Found: evidence submitted by the Sport Legacy Foundation The Sport Legacy Foundation (SLF) was founded by Lord Richard

Found: It was co-founded by leading wellbeing science experts, Prof Lord Richard Layard, and Prof Jan-Emmanuel

Found: school completion and employment.30 4.13 A recent LSE ‘Value for Money report’ by Labour peer Lord Richard

Found: , a recent Value for Money study from the London School of Economics, whose authors include Lord Richard

Found: Written evidence from Professor Lord Richard Layard (SFF0040) I am an economist who has worked (on

Found: It was introduced by Tory peer Lord (Richard) Harrington, the culture department's representative

Found: We also need to think very hard about the issues raised by Lord Richard Harrington in that excellent

Found: Mr Mitchell: We are very lucky in the Foreign Office to have the services of my colleague Lord Richard

Found: Lord Richard Best, Co-Chair of APPG on Housing and Care for Older People, said in the 2021 report

Found: The current membership of HOLAC is: • Lord (Paul) Bew (Outgoing Chair) • Rt Hon and Rt Rev Lord Richard

Found: This will also be attended by Lord (Richard) Beynon who leads on the matter at the Department for Environment

Found: us two of the most able Ministers, dare I say, in the Government, from the House of Lords, Lord Richard

Found: publications/government-food- strategy/government-food-strategy 56 https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/lord/richard-benyon

Found: regulate agents Πmuch work has already been done in this area, through the government via RoPA which Lord Richard

Found: Lord Richard Harrington of Watford, Minister for Refugees, DLUHC and Home Office; Catherine Frances,

Found: FRAMEWORK – NOT TO BE USED FOR SUBMISSION OF DRAFT ANSWERS With all my very best wishes , Lord Richard

Found: Diana Johnson M P House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Lord Richard Harrington Minister

Found: Diana Johnson MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Dame Diana, Lord Richard

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will undertake a review of the estate agency sector to assess the effectiveness of existing legislation on ensuring (a) transparency in pricing, (b) accurate descriptions of properties and (c) bans on rogue (i) lettings and (ii) sales agents.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The government is committed to ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service at the hands of unscrupulous property agents.

Legislation is currently enforced by National Trading Standards’ Lettings and Estate Agency Team, who have the power to issue warnings and banning orders to rogue estate and letting agents.

The previous government committed to regulate the property agent sector in 2018 and asked a working group chaired by Lord Richard Best to advise them on how best to do it.

However, they failed to respond to the recommendations set out in the working group’s 2019 Regulation of Property Agents: working group report which can be found on gov.uk here.

Managing agents play a key role in the maintenance of multi-occupancy buildings and freehold estates, and their importance will only increase as we transition toward a commonhold future. As a result, we are looking again at the 2019 report.

We will set out our full position on regulation of estate, letting and managing agents in due course.

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what (a) direct ministerial and (b) other public appointments to his Department and associated bodies have (i) been (A) removed from their posts and (B) asked to resign and (ii) made since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Feryal Clark - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

Departments do not routinely record and collect the reasons why appointees leave their positions, so are not in a position to answer this part of the question. Additionally, the reasons why an appointee has left their role is the appointee’s personal information and identifiable and would elicit GDPR considerations.

I refer the Right Honourable Member to the answer I gave on Monday 9 September to Question UIN 2400. Additionally, since then Martha Lane Fox (Co-Chair), Poppy Gustafsson, Paul Willmott (Co-Chair), Jeni Tennison, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, Lou Cordwell, Aaron Maniam, David Eaves, Sarah Hunter, Lisa Harrington, Josie Cluer and Lord Richard Allan have been appointed as members of the Digital Centre Design Panel. An announcement containing further details is published here.

Public Appointments are routinely published in the public domain using the Cabinet Office digital service and the sites of the Public Bodies concerned.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network World Happiness Report, published on 20 March; in particular, the finding that the happiness of young people under the age of 30 in the UK has declined.

Answered by Baroness Scott of Bybrook - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

The Government is committed to improving the well-being of individuals in every area of the UK as set out in our (attached) update on the Well-being mission in January 2024. We continue to engage with new data and evidence in the delivery of all Levelling Up Missions, including on how we can improve well-being.

This includes considering the work of Professor Lord Richard Layard, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report, and other experts in our ongoing work on this mission.

Found: Written evidence – Professor Lord Richard Layard. UK Parliament COVID-19 Committee. 18.

Found: However, in March , Lord Richard Benyon (Minister of State for Climate, Environment and Energy), said

Found: Government commissioned review of the potential role of Highly Protected Marine Areas, led by Lord Richard

Found: It was introduced by Tory peer Lord (Richard) Harrington, the culture department's representative

Found: appointed to Indonesia & ASEAN   Paulette Hamilton MP appointed to Commonwealth Caribbean   Lord Richard

Found: Lord Richard Allan appointed as Non-Executive Director of the Ofcom Board

Found:    Lisa Harrington – Tech and Growth Advisor    Josie Cluer – Partner, People Consulting, EY   Lord Richard

Found: Click 1 for BBC D-Day bulletin Click 2 for History of British Normandy Memorial Site (by Lord Richard

Found: Biosecurity Minister Lord Richard Benyon said: “An outbreak of African swine fever is one of the biggest

Found: Food and Rural Affairs (from 13 November 2023) 1 1 Mark Spencer MP Minister of State 1 1 Lord Richard

Found: Meeting with the Chancellor to discuss clinical negligenceSam Beckett2023-07-04 00:00:00Professor Lord Richard

Found: jointly at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Home Office . 10 Lord Richard

Found: Appointed 06 September 2022, left 25 October 2022 6,843 – 67,505 – 2,000 – 16,876 – 26,000 – Lord Richard

Found: Appointed 06 September 2022, left 25 October 20226,843 – 67,505 – 2,000 – 16,876 – 26,000 – Lord Richard

Found: Appointed 06 September 2022, left 25 October 20226,843 – 67,505 – 2,000 – 16,876 – 26,000 – Lord Richard

Found: Levelling Up, The Union and Constitution From 19 September 2021 Attended 2 of 2 board meetings Lord Richard

Found: - 14,000 - - - Lord Stephen Greenhalgh 4 - - - - - - - - - - Lord Richard

Found: Authors Danny Hatton Jennifer Sz ulc Christopher Lord Richard Mosley

Found: Authors Danny Hatton Jennifer Sz ulc Christopher Lord Richard Mosley

Found: Lord Richard Allan appointed as Non-Executive Director of the Ofcom Board

Found: Biosecurity Minister Lord Richard Benyon said: “An outbreak of African swine fever is one of the biggest

Found: I’ve also been reflecting on the sad new s about Lord Richard Rogers ’ passing.

Found: Abigail Tierney 2022-04-03 00:00:00 4 London, UK Attended 2 Marsham Street office for meetings with Lord Richard

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Lord Richard

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Lord Richard

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Lord Richard

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Lord Richard

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Lord Richard

Found: received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Lord Richard

Found: BARONESS GOLDIE DL MINISTER OF STATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS The Lord Richard

Found: ocieties – Hans Kluge (WHO Reg ional Director for Europ e) • Wellbeing: S cience and P olicy – Lord Richard

Found: to the European UnionEurope2022-06-10 00:00:00Meeting / Video ConferenceGovernment Trilateral: Lord Richard

Found: Cyng /Cllr Dyfrig Siencyn, Chair of North Wales Growth Deal 2023-07-24 00:00:00 Cyfarfod/Meeting Lord Richard

Found: of the Commission, Royal Commission on the Constitution, The National Archives, Kew Rt Hon Lord Richard

Found: voluntary organisations, NGOs, researchers, businesses and the public into 2030. 5 of 52 Lord Richard

Found: The meeting was chaired by Lord Richard Benyon, Minister for Biosecurity, Marine and Rural Affairs, UK

Found: The Commission, chaired by Lord Richard, a Labour Peer and former leader of the House of Lords, published

Found: Commission on the Powers and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales, chaired by Lord Richard

Found: Joint committee on the House of Lords Reform Bill A Joint Committee on the Draft Bill, chaired by Lord Richard

Found: The Chair, Lord Richard of Ammanford, was appointed by the the then First Minister, the Rt.Hon.

Found: right to expect clarification on the content, nature and scope of the Orders in Council.10 Lord Richard

Found: Assembly to the report of the commission on its powers and electoral arrangements, chaired by Lord Richard

Found: Lord Richard: Yes.

Found: The Chair, Lord Richard of Ammanford, was appointed by the First Minister, four members were nominated

Found: The Chair, Lord Richard of Ammanford, was appointed by the the then First Minister, the Rt.Hon.

<p>I'll focus just on the Senedd reform issues that Rhun ap Iorwerth concentrated on in the second half of his contribution, Llywydd. Can I say to Members in every part of the Chamber that it's over 20 years since Lord Ivor Richard produced his report on the first Senedd term, a report that said that the Senedd did not have the number of Members it needed to discharge the responsibilities it had then? In the discussion that some of us were engaged with with some young people, somebody said to me, 'I wasn't born when Lord Richard produced that report, and, throughout the whole of my lifetime, successive Assemblies and Senedds have failed to grasp what is, undoubtedly, a challenging issue and one that requires a two-thirds majority on the floor of the Senedd, quite rightly, in order to change the system that we have'.</p>
<p>Now is the moment to do it. I say that to colleagues in every part of this Chamber. We have a responsibility, while that opportunity is in our hands, to do something that has not been possible for over 20 years, and when that Bill is laid in front of the Senedd in September, it will be a landmark moment. It will be a landmark moment when we take that responsibility for making sure that the democratic structures we have in Wales are sufficient to bear the weight of the responsibilities that lie in the Senedd and future responsibilities that many of us hope will come the way of this devolved institution and to do it in a way that makes sure that there are sufficient Members and the organisation that lies behind them to be able to do the hard business of scrutinising legislation. We're&nbsp;a unicameral system&nbsp;here, we don't have a second Chamber to put anything right that we may get wrong. That's why we must have the firepower on the floor of a future Senedd to be able to scrutinise that legislation, make sure that it is as good as it possibly can be, and to hold the Executive, whoever will be in it, to account for the actions carried out on behalf of people here in Wales.</p>
<p>Of course, Rhun ap Iorwerth is right that the gender make-up of the Senedd isn't today&nbsp;as balanced as it was in some earlier Senedds. I am very proud indeed to lead a Labour group where women outnumber men—and by some distance. I'm very proud indeed that there are more women in my Cabinet than there are men, that, in the Government at least, we have an approach that reflects the nature of Wales today, and we want to see a Senedd that does the same, and those of us who are jointly committed on that enterprise will have an opportunity to make that happen when that gender quotas Bill appears in front of the Senedd before the end of this calendar year.</p>

<p>Thank you very much, Mark Isherwood. I think I made it very clear in my statement how important it was to have a Minister for refugees, Richard Harrington. Actually, we were meeting with him on a fortnightly basis; the job certainly wasn’t done. He played a very important role. He actually resigned the day before the leadership of the Conservative Party was announced, and I believe that his understanding, from the meeting we had only a week before—. He was actually going to come down to Wales; we had it in the diary. We were going to go and visit a welcome centre together. The job certainly isn’t done.</p>
<p>I am pleased to hear from my officials that, in terms of the role that was played and the important issues that we were raising with the then Minister for refugees, there is a recognition that that needs to be followed through. I would be very interested to see what reply we get from the Home Secretary and Simon Clarke, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. I’m very happy to share the letter that we wrote, myself and Neil Gray. We reiterated the points that we were discussing. We paid tribute to Lord Richard Harrington for his commitment. We asked if there was going to be a UK Minister with portfolio responsibility, not just, I have to say—. In terms of his ministerial responsibility, it wasn’t just for Ukraine, it was for Afghan and Hong Kong welcome schemes as well. We'd very much welcome a dedicated Minister, and would support the appointment of a successor.</p>
<p>But we raised the issues—the financial issues, the real issues—that are now causing a great deal of concern. He called—and publicly, actually—for a doubling of the £350 monthly thank-you payment to hosts. We asked for an increase at least to £500, or up again, doubling to £700 per month. An urgent decision is needed regarding this, because the hosts now, as they reach the end of their six-month period—. That is beginning to start; we’re writing to all hosts to see if they will continue. This is a crucial issue. We asked for quick decisions, and I hope you—as I perhaps asked you last week when we had a briefing about this—and your colleagues will also urge for a quick decision on this funding package.</p>
<p>Also, in terms of the funding package, which we’ve raised on a regular basis, we have no information. And of course, the finance Minister has raised this as well about year 2, year 3. We have no funding for ESOL services from the UK Government, or indeed tariffs for health either—both, actually, that were provided to the Afghan resettlement scheme. I’ve had no contact from the immigration Minister about this, or any other responsibility in relation to refugees and migrants.</p>
<p>I look forward perhaps that maybe we might have some telephone calls from not only the Prime Minister but other Ministers to us in Government. It’s vital that we do actually engage with them and follow this through. There is a huge job of work to be done here. We’re taking responsibility in the way that I’ve outlined fully, and also funding not only our welcome centres, but also paying thank-you payments to hosts if they support a family who initially arrived in Wales under the Ukraine family scheme. That's not happening in England. The commitment that we're making is considerable. I hope everyone will join us today, saying that we need to press for those answers in terms of financial support.</p>
<p>You introduced me, in fact, Mark, to Link International in north Wales, a fantastic organisation. They're a key part our third sector network, which meets regularly with officials and with myself. They also, of course, link to all of the other voluntary groups, the WhatsApp groups now all over Wales that the Ukrainians are organising themselves, which is, of course, what we want to encourage. In fact, this coming weekend, they've organised an arts festival at the Sherman Theatre. I hope people will have seen that. I shall be speaking at the opening event. It's also being sponsored by key Welsh celebrities who are backing what they are doing. But it is important that the support from the third sector is recognised.</p>
<p>In terms of devolved services, I said in my statement that we are now meeting—. Well, I met throughout the whole summer with local government leaders, and we have work streams that run at official level on everything to do with the initial welcome, the move-on services. But we're meeting fortnightly at meetings chaired by the Minister for Finance and Local Government on Ukraine, because the local leadership is crucially important in terms of the provision of those devolved services. They are linked, of course, to the health service, to the third sector, ESOL, et cetera.</p>
<p>We did contact the MOD, and they had no accommodation available. There are many good examples of how authorities, universities, the third sector are coming forward, and, obviously, we would welcome anything else that came forward. But we followed that MOD contact—nothing at that point, or indeed now. But they are all coming together to make contributions. Also, I very much welcome the work that the Polish integration society has undertaken.</p>
<p>In terms of north Wales, we are very thankful to all the authorities in north Wales, all the third sector, to the universities as well, who are engaging, both Bangor and Glyndŵr. There is excellent work in terms of welcome and also, of course, those family hosts.</p>