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	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what role, if any, the Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group (NSSIG) has within the Cabinet Office; and how the role and responsibilities of the NSSIG differs from those of the Integrated Delivery Board.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The requested information is not readily available. The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. </del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong><em> </em></strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">National Security Strategy and Implementation Groups (NSSIGs) were established after the 2017 National Security Capability Review to support the delivery of national security priority programmes, including by better utilising the full range of national security capabilities. Each NSSIG is chaired by a Senior Responsible Official (SRO), who is accountable to the National Security Council.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Gulf Delivery Board has not met since the establishment of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG, which subsumed its primary roles and responsibilities in April 2018. Cabinet Office officials are members of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG and attend all meetings. The Cabinet Office also provides some secretariat support to the NSSIG, alongside that provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/11/2018 16:57:28 question first ministerially corrected 20/11/2018 17:09:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham previous answer version 86171 answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

852487

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Neonatal Mortality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2000–05, (2) 2005–10, and (3) 2010–15.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL5970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p><strong><strong>​</strong></strong></p><p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply<del class="ministerial">.</del><ins class="ministerial"> and I will place a copy of their letter in the Library</ins><br /><ins class="ministerial">of the House.</ins></p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Baroness Tonge, dated 07 March 2018</strong></em></p><p>Dear Baroness Tonge,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Questions asking (a) whether the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity has decreased over the past five years (HL5969); (b) what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2000–05, (2) 2005–10, and (3) 2010–15 (HL5970); and (c) what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2014–15, (2) 2015–16, and (3) 2016–17 (HL5971).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. Statistics on deaths are normally published using calendar years. Neonatal mortality figures are available for both the year the death was registered and the year the death occurred. Comparisons over time are more meaningful using death occurrences, to allow for delays in registering deaths. The latest year for which death occurrence figures are available is 2015 [see note 1 below]. The neonatal mortality figures for 2016 will be published on 14 March 2018 and the data for 2017 will be published in early 2019.</p><p>Table 1 below provides the number of neonatal deaths and the neonatal mortality rates per 1,000 live births for England and Wales, for each calendar year from 2000 to 2015.</p><p>Because the number of neonatal deaths each year is relatively small, there is likely to be some random fluctuation, and no single year since 2000 shows a statistically significant change from the preceding year. However, there has been a generally downward trend throughout the period. In the five years 2011-15, the lowest neonatal mortality rate was in 2014, and this was significantly lower than in 2011 and all previous years. The rate in 2015 was higher than in 2014, but is still significantly lower than in 2011 (taking into account rounding of the figures to one decimal place).</p><p>NHS Digital is responsible for publishing statistics on NHS patient care in England. There is no widely accepted measure of neonatal morbidity, however trends in the admission of neonates to hospital may be useful information. Therefore, figures based on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) have been given here.</p><p>Table 2 below provides the number of neonatal finished consultant episodes (FCEs) and corresponding neonatal hospitalisation rate per 1,000 live births for England, for each financial year from 2000-01 to 2016-17, and the five-year periods 2001-02 to 2004-05, 2005-06 to 2009-10, and 2010-11 to 2014-15. Note that HES data include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1st April 2012 and 31st March 2013.</p><p>Changes to the HES figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information.</p><p>There has been year on year fluctuation in the number and rate of hospital episodes for neonates over the period of interest, but with a clear overall upward trend. The hospitalisation rate in 2015-16 was significantly higher than five years before. However, as noted above, it is likely that the trend is influenced to some extent by factors such as changing clinical practice and recording.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>John Pullinger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note 1:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Neonatal deaths occurring in England and Wales, numbers and rates, 2000 to 2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Neonatal deaths</p></td><td><p>Neonatal mortality rate</p></td><td><p>Lower confidence limit</p></td><td><p>Upper confidence limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>2,335</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>2,137</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>2,126</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>2,264</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>2,209</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>2,325</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2,248</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2,261</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2,205</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2,123</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,135</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,042</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,871</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,762</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,838</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p><em>Neonatal deaths are defined as deaths of live-born infants at less than 28 days</em></p></li><li><p><em>Rates are per 1,000 live births</em></p></li><li><p><em>The 95% lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of a rate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated rate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures.</em></p></li></ol><p> </p><p>Source: Office for National Statistics</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Neonatal hospital episodes occurring in England, numbers and rates, 2000-02 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Neonatal episodes (FCEs)</p></td><td><p>Neonatal hospitalisation rate</p></td><td><p>Lower confidence limit</p></td><td><p>Upper confidence limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>57,983</p></td><td><p>96.3</p></td><td><p>95.5</p></td><td><p>97.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>56,097</p></td><td><p>94.3</p></td><td><p>93.5</p></td><td><p>95.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>58,610</p></td><td><p>97.3</p></td><td><p>96.5</p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>64,574</p></td><td><p>103.1</p></td><td><p>102.4</p></td><td><p>103.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>65,873</p></td><td><p>102.7</p></td><td><p>101.9</p></td><td><p>103.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>69,000</p></td><td><p>105.9</p></td><td><p>105.1</p></td><td><p>106.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>74,893</p></td><td><p>111.0</p></td><td><p>110.2</p></td><td><p>111.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>84,755</p></td><td><p>122.0</p></td><td><p>121.2</p></td><td><p>122.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>91,420</p></td><td><p>129.1</p></td><td><p>128.3</p></td><td><p>129.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>96,005</p></td><td><p>135.1</p></td><td><p>134.3</p></td><td><p>136.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>102,847</p></td><td><p>142.2</p></td><td><p>141.3</p></td><td><p>143.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>101,577</p></td><td><p>140.0</p></td><td><p>139.2</p></td><td><p>140.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>106,531</p></td><td><p>147.6</p></td><td><p>146.7</p></td><td><p>148.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>109,509</p></td><td><p>157.0</p></td><td><p>156.0</p></td><td><p>157.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>114,229</p></td><td><p>164.1</p></td><td><p>163.2</p></td><td><p>165.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>114,420</p></td><td><p>164.1</p></td><td><p>163.1</p></td><td><p>165.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17*</p></td><td><p>116,573</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01 to 2004-05†</p></td><td><p>301,700</p></td><td><p>98.4</p></td><td><p>98.0</p></td><td><p>98.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06 to 2009-10†</p></td><td><p>414,060</p></td><td><p>120.4</p></td><td><p>120.0</p></td><td><p>120.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11 to 2014-15†</p></td><td><p>532,149</p></td><td><p>149.3</p></td><td><p>148.9</p></td><td><p>149.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p><em>Neonatal episodes are defined as counts of patients where there is a finished consultant episode (FCE) for neonates with an extended hospital stay immediately following birth, or an admission within the first 28 days of life. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Rates are per 1,000 live births. The number of births per financial year has been estimated based on births in the relevant calendar years.</em></p></li><li><p><em>The 95% lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of a rate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated rate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures.</em></p></li></ol><p><em>* A rate for 2016-17 cannot be calculated as the number of births in 2017 is not yet available.</em></p><p><em>† As a patient may have been in hospital in two consecutive years, the total per five-year grouping will not be equal to a sum of the corresponding five individual years.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source: NHS Digital and Office for National Statistics</em></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 14/03/2018 16:44:48 question first ministerially corrected 15/03/2018 15:55:46 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham previous answer version 47374 answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

923151

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Absent Parents: Suicide
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of suicides since 2000 of separated fathers compared to those of separated mothers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL8615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply<del class="ministerial">.</del> <ins class="ministerial">and I will place the response in the Library of both houses.</ins></p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Pearson of Rannoch, dated 15 June 2018.</strong></em></p><p>Dear Lord Pearson,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking about the number of suicides since 2000 of separated fathers compared to those of separated mothers <strong>(HL8615)</strong>.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes suicide rates for the UK, constituent countries, regions and local authorities in England and Wales in an annual bulletin[1].</p><p>The information we hold on deaths is limited to what is recorded on the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death by a doctor, provided to the registrar by the informant at the time of death registration, or recorded by a coroner following their inquest into the cause and circumstances of the death. We can provide the number of suicides per year by legal marital status, but we have no available information on whether the deceased was (a) separated at the time of death, that is, living apart from their partner; or (b) was a father or mother.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 attached provides the numbers and crude rates per 100,00 persons of deaths due to suicide, by sex, for each year between 2000 and 2016 in England and Wales. The rates are broken down by marital status recorded at death. A copy has been placed in the House of Lords Library.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/06/2018 15:35:32 question first ministerially corrected 22/06/2018 13:43:52 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham previous answer version 64664 answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1002242

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Resilience Forums: Emergencies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the reasonable worst-case scenarios that they have asked local resilience forums to work on.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL11263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>Local Resilience Forums are required under the Civil Contingencies Act to compile and publish community risk registers setting out the main risks in their areas to both raise awareness and guide contingency planning. In doing this, they are guided by, among other things, the National Risk Assessment (NRA) which covers the range of risks that could cause a civil emergency in the UK, and provides a list of the common consequences of these risks in the form of planning assumptions. These cover the maximum scale, duration and impact that could reasonably be expected to occur as a result of emergencies.</p><p>The NRA is classified for national security reasons, and it is therefore not possible to share details of the reasonable worst-case scenarios or planning assumptions. A declassified version is available in the form of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-for-civil-emergencies-2015-edition" target="_blank">National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies</a> (NRR). This is also provided to the local planning community, and has been placed in the House of Lords Library. Most Community Risk Registers are also available online.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 13/11/2018 16:52:27 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

852486

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Neonatal Mortality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity has decreased over the past five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL5969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p><strong><strong>​</strong></strong></p><p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Baroness Tonge, dated 07 March 2018</strong></em></p><p>Dear Baroness Tonge,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Questions asking (a) whether the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity has decreased over the past five years (HL5969); (b) what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2000–05, (2) 2005–10, and (3) 2010–15 (HL5970); and (c) what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2014–15, (2) 2015–16, and (3) 2016–17 (HL5971).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. Statistics on deaths are normally published using calendar years. Neonatal mortality figures are available for both the year the death was registered and the year the death occurred. Comparisons over time are more meaningful using death occurrences, to allow for delays in registering deaths. The latest year for which death occurrence figures are available is 2015 [see note 1 below]. The neonatal mortality figures for 2016 will be published on 14 March 2018 and the data for 2017 will be published in early 2019.</p><p>Table 1 below provides the number of neonatal deaths and the neonatal mortality rates per 1,000 live births for England and Wales, for each calendar year from 2000 to 2015.</p><p>Because the number of neonatal deaths each year is relatively small, there is likely to be some random fluctuation, and no single year since 2000 shows a statistically significant change from the preceding year. However, there has been a generally downward trend throughout the period. In the five years 2011-15, the lowest neonatal mortality rate was in 2014, and this was significantly lower than in 2011 and all previous years. The rate in 2015 was higher than in 2014, but is still significantly lower than in 2011 (taking into account rounding of the figures to one decimal place).</p><p>NHS Digital is responsible for publishing statistics on NHS patient care in England. There is no widely accepted measure of neonatal morbidity, however trends in the admission of neonates to hospital may be useful information. Therefore, figures based on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) have been given here.</p><p>Table 2 below provides the number of neonatal finished consultant episodes (FCEs) and corresponding neonatal hospitalisation rate per 1,000 live births for England, for each financial year from 2000-01 to 2016-17, and the five-year periods 2001-02 to 2004-05, 2005-06 to 2009-10, and 2010-11 to 2014-15. Note that HES data include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1st April 2012 and 31st March 2013.</p><p>Changes to the HES figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information.</p><p>There has been year on year fluctuation in the number and rate of hospital episodes for neonates over the period of interest, but with a clear overall upward trend. The hospitalisation rate in 2015-16 was significantly higher than five years before. However, as noted above, it is likely that the trend is influenced to some extent by factors such as changing clinical practice and recording.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>John Pullinger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note 1:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Neonatal deaths occurring in England and Wales, numbers and rates, 2000 to 2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Neonatal deaths</p></td><td><p>Neonatal mortality rate</p></td><td><p>Lower confidence limit</p></td><td><p>Upper confidence limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>2,335</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>2,137</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>2,126</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>2,264</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>2,209</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>2,325</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2,248</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2,261</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2,205</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2,123</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,135</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,042</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,871</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,762</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,838</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p><em>Neonatal deaths are defined as deaths of live-born infants at less than 28 days</em></p></li><li><p><em>Rates are per 1,000 live births</em></p></li><li><p><em>The 95% lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of a rate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated rate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures.</em></p></li></ol><p> </p><p>Source: Office for National Statistics</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Neonatal hospital episodes occurring in England, numbers and rates, 2000-02 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Neonatal episodes (FCEs)</p></td><td><p>Neonatal hospitalisation rate</p></td><td><p>Lower confidence limit</p></td><td><p>Upper confidence limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>57,983</p></td><td><p>96.3</p></td><td><p>95.5</p></td><td><p>97.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>56,097</p></td><td><p>94.3</p></td><td><p>93.5</p></td><td><p>95.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>58,610</p></td><td><p>97.3</p></td><td><p>96.5</p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>64,574</p></td><td><p>103.1</p></td><td><p>102.4</p></td><td><p>103.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>65,873</p></td><td><p>102.7</p></td><td><p>101.9</p></td><td><p>103.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>69,000</p></td><td><p>105.9</p></td><td><p>105.1</p></td><td><p>106.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>74,893</p></td><td><p>111.0</p></td><td><p>110.2</p></td><td><p>111.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>84,755</p></td><td><p>122.0</p></td><td><p>121.2</p></td><td><p>122.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>91,420</p></td><td><p>129.1</p></td><td><p>128.3</p></td><td><p>129.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>96,005</p></td><td><p>135.1</p></td><td><p>134.3</p></td><td><p>136.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>102,847</p></td><td><p>142.2</p></td><td><p>141.3</p></td><td><p>143.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>101,577</p></td><td><p>140.0</p></td><td><p>139.2</p></td><td><p>140.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>106,531</p></td><td><p>147.6</p></td><td><p>146.7</p></td><td><p>148.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>109,509</p></td><td><p>157.0</p></td><td><p>156.0</p></td><td><p>157.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>114,229</p></td><td><p>164.1</p></td><td><p>163.2</p></td><td><p>165.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>114,420</p></td><td><p>164.1</p></td><td><p>163.1</p></td><td><p>165.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17*</p></td><td><p>116,573</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01 to 2004-05†</p></td><td><p>301,700</p></td><td><p>98.4</p></td><td><p>98.0</p></td><td><p>98.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06 to 2009-10†</p></td><td><p>414,060</p></td><td><p>120.4</p></td><td><p>120.0</p></td><td><p>120.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11 to 2014-15†</p></td><td><p>532,149</p></td><td><p>149.3</p></td><td><p>148.9</p></td><td><p>149.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p><em>Neonatal episodes are defined as counts of patients where there is a finished consultant episode (FCE) for neonates with an extended hospital stay immediately following birth, or an admission within the first 28 days of life. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Rates are per 1,000 live births. The number of births per financial year has been estimated based on births in the relevant calendar years.</em></p></li><li><p><em>The 95% lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of a rate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated rate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures.</em></p></li></ol><p><em>* A rate for 2016-17 cannot be calculated as the number of births in 2017 is not yet available.</em></p><p><em>† As a patient may have been in hospital in two consecutive years, the total per five-year grouping will not be equal to a sum of the corresponding five individual years.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source: NHS Digital and Office for National Statistics</em></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL5970 HL5971 question first answered 14/03/2018 16:44:48 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

852488

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Neonatal Mortality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2014–15, (2) 2015–16, and (3) 2016–17.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL5971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p><strong><strong>​</strong></strong></p><p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Baroness Tonge, dated 07 March 2018</strong></em></p><p>Dear Baroness Tonge,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Questions asking (a) whether the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity has decreased over the past five years (HL5969); (b) what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2000–05, (2) 2005–10, and (3) 2010–15 (HL5970); and (c) what was the incidence of neonatal mortality and morbidity in (1) 2014–15, (2) 2015–16, and (3) 2016–17 (HL5971).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. Statistics on deaths are normally published using calendar years. Neonatal mortality figures are available for both the year the death was registered and the year the death occurred. Comparisons over time are more meaningful using death occurrences, to allow for delays in registering deaths. The latest year for which death occurrence figures are available is 2015 [see note 1 below]. The neonatal mortality figures for 2016 will be published on 14 March 2018 and the data for 2017 will be published in early 2019.</p><p>Table 1 below provides the number of neonatal deaths and the neonatal mortality rates per 1,000 live births for England and Wales, for each calendar year from 2000 to 2015.</p><p>Because the number of neonatal deaths each year is relatively small, there is likely to be some random fluctuation, and no single year since 2000 shows a statistically significant change from the preceding year. However, there has been a generally downward trend throughout the period. In the five years 2011-15, the lowest neonatal mortality rate was in 2014, and this was significantly lower than in 2011 and all previous years. The rate in 2015 was higher than in 2014, but is still significantly lower than in 2011 (taking into account rounding of the figures to one decimal place).</p><p>NHS Digital is responsible for publishing statistics on NHS patient care in England. There is no widely accepted measure of neonatal morbidity, however trends in the admission of neonates to hospital may be useful information. Therefore, figures based on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) have been given here.</p><p>Table 2 below provides the number of neonatal finished consultant episodes (FCEs) and corresponding neonatal hospitalisation rate per 1,000 live births for England, for each financial year from 2000-01 to 2016-17, and the five-year periods 2001-02 to 2004-05, 2005-06 to 2009-10, and 2010-11 to 2014-15. Note that HES data include activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1st April 2012 and 31st March 2013.</p><p>Changes to the HES figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information.</p><p>There has been year on year fluctuation in the number and rate of hospital episodes for neonates over the period of interest, but with a clear overall upward trend. The hospitalisation rate in 2015-16 was significantly higher than five years before. However, as noted above, it is likely that the trend is influenced to some extent by factors such as changing clinical practice and recording.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>John Pullinger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note 1:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Neonatal deaths occurring in England and Wales, numbers and rates, 2000 to 2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Neonatal deaths</p></td><td><p>Neonatal mortality rate</p></td><td><p>Lower confidence limit</p></td><td><p>Upper confidence limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>2,335</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>2,137</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>2,126</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>2,264</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>2,209</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>2,325</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2,248</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2,261</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2,205</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2,123</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,135</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,042</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,871</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,762</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,838</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p><em>Neonatal deaths are defined as deaths of live-born infants at less than 28 days</em></p></li><li><p><em>Rates are per 1,000 live births</em></p></li><li><p><em>The 95% lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of a rate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated rate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures.</em></p></li></ol><p> </p><p>Source: Office for National Statistics</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Neonatal hospital episodes occurring in England, numbers and rates, 2000-02 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Neonatal episodes (FCEs)</p></td><td><p>Neonatal hospitalisation rate</p></td><td><p>Lower confidence limit</p></td><td><p>Upper confidence limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>57,983</p></td><td><p>96.3</p></td><td><p>95.5</p></td><td><p>97.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>56,097</p></td><td><p>94.3</p></td><td><p>93.5</p></td><td><p>95.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>58,610</p></td><td><p>97.3</p></td><td><p>96.5</p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>64,574</p></td><td><p>103.1</p></td><td><p>102.4</p></td><td><p>103.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>65,873</p></td><td><p>102.7</p></td><td><p>101.9</p></td><td><p>103.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>69,000</p></td><td><p>105.9</p></td><td><p>105.1</p></td><td><p>106.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>74,893</p></td><td><p>111.0</p></td><td><p>110.2</p></td><td><p>111.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>84,755</p></td><td><p>122.0</p></td><td><p>121.2</p></td><td><p>122.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>91,420</p></td><td><p>129.1</p></td><td><p>128.3</p></td><td><p>129.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>96,005</p></td><td><p>135.1</p></td><td><p>134.3</p></td><td><p>136.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>102,847</p></td><td><p>142.2</p></td><td><p>141.3</p></td><td><p>143.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>101,577</p></td><td><p>140.0</p></td><td><p>139.2</p></td><td><p>140.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>106,531</p></td><td><p>147.6</p></td><td><p>146.7</p></td><td><p>148.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>109,509</p></td><td><p>157.0</p></td><td><p>156.0</p></td><td><p>157.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>114,229</p></td><td><p>164.1</p></td><td><p>163.2</p></td><td><p>165.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>114,420</p></td><td><p>164.1</p></td><td><p>163.1</p></td><td><p>165.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17*</p></td><td><p>116,573</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01 to 2004-05†</p></td><td><p>301,700</p></td><td><p>98.4</p></td><td><p>98.0</p></td><td><p>98.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06 to 2009-10†</p></td><td><p>414,060</p></td><td><p>120.4</p></td><td><p>120.0</p></td><td><p>120.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11 to 2014-15†</p></td><td><p>532,149</p></td><td><p>149.3</p></td><td><p>148.9</p></td><td><p>149.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p><em>Neonatal episodes are defined as counts of patients where there is a finished consultant episode (FCE) for neonates with an extended hospital stay immediately following birth, or an admission within the first 28 days of life. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Rates are per 1,000 live births. The number of births per financial year has been estimated based on births in the relevant calendar years.</em></p></li><li><p><em>The 95% lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of a rate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated rate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures.</em></p></li></ol><p><em>* A rate for 2016-17 cannot be calculated as the number of births in 2017 is not yet available.</em></p><p><em>† As a patient may have been in hospital in two consecutive years, the total per five-year grouping will not be equal to a sum of the corresponding five individual years.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source: NHS Digital and Office for National Statistics</em></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL5969 HL5970 question first answered 14/03/2018 16:44:47 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

852704

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Peers: Correspondence
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to ensure that letters from Members addressed to ministers are sent straight to the Minister's Private Office and not to the general correspondence section of Departments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
	uin	HL5977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Letters from members of parliament and peers are given priority over correspondence from the general public. Performance tables are published to show how promptly they reply.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 12/03/2018 15:41:56 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

855391

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government who in the ministerial team in the Cabinet Office was responsible for oversight of Her Majesty's Government’s Carillion contracts; whether proposals were presented by Ernst and Young to the Cabinet Office in December 2017; if so, what were those proposals; what assessment they made of the extent to which any such proposals might have saved public funds, protected employee pensions and avoided the company becoming bankrupt; whether they decided not to proceed with those proposals; and if so, at what level that decision was made.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL5997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Minister for Government Resilience and Efficiency (until 8 January 2018) and the Minister for Implementation (since 9 January) have had Ministerial responsibility for public procurement policy, including the strategic supplier risk management policy, but the responsibility for overseeing individual contracts with Carillion rests with individual contracting authorities.</p><p>In July 2017, Carillion engaged EY to assist with its restructuring plans. Government was not a party to this arrangement but we understand that EY’s recommendations were considered by Carillion’s board on 19 December.</p><p>The proposals from EY were put before the directors of Carillion, for their consideration and for them to act on accordingly, in line with their director duties. EY did not present this information to HMG. We were privy to the contents of the report after it had been presented to the Carillion Board, which enabled us to prepare for the various scenarios facing Carillion.</p><p>The decisions and conduct of the management of the company will be investigated by the Official Receiver.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 19/03/2018 12:31:20 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

855440

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Absent Voting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total number of postal votes issued in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland, for each general election from 2010 to 2017; and what were the comparative (a) percentages of the total poll in each of the four UK electoral areas, and (b) percentage increases in each region, at each general election.
	tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
	uin	HL6046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information. The data required is provided by each Returning Officer directly supplying information on postal votes to the Electoral Commission, which collates and publishes it.</p><p>The information can be found at <a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/our-research/electoral-data/electoral-data-new" target="_blank">https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/our-research/electoral-data/electoral-data-new</a></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/03/2018 17:40:18 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

856333

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of allowing online electoral registration using a recognised Government identification such as a passport or driving licence instead of a national insurance number, in line with arrangements for registration by post.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL6121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>While it is possible to register to vote without a National Insurance number, the IER Digital Service uses National Insurance numbers provided by electoral registration applicants to establish identity quickly and easily (applications are processed overnight). This in turn allows Electoral Registration Officers to complete the processing of applications as efficiently as possible. This is especially important in the run up to electoral events.</p><p>The operation of the Digital Service shows that making use of National Insurance numbers in this way is effective. Of the 31,407,478 total applications received between 9 June 2014 and 19 February 2018 (the latest period for which we hold data), only 446,277 or 1.4 per cent were unverifiable. Unverifiable applications are those where an applicant has not provided all of the information necessary to verify their identity. This category therefore includes all those applications received without a National Insurance number. This means that at least 98.5 per cent of those people making an application through the Digital Service have been able to provide a National Insurance number.</p><p>The small number of applicants who cannot provide a National Insurance number are still able to apply to register to vote. Applications without a National Insurance number are processed by the Digital Service and then passed to the local electoral administration team. The team will contact the applicant to provide proof of identity, such as a passport or driving licence. There is also an attestation process for people who cannot provide such alternative forms of ID.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/03/2018 17:58:36 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

856334

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to promote anonymous electoral registration for people who have been victims of domestic violence, or whose personal safety is at serious risk as a result of their address appearing on electoral registers; and whether the process will be advertised, for example in GP surgeries.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL6122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>It is the role of the Electoral Commission and Electoral Registration Officers, together</p><p>with domestic abuse charities, supported by the Government, to raise awareness of</p><p>the anonymous registration scheme with electors who may need to use it.</p><p>The Government has supported the Electoral Commission in updating guidance for electors on <a href="http://www.yourvotematters.co.uk" target="_blank">www.yourvotematters.co.uk</a>.</p><p>Women’s Aid, and other domestic abuse support charities, are raising awareness of anonymous registration with their clients through their social media and general advocacy and support services.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/03/2018 17:55:19 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

856335

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on what basis the impact assessment for the Representation of the People (Amendment) Regulations 2018 estimated that the number of GPs who will make a charge for attesting to the needs for anonymous registration would be 10 per cent; and what the level of those charges will be.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL6123
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The British Medical Association’s guidance recommends GPs charge between £30-£63 for this type of service, and that they consider any ethical implications of their work prior to charging for it. Given the nature of this service, for the purpose of the impact assessment we assumed a small minority (10%) of GPs to charge for an attestation, and those that do charge will do so at the lower end of the suggested range.</p><p>Should an elector experience difficulties with obtaining an attestations from a GP, other avenues remain open for them to seek attestations without charge.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 21/03/2018 12:52:53 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

856336

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to encourage GPs (1) to attest to the need for anonymous electoral registration under the Representation of the People (Amendment) Regulations 2018, in order to protect victims of domestic violence, and (2) not to charge for doing so.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL6124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government will work with the relevant representative bodies to raise awareness of the scheme.</p><p>It is for GPs to decide whether they can attest to an individual’s safety being at risk if included on the electoral register, and whether they charge for this service. Some do this without charge.</p><p>Should an elector experience difficulties with obtaining an attestation from a GP, other avenues remain open for them to seek attestations without charge.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/03/2018 17:56:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

857593

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Charities: Freedom of Information
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for extending the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to charities in receipt of public funds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL6165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer my noble friend to my answer to his question 14 September 2017. [HL1315]</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 21/03/2018 17:55:36 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

860824

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Weather
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the preparedness of the UK to deal with severe cold weather conditions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL6223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government constantly reviews preparedness for the risks facing the UK, drawing on the National Risk Assessment (NRA) and Resilience Capabilities Programme (RCP). This includes preparedness to respond to and recover from severe cold weather. In addition, following any major event, debriefs are undertaken by relevant Departments and agencies to identify any lessons learned and improve future responses. This is the case with respect to the recent period of cold weather, where the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) is considering the recent water supply issue, identifying the causes of the problems and reviewing the response of the water companies. The results will be published by 15 June.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 26/03/2018 15:55:50 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

860876

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Devolution
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how the competences currently held at the EU level will be distributed between the various countries in the UK after Brexit; and what impact this will have on the management of the devolution settlement and on relations between those countries.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL6275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed that EU exit will result in a significant increase in the decision making powers of each of the devolved legislatures. The Government’s provisional frameworks analysis, published on 9 March, sets out where frameworks may and may not be needed in respect of the 153 policy areas where EU law intersects with devolved competence. It indicates that legislative frameworks will only be needed in a minority of areas. Moreover, our ongoing discussions with the devolved administrations suggest that within these areas, legislation may only be required in relation to specific elements, rather than the entire policy area. Constructive discussions with the devolved administrations continue.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 26/03/2018 12:21:42 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

861327

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Average Earnings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the percentage change in average earnings between (1) 1987 and 1992, (2) 1992 and 1997, (3) 1998 and 2003, and (4) 2004 and 2009.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
	uin	HL6310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Baroness Primarolo, dated 20 March 2018</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>Dear Baroness Primarolo,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking what was the percentage change in average earnings between (1) 1987 and 1992, (2) 1992 and 1997, (3) 1998 and 2003, and (4) 2004 and 2009 <strong>(HL6310</strong><strong>)</strong>.</p><p>Table 1 provides estimates of median gross weekly earnings for adult full time employees in Great Britain for April each year. The estimates from 1997 onwards are drawn from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and prior to that from its predecessor, the New Earnings Survey. Although the methodologies between the two surveys created some discontinuities in the published results, the differences are tolerable and the resulting series will be of benefit to those interested in changes in earnings statistics over a long period.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Median gross weekly earnings, full time employees in Great Britain whose pay was unaffected during the reference period<strong>[1]</strong><sup>,<strong>[2]</strong>,<strong>[3]</strong>,<strong>[4]</strong></sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Median gross weekly earnings, </strong> <strong>April of each years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage change in gross weekly earnings between the two quoted years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1987 - £175.1 1992 - £264.6</p></td><td><p>51.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1992 - £264.6 1997 - £321.5</p></td><td><p>21.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998 - £335.8 2003 - £405.2</p></td><td><p>20.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004 - £420.3 2009 - £489.9</p></td><td><p>16.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong>John Pullinger</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>[1] Estimates prior to 1997 are drawn from the New Earnings Survey</p><p>[2] From 2004 there was improved coverage added to the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings. This had some impact on estimates: the median gross weekly earnings estimate for 2004 excluding that improved coverage was £424.2 (compared with £420.3 including it).</p><p>[3] Estimates in Table 1 are drawn from: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/adhocs/006302annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashetimeseriesofmediangrossweeklyearningsfrom1968to2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/adhocs/006302annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashetimeseriesofmediangrossweeklyearningsfrom1968to2016</a></p><p>[4] Percentage changes are calculated from the median gross weekly earnings figures in the table, which are rounded to one decimal place. This may result in percentage changes being under or overstated, by up to one decimal % point.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 26/03/2018 12:26:49 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

864507

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Infrastructure: Weather
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of the damage to infrastructure caused by the recent bad weather in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>Departments and agencies plan for seasonal disruption and the impact of bad weather. No specific estimates have been made of the cost of the damage to infrastructure caused by the recent spell of bad weather in the UK. However, in the case of road networks, the Department for Transport announced on 26th March 2018 funding of £100 million was being provided to local highway authorities in England, outside London, to help repair local highways and improve the resilience of roads to local flooding and other severe weather events. Details can be found at the following link;<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pothole-fund-boosted-to-repair-roads-after-winter-damage" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pothole-fund-boosted-to-repair-roads-after-winter-damage</a>”.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 19/04/2018 12:14:38 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

872991

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what structures are in place to ensure consistency of quality across departments in responding to Questions for Written Answer in line with constitutional norms, especially regarding the need to be "as open as possible" in answering (LJ (1996–97) 404).
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL6676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>It is for individual Departments to ensure that written Parliamentary Questions (PQs) are answered in line with the Ministerial Code.</p><p>The Ministerial Code sets out that Ministers must give accurate and truthful information to Parliament. It also states that Ministers should be as open as possible with Parliament. The Cabinet Office produces guidance to officials on drafting answers to PQs. This is available on GOV.UK;</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance. A Minister may refuse to answer a question on the grounds of unreasonable or disproportionate cost of researching an answer.</p><p>The Leader of the House of Lords’ Office oversees Departments’ performance and the quality of answers in response to Peers questions. Internal committees of both Houses conduct similar scrutiny of Departmental performance in responding to PQs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 16/04/2018 13:51:35 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

874588

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Food: Expenditure
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the proportion of the average family budget taken up by food in (1) 1988, (2) 1998, (3) 2008, and (4) 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
	uin	HL6808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Lord Jopling, dated 10 April 2018</strong></em></p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking what is the estimate of the proportion of the average family budget taken up by food in (1) 1988, (2) 1998, (3) 2008, and (4) 2018 <strong>(HL6808)</strong>.</p><p>Table 1 shows household expenditure on food and non-alcoholic drinks as a percentage of total household expenditure in the UK from 1987 to financial year ending 2017. The estimates are based on data from the <em>Living Costs and Food Survey (LCF)</em> and its predecessor the <em>Family Expenditure Survey</em>.</p><p>In Table 1 below, ‘expenditure on food’ includes food brought home, food eaten away from the home in restaurants or cafés, and take-away food. Data is collected at a household level but is a reasonable indication of family expenditure. We have provided this data in ten-year intervals in line with the latest available data for financial year ending 2017. The period of data collection has changed over time, therefore the time series presented in the table is made up of financial and calendar year time points.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Household expenditure on food and non-alcoholic drink<strong>[1]</strong> as a proportion of total expenditure at 2016/17 Prices<strong>[2]</strong>, 1987 to financial year ending 2017</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>1987</p></td><td><p>1996/97</p></td><td><p>2006[3]</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage of total expenditure on Food and non-alcoholic drinks</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Office for National Statistics, Living Costs and Food Survey</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong>John Pullinger</strong></p><p><em><strong> </strong></em></p><p>[1] Based on the Family Expenditure Survey classification (FES); food includes food brought home, food eaten away from the home in restaurants or cafes, as well as take-away food.</p><p>[2] Figures have been deflated to 2016/17 prices using the RPI all items index.</p><p>[3] From 2001/02 onwards, commodities and services are based on the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP) codes broadly mapped to FES.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 16/04/2018 13:53:26 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

884183

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Consultation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many public consultations they have initiated since May 2015; how many have resulted in a published report or conclusion; how many of those were produced within six months of the closing date of the consultation; and for how many public consultations they have yet to publish a report or conclusion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL6868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Granular information on consultations across all individual departments is not centrally held in the form requested, as individual departments are responsible for their consultations. The Cabinet Office is responsible for the Government Consultation Principles, which provide departments with guidance on conducting consultations. That guidance sets out that consultations and any response to them should be published on gov.uk. The Cabinet Office is taking further steps to assess the number of public consultations which have closed but have not concluded.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:58:08 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

884184

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Billing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of Government contractors were paid on time in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL6869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. Government departments publish their payment performance on a quarterly basis on GOV.UK, but this does not provide an analysis by supplier.</p><p>Data published in 2016-17 shows that all major departments, apart from one (at 69%), were meeting their 5 days payment target and that all departments were paying at least 98% of their invoices within the 30 day target, with a third of departments achieving 100%.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:04:36 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

884214

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Emergencies: Telecommunications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to upgrade the High Integrity Telecommunications System.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL6899
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The current contract for the High Integrity Telecommunications System (HITS) will end in March 2019. A review is currently underway to determine the requirement for a successor system and the associated costs.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:03:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

884215

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Emergencies: Telecommunications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many sites in the UK are connected to the High Integrity Telecommunications System.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL6900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The High Integrity Telecommunications System (HITS) is a resilient communications solution providing a voice and data link to 47 fixed sites across the UK. It is intended to provide failsafe communications in times of national crisis, connecting local responders and the Devolved Administrations with COBR.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:03:42 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

884216

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Emergencies: Telecommunications
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in (1) replacing the High Integrity Telecommunications System mobile terminals that were withdrawn from service in 2013, and (2) introducing improvements aimed at increasing ease of access to, and thus usability of, the network that were due to be announced by the end of 2016.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL6901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Telecommunications System (HITS) will end in March 2019. A review is currently underway to determine the requirement for a successor system, including ease of access, mobility and usability.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:54:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

884217

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Databases
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of Cabinet Office data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL6902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on what percentage of Cabinet Office data is hosted is not collated centrally and can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:55:04 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

884219

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Common Frameworks
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, and if so when, they propose to consult on proposals to legislate for UK common frameworks to (1) enable the functioning of the UK internal market, (2) ensure compliance with international obligations, (3) ensure that the UK can negotiate, enter into, and implement new trade agreements and international treaties, (4) enable the management of common resources, (5) administer and provide access to justice in cases with a cross-border element, and (6) safeguard the security of the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL6904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Since July 2017, the UK Government has been working closely with the devolved administrations on the policy areas where common frameworks may be required after exiting the EU. The Government published its provisional analysis of this work in March and that initial analysis now enables a conversation beyond governments, in an open and transparent manner. These issues are of central importance to Parliament and the devolved legislatures, but also to businesses and wider stakeholders whose day to day activities will be affected by these decisions. This analysis is part of an ongoing dialogue, not a final position. The conclusions it sets out are provisional and continue to be discussed with the devolved administrations, parliamentarians and external stakeholders. The Government will continue to consult interested parties as this work develops.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 15:58:31 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

884220

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Common Frameworks
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many bills they intend to bring forward to legislate for UK common frameworks; what subjects those bills will cover; and whether they plan to publish those first as draft bills.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL6905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s provisional frameworks analysis published in March sets out the 24 policy areas in which it envisages a legislative common framework, either in whole or in part. This analysis remains provisional and is subject to ongoing work with the devolved administrations, parliament and external stakeholders. Where legislation is required, the Government seeks to publish bills in draft wherever possible.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:58:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

884221

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Common Frameworks
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the planned legislation on UK common frameworks will require the consents of each of the devolved legislatures.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL6906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government will abide by existing practices and conventions when deciding whether to seek the consent of the devolved legislatures for future UK primary legislation that creates a legislative framework.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 15:59:21 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

884249

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cost of Living
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the percentage cost-of-living increases nationally during each of the last five years; and what was the annual percentage increase in rates in Northern Ireland over the same period.
	tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
	uin	HL6934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, dated 20 April 2018</strong></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Maginnis,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what was the percentage cost-of-living increases nationally during each of the last five years; and what was the annual percentage increase in rates in Northern Ireland over the same period <strong>(HL6934)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) is our most comprehensive measure of inflation, and measures the change in price of a fixed basket of goods and services. The 12-month percentage change in the index is published on a monthly basis. The table below summarises the average 12-month percentage change for each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Annual average percentage 12-month change, CPIH, UK, 2013 to 2017</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Annual average 12-m change (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These data are taken from Table 10 of our <em>Consumer Price Inflation </em>bulletin[1]. In this publication you will also find the 12-month CPIH inflation rates, and similar figures for the Consumer Prices Index (CPI, the Monetary Policy Committee’s current inflation target). CPIH is the same as CPI but includes Council Tax and a measure of owner occupiers’ housing costs, which are not included in CPI. CPIH and CPI are both National Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not currently produce an inflation measure for Northern Ireland. This is because the price sample is optimised at the national level and therefore regional price samples are small. Nevertheless, I do recognise that there is an important user need for regional measures of inflation, and to address this ONS have asked the University of Southampton to carry out a feasibility study into calculating regional price indices[2].</p><p> </p><p>You may also be interested to know that ONS analysis suggests that prices in Northern Ireland were on average 2.3% lower than the UK average for 2016. (Note that this analysis refers to the relative difference in price between regions, which is distinct from the rate at which prices change over time). This is taken from our <em>Relative Regional Consumer Price Levels of Goods and Services, UK: 2016</em> publication[3], which is based on estimates produced for Eurostat once every 6 years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Yours sincerely <strong>John Pullinger </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/ukconsumerpriceinflationmar2018" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/ukconsumerpriceinflationmar2018</a></p><p>[2] See our <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/consumerpricesdevelopmentplan/2016-10-11" target="_blank">Consumer Prices Development Plan</a>, section 3.3.5</p><p>[3]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/relativeregionalconsumerpricelevelsuk/2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/relativeregionalconsumerpricelevelsuk/2016</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:57:34 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

884258

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their plans to allow local council candidates to avoid their home addresses being disclosed on official notices and ballot papers will be optional; and whether candidates not wishing to state their home address will be given the alternative of stating in which local government ward they reside, similar to the provisions for parliamentary candidates.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL6943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to removing the requirement for candidates standing as local councillors to have their home addresses published on the ballot paper. This requirement will be replaced with an option to include a statement of residence based on an electoral area the candidate lives in rather than having to include a specific address, in line with the provisions in place for candidates at UK parliamentary elections. We are currently working through the detail in discussion with relevant stakeholders, including what level of location information is appropriate, and how the provisions will be implemented in practice.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 16:02:27 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

885903

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Honours
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of UK national honours have been awarded to people working in the area of wildlife and the environment in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
	uin	HL6997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Data on honours awarded is not collated under the specific sector headings in this way.<strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 02/05/2018 11:58:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

886883

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Suicide: Males
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many men under the age of 45 died as a result of suicide in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL7045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Lord Black of Brentwood, dated 24 April 2018</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Black,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking how many men under the age of 45 died as a result of suicide in each of the last ten years for which figures are available <strong>(HL7045)</strong>.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes suicide statistics for the UK, constituent countries, regions and local authorities in England and Wales in our annual bulletin which can be found on the ONS website[1].</p><p>Table 1 shows the number of suicides in males under the age of 45 for the last ten years for which data are available, in the UK.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of suicides in males under the age of 45, deaths registered in 2007 to 2016, UK<strong>[2]</strong><sup>,<strong>[3]</strong>,<strong>[4]</strong>,<strong>[5]</strong><strong>[6]</strong></sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Suicides</strong></p></td><td><p>2257</p></td><td><p>2391</p></td><td><p>2313</p></td><td><p>2145</p></td><td><p>2359</p></td><td><p>2336</p></td><td><p>2286</p></td><td><p>2153</p></td><td><p>2194</p></td><td><p>2180</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely</p><p> </p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations</a></p><p>[2] The National Statistics definition of suicide is intentional self-harm (ICD10 codes X60-X84) for those aged 10 and over and Injury/poisoning of undetermined intent (ICD10 codes Y10-Y34) for those aged 15 and over.</p><p>[3] Figures are for persons aged 10 years and over.</p><p>[4] Figures are for deaths registered, rather than deaths occurring in each calendar year. Due to the length of time it takes to complete a coroner’s inquest, it can take months or even years for a suicide to be registered. More details can be found in the 'Suicides in the UK' bulletin: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases" target="_blank">www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases</a></p><p>[5] Deaths of non-residents are included in figures for the UK.</p><p>[6] Figures for the UK include data kindly provided by the National Records of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/04/2018 15:50:55 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

886934

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Regulation: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which regulators in (1) the UK, and (2) England, are fully funded by the industries or sectors that they regulate and receive no grant in aid from their sponsoring departments for those regulatory activities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Teverson
	uin	HL7088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The following list includes bodies with non-devolved regulatory functions which received no Grant in Aid in 2016-17. It is based on information available to the Cabinet Office, and may not be comprehensive. In particular it does not include bodies whose regulatory activities are fully funded by the sectors they regulate, but which receive grants for non-regulatory activities.</p><ul><li><p>Animals in Science Regulation Unit;</p></li><li><p>Architects’ Registration Board;</p></li><li><p>Assay Offices;</p></li><li><p>British Hallmarking Council;</p></li><li><p>Claims Management Regulation Unit;</p></li><li><p>Commissioners of Irish Lights;</p></li><li><p>Companies’ House;</p></li><li><p>Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency;</p></li><li><p>Financial Conduct Authority;</p></li><li><p>Financial Reporting Council;</p></li><li><p>Gambling Commission;</p></li><li><p>Groceries Code Adjudicator;</p></li><li><p>Intellectual Property Office;</p></li><li><p>Land Registry;</p></li><li><p>Legal Services Board;</p></li><li><p>Northern Lighthouse Board;</p></li><li><p>Office for Nuclear Regulation;</p></li><li><p>Office of Rail and Road;</p></li><li><p>Office of the Public Guardian;</p></li><li><p>OFWAT;</p></li><li><p>Oil and Gas Authority;</p></li><li><p>Prudential Regulation Authority;</p></li><li><p>Security Industry Authority;</p></li><li><p>Trinity House;</p></li><li><p>Vehicle Certification Agency.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/05/2018 16:39:19 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3789 label Biography information for Lord Teverson

889812

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the membership of the Cabinet sub-Committee that discussed the hostile environment policy for illegal immigrants; and what conclusions that sub-Committee came to on the likely impact of that policy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL7144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>Information relating to the proceedings of Cabinet Committees, including when and how often they meet, is not disclosed as to do so could harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion. A full list of the Cabinet Committees and Implementation Task Forces, with their membership and terms of reference, can be found on the Cabinet Office's webpage attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/05/2018 16:57:04 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces.pdf title Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

895028

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cloud services contracts that were previously delivered by British cloud services providers for the Cabinet Office are now delivered by multinational cloud service providers; what is the value of those contracts; and what are the names of the previous providers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL7393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>This information cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate costs.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/05/2018 16:01:42 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

895205

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cost of Living
	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 Young of Cookham on 30 April (HL6934), when the Office for National Statistics expects to be able to produce regional price indices, including for Northern Ireland.
	tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
	uin	HL7465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to Lord Maginnis of Drumglas , dated 3 May 2018.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Maginnis,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 30 April (HL6934), when the Office for National Statistics expects to be able to produce regional price indices, including for Northern Ireland <strong>(HL7465)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statisitcs (ONS) commissioned the University of Southampton to produce a feasibility study into producing price indices for all the Government Office Regions, including Northern Ireland, using current price and expenditure data. The results of this research were published in November 2017[1]. Following this publication, we have further commissioned University of Southampton to continue the study. While still underway, initial findings of the study suggest that we will be unable to produce reliable regional price indices without a significant increase in the price sample for this area, which would be costly. We expect the study to be completed by December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We are actively pursuing access to retailers' transactional databases as part of our work exploring alternative data sources for consumer price statistics under the Digital Economy Act’s framework to access data for statistical purposes. At such a time as we receive access to these data we will have a sufficiently detailed data source to explore more reliable regional consumer price statistics; however, our timescales are dependent on when retailers might provide us with such data.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,<br></p><p><strong><br> John Pullinger</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/methodologies/feasibilitystudyintoproducingcpihconsistentinflationratesforukregions" target="_blank">Feasibility study into producing CPIH consistent inflation rates for UK regions</a></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/05/2018 16:18:12 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

895206

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cervical Cancer
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the incidence rates of cervical cancer among (1) 18–49 year old women, and (2) women over the age of 50, in England for each year since 2011.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	uin	HL7466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Countess of Mar, dated 3 May 2018.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Dear Lady Mar,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking what were the incidence rates of cervical cancer among (1) 18-49 year old women, and (2) women over the age of 50, in England for each year since 2011 <strong>(HL7466)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS), in collaboration with Public Health England, publishes the number of cancer cases registered (incidence) in England in each calendar year, as part of its Cancer Statistics Registrations, England (Series MB1) release. The latest available cancer incidence data published by ONS are provisional figures for 2016[1]. The provisional 2016 release does not contain a refreshed back series of cancer incidence, which would consider the continual accrual of late registrations. Therefore, the historic figures (from 2011 to 2015) below are based on the 2015 National Statistics release[2].</p><p> </p><p>Cervical cancer is defined using International Classification of Diseases, 10<sup>th</sup> edition (ICD-10) code C53 (malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri). <strong>Table 1</strong> overleaf provides the number and rate of women diagnosed cases of cervical cancer, (ICD-10: C53) by age group, in England from 2011 to 2016.</p><p> </p><p>While ONS does not hold cancer incidence data for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, similar figures are published by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry[3], the Scottish Cancer Registry[4] and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit[5], respectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Age group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="11"><p><strong>Year of Registration</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016<sup>p</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18-49</p></td><td><p>Count</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,576</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,555</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,642</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,655</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,609</p></td><td><p>1,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50+</p></td><td><p>Count</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>979</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>989</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,037</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>950</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>906</p></td><td><p>1,003</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18-49</p></td><td><p>Rate</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13.4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13.3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>14.0</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>14.2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13.8</p></td><td><p>13.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50+</p></td><td><p>Rate</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.0</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9.3</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="13"><p>1. Cervical cancer is defined according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) as C53.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>p Provisional figures.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>Source: Office for National Statistics</em></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Table 1: Incidence counts and rates per 100,000 women of cervical cancer by age group, England, 2011 to 2016<sup>1</sup></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/2016</a></p><p>[2]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/2015" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/2015</a></p><p>[3] <a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/" target="_blank">http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/</a></p><p>[4] <a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/" target="_blank">http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/</a></p><p>[5] <a href="http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home" target="_blank">http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home</a></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/05/2018 16:30:44 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

897339

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of EU nationals working in the travel and hospitality sectors of the UK economy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
	uin	HL7570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Rt Hon. the Lord Pendry, dated 10 May 2018.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Pendry,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what estimate has been made of the number of EU nationals working in the travel and hospitality sectors of the UK economy <strong>(HL7570)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles labour market statistics for people in employment by industry and by nationality from the Annual Population Survey (APS), a household survey of people in the UK. People are classified to industry groups and nationality based on responses given during survey interview.</p><p> </p><p>ONS classifies people to industry groups in line with the Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC2007). We have defined the travel and hospitality sectors to include industries covering accommodation for visitors, food and beverage servicing activities, passenger transport, vehicle hire and travel agencies.</p><p> </p><p>For the period January 2017 to December 2017, the latest period available, the total number of EU nationals, including UK nationals, working in the travel and hospitality sectors was 2,141,000. Of these, 1,853,000 were UK nationals, with the remaining 288,000 nationals of other EU countries.</p><p> </p><p>As with any sample survey, APS estimates are subject to a certain level of uncertainty.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/05/2018 16:00:12 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

901061

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	British Constitution
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which Cabinet committee has responsibility for addressing constitutional issues.
	tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
	uin	HL7705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>Constitutional issues are regularly considered by Cabinet and a number of Cabinet sub-Committees. The Social Reform (Home Affairs) sub-Committee and the EU Exit and Trade (Domestic Preparedness, Devolution and Legislation) sub-Committee are the principal Committees at which constitutional issues are considered. A full list of all the Cabinet Committees is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/05/2018 15:57:16 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name Cabinet Committees and Implementation .pdf title Cabinet Committees and Implementation
	tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

901062

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	British Constitution
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Cabinet Office is presently structured at official level to address holistically the constitution of the UK; and, if so, how.
	tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
	uin	HL7706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Constitution Group, based in the Cabinet Office, sits within the wider UK Governance Group which is also made up of the Scotland Office, the Office of the Advocate General and the Wales Office. Close links are also maintained across Whitehall departments in order to ensure constitutional issues are properly considered including in the appropriate Cabinet Committee.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:12:14 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

901067

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many allegations of personation or attempted personation in the 2018 local elections in England have been reported to the police.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL7711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collates information on allegations of electoral fraud at elections and in due course will publish a report covering polls held in 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:07:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901069

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to contact Returning Officers responsible for the conduct of the local elections in England in 2018 to ask how many tendered ballot papers were issued as a result of people turning up to a polling station to find that their vote had already been cast.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL7712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to ask Returning Officers to provide this information. It is for the Returning Officers to ensure they run free and fair elections. It is open to candidates, parties and accredited observers to scrutinise polls and raise any issues. Whilst details of tendered ballot papers issues are recorded at each polling station, numbers are not totalled and there is no requirement to record this number.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7713 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:08:27 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901070

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	General Election 2017
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to contact Returning Officers responsible for the General Election in 2017 in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland, to ask how many tendered ballot papers were issued as a result of people turning up to a polling station to find that their vote had already been cast; and whether they will do so before 8 June when such lists will be destroyed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL7713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to ask Returning Officers to provide this information. It is for the Returning Officers to ensure they run free and fair elections. It is open to candidates, parties and accredited observers to scrutinise polls and raise any issues. Whilst details of tendered ballot papers issues are recorded at each polling station, numbers are not totalled and there is no requirement to record this number.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7712 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:08:27 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901071

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to provide funding for, and ask the Electoral Commission to undertake, a representative survey of people taken from the marked registers showing that a vote had been cast in their name at a polling station in the 2018 local elections so as to obtain an indication as to how many of them did not vote, but had a vote claimed by another person who attended the polling station.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL7714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level and is taking steps to ensure our elections are even more secure. At the 2018 local elections a number of local authorities volunteered to conduct Voter ID pilots to ensure that voters provided a form of identification before voting.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission will produce its own reports on the 2018 polls and will collate information on allegations of electoral fraud. The Government has no plans to ask the Electoral Commission to conduct an additional survey.</p><p> </p><p>Three further areas, Tower Hamlets Peterborough Slough undertook postal vote pilots looking at the security of postal votes. The Cabinet Office and Electoral Commission will undertake detailed evaluation of the pilots.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7715 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:09:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901072

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to provide funding for, and ask the Electoral Commission to undertake, a representative survey of people who voted by post in the 2018 local elections so as to obtain an indication as to how many of them may not have cast the vote themselves, or without proper conditions of privacy in keeping with the spirit of the Ballot Act 1872.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL7715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level and is taking steps to ensure our elections are even more secure. At the 2018 local elections a number of local authorities volunteered to conduct Voter ID pilots to ensure that voters provided a form of identification before voting.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission will produce its own reports on the 2018 polls and will collate information on allegations of electoral fraud. The Government has no plans to ask the Electoral Commission to conduct an additional survey.</p><p> </p><p>Three further areas, Tower Hamlets Peterborough Slough undertook postal vote pilots looking at the security of postal votes. The Cabinet Office and Electoral Commission will undertake detailed evaluation of the pilots.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL7714 question first answered 22/05/2018 15:09:33 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901073

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	General Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what changes there have been to the population eligible to vote in General Elections in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland, between 1 December 2015 and 3 May 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL7716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Information regarding the total number of registered electors is not held centrally by the Government as each local authority maintains their own local register. Full registration statistics are accessible from the Office for National Statistics website (<a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.ons.gov.uk</a>) including Parliamentary elector statistics for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:10:23 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

901084

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Appointments: Equality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase gender diversity at board level positions in public bodies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL7727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>In increasing the gender diversity of new appointees each year we have made considerable progress. In 2016/17, the proportion of women as new appointees to the boards of public bodies rose to 49% from 34% in 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2017 Government launched its Diversity Action Plan for Public Appointments. This includes a commitment that by 2022, half of public appointees should be female and 14% should be from ethnic minorities, bringing representation on public boards in line with the wider population.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:10:54 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

901412

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the role of the House of Lords Appointments Commission in relation to the forthcoming hereditary by-election.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL7739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The House of Lords Appointments Commission does not have a role in the hereditary by-election process. Under the Standing Orders of the House, this process is conducted in accordance with arrangements made by the Clerk of the Parliaments.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:01:16 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

901414

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Politics and Government: Sexual Harassment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to updating (1) the Ministerial Code of Conduct, (2) the Special Advisers Code of Conduct, and (3) the Civil Service Code of Conduct, in response to allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in public life and the awareness raised by the MeToo campaign.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
	uin	HL7741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Ministerial Code was revised in January 2018 to include new wording to make clear that harassing, bullying or other inappropriate or discriminatory behaviour wherever it takes place is not consistent with the Ministerial Code and will not be tolerated. We will be looking to make similar amendments to the Civil Service Code and the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:02:58 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic