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931644

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Commonwealth
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any discriminatory effects on Black and Asian Commonwealth citizens of the Commonwealth Immigrants Acts 1962 and 1968 and the Immigration Act 1971; and what consideration is being given to reversing any such effects.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Acts were approved by parliament in order to provide tighter regulations on those seeking to enter the UK.</p><p>The Commonwealth Immigrants Acts 1962 and 1968 specifically sought to make Commonwealth nationals, other than those with close family ties to the UK, subject to immigration control, in the same way as other nationals.</p><p>This was further addressed with the Immigration Act 1971 which more clearly made all commonwealth nationals subject to immigration control unless they held partiality through an ancestral connection to the UK. In order to protect those already in the UK without this connection provision was included to enable those who were settled and ordinarily resident in the UK to remain indefinitely.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/07/2018 12:17:11 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

930921

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the definition of the Windrush generation they use will be expanded to include those who joined their parents, grandparents and siblings after 1973.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Windrush scheme, which was launched on 30 May, makes specific provision for the children of Commonwealth citizens who were settled in the UK before 1 January 1973 where the child was born in the UK or arrived in the UK before the age of 18. This will ensure that those affected or who have encountered difficulties have the documents to confirm their status in the UK.</p><p>The Department is carrying out a review of all removals, deportations and detentions, dating back to 2002 when electronic record-keeping began, of Caribbean Commonwealth nationals now aged over 45, those old enough to have been settled here before 1973 and therefore protected by the 1971 Act and the Home Secretary has agreed to report on these findings in due course.</p><p>In relation to those who have may lost jobs - information that is not automatically reported back to the Home Office - we anticipate that we will gain a greater understanding when we launch our compensation scheme.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL8922 question first answered 09/07/2018 16:24:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

930922

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why the descendants of the Windrush generation have been detained, threatened with deportation and denied their right to work.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Windrush scheme, which was launched on 30 May, makes specific provision for the children of Commonwealth citizens who were settled in the UK before 1 January 1973 where the child was born in the UK or arrived in the UK before the age of 18. This will ensure that those affected or who have encountered difficulties have the documents to confirm their status in the UK.</p><p>The Department is carrying out a review of all removals, deportations and detentions, dating back to 2002 when electronic record-keeping began, of Caribbean Commonwealth nationals now aged over 45, those old enough to have been settled here before 1973 and therefore protected by the 1971 Act and the Home Secretary has agreed to report on these findings in due course.</p><p>In relation to those who have may lost jobs - information that is not automatically reported back to the Home Office - we anticipate that we will gain a greater understanding when we launch our compensation scheme.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL8921 question first answered 09/07/2018 16:24:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

930923

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Bed and Breakfast Accommodation: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are being introduced to reduce the number of children in bed and breakfast, and hotel temporary accommodation.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that in normal circumstances the long term use of bed and breakfast accommodation for families with children is inappropriate and if for longer than 6 weeks - unlawful.</p><p>There are some councils who are successfully reducing the number and length of time families are spending in B&amp;B accommodation and the numbers of children in temporary accommodation; we expect areas in similar situations to follow their example.</p><p>Our new Homelessness Advice and Support Team, drawn from local authorities and the homelessness sector, are providing support to help authorities to end the placement of families in B&amp;B accommodation for more than 6 weeks. The number of families in B&amp;B has shown a reduction over the last published quarter, from Sept 2017 to Dec 2017. The total number of households in B&amp;B is down 11 per cent; households with dependent children in B&amp;B is down 24 per cent; and households with dependent children in B&amp;B over 6 weeks is down 21 per cent.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 09/07/2018 15:43:15 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

930924

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Absenteeism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take to identify the number of children who miss school each year; and what assessment they have made of the social and economic costs of that issue.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The total number of absences from school is collected termly via the school census and published regularly via the ‘Pupil absence in Schools in England’ National Statistics series.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the 2016/17 academic year can be found in the attached “Pupil absence in schools in England: 2016 to 2017” National Statistics release. The overall absence rate for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools was 4.7% in 2016/17, an increase from 4.6% in the previous academic year, but has followed a generally downward trend since 2006/07 when it was 6.5%.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the link between absence and attainment at key stages 2 (KS2) and 4 (KS4) was published in March 2016 in the attached “Absence and attainment at key stages 2 and 4: 2013 to 2014” research report. The analysis showed that when taking prior attainment and pupil characteristics into account, for each KS2 and KS4 measure, overall absence had a statistically significant negative link to attainment. For instance, every extra day missed was associated with a lower attainment outcome.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows overall absence rates since 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL8924_Overall_Absence_Rates.docx title HL8924_Overall_Absence_Rates 2 file name The-link-between-absence-and-attainment-at-KS2-and-KS4-2013-to-2014-academic-year.pdf title link-between-absence-and-attainment-at-KS2-and-KS4 3 file name SFR18_2018_absence_text.pdf title SFR18_2018_absence_text question first answered 09/07/2018 16:33:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

927342

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of the factors preventing the police from solving more than five per cent of all burglary and robbery cases in England and Wales; and what steps they plan to take, if any, to improve the police's performance in this area.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government understands the impact that burglary and robbery have on the victims of these crimes.</p><p>This is why we encourage all victims to report these crimes to the police, and we expect the police to take all such reports seriously and to investigate, to help to ensure that the offenders are brought to justice. How these crimes are investigated is a matter for chief constables, and it is for Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure that the police are responding to the crime priorities in their areas. The Government is satisfied that the police have the resources they need to do their important work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 03/07/2018 14:43:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

921809

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to respond to the report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Destitution in the UK 2018 published in June revealing that there are 1.5 million people living in destitution in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s report refers to people who were destitute “at some point” during 2017 not to the number of people living in destitution.</p><p> </p><p>This Government will continue with its ambitious reforms to the welfare system so that it encourages people to move into and progress in work, and move towards financial independence. Compared with 2010, there are now around 880,000 fewer adults in workless households and 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty (on a before housing costing costs basis). Of those in the poorest fifth of the population in 2010/11, just over half had moved further up the income distribution 5 years later.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also continuing to help those who face the greatest employment barriers and who are most at-risk of being in severe and long-term low income, for example, through individualised, tailored support from Jobcentre Work Coaches. For people with health conditions or a disability, this support can include early access to the new Work and Health Programme and Specialist Employability Support. As a safeguard for people in urgent need, a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans is in place. <br></p><p>We are also considering how we can develop and make greater use of the existing suite of official measures of poverty so that they better identify and track progress on helping those who are most in need of additional support.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 25/06/2018 11:36:09 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

921810

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they expect the number of children placed in care to rise further, having doubled in the past decade; and what action they intend to take to increase resources available for children's services following the publication of the Local Government Association's estimate of an almost £2 billion funding gap by 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We want every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them. In most cases children are best looked after by their birth families and children are only removed as a last resort, in the interests of their safety.</p><p> </p><p>The number of looked-after children has increased steadily over the last nine years. At 31 March 2017 there were 72,670 looked-after children, an increase of three per cent on 2016. We cannot reliably predict future years’ totals.</p><p> </p><p>Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion to deliver the local services their communities require, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available to local government, from £44.3 billion, in 2017-18, to £45.1 billion in 2018-19. In addition, we are investing more than £250 million in our Innovation Programme and Partners in Practice Programme to help local authorities learn from what works in order to design efficient and effective children’s services.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/06/2018 14:48:26 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

921811

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Social Rented Housing: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures, if any, they intend to introduce to enable local authorities to access the resources needed to build stocks of social housing.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government wants to support local authorities in delivering a new generation of council housing. In October last year, the Prime Minister announced a long term rent deal for local authorities and housing associations. At Autumn Budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that we will raise the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap by a total of up to £1 billion in areas of high affordability pressure for local authorities that are ready to start building new homes. In March we announced plans to consult on options for allowing local authorities more flexibility in the use of their Right to Buy receipts.</p><p>Local authorities, as well as housing associations, can bid for funding from the £9bn Affordable Homes Programme to deliver more affordable homes - including at social rent - with funding for social rent targeted at areas with the most acute affordability pressures.</p><p>Taken together this substantial package of measures gives local authorities the resources, security and certainty they need to plan investment, and deliver their future house building plans.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/06/2018 16:22:30 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

916591

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
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 future education prospects and social mobility of children taken into local authority care and moved around the care system.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL8297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>We know that stability for a child in care is a key factor in forming secure, high-quality relationships that can help a child to thrive in education and into adulthood. Research by the Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education shows the important relationship between stability and better outcomes for young people in care in mainstream schools at the end of key stage 4.</p><p>The Department for Education is working to improve stability for looked after children, including investing £3.8 million in the Mockingbird Family Model. This aims to improve placement stability by providing enhanced support to foster carers and the children they look after. The department collects and publishes annually information on the educational attainment of looked-after children and outcomes for care leavers aged 19, 20 and 21 years old and uses this information to inform policies to improve outcomes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 18/06/2018 16:38:34 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley