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1722362

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what role the Migration Advisory Committee and the proposed body “Skills England” will play in facilitating the recruitment of overseas workers to train workers and job seekers in the UK in occupations with skills shortages.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2024 answer text <p>On 22 July, the Government announced plans to create Skills England and to develop a more joined up approach which looks at training of the domestic labour market alongside international recruitment. Further detail about how the Migration Advisory Committee will interact with Skills England, and training in the labour market will be set out in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL192 question first answered 05/08/2024 10:32:12 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1722363

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what action they intend to take to increase the pipeline of skilled workers in the domestic workforce in occupations in the immigration salary list for the Skilled Worker visa.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2024 answer text <p>On 22 July, the Government announced plans to create Skills England and to develop a more joined up approach which looks at training of the domestic labour market alongside international recruitment. Further detail about how the Migration Advisory Committee will interact with Skills England, and training in the labour market will be set out in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Hanson of Flint grouped question UIN HL191 question first answered 05/08/2024 10:32:12 answering member 533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1722364

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Unemployment: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of 16–24-year-olds not in education, employment or training.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>There are currently 900,000 young people who are not in education employment or training and this number has been steadily increasing.</p><p>The Department understands the negative effects of unemployment can be particularly pronounced for young people and can have longstanding implications on their future earnings potential and life chances. This is why DWP have a particular focus on ensuring young people are supported into employment, whilst also recognising their needs will vary depending on where they live and their own individual circumstances.</p><p>Getting Britain working again is critical to growing the economy. This includes implementing a new national jobs and career service to help get more people into work alongside a Youth Guarantee, meaning training, an apprenticeship or help to find work for all young people aged 18-21 years old, to prevent them becoming excluded from the world of work at a young age.</p><p>DWP currently provides young people aged 16-24 with labour market support through an extensive range of interventions at a national and local level. This includes flexible provision driven by local need, nationwide employment programmes and support delivered by work coaches based in our Jobcentres and in local communities working alongside partners.</p><p> </p><p>Under the previous regime, DWP Youth Offer first launched in September 2020, with the aim to maximise employment outcomes for 18 – 24-year-olds claiming Universal Credit (UC) and to minimise the long-term impacts of unemployment, by providing intensive support early in a claim.</p><p> </p><p>There are three main elements to the Youth Offer, delivered by DWP work coaches:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Intensive support during the first 13 weeks of a claim through the Youth Employment Programme. This involves weekly appointments with a Jobcentre work coach for 13 weeks helping young people access job vacancies or other appropriate support, including Sector-based Work Academy Programmes, work experience and apprenticeships, so they can move into work quickly.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Youth Hubs across Great Britain which bring together employment support from a Jobcentre Plus work coach and place-based support from local partnerships to help young people into work. The support offered in a Youth Hub is dependent on local needs, but examples include skills, training, and employment provision, alongside a range of dedicated support services such as mental health, housing and debt management delivered by local partners.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Youth Employability Coaches (YECs) who are helping young people overcome barriers to employment such as homelessness, addiction, and other complex needs, as well as offering 6 weeks of in-work support once they move into work. YECs work closely alongside Disability Employment Advisors to support those with disabilities and health conditions, and partner organisations who can provide specialist advice.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to its manifesto Back to Work Plan, tackling economic inactivity is central to the Government’s number one mission of growing the economy. The three pillars of the Government’s Back to Work Plan are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A youth guarantee for all young people aged 18 to 21.</li><li>A new national jobs and career service to help get more people into work, and on in their work.</li><li>New work, health and skills plans for the economically inactive, led by Mayors and local areas.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sherlock question first answered 31/07/2024 11:54:10 answering member 4147 label Biography information for Baroness Sherlock
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1722365

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Guidance: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that young people have access to careers advice.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2024 answer text <p>This government wants young people in all parts of the country to gain workplace skills and to explore career opportunities. In 2024/25, the department is investing approximately £30 million through The Careers and Enterprise Company to support secondary schools and colleges to improve their careers programmes in line with the government’s careers framework, the Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance.</p><p> </p><p>92% of secondary schools and colleges are part of a local Careers Hub that connects educators to employers and apprenticeship providers to improve practice and target support to local priorities. There are over 3,200 fully trained Careers Leaders who implement, coordinate and quality assure careers programmes. Over 400 leading businesses and 4,000 business professionals from across all sectors help schools and colleges to deliver high-quality careers education.</p><p> </p><p>Advice is also available to young people digitally via the National Careers Service. The website helps young people, aged 13 to 18, start discovering their careers options. It includes around 800 job profiles. Young people can access information and advice via webchat and a telephone helpline which is supported by local community-based career advisers. The National Careers Service website can be found here: <a href="https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This is supported by the Skills for Life campaign, ‘It all starts with skills’, which promotes a range of priority skills programmes to young people, including apprenticeships, T Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications. Bespoke support is also provided during the exam results period. Get Help with Exam Results Careers Advice will be available from 15 to 31 August.</p><p> </p><p>The government wants to go further to break down barriers to opportunity and give all young people the best life chances. According to a report from the Children’s Commissioner, more than 1 in 3 children report that they do not know enough about good jobs available to them as they get older and leave school.</p><p> </p><p>The department will open the doors to more employers by delivering two weeks-worth of high-quality work experience. This year, the department is piloting new approaches to workplace experiences that will benefit more than 25,000 young people across the country. The three models being tested are virtual workplace experiences for schools in coastal and rural communities; breaking down barriers to high quality workplace experiences for disadvantaged young people; and targeted workplace experiences focused on roles in future growth sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Young people need support to capitalise on these workplace experiences, reflect on what they have learned and set future career goals. The department will train 1,000 careers advisers so that young people can get the expert advice they need.</p><p> </p><p>This government will work closely with schools, colleges, employers and careers advisers to make sure all of our young people can achieve and thrive.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern question first answered 05/08/2024 10:24:20 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1701600

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase investment in skills training to meet the needs of more 150,000 additional students seeking higher education by 2030 in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL3831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>It is important that the department has a sustainable higher education (HE) funding system that responds to the needs of the economy and that is fair to students and to taxpayers. The government keeps the HE funding system under continuous review to ensure that this remains the case, and to provide many different opportunities for learners to acquire vital skills.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to creating a world-leading skills system, backed with an additional investment of £3.8 billion over the course of this Parliament to strengthen HE and further education (FE). This includes increasing opportunities for people to develop higher technical skills through T Levels, Apprenticeships, Skills Bootcamps, or Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs). From 2025, the Lifelong Learning Entitlement will transform access to FE and HE, offering all adults the equivalent of four years’ worth of student loans to use flexibly on quality education training over their lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Strategic Priorities Grant (SPG), the department is investing hundreds of millions of pounds in additional funding over the three-year period to the 2024/25 financial year to support high-quality teaching and facilities, the majority of which goes to supporting the provision of courses in high-cost subjects including in science and engineering, subjects that support the NHS, and degree apprenticeships. This includes the largest increase in government funding for the HE sector to support students and teaching in over a decade. The recurrent SPG budget is £1,456 million for the 2024/25 financial year. This includes an £18 million increase in support for strategically important high-cost subjects.</p><p> </p><p>The department is also providing £40 million over two years through the SPG to support degree apprenticeship providers to expand and help more people access this provision. The department has seen year-on-year growth in degree level apprenticeships (Level 6 and 7) with almost 230,000 starts since their introduction in the 2014/15 academic year. The government has increased investment in the apprenticeships system in England to over £2.7 billion this financial year, to support employers of all sizes access high-quality apprenticeships at all levels.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s Higher Technical Education reforms are growing skills at Level 4 and 5. The department has introduced new HTQs, which will increase the prestige and uptake of level 4 and 5 qualifications. To date, 172 qualifications have been approved as HTQs across seven occupational routes and are being taught at FE Colleges, Institutes of Technology, Universities, and Independent Training Providers. The department has provided up to £115 million in funding to providers to help grow provision across the country, on top of up to £300 million to create a network of 21 Institutes of Technology.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 29/04/2024 12:23:21 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1701601

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect full compensation payments to have been made to the victims of the infected blood scandal and to family members of those victims who have already died.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL3832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government has committed to update Parliament through an oral statement on next steps within 25 sitting days following 20 May. It is our intention to make this statement as soon as possible. Additionally, we have tabled a Government amendment ahead of Report Stage of the Victims and Prisoners Bill to fix technical deficiencies, whilst working in the spirit of Dame Diana Johnson’s amendment. The amendment has been tabled with the intention of speeding up the implementation of the Government’s response to the Infected Blood Inquiry.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 30/04/2024 16:53:12 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1701602

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to change the apprenticeship levy and to grant firms more flexibility to use funds from the levy to skill up their workforce.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL3833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The apprenticeship levy supports employers of all sizes to invest in high-quality apprenticeship training, both for career starters as well as those looking to upskill or retrain.</p><p> </p><p>The success of the levy is enabling the department to invest £2.7 billion in apprenticeships in England in the 2024/25 financial year, and means that 98% of the English apprenticeships budget was spent over the 2021/22 and 2022/23 financial years. It is important that this funding remains protected to support apprenticeships. The government has no current plans to allow employers to spend the funds available to them on non-apprenticeships training. Allowing employers to use 50% of funds for non-apprenticeship training could create an additional cost of up to £1.5 billion a year. Without additional investment this could reduce apprenticeship starts to 140,000 a year, which would represent an almost 60% decrease on the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p> </p><p>This month the department increased the proportion of the funds that levy-paying employers can transfer from 25% to 50%. This gives levy-paying employers even greater flexibility in how they use the funds available to them while also supporting more apprenticeships in other businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises, flexi-job apprenticeship agencies and charities.</p><p> </p><p>Employers can choose from almost 700 high-quality apprenticeships and have the option of using flexible training models, such as flexi-job apprenticeships and accelerated apprenticeships. Employers can also access other government-funded skills programmes, including T Levels and Skills Bootcamps.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 29/04/2024 12:24:55 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1701603

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bank of England: Forecasts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the review of Bank of England forecasting led by Ben Bernanke.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL3834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Bank of England has operational independence from the government to carry out its statutory responsibilities for monetary policy and financial stability. The government’s commitment to this independence remains absolute.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 24/04/2024 11:40:35 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1690165

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the underlying cause of the fall in UK goods exports in 2023, as reported by the Office for National Statistics on 15 February, and what action they are taking to reverse the decline in UK goods exports.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL2510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The main causes of the £33 billion decrease (current prices) in goods exports were fuels (predominantly oil) down £24 billion, non-monetary gold and other precious metals down £15 billion, and non-ferrous metals (mainly silver and metals in the platinum group) down £7 billion.</p><p> </p><p>Trade in these commodities is known to be very erratic and export values can fluctuate substantially year on year.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business and Trade are committed to growing exports and will continue to provide businesses with a wealth of export support options on great.gov.uk, including trade advisers, Export Champions, the Export Academy, our International Markets network and UK Export Finance</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 05/03/2024 14:54:12 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1690166

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Income
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have of the underlying cause of the fall in gross domestic product per head in every quarter of 2023, as reported by the Office for National Statistics on 15 February, and what action they are taking to reverse this trend.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL2511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The economy has faced an unprecedented series of shocks, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. These have led to challenging economic circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Looking over a longer timeframe, since 2010 GDP per capita has increased by 12%. Real household disposable income per capita - a more comprehensive measure of household living standards - has grown more than France and Italy since 2010.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 29/02/2024 11:37:45 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington