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1681388

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date	10/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Companies: Audit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to make regulations under section 493 of the Companies Act 2006 to require public disclosure of the terms of audit appointment.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to make regulations under section 493 of the Companies Act 2006 to require public disclosure of the terms of auditor appointments.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 24/01/2024 16:04:54 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka

1486726

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
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	Sports: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Stedman-Scott on 21 June (HL Deb col 55GC), what steps they will take to ensure that all sports and clubs fulfil their legal obligation under the Equality Act 2010 to make "reasonable adjustments" to accommodate disabled spectators.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government wants everyone to be able to access and enjoy live sport. We are clear that all sports grounds should be inclusive and accessible to all spectators.</p><p>We will continue to work closely with our arm’s length bodies, Sport England,UK Sport and the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA), to make sport and facilities more accessible. We expect all sports and all clubs to take the necessary action to fulfil their legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments so that people with disabilities are not placed at a substantial disadvantage when accessing sports venues.</p><p>With the support of Level Playing Field, the SGSA developed the Accessible Stadia document and supplementary guidance as a benchmark of good practice for new and existing sports grounds. It offers practical, clear solutions that will help deliver high-quality grounds with facilities and services that are accessible, inclusive and welcoming for all.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 19/07/2022 15:56:12 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

1341551

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Sugar Beet: Manufacturing Industries
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 current state of the sugar beet industry.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>Defra's reach and engagement with the agri-food sector is extensive and well-established. This includes regular contact with producers and processors in the UK sugar industry, including British Sugar.</p><p> </p><p>Through the UK Agricultural Market Monitoring Group, we monitor UK agricultural markets, including for sugar beet, looking at price, supply, and trade. This provides forewarning of any atypical market movements or shocks.</p><p> </p><p>The NFU is recognised by Defra to represent all sugar beet growers in the UK due to the nature of the UK Market with British Sugar the sole processor and buyer of Sugar beet. NFU Sugar negotiates on UK Sugar beet growers’ collective behalf to ensure fair contract terms and prices.</p><p> </p><p>Current issues for sugar beet growers include the control of pests (aphids) and yellow virus, along with weather related problems - such as dry springs affecting crop establishment and wet conditions during the campaign harvests. We welcomed British Sugar's work with Rothamsted to predict levels of yellow virus early in the growing season. This meant that emergency use of neonicotinoid seed treatment was not needed in 2021.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 12/07/2021 15:30:03 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1177230

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Civil Servants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many civil servants employed at the Department for Exiting the European Union at its winding up on 31 January have now been deployed to permanent positions in other Government departments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union did not directly employ any of its staff, other than the Permanent Secretary.</p><p>Everyone who worked for The Department for Exiting the European Union was transferred to the Cabinet Office on January 31st on level transfer under principles set out in the Cabinet Office Statement of Practice on Staff Transfers in the Public Sector (COSoP). Staff remain on their existing terms and conditions. Therefore no one has been offered, accepted, or rejected redundancy as a result of the closure. Fewer than five contractors were terminated early as a result of the winding up of the department.</p><p>Details of all staff transfers to other government departments have not yet been finalised.</p><p>Arrangements for any severance payment will be made in line with the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL1474 HL1475 HL1477 HL1478 HL1479 question first answered 24/02/2020 17:32:50 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

759029

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Jeremy Bamber
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have complied in full with the order issued by the Central Criminal Court in 1994, as a result of a Judicial Review initiated by lawyers acting for Jeremy Bamber, instructing the then Home Secretary to disclose all DNA evidence from Essex Police in relation to the White House Farm murders in Essex in 1985.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office complied with the order as set out in paragraph 163 of the judgement in the Court of Appeal case of R V JEREMY BAMBER Neutral Citation Number: [2002] EWCA Crim 2912 Case No: 20011745 S1.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/09/2017 11:43:38 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

576236

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Port of Dover: Channel Ferries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce queuing by motor vehicles for Dover ferries in summer peak periods.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2016 answer text <p>There are a number of measures currently in place to manage traffic on its approach to Dover port. These include a recently opened extended area within the port that can hold up to 300 lorries, along with the TAP (Traffic Assessment Project) traffic management system that allows port-bound lorries to be held outside the town on the A20 at traffic lights until space at the Port becomes available and to prevent queuing in central Dover during busy periods. The Government also has use of Manston airport as a contingency should the need arise.</p><p> </p><p>A consultation regarding the building of a lorry park next to the M20 at Stanford West started on 12 August and will run until 23 September 2016. Up to £250 million has been committed to this scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The lorry park at Stanford West, on the M20 close to junction 11, was selected as the preferred site last month following a separate consultation between December 2015 and January 2016.</p><p> </p><p>This Government wants to have a country that works for everyone, and we are committed to keeping drivers in Kent moving.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/09/2016 13:09:34 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

390064

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the sex and relationships education portion of the national curriculum focuses on sexual relationships and does not equally focus on relationships such as that between a mother and her young child, or relationships in the workplace.
tabling member printed	Lord Northbourne
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is a non-statutory subject that can encompass many areas of study, including the importance of healthy relationships and how to identify those relationships which are unhealthy. This applies to all the relationships that young people have with their friends, peers and families. We expect all schools to provide PSHE.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All maintained secondary schools are also required to provide sex and relationships education as part of the basic curriculum and must have regard to the Secretary of State’s guidance, published in 2000. The guidance recognises that there are strong and mutually supportive relationships outside marriage and that pupils should learn the significance of different relationships as key building blocks of the wider society in order to prepare them for life in modern Britain.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/07/2015 10:14:50 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3201 label Biography information for Lord Northbourne

79578

registered interest
date	23/07/2014
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	Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria they are using to assess the impact and effectiveness of current European Union sanctions on Russia.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL1476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text We judge the impact and effectiveness of sanctions based on a range of economic and political factors. Sanctions are designed to impose a cost for Russia’s actions in Ukraine, deter further escalation of this crisis, and support the wider diplomatic effort. EU measures already announced have exacerbated negative trends in Russia’s economy; capital flight in the first half of 2014 was greater than for the whole of 2013; and we have seen a significant reduction in expected growth. Russian access to western financial markets will be severely constrained as lenders consider the risks of Russian exposure in the current climate. The strengthening of sanctions should signal clearly to the Russian leadership that their policy of trying to destabilise Ukraine will have a cost for the Russian economy. The EU’s measures have in-built review mechanisms. The sanctions implemented on 31 July are in force for one year, with a review of implementation after three months. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/08/2014 10:28:37 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian