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1608866

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Coronavirus and Influenza
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why COVID-19 has been placed in the same Office for National Statistics reporting group as influenza; and, given that decision, why the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations is being treated differently to the provision of influenza vaccinations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL7017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Noble Peer’s Parliamentary Question of 29 March is attached in the answer.</p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Mendelsohn</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p>31 March 2023</p><p>Dear Lord Mendelsohn,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking why COVID-19 has been placed in the same Office for National Statistics reporting group as influenza; and, given that decision, why the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations is being treated differently to the provision of influenza vaccinations (HL7017).</p><p>In answering this Parliamentary Question, we have answered under the assumption that you are referring to our <em>Influenza and other respiratory viruses pilot study, Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, UK: October 2022 to February 2023</em> [1] release of 27 March 2023.</p><p>The Covid-19 Infection Survey published its final release on 24 March 2023 as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) works to confirm its approach to infection surveillance. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) plans to work with existing survey participants to continue gathering valuable insight into the experiences of COVID-19, long-COVID and other respiratory infections. In the immediate future this will gather data such as symptoms that people are experiencing but will not include testing for infectious diseases.</p><p>From October 2022 to February 2023, the ONS used a small sample from the Covid-19 Infection Survey to pilot the feasibility of testing participants for other respiratory infections and its report was published on 27 March 2023. This pilot study separately reported experimental results on the number of participants who tested positive for influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) while the latest Covid-19 infection results were reported in the regular statistical bulletin (released on Fridays at noon) [2].</p><p>The ONS has announced no plans on the future reporting of data on respiratory infections. In terms of the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations, this would fall under the remit of the UKHSA who are responsible for vaccination policy in the UK.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/articles/influenzaandotherrespiratoryvirusespilotstudycoronaviruscovid19infectionsurveyuk/october2022tofebruary2023</p><p>[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/24march2023</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 13/04/2023 14:21:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL7017.pdf title UK Statistics Authority
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169064

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Private Equity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements for companies owned or substantially owned by private equity funds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>Measures to create a central, public register of people with significant control over UK companies are contained within the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. Where a private equity fund owns more than 25% of a UK company’s shares or voting rights – or otherwise exercises significant control over that company - the company will need to disclose information on the control of the fund in line with the requirements in Schedule 3 of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements on such companies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:52:51 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169066

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Counterfeit Manufacturing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the performance of Trading Standards in the United Kingdom in securing convictions for (1) the production, (2) the sale, (3) the distribution, and (4) the importation of counterfeit goods.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>Trading Standards services, including tackling counterfeit goods, are provided by local authorities. Local authorities operate independently from central government and are accountable to their own electorate, allocating resources according to local priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities do not report regulatory outputs to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Therefore, the Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2014 13:13:17 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

173021

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Redundancy Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list all the payments made by the Redundancy Payments Office, their value, and the companies in respect of which each was made, in each year from 2003 to 2014.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL4093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service’s Redundancy Payments Service (RPS) receives on average 75,000 individual claims a year.</p><p>In the last four financial years, the RPS has paid out the following in statutory payments:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Cases received</p></td><td><p>Amount paid by RPS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>12,356</p></td><td><p>£576,526,767</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>10,883</p></td><td><p>£414,210,703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>13,355</p></td><td><p>£440,256,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>9652</p></td><td><p>£334,377,039</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Annual data prior to 2010 and a breakdown of the individual case names and payments are not readily available, and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/01/2015 14:21:10 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

386904

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Business: Regulation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what data they used to estimate the announced savings of £10 billion for businesses over the last four years as a result of cutting red tape.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ninth Statement of New Regulation, published December 2014, lists all regulation and deregulation in scope of One-in, One-out and One-in, Two-out. These are the measures used in the analysis of net savings for business. They add up to £2.2bn annual ongoing savings, or £10bn when measured cumulatively over the Parliament.</p><p><br>The calculations for the value of each individual measure is set out in the published Impact Assessment associated with that measure, and validated by the independent Regulatory Policy Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/07/2015 16:58:07 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

386905

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Regulation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what savings have been made by efforts to reduce the cost of regulation over the last Parliament, broken down by each specific regulation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ninth Statement of New Regulation, published December 2014, lists all regulation and deregulation in scope of One-in, One-out and One-in, Two-out. These are the measures used in the analysis of net savings for business. They add up to £2.2bn annual ongoing savings, or £10bn when measured cumulatively over the Parliament.</p><p><br>.</p><p> </p><p>The calculations for the value of each individual measure is set out in the published Impact Assessment associated with that measure, and validated by the independent Regulatory Policy Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/07/2015 16:58:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

386906

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Audit
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what data they used to estimate the savings made from enabling small businesses to decide whether their accounts need to be audited.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>Data on company size and audit fees was sourced from the “FAME” database, Bureau van Dijk. The data was used for both of the final impact assessments approved by the Regulatory Policy Committee in the last Parliament on changes to the law to enable more companies to decide whether or not their accounts need to be audited.</p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment on the audit changes (including for small businesses) in the Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit Exemptions and Change of Accounting Framework) Regulations 2012 is available at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2301/impacts/2014/286" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2301/impacts/2014/286</a></p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment on all the changes in the Companies, Partnerships and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2015 is available at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/980/impacts/2014/424" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/980/impacts/2014/424</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name ukia_20140286_en.pdf title Audit Changes 2 file name ukia_20140424_en.pdf title Changes in the Companies. Partnerships and groups question first answered 14/07/2015 11:25:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

386907

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Regulation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which regulations they included in their analysis of reducing the costs of regulation over the last Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ninth Statement of New Regulation, published December 2014, lists all regulation and deregulation in scope of One-in, One-out and One-in, Two-out. These are the measures used in the analysis of net savings for business. They add up to £2.2bn annual ongoing savings, or £10bn when measured cumulatively over the Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The calculations for the value of each individual measure is set out in the published Impact Assessment associated with that measure, and validated by the independent Regulatory Policy Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/07/2015 16:58:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

386908

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Regulation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the internal process for calculating regulatory savings; and which individuals, by job title, are involved.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>For each new regulation or deregulation, the costs and savings to business are calculated and presented in the form of an Impact Assessment. These are completed by policy officials within each Department, working with government economists.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Each Impact Assessment is scrutinised by the independent Regulatory Policy Committee, who are responsible for validating the assessment of the costs and savings to business. Further information on the Committee can be found on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/07/2015 15:43:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

387204

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Regulation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which third parties are contracted to verify regulatory savings, and in each case, which savings they verified.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL1040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>Under the provisions of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (the Act), the Government must appoint an independent body to verify assessments economic impact on business activities within 12 months of the start of the Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The independent verification body has not yet been formally appointed, but its appointment will be announced shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 16/07/2015 15:28:02 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn