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1142446

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	House of Lords: Times of Sittings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House, in the light of the impact of climate change on air quality, transport and health, and forecasts of higher temperatures in future years, what plans she has to review whether the House should sit in July.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL17520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government schedules business in the House and proposes dates for Recess with the agreement of the usual channels. The House needs to sit for as long as there is business to be completed. The Government has no plans to review whether the House should sit in July in future years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 26/07/2019 12:49:51 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1140418

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many BAME staff are employed at (a) grade 7, (b) grade 5 and (c) grade 3 in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	279047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff employed as at 30 June 2019 in Grade 7, Grade 5 (Deputy Director equivalent) and Grade 3 (Director equivalent) roles are summarised in the table below. Where the total number of BAME staff is fewer than 5, the actual number is suppressed to protect anonymity. The following agencies are included in these figures: Education &amp; Skills Funding Agency, Standards &amp; Testing Agency and Teaching Regulation Agency.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of BAME staff (headcount)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grade 7</p></td><td><p>174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grade 5 (Deputy Director)</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grade 3 (Director)</p></td><td><p>Fewer than 5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The department has an internal Diversity &amp; Inclusion Strategy with a priority of increasing BAME representation at senior grades. We have introduced a range of interventions to attract and recruit more people from diverse backgrounds that include anonymised sifting and more diverse interview panels and we expect to see an improvement in these numbers over the next 2 to 5 years. We recently launched Project Race which aims to improve race equality and tackle disproportionate outcomes for BAME colleagues though outreach, support, and open honest discussion.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/07/2019 13:33:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1141083

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his policy to make it a condition for universities to become involved in academy sponsorship or the founding of free schools in order for them to charge maximum tuition fees.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	280327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>It is not a condition for universities to become involved in academy sponsorship or the founding of free schools in order for them to charge maximum tuition fees.</p><p>All higher education (HE) providers in England that register with the Office for Students (OfS) and want to charge more than the basic annual amount for tuition must have an Access and Participation Plan approved by the OfS. Through these plans, providers set out what activities they intend to take to ensure students from disadvantaged backgrounds or under-represented groups can access, participate, succeed and progress from HE.</p><p>The Schools that Work for Everyone consultation asked how we could best harness the resources and expertise of those in the HE sector to widen access to these institutions for disadvantaged pupils, and to work in partnership to lift attainment across the wider school system. We know that many institutions are already delivering activities to support these objectives and are working closely and effectively with state school partners, but we want to see this good practice adopted more widely and see a greater ambition for what can be achieved through such partnership working.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 26/07/2019 13:20:50 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 131227 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1139719

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to tackle third party websites from posing as Government entities.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	278442
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Government organisations work collaboratively to address misleading websites. Websites that directly attempt to defraud users (for example, by copying government design and logos) are tackled directly and taken down.</p><p>Sites can be challenged through the company that sold them the web address, or through organisations that administer the web address system. Government may also pursue site owners through trading standards bodies or through direct legal challenge.</p><p>Some sites are able to operate within legal boundaries (for example, by displaying disclaimers on their sites). In these cases, government works to optimise government sites for indexing by search engines so they are easy to find. Where identified, we challenge sites that pay for prominent positioning in search returns by reporting them to the search provider.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:53:35 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1141259

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will commission research on the effect of levels of functional illiteracy on electoral registration rates.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>In its democratic engagement plan, Every Voice Matters: Building a Democracy That Works For Everyone, the Government explored key barriers to registration identified through research and face to face engagement. We are tackling these barriers, including those faced by survivors of domestic abuse, homeless electors and young people, and have reported on our progress in our follow up report, Democratic Engagement: Respecting, Protecting and Promoting our Democracy.</p><p>Although it did not emerge as a factor in its own right, we are aware of the potential contribution that lack of literacy makes to the under registration of a number of groups, such as those with learning disabilities, homeless people and those with specific language barriers.</p><p>The voter registration website is reviewed regularly to ensure it meets the Government’s service design standards to make it as easy to use as possible and we have produced easy read guides to registering to vote in partnership with Mencap. We are also working with civil society organisations to encourage engagement with those under registered groups who are more likely to experience lower levels of literacy.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:06:31 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141260

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his most recent estimate is of the electoral registration rate for each region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold this information. Registration statistics, including a breakdown of the numbers of people registered in each UK region, are available from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) website: www.ons.gov.uk <br> <br>Estimates of the completeness and accuracy – including those for regions across the UK – are published by the Electoral Commission. The latest report on register completeness and accuracy was produced by the Electoral Commission in 2016 and is available online: www.electoralcommission.org.uk.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:00 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141263

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Registration Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) central Government and (b) local government databases electoral registration officers may use in undertaking their registration functions.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Regulation 23 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 and the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 gives Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) wide-ranging powers to request whatever information and data they require for the purposes of maintaining the electoral registers. EROs are therefore entitled to request datasets from organisations which would help them undertake their registration functions.</p><p>Online applications via the Register to Vote website are verified via the Individual Electoral Registration Digital Service (IER DS) using Department for Work and Pensions data. EROs also use local government data in carrying out their registration duties. Commonly used datasets include council tax, housing and housing benefit data, adult social care data, and school admissions data.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280940 question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:16 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141264

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Registration Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many electoral registration officers have been convicted of an offence related to failure to take sufficient steps to register electors under section 9A of the Electoral Registration Act 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is not aware of any convictions of electoral registration officers under section 9A of the Electoral Registration Act 2006.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280936 question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:37 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141265

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Registration Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 20 July 2010, Official Report, column 298W, on Electoral Register, how many electoral registration officers have been convicted of an offence related to failure to take sufficient steps to register electors under section 9A of the Electoral Registration Act 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is not aware of any convictions of electoral registration officers under section 9A of the Electoral Registration Act 2006.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280935 question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:37 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141267

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Registration Officers: Local Government Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what additional central Government funding was made available to electoral registration officers for electoral registration in each of the last five years; and which local authorities were successful in bidding for that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Since 2015, Cabinet Office has provided five years of annual grant funding to Electoral Registration Officers in England, Scotland and Wales to cover the additional cost that Individual Electoral Registration (IER) introduced to the registration system.</p><p>Initial in-year allocations are paid to all local authorities in England and Wales, and valuation joint boards in Scotland as early in the financial year as possible. If local authorities/valuation joint boards require further additional funding, they are required to submit a justification led bid (JLB) towards the end of the financial year. <br>Since 2015, the Cabinet Office has provided £96M to cover these additional costs</p><p>● 15/16, £27M<br>● 16/17, £21M<br>● 17/18, £18M<br>● 18/19, £16M<br>● 19/20, £14M (initial allocations announced and payments being processed – does not include JLB funding.)<br>Since 2015/16, 50% of the Local Authorities and Valuation Joint Boards have received additional JLB funding on top of the initial allocation in at least one of the years of funding.</p><p>It is anticipated that plans to reform the annual canvass of electors will significantly reduce the overall cost of electoral registration and place electoral registration services on a more sustainable footing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:06:09 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane