To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 20 October (HL1997), whether they will now answer the question whether the fee payable to Ecorys for their evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme has be...
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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the risk of injury and fatalities resulting from restraint techniques currently used on minors in young offender institutions and secure training centres; whether they will publish the full...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the concerns raised by the President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales about the impact on the Family Court of the sharp rise in the number of child care cases, what steps they a...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Goldie on 22 November (HL Deb, col 1839) concerning the revision of the statutory Parole Board Rules so that parole panels can release imprisonment for public protection prisoners without ...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultations have taken place about the decision that only trials will be heard at Newcastle Magistrates Court, with domestic violence and weekday remands being heard at Bedlington Magistrates Court, some road traffic...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 24 October (HL2341), how many penalty notices have been issued since April 2016 in respect of employers' failure to pay compensation ordered by employment tribunal...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 15 December (HL3953) concerning the criteria used to appoint new members of the Channel 4 Corporation Board, why those criteria make no reference to gender; and to wh...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to introduce plans to prevent landlords of residential properties from recouping the cost of changes to the taxation of rents of such properties which will come into force next year; and if so, how.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take steps to ensure that limited companies are not better placed than other landlords in relation to the taxation of profits engendered by letting residential properties.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated timetable for the publication of (1) responses to the consultations on provisions contained in the Housing and Planning Act 2016, and (2) the secondary legislation required to implement those provision...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to assess and tackle the problems occasioned by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria they used to appoint new board members for Channel 4.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the announcement by the Justice Secretary on 3 November that 2,500 additional prison officers are to be recruited to address issues including safety, how many officers will need to be recruited to replace existi...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many magistrates have resigned this year; and why this figure has not previously been disclosed.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their commitment that any assistance to Nissan would be provided in compliance with state aid and World Trade Organisation rules and kept within current spending limits, whether they will offer similar supp...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they expect their planned provision of up to 10,000 new prison places to increase the prison population; and if so, to what extent.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken to prevent the use of aggressive tax avoidance schemes under which employers reduce their national insurance payments and exploit VAT rules designed to benefit very small businesses; and with wha...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the maximum prison population and how many prison officer staff were employed in 2010–11 and each succeeding year to date in (1) HMP Deerbolt, (2) HMP Durham, (3) HMP Frankland, (4) HMP Holme House, (5) HMP Kirklev...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the announcement by the Cabinet Office in April 2011 that all non-departmental bodies would have to undergo a substantive triennial review in accordance with the Public Bodies Act 2011, whether the Sentenci...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to require catering outlets to display their hygiene efficiency ratings on their websites in addition to the existing requirement to display them on their premises.