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711612

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Contracts for Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will establish an inquiry (1) into which local authorities and other public authorities within England have sub-contracted service provision to contractors whose operations for the provision of those services are located in Scotland, and (2) into the cost of the contracted services provided.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL6118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not have any plans to establish an inquiry into the matter of which local authorities and other public authorities within England have sub-contracted service provision to contractors whose operations for the provision of those services are located in Scotland, or into the matter of the cost of the contracted services provided.</p><p>As locally-elected, independent bodies, such matters are for the local authorities themselves to manage. As a matter of course, all local authorities and other public authorities should ensure that they are providing the highest quality services, which local residents expect and deserve.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 27/03/2017 14:59:25 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

425840

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 28 October (HL2728), whether they will set out the broad circumstances in which a housing association or Community Land Trust could exercise discretion in deciding whether to sell a property to a tenant.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is currently engaging with the National Housing Federation and the housing association sector on implementing the Right to Buy Agreement. Further details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/11/2015 15:41:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

718204

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Hotels: Planning Permission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have issued guidelines to those local authorities that are able to impose local occupancy conditions on grants of planning permission, relating to the application of local occupancy conditions in cases where private residences which previously had planning permission to operate as guest houses now wish to reapply for planning permission to become guest houses again.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL6705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework and guidance on use of planning conditions sets out clearly the circumstances and way in which the Government considers planning conditions should be used.</p><p>Local authorities are best placed to decide whether to impose particular types of conditions, such as local occupancy conditions, taking into account local housing needs and other relevant considerations. Use of such conditions should be regularly reviewed in the light of changing circumstances.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 24/04/2017 15:14:18 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

436601

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Change of Use
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, before 13 November, the B1 planning class remained a requirement for offices that also qualified for a residential planning designation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL4435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>We announced on 12 October that the permitted development right for the change of use from office to residential will be made permanent. We further announced that the rights will in future provide for an office to be demolished and replaced on a like-for-like basis as residential. The details of the rights including any requirements about the use, eligibility criteria and any matters for prior approval, including in relation to demolition and replacement, will be provided in due course.</p><p><br></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL4436 question first answered 17/12/2015 11:59:35 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

436602

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Change of Use
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, where an office property that qualified for a residential planning designation is demolished, whether any restrictions are placed on the building of a new property on that land according to the former office property’s footprint.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL4436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>We announced on 12 October that the permitted development right for the change of use from office to residential will be made permanent. We further announced that the rights will in future provide for an office to be demolished and replaced on a like-for-like basis as residential. The details of the rights including any requirements about the use, eligibility criteria and any matters for prior approval, including in relation to demolition and replacement, will be provided in due course.</p><p><br></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL4435 question first answered 17/12/2015 11:59:35 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

718207

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Criminal Injuries Compensation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was paid in compensation to persons subject to (1) rape, and (2) other sexual offences, by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in each of the last five years; how many claims were made in each of those years in relation to those offences; and, of those claims, how many were successful.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL6708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Criminal Injuries Compensation Schemes contain a tariff of injuries in which payments are ascribed to particular injuries or offences. The Schemes provide that, in respect of sexual offences, the applicant may be entitled either to an award under the tariff that reflects the nature of the sexual offence or an award for the mental injury caused by the offence, whichever leads to the highest award. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) administers the Schemes.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 27/04/2017 10:57:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

755119

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Rape: Convictions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many persons have been convicted of rape in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL1127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2017 answer text <p>The number of offenders found guilty of sexual offences, broken down to those found guilty of rape and of other sexual offences, in England and Wales, from 2012 to 2016 can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Offenders found guilty at all courts of sexual offences, England and Wales, 2012 to 2016 <sup>(1)(2)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offence</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All</p></td><td><p>5,728</p></td><td><p>5,665</p></td><td><p>6,251</p></td><td><p>6,885</p></td><td><p>7,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rape</p></td><td><p>1,145</p></td><td><p>1,121</p></td><td><p>1,164</p></td><td><p>1,297</p></td><td><p>1,352</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Others</p></td><td><p>4,583</p></td><td><p>4,544</p></td><td><p>5,087</p></td><td><p>5,588</p></td><td><p>6,159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(1) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL1128 question first answered 03/08/2017 15:05:03 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

755120

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many persons have been convicted of a sexual offence other than rape in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL1128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2017 answer text <p>The number of offenders found guilty of sexual offences, broken down to those found guilty of rape and of other sexual offences, in England and Wales, from 2012 to 2016 can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Offenders found guilty at all courts of sexual offences, England and Wales, 2012 to 2016 <sup>(1)(2)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offence</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All</p></td><td><p>5,728</p></td><td><p>5,665</p></td><td><p>6,251</p></td><td><p>6,885</p></td><td><p>7,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rape</p></td><td><p>1,145</p></td><td><p>1,121</p></td><td><p>1,164</p></td><td><p>1,297</p></td><td><p>1,352</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Others</p></td><td><p>4,583</p></td><td><p>4,544</p></td><td><p>5,087</p></td><td><p>5,588</p></td><td><p>6,159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(1) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL1127 question first answered 03/08/2017 15:05:03 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

425841

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what basis the accumulation of evidence obtained during the polygraph test of a given sex offender meets the threshold test of the repeat of criminal actions warranting the furtherance of a custodial sentence.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The purpose of the polygraph is to check the compliance of high risk sexual offenders with their licence conditions and to monitor the risk they present to the public. It is also used to improve the way in which the offender is managed during release on licence.</p><p>An offender may be recalled if they fail to comply with the polygraph examination, attempt to ‘trick’ the test or if they disclose that they have failed to comply with their licence conditions.</p><p>The legislation for imposing the polygraph test on sexual offenders is enshrined in the Offender Management Act 2007. Section 30 of the Act specifically prohibits evidence of any matter mentioned in the polygraph being used in any proceedings against a released person for an offence in a criminal court.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 17/11/2015 12:51:56 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

432434

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to announce the detail of their proposals for £12 billion in savings on the welfare budget; and what benefits are under consideration for further reduction.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to save £12bn from welfare spending was set out at the Summer Budget and the recent Autumn Statement. Details of these measures can be found at pages 72-73 of the Summer Budget Report (July 2015) and page 113 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015. These are published on gov.uk.</p><br /><p>Any future changes to benefits following the Spending Review announcement will follow the usual policy development process and be announced at a future fiscal event.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2015 12:26:47 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours