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749916

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	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	Plastics: Waste
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether it is their policy to continue with the plans to address parental conflict in workless families set out in Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published in April.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families set out our plans to tackle the root causes of disadvantage, with a focus on workless families. As part of this approach, we announced an innovative new programme of support to help parents, whether they are together or separated, to reduce conflict. This is based on the most recent evidence, which tells us that children who are exposed to frequent, intense and poorly resolved conflict are at risk of experiencing poorer long term outcomes. Plans are currently underway to develop this support, and more details of this will be announced in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 17/07/2017 15:25:21 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

749917

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	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	Climate Change Convention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they continue to collect data against the family stability indicator measures, in particular (1) the percentage of all children who are not living with both their birth parents, broken down by age of child, and (2) the percentage of children in low income households not living with both parents compared to the percentage of such children in middle to higher income households.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pension’s publication <em>Improving lives: Helping Workless Families,</em> presented evidence on the root causes of disadvantage and their impact on the outcomes for children. This included nine national indicators to track progress in tackling the disadvantages that affect families’ and children’s lives and replace all the former <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-justice-outcomes-framework" target="_blank">social justice outcomes framework</a> indicators. A copy of this framework has been attached.</p><p> </p><p>One of the new indicators measures parental conflict to reflect evidence that inter-parental relationship quality is of fundamental importance to children’s outcomes, including their mental health, wellbeing and future employment prospects. On the basis of this evidence and after consulting with academics, a new indicator has been developed. This measures quality of the inter-parental relationship among coupled and separated parents as the proportion of children in couple-parent families experiencing relationship distress. Where parents are separated, research suggests that positive involvement from both parents in the child’s life can help address the potential negative impacts of parental separation therefore as a proxy for the quality of relationship between separated parents the proportion of children in separated families who see their non-resident parents regularly is also being measured.</p><p> </p><p>The Analysis and Research Pack published alongside <em>Improving Lives</em>, presents an update of the proportion of children in couple-parent families living with parents who report relationship distress, broken down by the age of the child. The measure is not broken down by income.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/07/2017 11:01:37 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name Social justice outcomes framework October 2012.pdf title Social justice outcome framework October 2012
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

795026

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2017
	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	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, prior to the Budget Statement, what was their planned expenditure on the Department for Work and Pensions' relationship support work for (1) 2018–19, and (2) 2019–20; and where these figures were published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL3576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017 where we announced a spend of up to £30m to launch the new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme.</p><p>Planned spend in 17/18 is £5.91m. Funding allocations to projects/business areas in future years are decided on an annual basis and are subject to internal prioritisation – the funding that was announced as part of the 2017 Autumn Budget safeguards £15m pa investment on relationship support/parental conflict in 18/19 and 19/20.</p><p>DWP has no plans to fund other projects than those mentioned in the budget statement, however, strengthening families is a cross-government objective and other government departments will be able to confirm their own plans in this area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL3577 HL3578 HL3579 question first answered 30/11/2017 13:10:48 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

795027

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2017
	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	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the Budget Statement, what is their planned expenditure on the Department for Work and Pensions' relationship support work for (1) 2018–19, and (2) 2019–20.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL3577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017 where we announced a spend of up to £30m to launch the new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme.</p><p>Planned spend in 17/18 is £5.91m. Funding allocations to projects/business areas in future years are decided on an annual basis and are subject to internal prioritisation – the funding that was announced as part of the 2017 Autumn Budget safeguards £15m pa investment on relationship support/parental conflict in 18/19 and 19/20.</p><p>DWP has no plans to fund other projects than those mentioned in the budget statement, however, strengthening families is a cross-government objective and other government departments will be able to confirm their own plans in this area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL3576 HL3578 HL3579 question first answered 30/11/2017 13:10:48 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

795028

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2017
	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	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the funding announced in the Budget Statement for the Department for Work and Pensions' relationship support work will be spent on the department's Reducing Parental Conflict Programme, to be launched next year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL3578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017 where we announced a spend of up to £30m to launch the new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme.</p><p>Planned spend in 17/18 is £5.91m. Funding allocations to projects/business areas in future years are decided on an annual basis and are subject to internal prioritisation – the funding that was announced as part of the 2017 Autumn Budget safeguards £15m pa investment on relationship support/parental conflict in 18/19 and 19/20.</p><p>DWP has no plans to fund other projects than those mentioned in the budget statement, however, strengthening families is a cross-government objective and other government departments will be able to confirm their own plans in this area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL3576 HL3577 HL3579 question first answered 30/11/2017 13:10:48 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

795029

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2017
	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	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in support of their policy objectives to strengthen families, they intend to make available funds for projects other than those specified in the Budget Statement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL3579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017 where we announced a spend of up to £30m to launch the new Reducing Parental Conflict Programme.</p><p>Planned spend in 17/18 is £5.91m. Funding allocations to projects/business areas in future years are decided on an annual basis and are subject to internal prioritisation – the funding that was announced as part of the 2017 Autumn Budget safeguards £15m pa investment on relationship support/parental conflict in 18/19 and 19/20.</p><p>DWP has no plans to fund other projects than those mentioned in the budget statement, however, strengthening families is a cross-government objective and other government departments will be able to confirm their own plans in this area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe grouped question UIN HL3576 HL3577 HL3578 question first answered 30/11/2017 13:10:48 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

947560

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Overseas Trade
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether, under World Trade Organisation rules, novation would enable the UK to continue to trade with countries that currently have free trade agreements with the EU; and on what tariff terms.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL9844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/08/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring continuity for the effects of the UK’s existing free trade agreements, including preferential tariff terms, as we leave the EU. To achieve this, the UK will enter into new agreements with partner countries in place of the EU free trade agreements in which we participate as a Member State, in line with WTO rules on Regional Trade Agreements. Necessary changes will be made to ensure that these preferential trading arrangements can continue to operate in a bilateral context. Tariff terms vary from treaty to treaty and we intend to replicate the effect of those already agreed with the EU, as far as possible.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead question first answered 08/08/2018 15:21:20 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

713685

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was budgeted for the Marriage Allowance in (1) 2015–16, and (2) 2016–17; and what are future expenditure projections for Marriage Allowance to 2019–20.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL6282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The Marriage Allowance was introduced in 2015-16 to recognise the importance of marriage in the tax system. Around 1.8m people have claimed the allowance to date.</p><p> </p><p>Our current best estimate assessment of the initial cost of this allowance is £140m in 2015-16, but this does not include the impact of any expected future claims, which can be backdated to this year. We forecast the total cost of this allowance to rise to £385m in 2015-16 once these claims are taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>An estimate of the initial cost of this allowance for 2016-17 will not be available until the end of the tax year. We forecast an eventual cost to the exchequer of £425m, once all backdated claims are taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>Marriage Allowance claims can be made up to 4 years after the tax year has finished. The expected future projections of the Marriage Allowance final cost for 2019-20 is not available because this depends on our forecast of backdated applications, and the forecast period does not currently extend out to 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information relating to the income deciles of claimants or successful applicants of the Marriage Allowance. Previous analysis of the total eligible population has shown the majority of the benefits of this policy go to the bottom half of the income distribution. Only basic rate taxpayers and non-taxpayers will benefit.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information about how many individuals claiming Universal Credit are eligible for the Marriage Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claimants of Married Couple's Allowance by the income groups requested is set out for the latest outturn year available (2014-15):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Thousand</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Percentile Groups (ranged on total income before tax)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bottom 20%</p></td><td><p>20%-50%</p></td><td><p>Top 50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>385</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The cost of the Married Couples Allowance is forecast to be £220m in 2016-17. It is expected that the cost of this relief will decline, as it is restricted to couples where at least one of them is born before 6 April 1935.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL6283 HL6284 HL6285 HL6286 HL6304 HL6305 HL6306 question first answered 05/04/2017 10:58:43 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

713686

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was spent on Marriage Allowance in (1) 2015–16, and (2) 2016–17.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL6283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The Marriage Allowance was introduced in 2015-16 to recognise the importance of marriage in the tax system. Around 1.8m people have claimed the allowance to date.</p><p> </p><p>Our current best estimate assessment of the initial cost of this allowance is £140m in 2015-16, but this does not include the impact of any expected future claims, which can be backdated to this year. We forecast the total cost of this allowance to rise to £385m in 2015-16 once these claims are taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>An estimate of the initial cost of this allowance for 2016-17 will not be available until the end of the tax year. We forecast an eventual cost to the exchequer of £425m, once all backdated claims are taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>Marriage Allowance claims can be made up to 4 years after the tax year has finished. The expected future projections of the Marriage Allowance final cost for 2019-20 is not available because this depends on our forecast of backdated applications, and the forecast period does not currently extend out to 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information relating to the income deciles of claimants or successful applicants of the Marriage Allowance. Previous analysis of the total eligible population has shown the majority of the benefits of this policy go to the bottom half of the income distribution. Only basic rate taxpayers and non-taxpayers will benefit.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information about how many individuals claiming Universal Credit are eligible for the Marriage Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claimants of Married Couple's Allowance by the income groups requested is set out for the latest outturn year available (2014-15):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Thousand</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Percentile Groups (ranged on total income before tax)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bottom 20%</p></td><td><p>20%-50%</p></td><td><p>Top 50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>385</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The cost of the Married Couples Allowance is forecast to be £220m in 2016-17. It is expected that the cost of this relief will decline, as it is restricted to couples where at least one of them is born before 6 April 1935.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL6282 HL6284 HL6285 HL6286 HL6304 HL6305 HL6306 question first answered 05/04/2017 10:58:43 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

713687

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) individuals, and (2) couples, currently in receipt of Universal Credit are eligible for the Marriage Allowance.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL6284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The Marriage Allowance was introduced in 2015-16 to recognise the importance of marriage in the tax system. Around 1.8m people have claimed the allowance to date.</p><p> </p><p>Our current best estimate assessment of the initial cost of this allowance is £140m in 2015-16, but this does not include the impact of any expected future claims, which can be backdated to this year. We forecast the total cost of this allowance to rise to £385m in 2015-16 once these claims are taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>An estimate of the initial cost of this allowance for 2016-17 will not be available until the end of the tax year. We forecast an eventual cost to the exchequer of £425m, once all backdated claims are taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>Marriage Allowance claims can be made up to 4 years after the tax year has finished. The expected future projections of the Marriage Allowance final cost for 2019-20 is not available because this depends on our forecast of backdated applications, and the forecast period does not currently extend out to 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information relating to the income deciles of claimants or successful applicants of the Marriage Allowance. Previous analysis of the total eligible population has shown the majority of the benefits of this policy go to the bottom half of the income distribution. Only basic rate taxpayers and non-taxpayers will benefit.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information about how many individuals claiming Universal Credit are eligible for the Marriage Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claimants of Married Couple's Allowance by the income groups requested is set out for the latest outturn year available (2014-15):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Thousand</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Percentile Groups (ranged on total income before tax)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bottom 20%</p></td><td><p>20%-50%</p></td><td><p>Top 50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>385</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The cost of the Married Couples Allowance is forecast to be £220m in 2016-17. It is expected that the cost of this relief will decline, as it is restricted to couples where at least one of them is born before 6 April 1935.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL6282 HL6283 HL6285 HL6286 HL6304 HL6305 HL6306 question first answered 05/04/2017 10:58:43 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer