Lord Kennedy of Southwark

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 29 November (HL 3353), what is the composition of the eight working groups that have been established since the passing of the Housing and Planning Act 2016.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the report by Deloitte concerning the level of return from research and development among the biggest drug companies.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many serious health and safety incidents at oil refineries and petrochemical plants have been reported in the UK over the last five years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of fake news on the formulation and implementation of government policy.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action are they taking to stop counterfeit electrical goods being sold online.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment have they made of the adequacy of the powers of trading standards officers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to give a formal response to the Casey Review.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Office for Budget Responsibility comments on page 51 of their report Economic and fiscal outlook, published on 23 November, regarding housebuilding and residential investment.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 27 October (HL2320), how many Pocket Parks have been delivered to date.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 17 November (HL3179), who are the members of the Estate Regeneration Advisory Panel, and how many meetings have been held so far in this financial year.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to assist local authorities to combat council tax fraud.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to strengthen the requirements and penalties relating to the meeting of hygiene standards by food businesses.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 28 November (HL3302), what discussions they are having with local authorities as the funders of the Right to Buy scheme.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the time period for the spending of the £7.2 billion on housing announced in the Autumn Statement.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the new £18 million fund to accelerate house building will be used to build council houses.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many fatal fires have there been in each fire authority area in England this year to date; and how this compares with the previous 10 years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the 40,000 affordable housing starts announced in the Autumn Statement they expect to be council houses.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the £7.2 billion housing investment announced in the Autumn Statement is earmarked for co-operative housing.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they envisage the £2.3 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund being spent on, and over what timescale.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 26 September (HL1779), whether they are planning to provide a mechanism for external stakeholder input into the defence policy review on remotely piloted air and wider highly a...