Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Home Office has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office regularly commissions independent reviews to get an external perspective on its policy and administration. Information on numbers and, where incurred, costs is not held centrally.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews HM Treasury has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Bates
Her Majesty’s Treasury announced the launch of an independent review of the Co-operative Bank on 6 March 2018 and an independent review into build out of planning permissions into homes at the 2017 Autumn Budget.
Over the past year, HM Treasury published the following:
an update on the progress of the independent review into build out of planning permissions into homes, together with the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, on 13 March 2018
‘delivering better outcomes for citizens: practical steps for unlocking public value’, an independent review which investigated how central government can ensure it is delivering maximum value for every pound spent on public services, on 17 November 2017
‘growing a culture of social impact investing in the UK’, together with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, on 14 November 2017
an update setting out the progress made on the recommendations put forward by the Insurance Fraud Taskforce, on 9 August 2017
Information on the cost of the independent reviews is not held centrally by HM Treasury.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Departments do not hold this information.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Department for International Development has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Bates
The Department does not hold this information centrally.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Department for Work and Pensions has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The Department does not hold this information.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The information requested is not collected centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Ministry of Justice has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie
The Ministry of Justice does not keep a central record of information on commissioning of independent reviews into policy or administration. To collate this information from across the Department would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Attorney General's Office has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie
In the last year, no independent reviews have been commissioned into the policy or administration of the Attorney General’s Office.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Northern Ireland Office has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Duncan of Springbank
The Northern Ireland Office has not commissioned any independent reviews into its policy or administration over the last year.
Asked by: Lord Watts (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Wales Office has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
None.