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541721

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
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	Community Land Trusts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have received representations regarding a specific case in which parish councillors who are also members of a Community Land Trust (CLT) have been told to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest even though the CLT is legally established as a not-for-profit Industrial and Provident Society that requires members to take out £5 par value (not investment) shares and allows no income for members or directors from its activities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL1398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p>We are not aware of having received representations on such a case. The national rules on local authority members’ pecuniary interests, as set out in the Localism Act 2011, require local authority members, including parish councillors, to register and disclose certain pecuniary interests, as defined in the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012. A guide for councillors on openness and transparency on personal interests is available on my department’s web-site. Local authority members who contact my department for advice are directed to the regulations and to the guide and are advised to contact the monitoring officer of their relevant local authority, who can advise them on their specific queries.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/08/2016 12:44:40 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

541722

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guarantees are in place to ensure that European structural and investment funding commitments that have already been entered into are honoured.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL1399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p><em>The Government remains committed to encouraging economic growth across the regions and nations of the UK. The Government is carefully considering the use of these funds and will make an announcement on EU funding in due course.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 04/08/2016 12:37:43 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

541723

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it is their intention to allocate sufficient funding to meet the level and profile of the current calls by the UK on European structural and investment funding.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL1400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p><em>The people of the UK have voted to leave the EU. It would not be appropriate to commit, without due consideration, to continuing to spend money over a long period as if we had not voted to leave the EU. But the Government remains committed to encouraging economic growth across the regions and nations of the UK. The Government is therefore carefully considering the use of these funds and will make an announcement on EU funding in due course.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley grouped question UIN HL1401 question first answered 04/08/2016 12:39:47 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

541724

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to commit to future funding that reflects the total level of the 2014–20 European structural and investment funding programme in line with the needs of local areas.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL1401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p><em>The people of the UK have voted to leave the EU. It would not be appropriate to commit, without due consideration, to continuing to spend money over a long period as if we had not voted to leave the EU. But the Government remains committed to encouraging economic growth across the regions and nations of the UK. The Government is therefore carefully considering the use of these funds and will make an announcement on EU funding in due course.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley grouped question UIN HL1400 question first answered 04/08/2016 12:39:47 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

541725

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
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	EU Grants and Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to discuss European structural and investment funding with the Local Government Association and other interested parties.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL1402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2016 answer text <p>The Government meets regularly with representatives of the Local Government Association and other partners, who are members of national and local European Structural and Investment Funds committees where these EU funds are discussed.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/08/2016 12:42:25 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

541726

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Official Cars: Parliamentary Estate
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance they give to drivers of ministerial cars waiting for passengers on the Parliamentary Estate regarding idling engines, in the light of Rule 123 of the Highway Code.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL1403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2016 answer text <p>Guidance is given to Government Car Service drivers that they are governed by the same laws as all other road users and that they must have read and understood all sections of the Highway Code applicable to them. Specific reminders are sent out regularly about parking and waiting on the Parliamentary Estate and not to leave the engine idling.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/07/2016 14:49:30 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

541727

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recommendations of (1) the report published by the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations <i>Remaking the State, </i>and (2) the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation <i>The Cost of the Cuts</i>, what assessment they have made of the impact of the cuts to preventative services over the course of the last Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL1404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2016 answer text <p>Preventative services can cover a wide range of areas, including adult and children’s social care, public health, crime, and homelessness. The Government has continually given local authorities more powers and flexibility, so they can target local services more effectively, because local authorities are best placed to determine how to deliver services in the light of local circumstances and available resources. Indeed, expenditure on homelessness prevention has for example increased by 83% between 2010 and 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Over the current spending review period, local government income sources like council tax receipts and business rates are forecast to increase. Overall, local government spending spending is forecast to be broadly flat in cash terms. Within this:</p><ul><li><p>Homelessness prevention funding for local authorities through the local government finance settlement is protected totalling £315 million by 2019/20.</p></li><li><p>Funding for Disabled Facilities Grant has doubled to over £500 million by 2019-20, which would fund around 85,000 home adaptations that year. We expect this to prevent 8,500 people from needing to go into a care home in 2019-20.</p></li><li><p>New measures announced at the spending review will mean a further £3.5bn for social care by the end of the Parliament.</p></li><li><p>Total local government spending continues to include over £1bn each year for early intervention.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also continuing to invest in key initiatives for children, including the Healthy Child and Troubled Families programmes. The latter has so far helped turn around the lives of over 100,000 of the hardest to reach families and will work with up to 400,000 more during this Parliament.</p></li></ul> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 29/07/2016 12:22:11 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

541728

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Action: Parliamentary Scrutiny
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each government department, from January to June 2016, on how many occasions the scrutiny reserve resolution in (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons, was overridden, and in respect of how many documents an override occurred in (1) both Houses, or (2) either House.
tabling member printed	Lord Boswell of Aynho
uin	HL1405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Between January and June 2016, 484 Explanatory Memoranda on EU documents were submitted for scrutiny.</p><p>There were 37 occasions when the Government supported decisions in the EU Council of Ministers before the scrutiny procedures had been completed by either one or both Scrutiny Committees.</p><p>In each case the Government explained to the Scrutiny Committees why it was important for the proposal to be supported before the scrutiny process could be completed or where the Committees were unable to provide a waiver for the Government to support the proposal whilst retaining the issue under scrutiny. As with previous six-monthly periods, the largest category of instrument were fast-moving EU restrictive measures where there were 27 such instruments (73% of the total number) which were adopted before scrutiny could be completed.</p><p>The figures requested are set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Department</p></td><td><p>(1). House of Lords Override</p></td><td><p>(2). House of Commons override</p></td><td><p>(1). No. of overrides in both Houses</p></td><td><p>(2). Total no. of overrides</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office*</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Culture, Media and Sport</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home Office</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Justice</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Work and Pensions</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totals</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* In addition to the formal overrides listed here, there were 27 occasions when Council Decisions were adopted prior to scrutiny by the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee due to their limite marking (ie internal EU limited distribution marking for content not intended to be in the public domain).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 05/09/2016 16:24:59 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	352 label Biography information for Lord Boswell of Aynho

541729

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Sovereignty: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what conditions have to be met before they would consider triggering a Border Poll in Northern Ireland, and whether those conditions currently exist.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL1406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government remains fully committed to the Belfast Agreement. This includes the obligation for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to call a border poll if he believes there is majority support for a united Ireland. However, it is the Secretary of State’s view that a majority of the people of Northern Ireland continue to support the current political settlement, including Northern Ireland’s position within the United Kingdom.</p> answering member printed Earl of Courtown question first answered 03/08/2016 13:47:59 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

541730

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Sovereignty: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to discuss with other member states the matter of holding a Border Poll in Northern Ireland as part of their negotiations about the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL1407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government will continue to abide by its commitments in the Belfast Agreement. It remains the case that the requirements in the Belfast Agreement for a border poll are not met. Our efforts need to be focused on getting the best deal possible for the UK in the negotiations with the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 10/08/2016 12:43:33 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey