Found: Charlotte Moar (external member) • Lord Morse • Lord Newby • Baroness Scott of Needham Market • Baroness

Found: Baroness Scott of Needham Market – virtually • Nora Senior (external member) – virtually • Baroness

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 9 October (HL1436), how many civil servants have currently been granted a formal exemption and are approved to have TikTok on Government devices.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Cabinet Office does not collect this data centrally. Where an essential business requirement necessitates the use of TikTok, this is managed through a formal exemptions and approvals process which takes place at departmental level.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 1 October (HL1036), whether it is their intention to publish the full dataset gathered from the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Review.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

We are currently considering the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Review commissioned by the previous Government.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 21 October (HL1282), how many substantive disclosures have been issued, since the general election, by the Department for Work and Pensions in response to Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) requests on Civil Service workplace occupancy across the department; and whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of each FOI disclosure, redacting the name of the applicant.

Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

Since the General Election on 4^th July 2024, the Department for Work and Pensions has received and responded to one Freedom of Information (FOI) request relating to Civil Service workplace occupancy across the department.

We will place a copy of this FOI, FOI2024/58197 in the House libraries.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 21 October (HL1282), how many substantive disclosures have been issued, since the general election, by the Department for Business and Trade in response to Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) requests on Civil Service workplace occupancy across the department; and whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of each FOI disclosure, redacting the name of the applicant.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Since the general election on 4th July 2024, the Department for Business and Trade received and issued one substantive Freedom of Information request pertaining to the civil service workplace occupancy data across the Department. A copy of the letter issued to the requestor will be deposited in the Libraries of both Houses with relevant redactions to the name of the applicant.

Found: ensure more female bishops are able to bring a greater range of experience to the House of Lords. 23 Baroness

Found: ensure more female bishops are able to bring a greater range of experience to the House of Lords. 23 Baroness

Found: leader of the House of Commons, Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, and the Leader of the House of Lords, Rt Hon Baroness