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1718947

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many ministers in each House receive a government ministerial salary, and how many receive none; and what the total extra cost of paying all ministers the relevant current rate would be.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL4728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The payment of ministerial salaries is governed by the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act (MOSA) 1975. To answer these questions, we have treated ministers who hold more than one office (“joint ministers”) but are paid only for one as paid ministers, and therefore have counted only those ministers who do not receive a salary under MOSA.</p><p>There are currently 108 ministers who receive a government salary. The current number of ministers in total is 125, meaning that 17 are unpaid, 3 in the House of Commons and 14 in the House of Lords.</p><p>If the 17 unpaid ministers were to claim a ministerial salary on the same basis as those who receive a salary the additional sum payable would be £1,146,358 per annum, excluding pension contributions. We have counted the Party Chair, the Rt Hon Richard Holden MP in these calculations, as he is unpaid by the government. He is, however, by convention paid by the party.</p><p>Primary legislation would be required to increase the number of ministers entitled to receive a salary to include the 17 ministers who are currently unpaid. Secondary legislation in the form of an Order in Council under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 may be used to increase the rate at which ministerial salaries are payable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4729 question first answered 23/05/2024 16:05:49 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1718948

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether secondary legislation could be used to increase the number of ministers that can be paid in order that all ministers receive the relevant current rate, and if not how might this be done.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL4729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The payment of ministerial salaries is governed by the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act (MOSA) 1975. To answer these questions, we have treated ministers who hold more than one office (“joint ministers”) but are paid only for one as paid ministers, and therefore have counted only those ministers who do not receive a salary under MOSA.</p><p>There are currently 108 ministers who receive a government salary. The current number of ministers in total is 125, meaning that 17 are unpaid, 3 in the House of Commons and 14 in the House of Lords.</p><p>If the 17 unpaid ministers were to claim a ministerial salary on the same basis as those who receive a salary the additional sum payable would be £1,146,358 per annum, excluding pension contributions. We have counted the Party Chair, the Rt Hon Richard Holden MP in these calculations, as he is unpaid by the government. He is, however, by convention paid by the party.</p><p>Primary legislation would be required to increase the number of ministers entitled to receive a salary to include the 17 ministers who are currently unpaid. Secondary legislation in the form of an Order in Council under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 may be used to increase the rate at which ministerial salaries are payable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4728 question first answered 23/05/2024 16:05:49 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

1717046

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Economic Situation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the most recent statistics on the Economic Activity Rate of each of the UK's four nations, and what were the equivalent rates (1) 10, and (2) 20, years earlier.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL4552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Wigley</p><p>House of Lords<br>London<br>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Wigley,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what are the most recent statistics on the Economic Activity Rate of each of the UK’s four nations, and what were the equivalent rates (1) 10, and (2) 20, years earlier (HL4552).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects information on the labour market status of individuals through the Labour Force Survey (LFS), which is a survey of people resident in households in the UK.</p><p>The responses allow us to identify how many people are economically active; that is, those who are engaged with the labour market, either through employment or who are unemployed and actively seeking work. We are also able to calculate economic activity rates by region using these data.</p><p>Due to the current smaller sample sizes being achieved by the LFS, recent estimates are showing increased volatility and should be treated with additional caution. We are currently undertaking a programme of work to improve our estimates of the UK labour market. As part of this work, we have updated our labour market estimates from July to September 2022 onwards to incorporate more up to date estimates of the UK population. Labour market estimates prior to this remain based on older population estimates. Therefore, the latest available estimates of the UK labour market, for January to March 2024, are on a different population basis than those ten and twenty years earlier. As a result of this we recommend caution when considering long-term movements in these series.</p><p>The latest available estimates (January to March 2024) of the economic activity rates, for people aged 16 to 64 years, resident in each of the UK’s four nations are presented in Table 1, alongside estimates for January to March 2014 and January to March 2004.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Economic Activity Rates, people aged 16 to 64 years, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, seasonally adjusted.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>England </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>January to March 2004</strong></p></td><td><p><br> 77.1%</p></td><td><p><br> 77.0%</p></td><td><p><br> 74.3%</p></td><td><p><br> 69.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> <strong>January to March 2014 </strong></p></td><td><p><br> 78.1%</p></td><td><p><br> 78.4%</p></td><td><p><br> 75.1%</p></td><td><p><br> 73.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>January to March 2024 </strong>[1]</p></td><td><p><br> 78.4%</p></td><td><p><br> 76.6%</p></td><td><p><br> 72.0%</p></td><td><p><br> 73.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> Source: Labour Force Survey</em></p><p>[1] Estimate based on more up to date population estimates and subject to greater volatility due to smaller achieved sample sizes. We advise caution when interpreting movements in these series.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/05/2024 16:01:30 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL4552.pdf title Letter from Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1715929

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of annual vehicle theft in the UK is accomplished by offenders cloning the signal from the vehicle owner’s remote locking device.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL4379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Lord Birt</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>9 May 2024</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Birt,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what percentage of annual vehicle theft in the UK is accomplished by offenders cloning the signal from the vehicle owner’s remote locking device (HL4379).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish figures on the levels and trends of crime in England and Wales primarily based on two sets of crime statistics: the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime data. The CSEW provides estimates of the prevalence of crime and different crime types as experienced by victims, which may not always be reported to the police.</p><p>Table 1 shows an estimate of the percentage of households who have experienced theft of a vehicle, where the method of entry into the vehicle was through manipulation of the signal from the remote locking device. This is taken from our Nature of crime: vehicle-related theft tables for the year ending March 2023 published on 3 April 2024. Due to the suspension of the CSEW during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, data are not available for the year ending March 2021 and the year ending March 2022.</p><p>Unfortunately, we do not hold any information from police-recorded crime which shows what percentage of annual vehicle theft in England and Wales is accomplished by offenders cloning the signal from the vehicle owner’s remote locking device.</p><p>Crime and justice statistics for Scotland can be found on the Scottish Government website and for more information please contact Justice_Analysts@gov.scot. The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for producing crime and justice statistics for Northern Ireland and can be contacted at statistics.research@justice-ni.x.gsi.gov.uk.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Estimated percentage of theft of vehicles where method of entry was through manipulation of the signal from remote locking device, year ending March 2019 to year ending March 2023 CSEW</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>England and Wales - household incidents, percentages</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Apr’18 to Mar’19</p></td><td><p>Apr’19 to Mar’20</p></td><td><p>Apr’22 to Mar’23 [1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry to vehicle through manipulation of signal from remote locking device[2]</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unweighted base – number of incidents[3]</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Office for National Statistics – Crime Survey for England and Wales</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]CSEW estimates for the year ending March 2023 have been temporarily suspended of their National Statistics status. Caution should be taken when interpreting these estimates because of the impact of lower response rates, and reduced interviewer numbers on the quality of the estimates.</p><p>[2]This category was added into the survey from the year ending March 2019.</p><p>[3]Estimates that are based on fewer than 50 respondents should be interpreted with caution.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/05/2024 15:58:52 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL4379.pdf title UKSA Letter
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1715698

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any more recent statistics on suicide other than the Office of National Statistics data for 2022, published on 19 December 2023.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL4326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Lord Farmer</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0AA</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>8 May 2024</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Dear Lord Farmer,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question of 3 May 2024, asking whether His Majesty’s Government have any more recent statistics on suicide other than the Office of National Statistics data for 2022, published on 19 December 2023. (HL4326)</p><p>In addition to our annual suicide statistics, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also publish provisional quarterly suicide statistics for England. The latest statistics provide provisional suicide registrations for 2023. These statistics are derived from the information provided when deaths are certified and registered. Finalised 2023 suicide registrations for England and Wales will be published later in 2024. This will be forwarded to you once released.</p><p>The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities also publish near to real-time suspected suicide surveillance (nRTSSS) data for England. This data has been collected from Police Forces in England and provides an early indication of changes in suicide trends. The latest data was published on 25th April 2024 and covers November 2022 to January 2024.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/05/2024 13:18:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name 080524_Sir_Ian_Diamond_UKSA_Lord_Farmer_HL4326 (2).pdf title UKSA Letter
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

1715703

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund and UK Integrated Security Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government to what extent funds from the Conflict, Security and Stability Fund and the Integrated Security Fund are being invested into defence work related to human security.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL4331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Integrated Security Fund (ISF) aims to integrate gender and human security concerns throughout all our programming. This includes cooperation with defence actors and support for women, girls, and other marginalised groups to engage with defence and security providers. The Fund supports activities which can be read about in more detail in the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Annual Reports, including our contribution to advancing the UK’s commitments to Women, Peace and Security under the UK National Action Plan (NAP).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/05/2024 13:23:48 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1715727

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what impact the planned reduction in civil service personnel will have on relevant employees based in Wales.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Llanfaes
uin	HL4358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s announcement of longer term reductions in Civil Service numbers is a reiteration of the policy announced by the Chancellor in October 2023. The longer term reductions will build on the shorter term headcount cap put in place through to March 2025. The detail of how individual organisations will be affected by the return to pre-pandemic numbers will form a key part of the next comprehensive spending review.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/05/2024 13:24:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	5023 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Llanfaes

1715443

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office and Prime Minister: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the publication of the Institute for Government report Power with purpose: Final report of the Commission on the Centre of Government, on 10 March, whether (1) the staff at Number 10 have increased to 350 under the Conservative government, and (2) Cabinet Office staff have doubled to over 15,000 during the same period; and if so, what plans they have, if any, to reduce those numbers.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL4304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office for both management and staffing purposes and is not a standalone department.</p><p>The total of c15,000 includes the UK Statistics Authority which is a non-ministerial department and is a government department in its own right, accountable to parliament through its sponsoring ministers and therefore should not be included in the total Cabinet Office FTE.</p><p>Since 2011 the role and remit of the Cabinet Office has expanded significantly. At that point in time, the Department’s role was largely to support the Prime Minister and the operation of Government through the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministers’ Private Offices, Cabinet Secretariats and the Efficiency and Reform Group.</p><p>By 2021, the role of the Cabinet Office in managing the Civil Service had grown significantly to incorporate a number of new major delivery responsibilities, including responsibility for UK border plans, UK Security Vetting (UKSV) functions, and functions formerly overseen by the now-closed Department for Exiting the European Union (DEXEU). The creation of the Government Commercial Organisation and the move of the Fast Stream Government Recruitment Service from HMRC also saw a combined c2000+ FTE join the Cabinet Office between 2017 and 2018.</p><p>On 2 October 2023, the Chancellor announced an immediate cap on civil servant headcount, reducing the size of the Civil Service to pre-pandemic levels across Whitehall by stopping any further Civil Service expansion, increasing efficiencies and boosting productivity.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 16/05/2024 16:13:39 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

1715046

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Supply Chains: Slavery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to eradicate modern slavery from centrally held procurement supply chains.
tabling member printed	Lord Kempsell
uin	HL4227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Modern slavery has no place in public supply chains.</p><p>We have taken action in the Procurement Act to strengthen the rules around excluding suppliers linked to modern slavery. The current rules require the supplier to have been convicted or there to have been a breach of international treaties banning forced labour, or evidence of grave professional misconduct.</p><p>We recognise that modern slavery often occurs in countries which are not party to international treaties on forced labour and which are unlikely to prosecute the perpetrators. Our changes will allow authorities to exclude suppliers and disregard their bids where there is sufficient evidence of modern slavery. This will apply whether or not there has been a conviction or a breach of an international treaty.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has also published a Procurement Policy Notice which sets out how UK Government departments must take action to ensure modern slavery risks are identified and managed in government supply chains.</p><p>Individual procurements and their contract management of course remain the responsibility of government departments.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/05/2024 16:25:37 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4988 label Biography information for Lord Kempsell

1715048

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of the risk posed to workers by fake job advertisements, whether it is their policy that Government jobs should only be advertised on websites which are members of an industry-led anti-fraud certification scheme which is compliant with the Online Safety Act 2023.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL4229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Preventing fraudulent job postings is of importance to the government and Civil Service roles are mainly listed on our secure Civil Service Jobs website. They may also appear elsewhere on third party job websites. At present, there is no policy which stipulates that Civil Service roles should only be advertised on websites which are members of an industry-led anti-fraud certification scheme compliant with the Online Safety Act 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/05/2024 16:35:52 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas