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675213

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, where one department has provided information in the response to a Question for Written Answer, whether they would expect other departments to answer a similar question in a similar manner.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL4778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>The content of each answer is a matter for the Minister concerned, and each Minister is responsible to the House for the answers they provide. Answers to similar questions asked of different Departments can vary.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 24/01/2017 15:55:31 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

773004

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Migration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the change in the net migration figures for UK citizens in each of the last two quarters.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply, and will place a copy of their letter in the House library.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/11/2017 17:03:05 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name HL2205 (1) (1).pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

782018

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Industrial Health and Safety
	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 impact of procurement policies on improving health and safety at work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Commercial Service’s Model Services Contract contains specific terms and conditions covering health and safety at work:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526358/Model_Services_Contract_v1.02.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526358/Model_Services_Contract_v1.02.pdf</a></p><p>We do not measure the impact of these terms on improving health and safety at work as it would be difficult to attribute cause and effect with any degree of certainty.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/11/2017 17:53:46 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

803033

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action are they taking to deal with websites offering access to Government services at additional charges.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Departments and organisations across government work actively and collaboratively to tackle sites that offer government services for additional charges. These third party sites commonly operate by offering a call connection or application checking service. Such sites purport to add additional value to the public users of the sites.</p><p>As well as ensuring government services are correctly listed and rank highly in search engine results, limiting the likelihood that the public will encounter misleading websites, government organisations proactively take steps to have misleading websites amended or taken down. This is done by contacting the website owners directly, reporting misleading sites to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and National Trading Standards (NTS) bodies, and taking legal action.</p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> remains the best place to find government information and services.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 19/12/2017 13:47:06 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

864507

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Infrastructure: Weather
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of the damage to infrastructure caused by the recent bad weather in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>Departments and agencies plan for seasonal disruption and the impact of bad weather. No specific estimates have been made of the cost of the damage to infrastructure caused by the recent spell of bad weather in the UK. However, in the case of road networks, the Department for Transport announced on 26th March 2018 funding of £100 million was being provided to local highway authorities in England, outside London, to help repair local highways and improve the resilience of roads to local flooding and other severe weather events. Details can be found at the following link;<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pothole-fund-boosted-to-repair-roads-after-winter-damage" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pothole-fund-boosted-to-repair-roads-after-winter-damage</a>”.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 19/04/2018 12:14:38 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

901417

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Exports
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the breakdown by sector in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL7744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Kennedy of Southwark, dated 17 May 2018.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em></em></p><p>Dear Lord Kennedy,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the breakdown is, by sector, in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018 <strong>(HL7744).</strong></p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) trade statistics are currently produced on a product basis and not by industry sector. However, we are engaged in a wide development of UK trade statistics and are working towards producing our trade statistics by industry sector for the latter end of 2018. Further details can be found in our published trade development plan.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p>You can find data on trade in goods and services in the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/3tradeinservicesthepinkbook2016" target="_blank"><em>Quarterly Balance of Payments</em> release. </a>This data is broken down by service type and by goods commodity group. The latest data available is from 2017, and 2018 Quarter 1 data will be released on 29 June 2018. You can find the data on the ONS website[2], Table E for goods and Table F for services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we produce trade in goods further detail on a quarterly basis by <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08" target="_blank"><em>Classification of Product by Activity</em></a>, the latest data for which covers 2017 Quarter 4. This data can be accessed on the ONS website[3]; in Table 1 for total exports, Table 3 for EU exports and Table 5 for non-EU exports:</p><p> </p><p>You may also wish to note the latest export figures at an aggregate level via the UK Trade statistical bulletin[4] and corresponding publication[5].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/uktradedevelopmentplan/2017</p><p>[2]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/balanceofpaymentsstatisticalbulletintables</p><p>[3]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08</p><p>[4]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018</p><p>[5]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018/relateddata.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:13:13 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

943379

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of when the investigations and inquiries into various aspects of the 2016 referendum campaign are likely to conclude and what consideration they have given to updating the relevant legislation in the light of any of findings.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2018 answer text <p>The timescales of ongoing investigations and inquiries, including their likely conclusions, is a matter for the independent organisations conducting them, rather than the Government.</p><p>The Government will carefully consider the findings and recommendations that are made when they have concluded.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/07/2018 12:17:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

600525

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Consumer Goods: Imports
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what impact they expect the recent fall in the value of sterling to have on imported consumer goods.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>Before the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, the UK government published short-term and long-term assessments of the likely impact on the UK economy from leaving the EU, including the effects of sterling revaluation. HM Government is monitoring economic developments closely and the independent Office for Budget Responsibility will produce an updated economic forecast alongside Autumn Statement 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 25/10/2016 11:09:30 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

619492

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Exchange Rates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the recent fall in the value of sterling.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The UK has an inflation target, not an exchange rate target. The value of sterling adjusts flexibly in response to economic conditions and market forces.</p><p> </p><p>We are going through a period of adjustment as the economy responds to the vote to leave the European Union. The fundamental strength of the UK economy means that it is well-placed to deal with the challenges, and take advantage of the opportunities, that lie ahead.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 02/11/2016 16:15:10 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

646550

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Rural Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to reform the income tax relief system to encourage the building of social housing on rural exception sites; and if so, what are those plans.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to reform the income tax relief system or rollover relief provisions for Capital Gains Tax in order to encourage the building of social housing on rural exception sites.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL3570 question first answered 05/12/2016 16:41:46 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark