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820663

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many families have had their tax credits reduced by the two-child limit in each month since the introduction of the limit in April 2017; how many of those families had one or more parents in work; how many families were (1) lone parent families or (2) two-parent families; and what was the number of children per family involved.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	uin	HL4633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The government considers the impact of policies on different groups during their development. During the passage of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 we published an Impact Assessment<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> for the policy of limiting support in tax credits and Universal Credit. The impact assessment shows the number of Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit claimants who were expected to be affected by the policy over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>This does not include a number of groups who have received an exception to the policy of limiting support: statistics on these exceptions will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <strong><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006E.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006E.pdf</a> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/01/2018 16:09:14 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name welfare reform document.pdf title impact assessment
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

796000

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, prior to the suspension of the alcohol duty escalator announced in the Budget Statement, they conducted a risk assessment of the effects and consequences for the NHS; and if so, what that risk assessment showed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
	uin	HL3651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The government ended the alcohol duty escalator for beer in 2013, and for cider, wine and spirits in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>A Tax Impact and Information Note (TIIN) was published alongside these measures which set out the government’s assessment of the impacts of ending the beer duty escalator. The relevant TIINs for the 2013 changes are attached.</p><p> </p><p>For the 2014 changes please see Section A63 of the Overview of Tax Legislation and Rates document which is also attached.</p><p> </p><p>A separate assessment of the specific impact on the NHS was not undertaken.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates attachment 1 file name tax and legislation rules .pdf title Tax and legislation rules 2 file name beer duty rates .pdf title Beer duty rates question first answered 12/12/2017 16:38:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

174267

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: Syria
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the 300 United Kingdom citizens who have returned from Syria have been (1) investigated for criminal acts, and (2) charged with terrorism-related offences or other criminal acts.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL4211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of individuals currently under investigation for criminal acts is a matter for the police and as such, the Government can not comment on current investigations. Numbers of individuals suspected of involvement in acts of terrorism or criminal matters, arrested and then formally charged with terrorism-related offences or other criminal offences is recorded and collated in the Home Office Quarterly Statistical Bulletin (last published 04 December 2014)</p><p>(<a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-quarterly-update-to-june-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-quarterly-update-to-june-2014</a> ).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/01/2015 16:15:40 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name police-powers-terror-q2-2014snr.pdf title Quarterly Statistical Bulletin - 4/12/14
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

823218

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Bank Cards: Surcharges
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to address concerns highlighted by the Federation of Small Businesses regarding the impact of new rules making it unlawful to levy extra charges on customers who pay with credit or debit cards, on small businesses
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the pressures that small businesses are facing and that the new rules banning surcharging may have an impact on them.</p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has published guidance on the ban, including on how retailers could manage an increase in their costs to accommodate the ban:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664065/payment-surcharges-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664065/payment-surcharges-guidance.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The surcharging ban should help to ensure prices are transparent and consumers will not face a hidden fee just for wanting to pay in a particular way. This should help consumers to pick the most competitive deals.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/01/2018 12:46:40 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name payment-surcharges-guidance.pdf title payment surcharges guidance
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

386093

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Nurses: Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of whether new immigration rules will exacerbate the shortage of nurses in the United Kingdom and cost the NHS tens of millions in recruitment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office published a full impact assessment on the changes to Tier 2 settlement rules when they were laid before Parliament on 15 March 2012. The impact assessment is available on the gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/117957/impact-assessment-tier2.pdf.</p><p>The Department of Health take the issue of nursing recruitment seriously and have prioritised and invested in front-line staff, so there are over 8,600 more nurses on NHS wards than there were in 2010. Health Education England’s workforce plan for England for 2015-16 forecasts that, following further increases in the number of training commissions, the proposed levels for nurse training will deliver over 23,000 more nurses by 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/07/2015 11:24:46 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name impact-assessment-tier2.pdf title Copy of Impact assessment
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

895203

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Children
	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 29 March (HL6647), whether they will now publish the outcome of the Family Test Assessment on the policy to limit Tax Credits and Universal Credit support to two children.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL7463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The government does not routinely publish the Family Test assessment of policies.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment of the policy of providing support for a maximum of two children in Child Tax Credits and Universal Credit was published and is available here and attached:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/ia15-006e.pdf</p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment considered the impact of the policy on families and other protected groups.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/05/2018 16:16:24 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name ia15-006e.pdf title impact assessment
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

911062

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Customs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what analysis supports the view of the Chief Executive of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that the proposed maximum facilitation customs arrangement after the UK leaves the EU could cost businesses between £17 billion and £20 billion per year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court
	uin	HL8225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>Analysis to support the numbers used by the Chief Executive of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs was outlined in a letter to the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee sent on 4 June 2018<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. The letter is also attached.</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/treasury/Correspondence/2017-19/hmrc-customs-costs-040618.pdf</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 07/06/2018 16:36:12 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name hmrc-customs-costs-040618.pdf title HMRC letter
	tabling member	4586 label Biography information for Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court

1064619

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Taxation: EU Action
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Bates on 19 January (HLWS1308) concerning the Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting of 12 February, what position was taken by the UK during the exchange of views on the European Commission’s proposal to move to qualified majority voting in EU taxation policy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL13938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>As set out in an explanatory memorandum dated 5 February 2019,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> the government does not support the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the field of taxation and this remains the case following the recent Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) discussion.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://europeanmemoranda.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/files/2019/02/Scan.pdf" target="_blank">http://europeanmemoranda.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/files/2019/02/Scan.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/03/2019 12:34:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name hl13938.pdf title EM attached.
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

1011269

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Children
	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 5 February (HL5370), whether they have applied the Family Test to the policy to provide support to a maximum of two children; and if so, how the potential impacts on families are being taken into account.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Portsmouth
	uin	HL11630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Minsters. The Family Test was introduced in 2014, and remains official government policy. The guidance for implementing the Family Test can be found here and is also attached :</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-test-assessing-the-impact-of-policies-on-families" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-test-assessing-the-impact-of-policies-on-families</a></p><p>The Family Test was considered during the development of the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children in Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit. The published Impact Assessment shows the measure will have a positive impact on overall family stability. The Impact Assessment is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates attachment 1 file name family-test-guidance.pdf title Family test 2 file name ia15-006e.pdf title impact asessment question first answered 04/12/2018 17:09:30 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4314 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Portsmouth

428915

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Prosecutions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have about the number of persons brought to justice for trafficking in persons, enslavement, forced prostitution, labour exploitation, and other similar crimes in the last three years, both in the UK and in other jurisdictions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL3638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>The number of perpetrators of ‘slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour’, ‘human trafficking for sexual exploitation’ and ‘human trafficking for non-sexual exploitation’ found guilty and sentenced in each of the last three years is available at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</p><p>The ‘Outcomes by Offence Tables’ should be selected, and can be filtered for each of the three offences listed above. The UK Government does not hold information on the numbers brought to justice in other jurisdictions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Copy of outcomes-by-offence-tables.xlsx title Copy - Outcomes of Offence Tables 2 file name criminal-justice-statistics-december-2014.pdf title Criminal Justice System Stats - Quarterly: Dec 14 question first answered 25/11/2015 15:31:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton