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432093

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Gratuities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees what proportion of gratuities paid by credit or debit card is distributed to staff in the House of Lords.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>All Catering and Retail Services staff, with the exception of staff grade A and above, receive a share of gratuities and function service charges, including those paid on debit and credit cards. The formula for working out the share for each permanent member of staff is based on contracted hours and attendance. Gratuities are distributed three times a year through payroll after a 13.8% deduction for employer National Insurance, and individually-calculated deductions for employee National Insurance and income tax.</p><p>A proportion of gratuities and function service charges is paid to zero hour staff (none of whom has a contractual exclusivity clause) split on a pro-rata basis according to the number of hours they have worked. Since the review referred to in my predecessor’s answer of 26 March 2015 (<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Lords/2015-03-17/HL5819/" target="_blank">HL5819</a>), the House of Lords makes no deduction for card commission.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 03/12/2015 12:02:17 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

432094

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Security
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees whether employees of public affairs companies can hold a House of Lords staff pass.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Yes. Members of the House of Lords may sponsor their staff for parliamentary photo-passes, provided the member certifies that the applicant for the pass genuinely provides parliamentary research or secretarial services for the member or acts as a carer or driver for them.</p><p>Members’ staff with parliamentary photo-passes are subject to the Code of Conduct for House of Lords Members’ Staff. This requires them to disclose in the Register of Members’ Staff Interests any employment they have outside the House of Lords. They must also register any financial interest in businesses or organisations involved in public affairs or parliamentary lobbying. The Code of Conduct prohibits members’ staff from making use of their access to the parliamentary estate to further the interests of an outside body from whom they receive payment.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 01/12/2015 17:46:20 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

423184

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Consultants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees how many consultants have been employed in the House of Lords in the last three years; and what has been the cost of each firm or independent consultant.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Payments for the last three financial years are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13 £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14 £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15 £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Work undertaken</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beamans Ltd</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>31,050</p></td><td><p>Costs related to a pay and grading review</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BHBi Consultancy Ltd</p></td><td><p>14,800</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Audit of an ongoing capital project</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bostock Marketing Group</p></td><td><p>23,025</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>20,238</p></td><td><p>Costs of the independently-managed Member and staff surveys</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita Business Services</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>6,913</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Support for an equal pay audit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Catering Consultancy Bureau</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>6,128</p></td><td><p>13,662</p></td><td><p>Branding project for Catering and Retail Services (CRS) outlets and delivery of communications workshops</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>23,118</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Support for a review of procurement services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Actuary’s Department</p></td><td><p>5,400</p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td><td><p>7,500</p></td><td><p>Annual accounting valuation of the House of Lords staff pension scheme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Helena Bayler</p></td><td><p>275</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>825</p></td><td><p>Design and amendment of specialist forms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Information Accreditor</p></td><td><p>2,125</p></td><td><p>13,770</p></td><td><p>24,735</p></td><td><p>Proportion of costs to provide the two Houses with assurance on the security of new IT systems</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JM HR Solutions Limited</p></td><td><p>15,000</p></td><td><p>7,750</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Human resource review support</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Panache Consultancy Limited</p></td><td><p>2,952</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Review of staffing requirements for certain CRS outlets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sage Food Design and Development</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>10,761</p></td><td><p>8,269</p></td><td><p>CRS consultancy regarding food covering: menus, kitchen production, kitchen organisations and structure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stern Consultancy</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3,468</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Income generation project support</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Litmus Partnership Limited</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>7,982</p></td><td><p>18,400</p></td><td><p>CRS smarter procurement support and related services including supplier price challenge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Mystery Dining Company</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>555</p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>Mystery shopping of catering venues</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turpin Smale</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>CRS outlet-specific consultancy to support the Change Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University of Portsmouth Ltd</p></td><td><p>4,157</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Specialist support to develop a facility to search for records from the Parliament Archives online catalogue by place</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>68,775</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90,720</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>125,074</strong></p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The House seeks only to engage external consultant support when it is more economical to engage specialist services on a fixed term basis than to embed capacity in-House, when specific external advice is beneficial, or when capacity issues necessitate it.</p><p>Most of the spending on consultancy in Catering and Retail Services has been to support an ambitious Change Programme which is seeking to deliver a step change in food quality and service by empowering individuals in order to provide better value for money to both the Member and the taxpayer. This investment should help the House reduce the cost of catering provision.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 05/11/2015 11:55:31 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

228004

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Catering
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees, further to his Written Answer on 12 March (HL5250), whether the entire sum of gratuities paid by Members of the House of Lords on debit and credit cards is shared amongst members of catering staff; or whether any is kept by the House of Lords administration for organisational costs.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>My original reply set out national insurance and income tax deductions made from all gratuities. In addition, a 3% card commission deduction is made from table gratuities paid using credit and debit cards. This will be reviewed.</p> answering member printed Lord Sewel question first answered 26/03/2015 16:32:30 answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

224980

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees how many job vacancies within the House of Lords were advertised on the parliamentary website in 2014; and what proportion of posts filled were available to external candidates.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>Between 1 January and 31 December 2014 the House of Lords Administration advertised 81 job vacancies on either the intranet (for internal vacancies) or the parliamentary website (for external vacancies). All external vacancies were open to internal applicants. Of the 81 job vacancies advertised, 42 (51.85%) were advertised to external candidates on the parliamentary website. In many cases, externally advertised vacancies were also uploaded onto job boards and specialist websites.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sewel question first answered 17/03/2015 17:14:22 answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

223873

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Catering
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees whether the gratuities paid for food and drink by Members of the House of Lords on debit and credit card are directly paid to the service staff; and if so, how.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>All Catering and Retail Services staff, with the exception of staff grade A and above, receive a share of gratuities and function service charges, including those paid on debit and credit cards. The formula for working out the share for each permanent member of staff is based on contracted hours. Gratuities are distributed three times a year through payroll after deductions for National Insurance and income tax. A proportion of gratuities and function service charges is paid to zero hour staff (none of whom has a contractual exclusivity clause) split on a pro-rata basis according to the number of hours they have worked.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sewel question first answered 12/03/2015 16:05:46 answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

172628

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Unpaid Work
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees how many internships are offered by the House of Lords Administration.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The House of Lords Administration offers three internships: one in the Committee Office and two in the library. These posts are salaried. In addition, the Administration offers an apprenticeship in the library and up to 24 work experience placements for school students.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The House of Lords Administration does not offer any internships. The three posts erroneously identified as internships are Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) fellowships usually for PhD students, funded by the UK Research Councils, learned societies and charities. Further details of that scheme are available from the Parliamentary website: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/bicameral/post/fellowships/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/bicameral/post/fellowships/</a></ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sewel question first answered 21/01/2015 15:25:47 question first ministerially corrected 03/02/2015 17:40:13 answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel previous answer version 39538 answering member printed Lord Sewel answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

45831

registered interest
date	28/03/2014
answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
answering dept id	200
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees whether there are plans to sell or give away the tiles currently being replaced in the Palace of Westminster.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL6435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>The Encaustic Tile Programme is a seven year conservation programme to replace and repair the encaustic tiles throughout the Palace of Westminster. As part of the programme, tiles which are in good condition are either left in place or re-used elsewhere whenever possible.</p><p>In some cases, the tiles cannot be re-used elsewhere, and the Administration and Works Committee in the Lords and the Administration Committee in the Commons have agreed that, in these cases, some tiles should be kept for archival purposes, some tiles should be donated to museums or related institutions, and a limited number of tiles should be sold.</p><p>The Committees in both Houses are currently discussing the details of this proposal.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sewel question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2124 label Biography information for Lord Sewel
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey