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1012539

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Public Libraries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether spending on public libraries has fallen for a fifth successive year in 2017–18.
	tabling member printed	Lord Shipley
	uin	HL11731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The latest data on the total net current expenditure on library services by local authorities across England is shown in the table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Library Service Net Current Expenditure, England 2012-13 to 2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net current expenditure (£m)</p></td><td><p>824</p></td><td><p>804</p></td><td><p>762</p></td><td><p>733</p></td><td><p>671</p></td><td><p>641</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of authorities' data from which the total is calculated *</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>151</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Source: Local authorities' Revenue Outturn returns to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>* 152 local authorities in England are responsible for delivering library services. Five did not provide a valid figure in one or more of these years.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 06/12/2018 14:04:01 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4176 label Biography information for Lord Shipley

1012541

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was the education services grant to local authorities in (1) 2013–14, (2) 2014–15, (3) 2015–16, and (4) 2016–17.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL11733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the education services grants (ESG) allocated to local authorities in each financial year from 2013-2014 to 2016-2017:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Education services grant allocated to local authorities in England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Allocation (£ millions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>799.46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>717.12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>563.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>496.94</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The removal of the ESG as of September 2017 was announced at the 2015 Spending Review – there was a note to this effect in the attached document (attachment 1).</p><p>The note states that the rationale for the removal was “making around £600 million savings from the ESG and supporting schools to realise efficiencies” and “Savings of around £600 million will be made on the ESG, including phasing out the additional funding schools receive through the ESG.”</p><p>Data sources:</p><p>2013-14 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant</a>.</p><p>2014-15 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2014-to-2015</a>.</p><p>2015-16 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p>2016-17 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-esg-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-esg-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 06/12/2018 15:44:50 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL11733 attachment 1 doc..pdf title Attachment 1 for HL11733
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1012272

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Elections: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on implementing the proposals to remove the requirement for candidates standing as local councillors to have their home addresses published on the ballot paper.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	194696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>We have consulted electoral stakeholders on changes to deliver, and to go beyond, the recommendation from the Committee on Standards in Public Life to remove the requirement that the home address of candidates for local council elections must appear on the ballot paper. We will be laying statutory instruments before Parliament shortly that will apply the changes to elections of local councillors, parish councillors, Combined Authority Mayors and local mayors.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/12/2018 15:39:41 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1012306

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been charged in penalties for overpayment of carers allowance in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	194704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has two different financial penalties that can be imposed. The first is the Civil Penalty. Where our enquiries show that a claimant has failed to provide accurate information as part of their benefit claim or in connection with an award of benefit, they have not taken reasonable steps to correct the error and their action has resulted in an overpayment of over £65, DWP currently charges a £50 Civil Penalty.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Monetary value of Civil Penalties</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>£216,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>£356,550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>£463,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/2018</p></td><td><p>£427,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 YTD</p></td><td><p>£330,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /><p>The Second type of financial penalty is the Administrative Penalty, which may be offered to a person as an alternative to prosecution. Currently the minimum amount of the Administrative Penalty is £350 or 50% of the recoverable overpayment, whichever is greater, up to a maximum of £5,000.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to provide the total value of administrative penalties imposed by DWP in the last 5 years as this information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/12/2018 15:47:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1012307

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of overpayment of carers allowance have been taken to court under the Proceeds of Crime Act for each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	194705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 194703 194706 question first answered 06/12/2018 15:17:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 87650 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1012308

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of overpayment of carers allowance are currently listed before the courts.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	194706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 194703 194705 question first answered 06/12/2018 15:17:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 87651 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1012309

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of overpayment of Carers Allowance her Department is pursuing; and of those cases how many relate to (a) 51 or fewer, (b) 52 to 103, (c) 104 to 155, (d) 156 to 207, (e) 208 to 259, (f) 260 to 311, (g) 312 to 363 and (h) 364 or more weeks of overpayment.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	194707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>Data shows that we are currently pursuing 69,609 Carer’s Allowance overpayments. However, not all these debts are currently in recovery as we can only recover one benefit debt at a time.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested relating to the number of weeks of overpayment is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/12/2018 15:55:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 87652 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1012305

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of overpayment of Carers Allowance have been taken to court in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	194703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 194705 194706 question first answered 06/12/2018 15:17:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 87649 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1012529

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the additional funding announced for claimants migrating to Universal Credit will be spent.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Meacher
	uin	HL11721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2018 we announced a package worth £4.5 billion across the next five years, to support those on Universal Credit. These measures include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A £1000 annual increase in the Work Allowance from April 2019,which will provide a £630 boost for households with children, and for people with disabilities.</li><li>Reducing, from October 2019, the maximum rate at which deductions can be made from a Universal Credit award from 40 per cent to 30 per cent of the standard allowance. Additionally, from October 2021, the recovery period for advances will increase from 12 to 16 months. This will help over 600,000 families to manage their debts at any one point when roll-out is complete, providing them with, on average, £295 extra a year as their debts are repaid over a longer period.</li><li>Introducing, from July 2020 a two week transitional run on (similar to the Housing Benefit run-on introduced earlier this year) of income related legacy benefits (Income Support, income related Employment and Support Allowance and income based Jobseeker’s Allowance) for two weeks after a claim for Universal Credit has been made. This measure means that around 1.1 million households will see a one-off gain of approximately £200, between 2020/21 and 2023/24.</li><li>Commencing from July 2020, supporting the transition to Universal Credit for all self-employed people, by extending the 12-month grace period (the period before the Minimum Income Floor applies) to all gainfully self-employed people; giving claimants time to grow their businesses to a sustainable level. This will be implemented fully from September 2020.</li><li>An extension in the surplus earnings disregard exception for up to £2500 for another year from 2019 to 2020</li></ul> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 11/12/2018 14:37:11 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	3810 label Biography information for Baroness Meacher

1012548

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, published on 14 November, what steps they have taken to provide representation for both political communities in Northern Ireland on the proposed specialised committee on issues related to the implementation of the protocol on the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland under Article 165(c).
	tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
	uin	HL11740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Withdrawal Agreement establishes a number of forums in which the Protocol will be considered or overseen: a Joint Committee, a Specialised Committee on the Northern Ireland Protocol, and a Joint Consultative Working Group.</p><p>The Joint Committee, the Specialised Committee and the Joint Consultative Working Group will be comprised of representatives of the UK and the EU. Their detailed rules of procedure have not yet been finalised. While the formal representation of the UK in international forums is and will continue to be a matter for the UK Government, we fully recognise the importance of reflecting the interests of the whole of the Northern Ireland community on issues relating to the Northern Ireland Protocol.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 06/12/2018 16:51:41 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley