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1609394

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many suppliers to government departments have been excluded from subsequent procurement processes on the grounds of either fraud or corruption.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Adams of Craigielea
	uin	HL7048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The grounds for the exclusion of bidders from public procurement procedures are set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. These rules set out the circumstances in which bidders must, or may, be excluded from a public procurement process.</p><p>In all cases, individual departments and other public sector bodies are responsible for their own decisions on these matters, and will hold their own records. This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/04/2023 14:29:10 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	631 label Biography information for Baroness Adams of Craigielea

1607628

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest estimate of the numbers of (1) men, and (2) women, employees who earn less than £12,570 per annum in (a) full-time, and (b) part-time roles.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL6837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2023 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 27 March is attached in the answer.</p><p> </p><p>The Baroness Altmann CBE</p><p><br>House of Lords<br>London<br>SW1A 0PW</p><p>3 April 2023</p><p>Dear Lady Altmann,</p><p><br>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what is the latest estimate of the numbers of (1)<br>men, and (2) women, employees who earn less than £12,570 per annum in (a) full-time, and (b) part-time roles (HL6837).</p><p>The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) [1], carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. Table 1 (below) shows the numbers of (1) men, and (2) women, employees who earn less than £12,570 per annum in (a) full-time, and (b) part-time roles for April 20221 (the latest period for which ASHE estimates are available). As with any survey, estimates from ASHE are subject to a margin of uncertainty.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p>Table 1: Estimates of the number of employee jobs with annual earnings below £12,570, UK, 2022 [1,2,3]</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Group</p></td><td><p>Number of employee jobs with annual earnings of less than £12,570 (thousands) [2,3]</p></td><td><p>Total number of<br>employee jobs in<br>group (thousands) [2, 3]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All employees</p></td><td><p>3,346</p></td><td><p>22,363</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>907</p></td><td><p>11,294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>2,439</p></td><td><p>11,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full-time</p></td><td><p>309</p></td><td><p>16,547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part-time</p></td><td><p>3,037</p></td><td><p>5,817</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full-time male</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>9,856</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full-time female</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>6,691</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part-time male</p></td><td><p>773</p></td><td><p>1,439</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part-time female</p></td><td><p>2,264</p></td><td><p>4,378</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings</p><p>[1] Estimates for 2022 are provisional</p><p>[2] Employees on adult rates who have been in the same job for more than a year</p><p>[3] Figures for Number of Jobs are for indicative purposes only and should not be considered an<br>accurate estimate of employee job counts</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/04/2023 11:41:18 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL6837.pdf title UK Statistics Authority Response
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1628312

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Emergencies: Contracts for Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many companies provided bids for the contract to run their new emergency alert system.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL7854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2023 answer text <p>Following a compliant procurement process through Crown Commercial Services Tech Services 3 framework RM6100, the WP2083 Emergency Alerts contract was awarded on 10 October 2022 to Fujitsu.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2 suppliers provided bids for the contract to run the new emergency alerts system.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office operates a triple gateway process of approvals to ensure compliance and transparency in procurements. All contracts are reviewed and approved by delegated Cabinet Office Commercial Heads and then published. All procurements over £10,000 are subject to Commercial approvals. All contracts are then managed by accredited Contract Managers in accordance with Cabinet Office Commercial guidance.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Contract agreements are published within 30 days in accordance with our obligations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Separately, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (as was) issued contracts totalling £18.6 million to mobile network operators, as well as further spending on security testing and legal work.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 31/05/2023 10:51:01 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

657373

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Companies: Registration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve the scrutiny of company formations, in the light of reports of UK-registered companies being used to operate international scams.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>When a company incorporates with Companies House, information is required about the company’s type, its name and registered office, its directors and shareholders, its share structure and, under measures that came into force in June this year, its beneficial owners – the people with significant influence and control over it. Copies of the company’s governing documents are also required.</p><p>A number of checks are undertaken to ensure this information is complete, formatted correctly and that it meets the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. If these requirements are not met, the application will be rejected and the company will not be incorporated.</p><p>Incorporation allows the company to take actions such as opening a bank account in its own name. But when it first seeks to do this, the company and the relevant officers of the company will be subject to due diligence processes by the bank or other relevant obliged entities with which it is entering into a business relationship. UK companies are subject to customer due diligence many times throughout their lifetime.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2016 14:57:04 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

657374

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Directors: Registration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to prevent people being registered as company directors without being aware of their responsibilities.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2016 answer text <p>Since 10 October 2015, the Registrar of Companies has been required under section 1079B of the Companies Act 2006 to provide newly appointed company directors with information about their duties and responsibilities as a director. This information is contained in a leaflet which the Registrar sends to all newly appointed directors.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 28/12/2016 13:20:36 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662024

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Low Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public sector workers who earn less than £11,000 a year are (1) men, and (2) women.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4195 HL4196 HL4197 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662025

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public sector workers who earn less than £11,000 a year belong to a public sector pension scheme provided by their public sector employer.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4194 HL4196 HL4197 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662026

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public sector workers who earn less than £11,000 a year and belong to public sector pension schemes are in receipt of the equivalent contribution for basic rate tax relief.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4194 HL4195 HL4197 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

662027

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance they provide to public sector employers on the steps they should take to ensure their low-paid workers do not lose basic rate tax relief on their pension contributions, even if they are non-taxpayers; and what steps they take to inform low-paid workers about their pension contributions.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not centrally collate data on the annual earnings of public sector workers.</p><p> </p><p>Defined Benefit public sector pension schemes operate on a net pay basis. The Partnership scheme, which is a defined contribution scheme open to civil servants and other public sector workers, operates a relief at source system for payment of pension contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides all employers with guidance on how different forms of administering pensions tax relief affect different employees. This guidance is available on its website and it applies to public sector employers in the same way as private sector employers. It is up to the individual schemes how they communicate this information to their employees.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4194 HL4195 HL4196 question first answered 05/01/2017 14:31:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

677372

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they will introduce to enable workers earning under £11,000 a year to reclaim the 25 per cent government bonus that they are currently unable to receive when contributing to a net pay scheme, which they would be entitled to were they contributing to a relief at source scheme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>The Pensions Regulator (tPR) provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This 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. All employers, including public sector employers, are expected to follow tPR’s guidance about providing their employees with relevant information on the arrangements for tax relief.</p><p>The Government appreciates the concerns for low paid workers enrolled in net pay schemes. 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. In particular, it is not possible to know an individual’s final earnings until after the end of the tax year. While employers will know an employee’s salary from a single job, neither employers nor pension schemes are currently required to know whether an employee also has alternative sources of income. Requiring them to gather this information would create a disproportionate burden, and many employees may not wish to share this information with their employer.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not therefore plan to oblige employers to reimburse their low paid employees if they are enrolled in net pay schemes, as this would not be possible to implement effectively.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4839 HL4902 HL4903 question first answered 06/02/2017 17:13:12 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann