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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 5 to 24.11 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsMy Lords, the Government have acted decisively to tackle the issue, taking a proportionate approach informed by experts. The Office of Government Property, which is part of the…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsThat was a huge array of questions more suitable for debate, but perhaps I can make clear that the Government have agreed to fund extensive RAAC mitigation works across the NHS…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsOne of the reasons for that is that some of the hospitals in which we have identified RAAC need a full replacement. They will be part of the rebuilt hospitals programme, which is…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsAs the noble Lords knows, there is of course a legal framework for managing asbestos through the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and I refer to the expert advice and…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsThe Government are investing and will continue to invest in public sector buildings. Take education: the Government have allocated £15 billion since 2015 to keep schools safe and…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsI am grateful to hear from the noble Baroness about the situation in the university sector. Of course, they will be taking their responsibilities seriously. As I know from having…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsI cannot help but agree with my noble friend: it is absolutely right to follow expert advice in this sort of case. That is why the OGP wrote out on a number of occasions, and it…06 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Public BuildingsActually, we have rolled up our sleeves in this case, to quote the noble Baroness. We wrote in 2019, and again in 2022 after Covid. A great deal of management on a risk-based…06 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesIt is a matter for the Electoral Commission, which is independent of government and accountable to Parliament through the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission. Since it…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesMy Lords, since the Electoral Commission reported the incident to the National Cyber Security Centre, the Government have worked closely with the commission to provide it with…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesI thank the noble Baroness for her point. I will write to her, if I may.04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkI have to be careful in commenting on operational matters, and I have already said that the statement is still under consideration, but I very much agree with the noble Baroness’s…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkI think my noble friend puts it extremely well. Of course, it is at the heart of the work we are doing on resilience; indeed, we have set up a new department, DSIT, to focus much…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkThe statement is still in preparation. I take note of the noble Lord’s points and thank him for the contributions that he has made, notably on the debate that we had on resilience…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkMy Lords, the resilience framework set out the Government’s commitment to publishing the first annual statement to Parliament on civil contingencies risk and performance on…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkI draw the noble Lord’s attention to the developments in openness that there have been. We now have a UK Resilience Forum, which was established to bring together the voluntary…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesI described the new, more resilient system that we have got. There is a big focus on cyber and cyberattacks; individual Government Ministers take that very seriously. We have set…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesThat is a point well made. In a sense, the noble Baroness’s question is about why this took so long, especially in relation to the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesI am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising that point, not least since I raised it myself about 10 minutes ago when I was being briefed for this Question. There was some…04 Sept 2023