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990496

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Constituencies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Boundary Commission proposals will be subject to a vote in Parliament; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL10829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>An Order in Council is required give effect to the recommendations contained in all four Boundary Commission reports. The Order must be debated and approved by Parliament before the recommendations can be adopted.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 01/11/2018 12:55:52 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

990481

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of research by the Renewable Energy Foundation, The Performance of Wind Farms in the UK and Denmark, published in December 2012, which demonstrates that the working lifetime of offshore wind turbines is shorter than previously thought; whether they intend to revise their low carbon-energy policy or policy on wind turbines as a result; and whether they support any development to turbine technology which could deliver increases to their working lifetime.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	uin	HL10814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department periodically reviews the evidence base on the generation costs of renewable electricity technologies, including their operational lifetimes, and when appropriate publishes reports on the topic. The most recent of these publications can be found on the gov.uk website, and a copy is also attached here.</p><p>The UK’s oldest offshore windfarm, Blyth (off the coast of Northumberland), was commissioned in 2000 and is still in operation today. The world’s oldest offshore windfarm, Vindeby in Denmark, was decommissioned in 2017 after 25 years of operation.</p><p>The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has a programme of work looking at lifetime asset management and has recently announced an operations &amp; maintenance centre of excellence in collaboration with the University of Hull.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 01/11/2018 17:05:19 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley attachment 1 file name BEIS_Electricity_Generation_Cost_Report.pdf title BEIS Electricity Generation Cost Report
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

990497

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Financial Reporting Council Independent Review: Disclosure of Information
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to publish the minutes of the September meeting of the Independent Review of the Financial Reporting Council; and if so, when.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McDonagh
	uin	HL10830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>In accordance with the Review’s terms of reference, a summary of the discussion held at the September 2018 meeting of the Review’s Advisory Group will be made available in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 01/11/2018 17:05:34 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	3701 label Biography information for Baroness McDonagh

990501

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	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 accuracy of the analysis provided by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the teachers' pay award announced in July which states that “about 60 per cent of teachers will receive below-inflation awards of 2 per cent, or in the case of school leaders 1.5 per cent".
	tabling member printed	Baroness Pinnock
	uin	HL10834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>For all pay awards, the government considered the wider pressures on public spending and the need to ensure they were fair for both public sector workers and the taxpayer. The government provided for a significant uplift in starting salaries to focus on raising pay for the lowest paid teachers at the start of their careers.</p><p> </p><p>43.5% of the teacher workforce, or the 199,000 teachers currently on the Unqualified Teacher and Main Pay Range ranges will see an uplift of 3.5% to their pay range. The remaining 56.5% will see an increase to their pay ranges of between 1.5% and 2%.</p><p> </p><p>Arrangements for teachers’ pay have been fundamentally reformed over the last four years following recommendations from the School Teachers’ Review Body. The freedoms the government have given headteachers over pay mean that there are no restrictions on increases within the minima and maxima of the national pay ranges. Schools are able to choose to give teachers a higher pay rise where this is appropriate to their particular local context and budget, subject to performance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/11/2018 15:15:46 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4341 label Biography information for Baroness Pinnock

990459

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Pensions Regulator will require trustees of net pay pension schemes to make provision for low earners to save in a relief at source scheme and do not enrol workers who would have to pay 25 per cent extra for their pensions.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10793 HL10794 HL10795 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

990460

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on what grounds they opted to automatically enrol low earners into a net pay pension scheme which forces them to pay 25 per cent more for their pension than they would do in a relief at source scheme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10792 HL10794 HL10795 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

990461

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect low earners from losing out on tax relief in automatic pension enrolment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10792 HL10793 HL10795 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

990462

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government who is responsible for ensuring that employers do not use net pay pension schemes for staff who earn below the personal tax thresholds.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.9 million workers enrolled into workplace pension saving and over 1.3 million employers meeting their duties to date.</p><p> </p><p>Under automatic enrolment the employer is responsible for putting in place a qualifying workplace pension scheme for their eligible workers. Employers have a choice, in the marketplace, of a number qualifying workplace pension schemes that can be used to fulfil their automatic enrolment duties; including the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST has no set-up costs, and a public service obligation to accept any employer who meets their scheme’s terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator provides guidance to employers on choosing a pension scheme for their staff in order to discharge their statutory obligations under automatic enrolment. This provides information about the choice between net pay and relief at source schemes, and the implications of net pay schemes for employees who do not pay tax.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL10792 HL10793 HL10794 question first answered 01/11/2018 13:23:08 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

990482

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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	Social Security Benefits: Underpayments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure there are no further instances of wrongly calculated benefits on the scale described by the Department for Work and Pensions in its document, ESA Underpayments: Forecast Numbers Affected, Forecast Expenditure and Progress on Checking, published on 17 October.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL10815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has strengthened its governance arrangements for the identification and management of actual or potential errors, so the impact on individuals can be understood and an appropriate response put in place.</p><p> </p><p>The National Audit Office conducted an investigation into the underpayment errors in transferring people to Employment and Support Allowance from other benefits and the Public Accounts Committee published their recommendations on 18 July 2018. The Department’s response to this investigation was published on 9 October 2018 and is available on Gov.uk.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 01/11/2018 15:15:03 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

990470

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Multiple Occupation: Licensing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the issue of landlords acquiring bed and breakfast accommodation to circumvent the houses in multiple occupation licensing legislation has been drawn to the attention of ministers; and, if so, whether ministers will act to amend the applicable rules.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL10803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is not aware of cases where a landlord has acquired bed and breakfast accommodation in order to circumvent legislation on the licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs). If the Lord Campbell-Savours has specific evidence of this, we would be pleased to consider it.</p><p>Mandatory licensing applies to properties occupied by 5 or more people, forming two or more households and sharing facilities. It is recognised as having improved safety and property conditions in HMOs.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 01/11/2018 14:13:50 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours