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	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Hire Services: Older People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of car hire companies refusing to lease vehicles to individuals based solely on their age; and what steps they will take to ensure that older drivers with full licences and insurance are not discriminated against.
	tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
	uin	HL1125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>Such actions would be concerning and potentially unlawful. The Equality Act 2010 provides that it is unlawful age discrimination for a service provider such as a car hire company to refuse, on age grounds, to lease a vehicle to an otherwise qualified person, unless the company can objectively justify its decision.</p><p>Where a company cannot, in those circumstances, show that their leasing policy is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, the affected person can bring a case to the County Court, or Sheriff’s Court in Scotland. The court can then determine whether the “objective justification test” has been satisfied, and may award costs and compensation where the individual wins their case. A range of guidance is available to service providers on their obligations and to service users on their rights, most notably on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s website, but also through the Equality and Advisory and Support Service (EASS). The EASS can be contacted via its website - <a href="http://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com" target="_blank">http://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com</a>, or it can be contacted by telephone on 0808 800 0082 (or by text phone on 0808 800 0084).</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 04/07/2022 13:01:53 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
	tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

1677596

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	date	12/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Attendance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are (1) the monthly school attendance figures for the most recent academic year for which they are available, and (2) the comparable monthly school attendance figures for the school year 2018–19.
	tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
	uin	HL1125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The department holds data on pupil attendance and absence from two sources, the termly National Statistics derived from the School Census, and the Official Statistics in development derived from daily pupil attendance data.</p><p> </p><p>Pupil absence rates for the 2018/19 academic year are only available on a termly basis, therefore the below table displays the latest termly comparison from the same source (School Census).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>18/19 Autumn term</p></td><td><p>18/19 Spring term</p></td><td><p>18/19 Summer term</p></td><td><p>21/22 Autumn term</p></td><td><p>21/22 Spring term</p></td><td><p>21/22 Summer term</p></td><td><p>22/23 Autumn term</p></td><td><p>22/23 Spring term</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overall absence rate</p></td><td><p>4.3%</p></td><td><p>4.8%</p></td><td><p>5.2%</p></td><td><p>6.9%</p></td><td><p>7.9%</p></td><td><p>8.0%</p></td><td><p>7.5%</p></td><td><p>7.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School census, includes state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools</p><p> </p><p>The data used in this answer is published in the National Statistics release on pupil absence in schools in England, which is accessible at:</p><p><a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department also publishes weekly and termly official statistics in development on pupil attendance. These are derived from daily attendance data automatically submitted by management information systems for participating schools. These statistics are available at:</p><p><a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-attendance-in-schools" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-attendance-in-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the timeliness of this data, and the data being based on a subset of schools, with around 87% coverage, these figures should be viewed as an early indicator for the termly school census based National Statistics shared above.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 21/12/2023 15:05:34 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1336848

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Access to Information Central Clearing House: Freedom of Information
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the criteria for Freedom of Information requests to be passed to the Clearing House.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL1125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information</a>.</p><p>Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL1123 HL1124 HL1126 HL1127 question first answered 29/06/2021 16:21:06 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven