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930921

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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