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date	20/05/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Royal Commissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Royal Commissions have been established since 1989; what was the topic of each; and what recommendations of each they adopted.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL15831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Three Royal Commissions have been established since 1989:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Royal Commission on Criminal Justice</p></li><li><p>Royal Commission on Long-term Care of the Elderly</p></li><li><p>Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Government departments will have responded to the relevant Royal Commission reports, and those responses are a matter of public record.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 04/06/2019 14:24:30 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

998901

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what allowance is paid to civil servants from outside London for accommodation when they are required to stay in London as part of their employment.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL11153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>There is no central government travel, subsistence and expenses (T,S&amp;E) policy, and as such, rates and allowances are delegated for individual departments to decide upon. In setting their rates departments must be adherent with Section 8 of the Civil Service Management Code (CSMC), Jon Thompson's 2010 review of Civil Service expense policies and The Efficiency and Reform Group Business Travel Policy Principles launched on 20 July 2011.</p><p>As there is no cross-government T,S&amp;E policy, there is no centrally held information on the accommodation allowance paid by departments to non-London based civil servants when they are required to stay in London as part of their employment. This information will be held in individual departments.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/11/2018 13:07:04 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

998903

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what allowance is paid to people serving on government agencies and bodies who have to stay overnight in London to attend meetings or perform other duties.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL11155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>Government agencies and bodies are made up of both civil servants and non-civil servants. For people serving on government agencies and bodies who are civil servants, the following applies.</p><p>There is no central government travel, subsistence and expenses (T,S&amp;E) policy, and as such, rates and allowances are delegated for individual departments to decide upon. In setting their rates departments must be adherent with Section 8 of the Civil Service Management Code (CSMC), Jon Thompson's 2010 review of Civil Service expense policies and The Efficiency and Reform Group Business Travel Policy Principles launched on 20 July 2011.</p><p>As there is no cross-government T,S&amp;E policy, there is no centrally held information on the accommodation allowance paid by departments to non-London based civil servants serving on government agencies and bodies when they are required to stay in London as part of their employment. This information will be held in individual departments.</p><p>For people serving on government agencies and bodies who are not civil servants, information on travel, subsistence and expenses allowances would not be held centrally within the Civil Service. Although some departments may hold some relevant information about the arrangements in their non-department public bodies.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 13/11/2018 12:14:24 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

778055

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Department for Education: Ministers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they carry out due diligence into the commercial activities in the education sector of prospective ministerial appointments in the Department for Education before making such appointments.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL2601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>On appointment to each new office, Ministers provide a list of all relevant interests to their Permanent Secretary, which are considered by the Cabinet Office, and the Prime Minister’s Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 09/11/2017 16:09:15 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

778056

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Policy Exchange
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have given any financial, organisational or other support to the Policy Exchange in the last five years; and if so, what was the source of that support.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL2602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department is not aware of having given any financial, organisational or other support to the Policy Exchange in the last five years.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 09/11/2017 16:07:46 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

598076

registered interest
date	10/10/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Ministers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to appoint a new Minister of State for the Department for International Development in the House of Lords as a replacement for the current Minister; and if so, when they intend to make that appointment.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL2105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The Rt Hon Lord Bates has been appointed as Minister of State at the Department for International Development (DfID).</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 18/10/2016 15:57:10 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

179745

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what due diligence is carried out and by whom before ministerial appointments are made.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL5022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>As was the case under previous administrations, ministerial appointments are a matter for the Prime Minister, in line with the Ministerial Code.</p><p> </p><p>For those individuals upon whom the Prime Minister wishes to confer a life peerage, the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission vets nominations. For those individuals upon whom the Prime Minister wishes to confer a peerage in order that they might sit in the House of Lords to take up a ministerial role, the Commission consults the main regulatory authorities, including HMRC, before giving advice.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL4965 question first answered 25/02/2015 16:09:09 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock