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76602

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	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	Students: Private Rented Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that students living in private sector halls of residence are not subjected to excessive rates of rent.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government plays no direct role in the provision of student residential accommodation, nor does it specifically fund universities to provide such accommodation. As such, this is not an area where the Government can intervene.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and private providers of ‘halls of residence’ type accommodation are required to belong to one of two Codes of Practice. These are the Student Accommodation Code <a href="http://www.thesac.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.thesac.org.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>and the Accreditation Network UK <a href="http://www.anuk.org.uk/aboutus/aboutus.asp" target="_blank">http://www.anuk.org.uk/aboutus/aboutus.asp</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These Codes of Practice protect students’ rights to safe, good quality accommodation, wherever they are studying. They outline what students can expect from their accommodation as well as their responsibilities as tenants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some other private providers offer student accommodation, off campus, on the basis of an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST). For students in these properties, rents would be set by the landlord at the market rent achievable for that type of accommodation. Under Section 22 of the Housing Act 1988, if an AST tenant considers the rent to be excessive, he or she could apply to the first tier tribunal for a determination of the rent. Given these protections, Government has no plans to act in this area.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, since 2012, the Key Information Set includes information on the average cost of accommodation for each HEI. This is available via the national Unistats website: <a href="https://unistats.direct.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://unistats.direct.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p><br> <br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/07/2014 13:10:50 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

78276

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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	Higher Education: Appeals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 3 July (WA 280), what plans they have to expand the authority of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator to include considerations of academic judgment or to establish an alternative official body to do so.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL1171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have no such plans. The 2004 Higher Education Act precludes the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education from considering complaints about a university’s academic judgement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Higher Education system in England is based on the key principles of institutional autonomy and academic freedom. Both are essential to foster a strong Higher Education sector that can shape its own future in response to the needs of learners and employers.</p><p> </p><p>As such matters relating to academic judgement are the responsibility of individual higher education institutions. The interpretation of academic judgement is ultimately for the courts to decide.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/07/2014 14:15:59 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

784662

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	National Insurance Credits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of women who are not claiming Child Benefit due to a parent earning above £50,000 and who do not receive the credit for National Insurance State Pension each year.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL2880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Child Benefit can help some claimants qualify for National Insurance credits. These credits count towards their State Pension and protect it by making sure they don’t have gaps in their National Insurance record.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ensures that individuals have the information they need to make well-informed choices about their pension position and Child Benefit. HMRC provides specific information on the Child Benefit claim form, through the HMRC helpline, online at gov.uk, through partners such as Citizen’s Advice, and in the Bounty Packs that go to new parents.</p><p> </p><p>However, some people may choose not to claim Child Benefit. HMRC does not have an estimate of the number of people whose state pension entitlements are affected by their decision not to claim.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/11/2017 11:36:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

785828

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are planning to ensure that workers earning below £11,500 a year who are automatically enrolled into Net Pay Schemes are able to obtain the tax relief they are due; if so, how; and if not, whether they intend to introduce alternative measures to ensure that either (1) the employer, or (2) the pension provider, compensates such low earners for the money they lose out on.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL2976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises the different impacts on workers earning below the personal allowance. However, it has not been possible to identify any straightforward or proportionate means to align the effects of the net pay and relief at source mechanisms more closely for this population.</p><p> </p><p>Workplace pension schemes are chosen by employers and the Pensions Regulator provides guidance on this in relation to automatic enrolment. The guidance covers the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax. It also says that some schemes that use the net pay arrangement may have lower charges than schemes that operate relief at source.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/11/2017 14:17:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

751983

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Khalida Jarrar
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they have considered the introduction of fiscal incentives to encourage more philanthropic giving from wealthier members of society.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
	uin	HL818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government already provides a range of generous tax reliefs for the charity sector, worth over £5 billion including £1.5 billion of relief to individuals in the tax year 2016-2017. This includes higher rate tax relief on donations by higher and additional rate taxpayers, worth £520 million, and relief on gifts of shares and property, worth £70 million. Individuals can also get generous tax reliefs if they invest in a social enterprise including a charity, using the social investment tax relief scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/07/2017 13:10:47 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4150 label Biography information for Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

797254

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to use any of the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to fund preventative oral health programmes.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
	uin	HL3686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The government has already confirmed that, in England, we will invest the revenue during this parliament on giving school-aged children a better and healthier future, including programmes to reduce obesity and encourage physical activity and balanced diets.</p><p> </p><p>Improving children’s oral health is a priority for this government. Public Health England is leading a wide ranging multi-agency programme focused on improving children’s oral health, and NHS England’s Starting Well programme will run in thirteen high needs areas to improve access to dental services for children known to be at greater risk of dental disease and who are not currently being seen by a dentist.</p><p>The Department of Health and NHS England are also testing a new NHS dental contract which supports the longer term aim for all care to have a preventative focus.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/12/2017 15:09:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

838877

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Bodies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 1 February (HL4990), what other examples there are of non-departmental central government bodies that have operated on the basis of expected status rather than actual status confirmed by the National Accounts Classification Committee; and if there are such examples, for how long those bodies operated before their status was confirmed.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
	uin	HL5517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Information is not held centrally relating to a full historic list of central government bodies that have operated on the basis of expected status rather than actual status, as confirmed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).</p><p> </p><p>In the absence of an ONS classification, the Treasury can advise on sector classification (i.e. whether a body is in or outside central government). Where the ONS has not yet taken a decision on a body, it will be considered to be within Central Government if it appears to fit the criteria for classification as a ‘central government’ body.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 22/02/2018 15:18:45 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

850559

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Bodies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 22 February (HL5517), whether they are able to provide any examples, from the current centrally maintained list of non-departmental central government bodies, of other non-departmental central government bodies that have operated on the basis of expected status rather than actual status confirmed by the National Accounts Classification Committee; and if so, for how long those bodies operated before their status was confirmed.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
	uin	HL5903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>All bodies deemed to be in the central government sector by HM Treasury are included in the Governments Resource and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2017<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup><sup>.</sup> All bodies that have been classified by ONS to the central government sector are included in their Public Sector Classifications Guide<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> . The differences between the two reflect entities that have not yet been formally classified by ONS’s Economic Statistics Classification Committee but following HMT<strong> <br></strong></p><p>[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/310/contents/made</p><p>[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/economicstatisticsclassifications/introductiontoeconomicstatisticsclassifications</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 07/03/2018 11:53:29 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4562 label Biography information for Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

764308

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Federation Internationale de L'Automobile: Sudan
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of grants from the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile paid to Sudanese motoring organisations; and whether they intend to ask the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the possibility that corrupt payments were made in relation to those grants.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
	uin	HL1645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>HM Government takes any reports of suspected breaches of the law very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to this matter has been received by HM Treasury via its Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). OFSI are engaging with relevant government agencies as appropriate to ensure the information is properly considered.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not comment further on individual cases.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2017 13:58:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

753273

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the costs and benefits of agreeing (1) an enhanced equivalence regulation, and (2) a UK–EU bilateral equivalence agreement, as a means of continuing UK–EU collaboration on financial services laws and regulations post-Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
	uin	HL961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to leaving the EU in a way that underpins prosperity and avoids unnecessary disruption and dangerous cliff edges for businesses. Ensuring there is regulatory coherence between the UK and EU is key to achieving this. Our ambition is for a new EU-UK relationship where there is a strong shared commitment to regulatory coherence. The details of this new relationship are a matter for the negotiations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 01/08/2017 10:57:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech