all cases there exists a presumption in favour of bail.</p><p>The Home Office published data on port returns and passengers initially refused entry which include Data on refusals on EU nationals.</p><p>The latest information include date up to December 2020 can be found at: passengers Initially refused Dec 2020 &amp; returns data</p><p>The next publication, which includes data for the first quarter of 2021 will be published on the 27 May 2021.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 27/05/2021 15:22:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1336849

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Access to Information Central Clearing House: Freedom of Information
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Freedom of Information requests dealt with by the Clearing House have not been from those working for publications in each year since its inception.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL1126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information</a>.</p><p>Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL1123 HL1124 HL1125 HL1127 question first answered 29/06/2021 16:21:06 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1336847

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Access to Information Central Clearing House: Freedom of Information
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Freedom of Information requests have been dealt with by the Clearing House in each of the last three years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL1124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information</a>.</p><p>Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL1123 HL1125 HL1126 HL1127 question first answered 29/06/2021 16:21:06 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1288368

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	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	Insolvency: South Yorkshire
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many businesses have declared bankruptcy in each parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire in the current financial year to date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL13504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service publishes National Statistics on insolvency cases for England and Wales combined. It is not possible to identify accurately companies that trade in South Yorkshire specifically, or companies that operated within specific parliamentary constituencies before entering insolvency. The data used for insolvency statistics is compiled from information at Companies House. The registered office address for a company may not be representative of its trading location, and often it is changed upon insolvency to the address of the appointed Insolvency Practitioner dealing with the case.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to these caveats, the table below sets out the data on all registered company insolvencies from April 2020 to January 2021 (inclusive):</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong>Estimated number of registered company insolvencies in South Yorkshire by parliamentary constituency of company registered office</strong></p><p>1 April 2020 to 31 January 2021</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Registered Company Insolvencies</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley Central</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley East</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Don Valley</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doncaster Central</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doncaster North</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Penistone and Stocksbridge</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rother Valley</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield Central</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield South East</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield, Hallam</p></td><td><p>182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield, Heeley</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wentworth and Dearne</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>377</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Sources: Insolvency Service (compulsory liquidations); Companies House (all other company insolvencies) </em></p><p> </p><p>The Insolvency Service also holds data on personal bankruptcies in South Yorkshire during 2020 where the individual concerned ran a business as a sole trader or partnership. This information will be available later this year following the summer release of the official statistics covering the location, age and gender of individuals that entered insolvency in 2020 (provisionally due to be released in August 2021). The latest published statistics covering the period 2000 to 2019 can be found on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 08/03/2021 17:02:23 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1309307

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Conservative Party
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many meetings Ministers in the Department of Health and Social Care have had since March 2020 with (1) individuals, or (2) representatives of companies, that have made donations to the Conservative Party; and what the purpose of any such meeting was.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL14980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 23/04/2021 12:34:54 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1367668

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Lord Bethell: Abingdon Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many messages Lord Bethell reported to the Department of Health and Social Care that he had received from or sent to Abingdon Health on WhatsApp from his private mobile telephone while serving as a Minister.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL3904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department has conducted a search of communication records relating to Abingdon Health and found no record of WhatsApp messages between the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Lord Bethell) and any employee of Abingdon Health. The Department has found no record of officials having sight of any such messages. The Department’s engagement with Abingdon was led by officials and these communications have been retained.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 07/03/2022 12:00:36 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven