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820596

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date	11/01/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to help (a) women and (b) men balance work with childcare responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	903244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text The Government is committed to helping men and women to balance work and childcare between them. It is good for parents and children, as well as being an important way to address the Gender Pay Gap. Shared Parental Leave and the right to request flexible working enables parents to arrange work and care in a way that works for them. answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/01/2018 11:57:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

820656

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Consultation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance is made available to Ministers regarding the need to maintain, and appear to maintain, an open mind during Government policy consultations.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL4626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>There is no firm guidance on this matter as each consultation is different; some will make a call for evidence on a topic and others will seek views on the details of a new Government policy. The Consultation Principles (copy attached), which are published on Gov.uk, stress the importance of targeting consultations at a full range of people, businesses and voluntary bodies affected by the policy. The guidance notes that departments should consider targeting specific groups and ensure they are aware of the consultation and can access it.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/01/2018 14:02:37 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name Consultation Principles 2016 .pdf title Consultation Principles 2016
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

820657

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Financial Reporting Council
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why companies, pension funds and taxpayer-funded public bodies are served notices by the Financial Reporting Council requesting payment for a charge described as a levy without any accompanying statement that the charge does not have the status of levy or tax, and is not actually required to be paid.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL4627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is funded through a combination of statutory and voluntary funding arrangements. The FRC consults stakeholders annually on the amounts requested under these arrangements. Requests from the Financial Reporting Council for voluntary payments explain that the payments are non-statutory and voluntary. The Financial Reporting Council also explains to funders that, should the system of voluntary payments prove unsustainable, they would request that the Secretary of State make regulations to put the funding requirements on a statutory basis. The Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 includes provisions to enable this.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 22/01/2018 11:47:35 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

820658

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Financial Reporting Council
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the opening of an office in Brussels by the Financial Reporting Council for lobbying activity was authorised by the Cabinet Office as required by the restrictions placed on non-departmental public bodies by the rules set by the Cabinet Office; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL4628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Financial Reporting Council operates an office in Brussels in order to support its work as the designated competent authority for audit in the UK and on accounting regulation. The then Department for Business, Innovation and Skills was informed of the decision to open the office when it was established.</p><p> </p><p>Up until December 2014 the Financial Reporting Council’s status as a public body within central government was pending review by the Office of National Statistics. The Brussels office was established in 2012.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 22/01/2018 11:46:36 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

820659

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Financial Reporting Council
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 extent to which transfers of staff from the Financial Reporting Council to (1) the International Accounting Standards Board, (2) large accounting firms, and (3) other organisations, have complied with the restrictions on appointment of public officials into private sector roles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
uin	HL4629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has an established code of conduct which applies to FRC staff to ensure that conflicts of interest and any other associated threats to independence are managed appropriately. In addition, the FRC applies, on a case-by-case basis measures to ensure that any potential conflicts arising from a proposed departure from the FRC to another organisation are managed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made no assessment of this policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 22/01/2018 11:45:22 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

820660

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Sick Leave
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the latest rate of absence through sickness of NHS staff; and what were the comparable figures for each of the last 20 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
uin	HL4630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The latest rate of sickness of National Health Service staff is 4.16% (2016/17). Comparable figures from 2009/10, extracted from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), are shown in the following table and is information collected from ESR by NHS Digital. Sickness absence data collected by the Department before 2009 used a different methodology and are not comparable. Sickness absence figures for 2017/18 will be published in July 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Sickness absence rate (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>4.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>4.16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>4.12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>4.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>4.06</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>4.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>4.15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>4.16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 24/01/2018 16:07:15 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

820661

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the level of bullying reported in the latest NHS Staff Survey; and what were the comparable figures for each of the last 20 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
uin	HL4631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Employers are responsible for tackling bullying and harassment of staff. The Department is not complacent and Ministers are committed to meeting their manifesto commitment in tackling rates of bullying and harassment which are far too high. To that end, the Department is working with employers and unions in partnership to prioritise actions including the importance of line manager training, continuing to raise the profile of the issue and using Care Quality Commission inspections to assess progress, as we enter the second year of the national Social Partnership Forum’s <em>Tackling Bullying in the NHS: A collective call to action</em> published in December 2016. A copy of <em>Tackling Bullying in the NHS</em> is attached.</p><p>NHS England has provided the information and statistics which are attached due to the size of the data. The NHS Staff Survey was first undertaken in 2003. Questions about harassment, bullying and abuse have been included each year since then although it is not always possible to compare results from different years due to amendments to questions or survey method. We have, therefore, put together figures from the Staff Survey in different groups i.e. figures for 2012 – 2016 are comparable but not with other groupings; similarly, those for 2010/11, 2004-9 and 2003. The results from 2012 to 2016 are comparable.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4631 Staff Survey tables.docx title NHS Staff Survey tables 2 file name spf-tackling-bullying-final-v2-for-pubs-16217.pdf title Tackling Bullying in the NHS question first answered 24/01/2018 13:07:47 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

820662

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 20 December 2017 (HL3994), what was the total number of fines issued for incorrectly claiming an exemption on NHS dental fees in the first six months of 2017–18.
tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
uin	HL4632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority reports that a total of 217,539 fines were issued to patients on the grounds of incorrectly claiming an exemption from NHS Dental Patient Charges in the first six months of 2017–18.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/01/2018 12:24:23 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

820663

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many families have had their tax credits reduced by the two-child limit in each month since the introduction of the limit in April 2017; how many of those families had one or more parents in work; how many families were (1) lone parent families or (2) two-parent families; and what was the number of children per family involved.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL4633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The government considers the impact of policies on different groups during their development. During the passage of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 we published an Impact Assessment<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> for the policy of limiting support in tax credits and Universal Credit. The impact assessment shows the number of Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit claimants who were expected to be affected by the policy over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>This does not include a number of groups who have received an exception to the policy of limiting support: statistics on these exceptions will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <strong><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006E.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006E.pdf</a> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/01/2018 16:09:14 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name welfare reform document.pdf title impact assessment
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

820664

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many families with three or more children have been able to claim the Child Tax Credit amount for a third or subsequent child under the “special circumstances” exemption rules that apply to the two-child limit, in each month since the introduction of the limit in April 2017; and what reasons were provided for those exemptions.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL4634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Families on benefits should have to make the same financial decisions as families supporting themselves solely through work. However, in recognition that some claimants are not able to make choices about the number of children in their family the government has provided exceptions in certain cases. Following debate in parliament and a public consultation, the government introduced regulations that allow exceptions to apply in cases where the third or subsequent children are:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>part of a multiple birth, although it does not cover one child in that birth on the grounds that the parents would have expected the pregnancy to have resulted in at least one birth;</p><p> </p></li><li><p>children who are adopted when they would otherwise be in Local Authority care;</p><p> </p></li><li><p>in non-parental caring arrangements, including formal arrangements (e.g. Child Arrangement Orders, Special Guardianship Orders, certain Scottish Kinship Care Orders etc) and informal arrangements where the child is living long terms with friends or family and would otherwise be at risk of entering the care system;</p><p> </p></li><li><p>born as a result of non-consensual conception (including cases of rape or coercion and control).</p></li></ul><p>Statistics relating to exceptions to the limit on support to two children in Child Tax Credit will be published once there are sufficient cases to enable robust analysis and the data has been quality assured.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/01/2018 16:04:30 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham