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registered interest
date	29/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many asylum caseworkers were employed (1) 2021, (2) 2022, and (3) 2023; and what was the attrition rate of asylum caseworkers in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Adams of Craigielea
uin	HL6963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum decision makers employed by the Home Office each month from January 2020 to December 2022 can be found in the ASY_05 (M) tab of the published migration transparency data located here: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>Data for 2023 will be published in future releases.</p><p>The attrition rate of decision makers is not routinely published but have been released to the Home Affairs Select Committee. The response can be found here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31774/documents/178754/default/</p><p>To reduce attrition rates and help maintain our decision-making experience we have also implemented a recruitment and retention allowance. We have already doubled our decision makers over the last 2 years, and we are continuing to recruit more. This will take our expected number of decision makers to 1,800 by summer 2023 and 2,500 by September 2023.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth attachment 1 file name letter - HASC.pdf title Letter - HASC 2 file name Asy-05 M Table .xlsx title ASY-05- M Table question first answered 14/04/2023 13:37:27 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	631 label Biography information for Baroness Adams of Craigielea

1441609

registered interest
date	15/03/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: New Zealand
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 projected impact of the UK–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement on the UK economy.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL6963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>Our published impact assessment shows that the UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) could increase UK gross domestic product (GDP) 0.03% or the equivalent of £0.8 billion by 2035. The impact assessment also shows that bilateral trade could increase by almost 60% and that take home pay for UK workers could increase by around £200 million in the long run, when compared to 2019 estimates of wages without the agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The full impact assessment, which also includes impacts on sectors, regions, the environment and more, is available here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-new-zealand-fta-impact-assessment</p> answering member printed Lord Grimstone of Boscobel question first answered 05/04/2022 10:49:05 answering member 4876 label Biography information for Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1225912

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Visits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to allow schools in England to resume overnight trips for their pupils to any location in the UK provided that such schools (1) carry out risk assessments, and (2) follow appropriate safeguarding guidelines.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL6963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Education continues to advise against both overnight and non-overnight domestic (UK) and overseas educational visits (trips). This advice is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-travel-advice-for-educational-settings/coronavirus-travel-guidance-for-educational-settings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-travel-advice-for-educational-settings/coronavirus-travel-guidance-for-educational-settings</a>.</p><p>In the autumn term, schools can resume non-overnight domestic educational visits. Guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools</a>.</p><p>All such visits should be compliant with COVID-19 guidelines and subject to a thorough and ongoing assessment of the risks to ensure that they can be undertaken safely. Schools should consult the health and safety guidance on educational visits when considering any visit, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-safety-on-educational-visits/health-and-safety-on-educational-visits" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-safety-on-educational-visits/health-and-safety-on-educational-visits</a>.</p><p>Schools should not resume overnight visits for the time-being. This is consistent with the latest government guidance on meeting people from outside your household, which advises that you should not stay overnight away from your home with members of more than 2 households: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-people-from-outside-your-household-from-4-july" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meeting-people-from-outside-your-household-from-4-july</a>.</p><p>The above guidance will remain under review and will be updated in line with guidance from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for Transport and Public Health England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 29/07/2020 16:24:46 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

885860

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving under Influence: Scotland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have received any validated statistics from the Scottish Government relating to the impact of the reduction of the drink driving limit in Scotland on 5 December 2014; and if so, what account they have taken of those statistics in assessing the appropriate level of the drink driving limit in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL6963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>Statistics on road safety in Great Britain are based on data from various sources, including accidents reported to the police via the Stats19 system. This includes data from Police Scotland. The Department for Transport publishes an annual statistical release providing estimates on accidents involving drinking and driving in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>The Government would welcome a robust and comprehensive evaluation of the road safety impacts resulting from the change to the Scottish drink drive limit.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 01/05/2018 15:52:51 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

470617

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they propose to take to improve the arrest and prosecution rates for racist attacks, abuse and graffiti on London's rail network, in the light of the 650 incidents reported since 2013, resulting in only 13 arrests.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL6963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government considers the safety of people using the rail network to be of paramount importance. The British Transport Police (BTP) treats racially motivated hate crimes very seriously and a daily review takes place of every hate crime from the previous 24 hours. In line with the College of Policing’s National Hate Crime Strategy, BTP is working with partners to reduce hate crime and every crime is investigated in accordance with the College of Policing Guidance for the investigation of hate crime.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the London Transport Community Safety Partnership (LTCSP), which brings together Transport for London (TfL), the police and other key stakeholders, is looking at this important issue at a strategic level to ensure a coordinated response. Both the BTP and the Metropolitan Police have stepped up operational activity to provide a visible, engaging, reassuring presence across the TfL network. TfL is also working with community organisations to engage with them on this issue and encourage reporting. TfL provides full support to the police for their investigations, through staff reporting and access to CCTV and oyster card data, to help bring any offenders to justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/03/2016 14:36:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

50245

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to mitigate any reduction in staffing provision, acquisitions, and essential services in the British Library resulting from reductions in funding since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL6963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has an arm's length relationship with its sponsored bodies such as the British Library, and operational and management decisions are therefore a matter for the Board and Executive. In the Spending Review of 2010, funding for the British Library was protected by limiting resource cuts to 15% in real terms over four years, and at the Spending Round of 2013, the 5% reduction in capital and resource budgets was below average. The Chancellor signalled in his 2014 Budget announcement that there would not be any further reductions to departmental spending at this time, so that sponsored bodies will maintain current levels of planned spending in 2014/15 and 2015/16.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk