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1046326

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date	22/01/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Zimbabwe: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the government of Zimbabwe has instructed internal providers to disconnect and restrict internet access.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL13033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>We are aware that the Zimbabwean government shut down the internet and blocked a number of social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp from 15 January.</p><p>On 17 January, the Minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin MP, summoned the Zimbabwean Ambassador and urged the Zimbabwean government to stop the disproportionate use of force, investigate any alleged human rights violations and restore full access to the internet. On 21 January the Foreign Secretary repeated the call in a public message to President Mnangagwa.</p><p>We welcome the 21 January ruling of the Zimbabwean High Court that overturned the government decision to shut down the internet.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 31/01/2019 14:30:49 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

1046327

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Zimbabwe: Politics and Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Zimbabwe following reports of recent violence; and what plans they have for continued engagement with that government on that issue.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL13034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin MP, summoned the Zimbabwean Ambassador on 17 January to express our concern at the ongoing situation in Zimbabwe. Minister Baldwin urged Zimbabwe to stop disproportionate use of force by the security forces and investigate any cases of alleged human rights abuses. On 21 January the Foreign Secretary, in a public message to President Mnangagwa, urged him not to turn back the clock and to work with all Zimbabweans in dialogue for a better future.</p><p>We will continue to raise our serious concerns, and push for a thorough investigation, with the Government of Zimbabwe through our Embassy in Harare and Ministerial interventions.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 31/01/2019 14:31:35 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

1043774

registered interest
date	18/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when the next Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner will be appointed; and what has caused the delay in their appointment.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL12969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to appointing a new Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner to carry on this vital work. A recruitment campaign was launched in June 2018 and extended over the summer to allow time to attract the strongest possible field of candidates. The recruitment process is nearing completion and we expect to announce a new appointment shortly.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 01/02/2019 11:06:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

934514

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, for each year since 2012, what proportion of the population aged between 18 and 59 over the preceding four years were claiming working age benefits for three of those four years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL9195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>This statistic was part of a series last updated in April 2016 and has since been discontinued. It formed part of the Social Justice Outcomes Framework which was replaced by the Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators, published in April 2017. Any new statistic measuring the duration of working age benefit claims would need to incorporate Universal Credit data. As a result, the information requested is not readily available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Government still produces data on long-term worklessness and on some individual out-of-work benefit claim durations. The Office for National Statistics publishes data on children in long-term workless households and on households where all members have never worked. There is also available data on the duration of Job Seeker’s Allowance, Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance claims.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 16/07/2018 14:53:25 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

934515

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Disadvantaged
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to release an updated progress report of the indicators included in the Social justice: transforming lives report published in March 2012.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL9196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The indicators from the Social Justice Outcomes Framework were replaced by the Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators. On 4<sup>th</sup> April 2017, the Government published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families which set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s long-term outcomes. This included publishing nine national indicators and underlying measures to track progress in tackling the disadvantages that affect families’ and children’s outcomes. The Government has a statutory duty to report data annually to Parliament on two of the nine indicators and made a commitment to publish the latest data on the seven non-statutory indicators each year.</p><p> </p><p>The Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators were last updated on 28<sup>th</sup> March 2018 and can be found in the attached document.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 11/07/2018 14:28:22 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name HL9196 attachment.pdf title Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

934516

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of children aged (1) zero to five, (2) six to 11, and (3) 12 to 16, from (a) low, (b) middle, and (c) high, income families are not living with both parents.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL9197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The department does not collect or hold information on children’s living arrangements or the income of their families. The Office for National Statistics may hold some of this information.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on pupil attainment organised by entitlement for free school meals or are disadvantaged can be found in the following publications:</p><p>Key stage 2: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2</a>.[1]</p><p>Key stage 4: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>.[2]</p><p>16 to 18 study: For 2011/12 – 2015/16 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics</a>.[3]</p><p>For 2016/17 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised</a>.[4]</p><p> </p><p>[1] Select the ‘revised’ publication for each year, open the ‘national tables’ and navigate to the tables giving statistics by pupil characteristics.</p><p>[2] For 2011/12 – 2013/14, scroll halfway down the page and select the ‘GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics’ link and then open the ‘national and local authority tables’. For 2014/15 – 2016/17, select the ‘revised’ publications (at the top of the page) and open the ‘characteristic national tables’. Each of these has an initial table providing headline measures by each of the characteristics we publish.</p><p>[3] Select the ‘underlying data’ and navigate to the ‘FSM’ table for each year, figures for disadvantaged pupils were not published in these releases.</p><p>[4] Download the ‘A level exam results and A level and vocational participation csv’ (towards the bottom of the page) and open the ‘performance measures by characteristics’ file. You can then filter the data for FSM and disadvantage (columns E and F).</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL9198 question first answered 17/07/2018 15:04:05 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

934517

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of (1) children living with both birth parents, and (2) children not living with both birth parents have met the required level of attainment at each Key Stage in each year since 2012.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL9198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The department does not collect or hold information on children’s living arrangements or the income of their families. The Office for National Statistics may hold some of this information.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on pupil attainment organised by entitlement for free school meals or are disadvantaged can be found in the following publications:</p><p>Key stage 2: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2</a>.[1]</p><p>Key stage 4: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>.[2]</p><p>16 to 18 study: For 2011/12 – 2015/16 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics</a>.[3]</p><p>For 2016/17 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised</a>.[4]</p><p> </p><p>[1] Select the ‘revised’ publication for each year, open the ‘national tables’ and navigate to the tables giving statistics by pupil characteristics.</p><p>[2] For 2011/12 – 2013/14, scroll halfway down the page and select the ‘GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics’ link and then open the ‘national and local authority tables’. For 2014/15 – 2016/17, select the ‘revised’ publications (at the top of the page) and open the ‘characteristic national tables’. Each of these has an initial table providing headline measures by each of the characteristics we publish.</p><p>[3] Select the ‘underlying data’ and navigate to the ‘FSM’ table for each year, figures for disadvantaged pupils were not published in these releases.</p><p>[4] Download the ‘A level exam results and A level and vocational participation csv’ (towards the bottom of the page) and open the ‘performance measures by characteristics’ file. You can then filter the data for FSM and disadvantage (columns E and F).</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL9197 question first answered 17/07/2018 15:04:05 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

924184

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the UK spends on family benefits; and how this compares to other countries in the OECD.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The latest data shows that the UK spends 3.8 per cent of GDP on expenditure classified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This is more than any other country in the OECD.</p><p> </p><p>“Family benefits” include cash benefits, such as person tax credits, Child Benefit; maternity benefits and child Disability Living Allowance; and benefits in kind covering child care and social services. They do not include other benefits that might be available to the claimant, such as Personal Independence Payment or Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 28/06/2018 17:08:19 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

924186

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Unemployment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been saved to the public purse through reducing unemployment since 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The unemployment rate currently stands at 4.2% and today there are 609,000 fewer jobseeking claimants than in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, the government is forecast to spend £2.6 billion pounds less on benefits for jobseekers in 2018-19 than in 2010-11.</p><p> </p><p>There are also likely to be indirect effects on the public purse from reduced unemployment since 2010, for example through increased tax receipts. HM Treasury has not made a detailed assessment of this.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/06/2018 13:59:46 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

919380

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children who entered the UK under (1) the Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme, and (2) section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 (a) have been placed in local authority care, and (b) remain in local authority care; and in which local authorities they were placed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Unaccompanied children arriving in the UK through the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme and Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 are placed into the care of a local authority. Placements for these children are secured from local authorities voluntarily participating in the National Transfer Scheme.</p><p>However due to the inherent vulnerability and relatively small numbers of this cohort, the Home Office does not publish a breakdown of such children entering and leaving local authority care.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 21/06/2018 16:08:12 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud