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1183160

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Sales
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 Vere of Norbiton on 26 February (HL1555), when they intend to consult on bringing forward the ending of the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 to 2035 or earlier if a faster transition appears possible.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL2252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>On the 4 February the Prime Minister announced a consultation on bringing forward the end to the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible. The consultation was published on 20 February.</p><p> </p><p>This follows our manifesto commitment and reflects the independent Committee on Climate Change advice that the phase out date should be 2035 or ideally 2030, and that only battery electric or other zero emission vehicles should be permitted to be sold after this point.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this consultation, we are asking what the accompanying package of support will need to be to enable the transition and to minimise the impacts on businesses and consumers across the UK, building on the significant demand and supply side measures already in place. We are already engaging with stakeholders on this issue and plan to conclude the consultation in the summer.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 19/03/2020 12:05:30 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1183161

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Skilled Workers: Vacancies
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 percentage of job vacancies which remain unfilled because of skill shortages among potential applicants; and what steps they are taking to introduce training courses and apprenticeships to fill that gap.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Employer Skills Survey 2017 identified 1,007,000 vacancies, of which 226,000 were skill-shortage vacancies (SSVs) – representing 22% of all vacancies. This percentage has remained broadly stable over several waves of the survey – 23% in 2015. Employers were most likely to report SSVs for Skilled Trades (42% of all Skilled Trades vacancies were SSVs), Machine Operatives (31% of all these vacancies were SSVs) and Professionals (30% of all these vacancies were SSVs). These proportions are also in line with 2015 percentages. We are awaiting results of the 2019 survey.</p><p> </p><p>We have put in place a range of measures to tackle skills gaps. We are making apprenticeships longer, better, with more off-the-job training and proper assessment at the end, with new standards across all levels being designed and driven by the industry so they can equip people with the skills they need. We will be investing up to £500 million a year in T levels, a high quality technical alternative to A levels, which will be more rigorous than current vocational courses and involve employers in their development to ensure the qualifications have real labour market value.</p><p>We also investing up to £290 million of capital funding to establish 20 new Institutes of Technology, which will be the pinnacle of technical training offering higher technical education and training in key sectors such as digital, construction, advanced manufacturing and engineering.</p><p> </p><p>We have also invested £100 million into establishing a National Retaining Scheme, which will help prepare adults for future changes to the economy, including those brought about by automation, and help them retrain into better jobs. On top of this we are investing an extra £3 billion, over the course of this Parliament, for a new National Skills Fund to help people learn new skills and prepare for the economy of the future. The fund will help ensure that businesses can find and hire the workers they need and help people fulfil their potential.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 24/03/2020 17:17:31 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1183162

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bank Services
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 steps taken by the banking sector to meet the needs of vulnerable customers.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>This Government believes that individuals, regardless of their background or income, should have access to useful and affordable financial products and services, including a bank account.</p><p> </p><p>Basic bank accounts are a key financial inclusion policy, enabling people, including those that are vulnerable, to manage their money on a day-to-day basis effectively, securely and confidently. These are bank accounts that are fee-free for all everyday banking services and have no overdraft facility. The 9 largest personal current account providers in the UK are legally required to offer fee-free basic bank accounts to customers who do not have a bank account or who are ineligible for a bank’s standard current account.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury publishes data on basic bank accounts annually. The December 2019 publication shows that in total there are nearly 7.5 million basic bank accounts open in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>UK banks’ and building societies’ treatment of their customers is governed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA requires firms to identify particularly vulnerable customers, and to deal with such customers appropriately. This includes older people, disabled people, and those who may lack the capacity to manage their account on their own.</p><p> </p><p>Further to this, the FCA recently concluded the first stage of a consultation on firms’ treatment of vulnerable customers and it will be issuing a second consultation in the spring. Protecting vulnerable customers is a key priority for the FCA. While many firms have made significant progress, the Treasury and the FCA want to see this issue being taken seriously by all firms so that vulnerable customers receive consistently fair treatment.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury continues to work with firms and the FCA to ensure that the needs of vulnerable customers are met.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 19/03/2020 15:43:10 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1183163

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
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 level of police recruitment during the last 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on joiners in the annual police workforce statistics, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p>In 2018/19, 9,427 police officers joined the 43 police forces in England and Wales, accounting for 8% of officers. Excluding those who transferred from other forces, joiners accounted for 6% of all officers. This was a 16% increase on the previous year and the highest number of joiners in a financial year since 2008/09.</p><p>The Government is also delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years. In October 2019 the Home Office confirmed officer allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift.</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift</p><p>The Home Office has announced plans to publish quarterly updates outlining the progress on delivering the police uplift programme. They will start from April 2020, lasting throughout the duration of the campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2020 16:02:01 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name police-workforce-sep19-hosb0220.pdf title Police Workforce - England and Wales
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1183164

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
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	Homelessness
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 success of their strategy to address homelessness between January 2019 and January 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>Because housing is a devolved issue, we would advise you to contact the Northern Ireland authorities for information about temporary accommodation in Northern Ireland.</p><p>The Government is clear that no one should be without a roof over their head. That is why we have now committed to end rough sleeping within this Parliament and to fully enforce the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA).</p><p>The latest published statutory homelessness data (April-June 2019) offers promising signs regarding the impact of the HRA:</p><p>Under the HRA more households are being offered statutory support, with more single people receiving help than ever before. 65 per cent of households owed a duty were single households, compared to 30 per cent prior to the introduction of the HRA.</p><p>Most households at risk of homelessness are having it successfully prevented. 57 per cent of the households whose prevention duty ended in this period secured their existing accommodation or were helped to find alternative accommodation. 40 per cent of the households whose relief duty ended in this period were helped to find accommodation.</p><p>Local authorities will now receive an additional £63 million in 2020/21 through the Homelessness Reduction Grant to carry out these duties. This is part of a £437 million package to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over 2020/21.</p><p>In addition, the most recent national figures from the Official 2019 Rough Sleeping Snapshot, showed that the number of people sleeping on our streets on a single night fell for the second year in a row. The number of those sleeping rough on one night in 2019 was 9 per cent lower than the previous year.  This follows year-on-year increases prior to 2018.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 19/03/2020 13:47:57 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1183165

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fisheries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to ensure good terms for UK fishermen at the end of the EU withdrawal transition period.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>At the end of the transition period, the UK will be an independent coastal state with rights under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to control and manage the resources in our waters.</p><p> </p><p>On 27 February 2020, the Government published the UK’s approach to the future relationship with the EU. The Government is ready to consider an agreement on fisheries that reflects the fact that the UK will be an independent coastal state at the end of 2020. However, any such framework agreement should set out the scope and process for annual negotiations on access to the parties’ exclusive economic zones and fishing opportunities. Fishing opportunities should be negotiated annually based on the best available science for shared stocks provided by the International Council for Exploration of the Seas. The UK will not accept the Common Fisheries Policy’s ‘relative stability’ mechanism for sharing fishing quotas, which is outdated and based on historical fishing activity from the 1970s. Future fishing opportunities should be based on the principle of zonal attachment, which better reflects where the fish live.</p><p> </p><p>Negotiations with the EU commenced on 2 March. The Government is committed to securing good terms for fishers in the whole of the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 19/03/2020 14:14:03 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1183166

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce new powers for police forces to tackle anti-social behaviour.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>It is important that the police and local agencies have the powers they need to tackle local issues quickly and effectively. That is why we reformed the tools and powers available to tackle anti-social behaviour through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. We currently do not plan to introduce any new powers.</p><p>The powers in the Act are deliberately local in nature, and it is for local agencies to determine whether their use is appropriate in the circumstances. We keep anti-social behaviour policy under review through the Anti-social Behaviour Strategic Board which brings together key partners.</p><p>It is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to respond to individual crimes and local crime priorities but to help ensure that the police have the resources they need to do so, we are recruiting 20,000 officers over the next three years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2020 16:06:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1183167

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Retirement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to raise the compulsory retirement age for magistrates.
tabling member printed	Lord Burnett
uin	HL2259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2020 answer text <p>On 25th February, the Minister for Courts confirmed the government’s intention to consult this spring on a change to the mandatory retirement age for all judicial office holders. Any change to the mandatory retirement age would require primary legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 13/03/2020 14:04:41 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	238 label Biography information for Lord Burnett

1183168

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School of Oriental and African Studies: EuroPal Forum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of SOAS University of London’s compliance with the (1) public sector equality duty, and (2) International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, further to the decision to host a student workshop on advocacy for Palestine on campus on 7 March sponsored by EuroPal Forum; and what assessment they have made of (a) EuroPal Forum’s, and (b) EuroPal Forum’s senior leadership’s, relationship with Hamas.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL2260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p>This government has committed to strengthen academic freedom and free speech in universities and ensure they are places where free speech and debate can thrive – this includes considering the underpinning legal framework. We have made it clear that if universities do not uphold free speech, the government will.</p><p>However, there is no place in our society - including within higher education (HE) – for hatred or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism, including antisemitism. The government will continue to work with universities to ensure we stamp out antisemitism in all its forms.</p><p>The government expects HE providers to take their responsibilities, including those under the Equality Act 2010 and for freedom of speech, seriously. We expect HE providers to have robust policies and procedures in place to meet, and balance, their legal obligations effectively and to investigate and swiftly address reports of hate crime, including any antisemitic incidents that are reported.</p><p>We expect HE providers to have clearly set out procedures and policies for events and the hosting of external speakers, which allow for open, transparent events, challenge and debate and ensure that lawful speech can occur on campuses. Under the Education (No. 2) Act 1986, HE providers have a legal duty to take reasonably practicable steps to ensure freedom of speech within the law for their members, students, employees and visiting speakers.</p><p>The government does not support blanket no-platforming of individuals or organisations. There have been some examples of attempts to restrict free speech under the banner of no-platforming or safe spaces and it is important that this does not become commonplace.</p><p>The government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism in 2016 and has written to HE providers on several occasions encouraging them to consider adopting this definition. The government sees the IHRA definition as an important tool in tackling antisemitism and a strong signal that HE providers take these issues seriously, which is why we will continue to call on higher education providers to adopt this definition.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 23/03/2020 15:07:39 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

1183169

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
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	Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will commence to review the 'standard method' of calculating housing need, following the February 2019 commitment by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government to do so within 18 months.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL2261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>In February 2019, the Government response to the technical consultation on updates to national planning policy and guidance, committed to review the standard method for assessing local housing need within 18 months. This is to establish a new approach that balances the need for clarity, simplicity and transparency for local communities with the Government’s aspirations for the housing market. Further details will follow in due course.</p><p>As the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government announced on 12 March we will review the standard method for assessing local housing need and remain committed to ensuring it is consistent with our manifesto commitment of delivering 300,000 homes a year by the mid 2020's. Further details will follow in due course.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 16/03/2020 12:31:38 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech