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1674213

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legislation: Reviews
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans the Ministry of Justice has to undertake post-legislative review of (1) the Civil Liability Act 2018, (2) the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018, (3) the Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019, (4) the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, (5) the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act 2020, (6) the Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Act 2020, (7) the Sentencing Act 2020, and (8) the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020, in line with the policy of reviewing Acts three to five years after enactment
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>All bills that have reached Royal Assent are eligible for post-legislative scrutiny three to five years after they are enacted. Post-legislative scrutiny memoranda have been published on GOV.UK where bills have undergone the process. In addition, the Lords Special Inquiry Committee appointed to carry out post-legislative scrutiny on specific Acts publishes information on its inquiries on parliament.uk.</p><p>It is also important to note that post-legislative scrutiny is not the only way policy is reviewed. Many Acts have built-in statutory review mechanisms and consultations have also been launched. This has the effect of providing opportunities for the legislation to be reviewed and assessed without requiring post-legislative scrutiny.</p><p> </p><p>There is no planned timetable for post-legislative scrutiny of the Acts mentioned in this question.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 13/12/2023 12:55:02 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

1468302

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Judicial College have made with the rollout of new training to address the (1) attitudinal, and (2) behavioural, issues raised in (a) recent caselaw, (b) the Ministry of Justice report Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases, published June 2020, and (c) the provisions of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which took effect in April.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>To preserve the independence of the judiciary, the Lord Chief Justice, the Senior President of Tribunals, and the Chief Coroner have statutory responsibility for judicial training, under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, and Coroners and Justice Act 2009 respectively. These responsibilities are exercised through the Judicial College.</p><p>I understand that the digital training on domestic abuse launched in October 2021 is compulsory training for family judges, magistrates and legal advisers for the 2022-23 training year.</p><p>New training that addresses the attitudinal and behavioural issues raised in recent caselaw, the Ministry of Justice’s Harm Report and the Domestic Abuse Act, was launched in April 2022 and forms a substantial part of compulsory continuation training for family and civil judges.</p><p>The judiciary, supported by professional staff in the Judicial College, are responsible for the design, content, and delivery of judicial training. In developing domestic abuse training, the College drew on external expertise and resources as appropriate. The training programme and training requirements are reviewed regularly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL719 HL720 HL722 question first answered 20/06/2022 11:50:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

1330203

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Freight
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the announcement that DP World will operate 775-metre long freight trains between Southampton and London Gateway, whether they have asked Network Rail to make similar adjustments elsewhere in the interests of higher productivity.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government supports increasing the productivity of the rail freight sector, including by investing in infrastructure enhancements to enable Freight Operating Companies to run longer trains, to enhance rail freight’s competitiveness and in turn lead to modal shift of freight from road to rail, delivering significant environmental and economic benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2014-2019 the Government invested over £235 million in the Strategic Freight Network and continues to make investments, to improve its capability and capacity for freight users, including facilitating longer freight trains. In addition to the longer services operating from the Port of Southampton, as a result of the recently completed Southampton Freight Train Lengthening project, the Department has also funded several infrastructure enhancements which have enabled other longer services to operate. These include upgrading the Ipswich Railway Chords (Bacon Factory Curve) to allow 700m length freight trains to run to and from the Port of Felixstowe and the extension of the Darlington sidings, which concluded in December 2020, to allow longer intermodal freight trains to operate from Teesport to access the East Coast Mainline.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Network Rail (NR) has worked alongside the rail freight industry, with the support of the Department, to allow longer and heavier trains to run on the network whilst the number of passenger services has been lower. As a result of the reduced passenger timetable, NR implemented a number of timetable alterations to allow, for example, 775m trains to run between Southampton and Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester, and between Daventry and Grangemouth. NR is actively looking at opportunities to continue scheduling such services and to further opportunities to run longer trains, to continue driving higher efficiency and productivity for the Freight Operating Companies and their customers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 21/06/2021 15:48:25 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1175192

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Instagram: Self-harm
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with Instagram about reports that its algorithms cause people with mental illnesses to self-harm.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have regular meetings with social media platforms such as Instagram on a range of issues, including the use of algorithms to target specific groups. Details of Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 13/02/2020 16:51:59 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

751124

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Instagram: Self-harm
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what direct investment they made into library services in 2016–17.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport invested £4 million in 2016-17 in the Arts Council managed Libraries: Opportunities for Everyone innovation fund. This supports innovative public library service projects that benefit disadvantaged people and places in England.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS also invested in dedicated support for library services exploring an alternative delivery model (such as a public service mutual). This involved commissioning a consortium of existing library mutuals to produce a toolkit for the Libraries Taskforce on Alternative Delivery Models; running two Masterclasses (one in London and one in York); and providing grants to support library services undertaking detailed options appraisals through access to specialist technical advice.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 19/07/2017 15:22:22 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

525449

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
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	Public Libraries: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what amount and proportion of funding from their poverty prevention programmes currently in operation has been allocated to (1) preventing the underlying causes of poverty, (2) dealing with emergency effects of poverty, (3) managing the ongoing effects of poverty, and (4) alleviating the effects of poverty, in (a) each of the last five years, and (b) to date in 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>This Government’s welfare reforms are focused on supporting people to find and keep work whilst ensuring that we are protecting the most vulnerable. At the end of the Parliament we will be spending over £60bn – 3% of GDP – supporting people on low incomes.</p><p> </p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty. Evidence shows that almost three-quarters of poor workless families who found full employment escaped poverty; and that the highest poverty exit rate of 75% was for families that moved from part to full employment. The number of children living in workless households is down by 449,000 since 2010</p><p> </p><p>Our new life chances approach to poverty and disadvantage will include a set of indicators to measure progress in tackling the root causes of poverty such as worklessness, educational attainment and family stability.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL720 question first answered 29/06/2016 16:17:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

384510

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they participate in the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe; and, if so, whether participating has changed their policies in any way.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK was a founder member of the then Committee for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE - later renamed Organisation - OSCE in 1994) when it was created in 1975, and has been an active participating State throughout its existence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The OSCE is, and continues to be, an important means of pursuing a range of UK policy priorities, to promote UK values on human rights and democracy, our interests in conventional arms control, along with wider European security issues and conflict prevention.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK plays an influential role in the OSCE. We work to defend OSCE commitments and principles, the OSCE institutions, and challenge failure to respect obligations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The OSCE oversees a number of commitments on how participating States have agreed to behave towards each other and towards their citizens. Though these norms are regularly breached, their existence provides an important standard against which the people of the participating States can attempt to hold their leaders accountable.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ongoing OSCE discussion of opportunities and challenges to the future of European security also contribute to UK policy objectives. The OSCE remains the main multilateral forum that brings together 57 countries in the Euro-Atlantic area, including Russia, the United States and EU member states, on a range of key security issues and is home to a number of interlocking instruments which form the basis for conventional arms control across the Euro-Atlantic area.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 03/07/2015 13:57:11 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

65185

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of calls from Ofsted for employers to play a greater role in rating training providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills is committed to securing greater involvement of employers in all aspects of Further Education. We therefore welcome any measures introduced by Ofsted to improve the quality of inspections by arranging the involvement of employers. As the independent inspectorate acting on behalf of Parliament, it is for Ofsted to determine the exact nature of how this would operate within its inspection process.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 08/07/2014 15:24:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey