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1699326

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Occupations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when the Office for National Statistics plans to begin publishing data classifying jobs in the labour market based on the new six-digit Extended Standard Occupational Classification 2020 framework rather than the current four-digit Standard Occupational Classification 2020 framework.
	tabling member printed	Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2024 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>Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>04 April 2024</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) plans to begin publishing data classifying jobs in the labour market based on the new six-digit Extended Standard Occupational Classification 2020 framework rather than the current four-digit Standard Occupational Classification 2020 framework (HL3670).</p><p> </p><p>The 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. In addition to their labour market status, working respondents provide a description of their job allowing us to classify their occupation to the appropriate Standard Occupational Classification 2020 (SOC2020) code.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, the 2021 Census collected information allowing us to identify the labour market status of individuals and classify their occupation in line with SOC2020.</p><p> </p><p>Much of the job information from these sources, collected from respondents, do not contain sufficient detail to give an accurate coding at the six-digit lower-level classification. Consequently, the ONS currently has no plans to publish data at the six-digit SOC2020 level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/04/2024 10:41:11 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL3670 (1) (1).pdf title UK Statistics Authority Response
	tabling member	5008 label Biography information for Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell

1544722

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Gambling: Rehabilitation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Markham on 16 November (HL3261) and 17 November (HL3260), why they do not have the data requested; and what plans they have to collect such data.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is currently collected by service rather than by clinic. In 2023/24, NHS England plans to report data from all National Health Service gambling services through the Mental Health Services Dataset.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 01/12/2022 12:20:16 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1366046

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2021
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Peace Negotiations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will to take to ensure peace and the upholding of international law in Bosnia-Herzegovina through discussions with (1) the United Nations, and (2) NATO.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2021 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to ensuring peace, and upholding international law in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In the UN Security Council in recent weeks, we helped renew the EU's stabilisation force's (EUFOR's) mandate for a further 12 months, and supported the High Representative. The High Representative has an essential role in securing and maintaining lasting peace in BiH, and has the UK's full support, including for the use of executive powers should the situation require. The UK liaises closely with the EUFOR commander and his team on their vital work to ensure a safe and secure environment in BiH. We also support the NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo, including though the secondment of UK staff officers, who are building the capacity of the BiH Armed Forces. The UK rejects efforts to undermine BiH's stability, and will continue to support BiH in implementing domestic reforms and tackling challenges to peace and security. Further discussions of how to support stability in BiH will take place at the upcoming NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting in Riga, which the Foreign Secretary will attend.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 11/11/2021 13:37:17 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1191852

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2020
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sports: Government Assistance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to produce a guide for community amateur sports clubs and other amateur sports clubs about how to access any support schemes run by central or local government, or endorsed by them.
	tabling member printed	Lord Addington
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced an unprecedented support package for sports clubs and other organisations affected by Covid-19, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Business Interruption loan scheme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Full details of Government guidance and support for organisations including community amateur sports clubs can be found on the Gov.UK website.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In addition, Sport England have also announced a support package of £210m for the grassroots sport sector. Full details can be found on their website.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL3669 question first answered 20/05/2020 16:47:25 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

796021

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2017
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Sovereignty: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to call a border poll in Northern Ireland; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government remains fully committed to the Belfast Agreement. This includes the obligation for the Secretary of State to call a border poll if he believes there is majority support for a united Ireland. It is, however, the Secretary of State’s view that a majority of the people of Northern Ireland continue to support the current political settlement, including Northern Ireland’s position within the United Kingdom. As set out in the Government’s Northern Ireland manifesto at the General Election the circumstances set out in the 1998 Agreement that require a border poll on Irish unification are therefore not satisfied.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 11/12/2017 13:04:04 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

647974

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much time they expect it will take self-employed and small businesses to complete the administration associated with the new statutory pension scheme; and whether they will recompense small businesses for their time if all their employees opt-out.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to helping people achieve financial security in later life and is reforming the pension system as part of its efforts to encourage a culture of saving. Automatic enrolment was introduced to enable most people in work to save for later life. It has been a great success to date with over 6.8 million eligible workers enrolled by more than 290,000 employers since it began in 2012 and it is important we recognise the contribution employers have made to this achievement.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment is currently being extended to small and micro employers. While the self-employed are not eligible for automatic enrolment, they will have legal duties to enrol any eligible workers in their employ. The Government understands that these employers may find complying with automatic enrolment challenging and we are doing all we can to make automatic enrolment as straightforward as possible for this group. The Department and The Pensions Regulator (TPR) are focussed on making compliance with automatic enrolment duties as clear as possible, as well as simplifying the language regarding automatic enrolment.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, TPR has launched an interactive “Step by Step” guide on their website. This simplified guide to meeting AE duties is designed to meet the specific needs of employers who may not have pensions experience, including those with just one or two staff. The guide includes a duties checker so that employers can easily find out what they will need to do to comply and when. Using the duties checker also means employers will receive tailored communications relevant to their circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>What an employer pays and the amount of time they spend on setting up automatic enrolment will depend on various factors, including how they use business advisers, how they run their payroll and which pension scheme they choose.</p><p> </p><p>From research it has conducted, TPR estimates that small employers with between one and four staff members usually spend a total of about 10 hours overall carrying out all their automatic enrolment tasks, over a 12 month period before their staging date. This research has also shown that average costs associated with outsourced payroll are less than £200 while average pension scheme set up costs are under £500.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment is a legal duty for employers, just like paying the National Living Wage, tax and National Insurance. There are no plans to reimburse employers for time or costs should their employees choose to opt-out. However, less than one in ten people are choosing to opt-out which is much lower than originally estimated. We have also seen around 5% of people not eligible for automatic enrolment choosing to opt-in to their employer’s pension scheme.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2016 13:40:38 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

429186

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Verma on 4 November (HL2983), what representations they have made to the governments of (1) Saudi Arabia, and (2) the United Arab Emirates, about their assistance in ensuring immediate humanitarian access for non-governmental organisations in Yemen, and what has been the outcome of those representations.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to work with the Governments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on improving access for humanitarian aid and workers. We are supporting the work of the UN Special Envoy to convene peace talks in the coming weeks and to negotiate a lasting ceasefire as the best way to improve humanitarian access.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 26/11/2015 17:26:38 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

169683

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Antisubmarine Warfare
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the United Kingdom’s anti-submarine detection capability is adequate to meet current threat levels.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>We have acknowledged that we have a maritime surveillance capability gap following the decision not to bring the Nimrod MRA4 into service. However we have also made it clear that it is one that we have chosen to accept and to mitigate through employment of other assets, as well as through cooperation with allies, who have deployed Maritime Patrol Aircraft on several occasions.</p><p>A decision on whether to take further steps to mitigate the gap is planned as part of the next Strategic Defence and Security Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 18/12/2014 16:13:14 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey