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381602

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	FIFA
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions have taken place between ministers or officials of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and officials of the English Football Association regarding the continued full recognition of the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland Football Associations within FIFA.
	tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
	uin	HL518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <blockquote><p>The Department has not engaged in any discussions with the English Football Association on this subject. Sport is not only a devolved matter, but it is also for the football associations in each of the home nations to maintain their own relationships with FIFA, and in particular with regard to their independent status in world football.</p></blockquote> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 30/06/2015 12:10:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

434136

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	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	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the activities of ticket resale websites.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL4255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>An independent Review has been established to consider consumer protection measures in relation to online ticket resales and will report by 26 May 2016.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/12/2015 12:21:33 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

426403

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2015
	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: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what specific steps they are taking to help SMEs to move online.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL3342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>As part of our wider support for small businesses, Government has provided funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships to extend the reach of their digital support for small firms. We are also increasing the number of Digital Trade Advisors working around the country to help small businesses expand into new overseas markets.</p><br /><p>Government supports the extensive range of private sector-led activity to help small businesses improve their digital skills. We particularly welcome the work that Go ON UK does to encourage and join up this activity.</p><br /><p>In addition to this, Government’s Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme allowed businesses to apply for grants of up to £3,000 to help them move to a faster digital market and connect to superfast broadband. The initiative has now allocated all of the £40m available funding since April 2015, with more than 55,000 small businesses across the UK taking up the offer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/11/2015 11:59:55 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

433077

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2015
	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: Ethnic Groups
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to commission a review into the obstacles that prevent more people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds from reaching senior positions in business, similar to the Women on Boards review by Lord Davies of Abersoch.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Government believes that businesses benefit from a rich and wide talent pool including people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.</p><p>Government is fully supportive of the private led Diversity initiative chaired by Sir John Parker who are currently considering this issue. We expect the group to report on their findings in 2016.</p><p>There are no current plans for Government to commission a separate review into the obstacles that are preventing more people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds from reaching senior positions in the boardroom.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/12/2015 12:35:15 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

431535

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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: EU Law
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are holding discussions about reducing EU regulation of UK business.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Reducing the burden of EU regulation is a critical element of stimulating jobs, competitiveness and growth in Europe. We welcome the European Commission’s recent progress in this area, but want them to go further. Together with other like-minded Member States, we are pressing the Commission to bring forward proposals for an EU target to cut the total burden on business, in line with the Prime Minister’s EU reform letter to European Council President Tusk.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2015 16:07:35 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

445354

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2016
	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	Construction: Skilled Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they intend to tackle the shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry, and what assessment they have made of the implications of that shortage for their housing and infrastructure programmes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL5118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The Government is undertaking a range of activities to support skills in the infrastructure and home building sectors. These include the reform of the apprenticeship system, the new apprenticeship levy, and the National Colleges Programme - which includes the National College for High Speed Rail. From April 2015 all government procurers of construction and infrastructure projects over £10 million are to include measures in pre-qualification and contract delivery to encourage skills development.</p><br /><p>The Construction Leadership Council and Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) have separately undertaken work to encourage more people into the construction sector, including the launch of the GO-Construct website and work with the National Careers Service and Construction Ambassadors for schools. The CITB has also been working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions, the Armed Forces resettlement service and Local Enterprise Partnerships to encourage experienced individuals into the sector. In total, £42 million was invested by CITB, supporting 18,500 construction apprentices in 2015.</p><br /><p>In addition, the Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy, produced under the oversight of Terry Morgan, Chair of Crossrail, will set out further actions to be taken specifically to ensure the supply of skills to deliver transport infrastructure.</p><br /><p>Assessments of demand for construction skills include the National Infrastructure Plan for Skills, which estimates that 250,000 construction and 150,000 engineering construction workers will be required to meet demand in the infrastructure sector by 2020. The CITB estimate that 224,000 new construction jobs are set to be created in the UK over the next five years.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 28/01/2016 12:35:51 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

429192

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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	Rolls-Royce
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take, if any, to help Britain’s aerospace and defence industry in the light of Rolls-Royce’s fifth profit warning in 21 months.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Government is working with Britain’s aerospace and defence industry through the Aerospace Growth Partnership and the Defence Growth Partnership to remove barriers to growth, boost exports and grow high value jobs.As part of this work we are supporting the industry’s investment in technology, competitiveness and productivity, and skills, to help ensure the UK remains one of the world’s leading aerospace and defence nations</p><br /><p>At the Spending Review, the Government protected and extended spending on the Aerospace Technology Institute.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/12/2015 11:54:34 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

434141

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	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	Skills Funding Agency
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the breakdown of the £172 million Learner Support budget of the Skills Funding Agency for 2015–16.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Sharp of Guildford
	uin	HL4260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Learner Support budget is predominantly demand-led and meets the costs of Discretionary Learner Support for grant-funded learners and the Advanced Learner Loan Bursary Fund for loan-funded learners. It also covers the government’s costs of the Professional and Career Development Loan scheme and Dance and Drama Awards for young adults.</p><br /><p>The forecasted total expenditure for the 2015-16 financial year currently stands at around £132 million. Discretionary Learner Support assists the most learners and may equate to nearly £86 million, while the Bursary Fund may equate to about £35 million of the expenditure. The remainder will be for the costs of Professional and Career Development Loans (c£2.5 million) and Dance and Drama Awards (c£8.5 million).</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/12/2015 13:11:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2113 label Biography information for Baroness Sharp of Guildford

424776

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	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	Job Creation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how the United Kingdom compares with other European Union member states in terms of the number of jobs created since the start of 2012.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
	uin	HL3119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>Total employment in the UK grew by a larger amount than in any other EU member state during this period, according to Eurostat data. Since quarter one 2012 to quarter two 2015 the employment level in UK has increased by 1.6m. This compares to approximately 826,000 in France, 1.3m in Germany and 101,400 in Spain.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/11/2015 11:53:22 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1548211

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Privy Council
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the size of the Privy Council on (1) 1 December 1992, and (2) 1 December 2022.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
	uin	HL3970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <ol><li><p>The size of the Privy Council on 1 December 1992 was about 275.</p></li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p><ol start="2"><li><p>The size of the Privy Council on 1 December 2022 was 743.</p></li></ol><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 06/12/2022 15:24:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden