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1017064

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse
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 Bill for Survivors, published by Women’s Aid, and its proposal that they should have a statutory duty to “assess all welfare reforms for their impact on survivors’ ability to escape abuse”.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that domestic abuse is a devastating crime that shatters the lives of victims and families. It is vital that the response to domestic abuse supports victims and survivors, pursues perpetrators and ensures agencies provide an effective service.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will be publishing a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill, which will help transform our response to the crime. We will have pledged to create a statutory Government definition of domestic abuse, introduce new Domestic Abuse Protection Orders and establish a Domestic Abuse Commissioner.</p><p> </p><p>DWP policies are subject to appraisal and impact assessment in line with HM Treasury Green Book guidance. The Department is required under the Public Sector Equality Duty to assess the impact of specific policies on ‘protected groups’ including by gender, age, race and disability, and where relevant this requirement is met by the conducting of equality impact assessments. We have no current plans separately to consider domestic abuse.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 10/12/2018 15:13:18 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1012124

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure the accountability of service providers under the new (1) Asylum Accommodation and Support Transformation, and (2) Advice, Issues Resolution and Eligibility contracts for asylum accommodation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government expects the highest standards from our contractors and Providers are monitored closely to ensure they continue to meet these standards.</p><p>The forthcoming Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract(AASC) together with the Advice, Issue Reporting &amp; Eligibility(AIRE) contracts, include clearly defined performance standards measured through a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set within a wider Performance Management Regime (PMR) that will ensure the safety and wellbeing of all Service Users.</p><p>These will be monitored formally at Contract Management meetings between the providers and representatives of UK Visas and Immigration.</p><p>There is a rigorous contract compliance regime in place to ensure that the required performance standards expected of all providers, as defined in the contracts, are met. Instances of non-conformance of the performance indicators may lead to a financial deduction from monthly invoices</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/12/2018 17:12:57 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1012125

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 20 November (HL11324), in which period the UK spent 3.8 per cent of GDP on expenditure classified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as “family benefits”; and whether "family benefits" include (1) tax breaks, and (2) cash benefits and services.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data is for 2013. The “family benefits” category includes both cash benefits and services. It does not include tax breaks.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/12/2018 13:42:41 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1007506

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 6 November (HL10945), whether they will now answer the question previously asked, namely how many children have had their applications for British citizenship denied because they failed the good character test in each of the last five years for which information is available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Baroness to my previous answer.</p><p>The information which is now available indicates there were a total of 255 refusals of applications for British citizenship on character grounds under Section 41A of the British Nationality Act 1981 for minors and young persons (aged 10 to 18) in the period 2013 to 2017.</p><p>A table giving the breakdown by calendar year is given below</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Refusals of applications from minors for British citizenship on grounds that the applicant was 'Not of good character'</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of decision</p></td><td><p>Refusals of registration for applicants aged 10 to 18 years under section 41A of the British Nationality Act 1981</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="3"><p>Source: Home Office Migration Statistics Immigration Statistics year to March 2018. Subset of 'Not of good character' in table cz_09.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Age is calculated as at date of decision.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We consider it appropriate to apply to minors the same criminality thresholds in the good character test that are applied to adults, and there are no current plans to review this.</p><p>10 and over is in line with the age of criminal responsibility.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 03/12/2018 16:33:56 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1005614

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Manzoor on 23 October (HL Deb, cols 763–5), whether they will clarify for which citizenship applications child fee waivers will apply.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>I am grateful for the opportunity to put the record straight, having reviewed the Official Report with Baroness Lister. Fee waivers are available for immigration applications based on particular specified human rights reasons in which to require a fee before an application for leave to remain is considered would be a breach of that individual’s human rights. Fee waivers are not available for citizenship applications, and therefore they are not available for children seeking registration as British citizens.</p><p>I fully acknowledge that the answer I gave on 23 October did not provide the complete picture and once again am grateful to be able to remove the ambiguity my oral answer will have created. I will be writing to those who took part in the oral question to repeat the clarification in this answer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 20/11/2018 17:55:28 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1002483

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Buscombe on 5 November (HL Deb, col 1581), what evidence informed her statement that the UK “provides more benefits for families than any other advanced nation”; and what measure of “benefits for families” was used.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest data shows that the UK spends 3.8 per cent of GDP on expenditure classified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as “family benefits”. This is more than any other country in the OECD.</p><p> </p><p>“Family benefits” include cash benefits, such as personal tax credits, Child Benefit; maternity benefits and child Disability Living Allowance; and benefits in kind covering child care and social services. They do not include other benefits that might be available to the claimant, such as Personal Independence Payment or Housing Benefit.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 20/11/2018 17:08:23 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

994356

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 31 July (HL9752) and their response to the report by the Women and Equalities Committee, Race Disparity Audit, published by that Committee on 11 September, when they will adopt the same categories as are used in the Census as the minimum standard for data collection on ethnicity across Government departments; and whether this will include specific categories for Gypsies and Irish Travellers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The ethnicity data published on the <em>Ethnicity Facts and Figures</em> website includes data from the Census, published official statistics, numerous Government surveys and Departments’ own administrative records. <br> <br> Currently, the website has 52 measures (web pages) that present data using the detailed classification of ethnicity developed for the 2011 Census, which includes Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma Travellers (GRT). However, figures for the GRT ethnic group in some of these measures were suppressed for reasons of confidentiality protection and/or because the numbers were too small to enable robust estimates to be produced.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for the design of the Census, including advising Parliament on the format of a question about ethnicity. <br> <br> ONS also has a leadership role across the Government Statistical Service, to encourage those conducting household surveys to use survey questions and output classifications that are harmonised with the Census approach, and across government more generally in relation to the use of harmonised approaches (to data collection) on administrative systems</p><p><br> The Cabinet Office is working with the ONS on how to support the widespread adoption of the detailed ethnicity classification that will be used in the 2021 Census</p><p><br> The Cabinet Office's Race Disparity Unit is also taking steps to enhance the degree of harmonisation in ethnicity data presented on the <em>Ethnicity Facts and Figures</em> website, for example by requesting new analyses to match the high level groups that represent the current harmonised ethnicity standard.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/11/2018 12:57:23 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

993811

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Lone Parents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of lone parent families subject to the benefit cap on Universal Credit have a child aged under 2 years old.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL10944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>Figures on number and proportion of single parent families subject to the Benefit Cap on Universal Credit by age of the youngest child are intended for future publication. The Department published its Universal Credit experimental statistics future release strategy on the 12 June 2018 in response to the public consultation on future Universal Credit statistics.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 31/10/2018 15:19:51 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

993812

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children have had their applications for British citizenship denied because they failed the good character test in each of the last five years for which information is available.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL10945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The available published information on the total number of decisions to refuse applications for British citizenship where the applicant is found to be not of good character for applicants of all ages are published in Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2018, Citizenship tables cz_09 (Refusals of citizenship by reason) available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship</a></p><p> </p><p>The table below provides figures for the last 5 calendar years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Refusals of British citizenship by reason</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reason for refusal</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Incomplete applications</p></td><td><p>687</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parent not a British citizen</p></td><td><p>553</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>749</p></td><td><p>931</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not of good character</p></td><td><p>2,295</p></td><td><p>1,095</p></td><td><p>4,524</p></td><td><p>5,525</p></td><td><p>3,119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Delay in replying to enquiries from UKVI</p></td><td><p>423</p></td><td><p>1,234</p></td><td><p>1,254</p></td><td><p>1,698</p></td><td><p>1,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Residence</p></td><td><p>2,264</p></td><td><p>1,224</p></td><td><p>2,825</p></td><td><p>2,632</p></td><td><p>1,659</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oath not taken in time</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Insufficient Knowledge of English and KOL</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>531</p></td><td><p>673</p></td><td><p>720</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>536</p></td><td><p>423</p></td><td><p>495</p></td><td><p>996</p></td><td><p>544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total refusals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,820</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,709</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,646</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,592</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,714</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British already</p></td><td><p>375</p></td><td><p>383</p></td><td><p>312</p></td><td><p>496</p></td><td><p>598</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Withdrawn</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total refused or withdrawn</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,269</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,174</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11,083</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13,308</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,432</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rejected applications</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>1,852</p></td><td><p>838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Home Office, Migration Border Analysis.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Immigration Statistics year to June 2018 - subset of table cz_09.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/11/2018 13:09:27 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

993813

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish any equality impact assessment of the managed migration of Universal Credit; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL10946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>DWP published an equality impact assessment for Universal Credit in 2011, a copy of which is attached.</p><p> </p><p>As we have noted in our response to the Social Security Advisory Committee, we have now announced that testing for the managed migration will commence in July 2019, we will test and refine our processes on a small scale to ensure that they are working well before we take on larger volumes from 2020, completing the process by the end of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>We are conducting detailed Equality Assessments of migration plans as part of our Public Sector Equality Duty. This process is iterative, and so the impacts of the testing will be fully evaluated with equality impacts reassessed in accordance with the evaluation results. So it can take into account the learning and adaptations we make following the testing phase we will publish an assessment of the impacts of managed migration prior to increasing the scaling of managed migration.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 06/11/2018 17:02:37 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name HL10946 eia-universal-credit-wr2011.pdf title UC Equality Impact Assessment
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett