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date	11/02/2015
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	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 5 February (HL4559), whether they consider it to be in the interests of the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union in its existing form of membership.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL4946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The UK’s membership of the European Union brings many benefits to the UK, including jobs and investment, free access to the largest common market in the world and a strong collective voice to negotiate free trade agreements. EU Membership also gives the UK greater international influence on global threats such as climate change and Ebola. The Government’s position remains clear: the EU must reform to become more competitive, democratically accountable and fair for those inside and outside the Eurozone. The need for reform is widely recognised among EU Member States and the Government has already shown that it is possible, through our success in cutting the EU budget, reforming the Common Fisheries Policy, reducing the burden of EU regulation on business and ending the UK’s bailout obligations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 25/02/2015 15:07:53 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

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registered interest
date	29/01/2015
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	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that it is in the interest of the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL4559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>Membership of the EU brings the UK many benefits, including jobs and investment and a strong collective negotiating voice to negotiate free trade agreements. But the British Government is clear that the EU must reform to make it more competitive, democratically accountable and fair for those inside and outside the Eurozone.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 05/02/2015 15:25:48 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

169358

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Directors: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they have in place to monitor the diversity of (1) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, and (2) LGBT, persons serving as directors of public companies.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL3644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2014 answer text <p>Under the Companies Act listed companies are required to report on diversity, including gender, in their annual reports. Company reporting is overseen by the Financial Reporting Council and companies are required to follow the UK Corporate Governance Code on a comply-or-explain basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In September 2014 FRC published an updated Code, including changes to the preface reinforcing the importance of diversity in all its forms on the board. This includes, but is not limited to, gender and race.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At the launch on 15<sup>th</sup> December 2014, the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills welcomed a new private sector-led campaign which will look to address the lack of ethnic diversity in boardrooms, based in part on research that indicates the proportion of Black &amp; Ethnic Minority people in leadership positions is lower than expected compared to the wider population (estimated at 5.1% and 14% respectively). Measuring progress is a key part of the campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/12/2014 16:08:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

167237

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Parliament
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total cost to the Exchequer of the operations of Parliament in (1) 2013–14, and (2) 1983–84.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL3338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Although the costs of operations are met from the Exchequer, the House of Commons and House of Lords are not government departments and their budgets are a matter for each House rather than the government. The Clerk of the House of Commons and the Clerk of the Parliaments in the House of Lords, as the respective Accounting Officers, account for the expenditure of each House.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For reference, the costs attributable to the operations of Parliament were £358.2 million in 2013/14 (on an accruals basis); and £22.9 million in 1983/84 (on a cash basis). It should be noted, however, that the latter amount does not include services, such as printing and works, paid for at the time out of government departmental budgets. This, along with the different basis of the two figures, means they are not comparable.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 16/12/2014 16:12:52 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit