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943375

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Telephone Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many departments provide 0845 numbers for use by the public; and what action, if any, they are they taking to provide cheaper alternatives.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. Departments are responsible for their number prefix choices.</p><p> </p><p>Third party telecommunications providers are an integral part of the Government supply chain to ensure that citizens can communicate with Government easily.</p><p><br>The Government published guidance setting out clear principles for departments to use and a copy attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/07/2018 12:20:13 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham attachment 1 file name Customer phone lines draft guidance October 2015 .pdf title Customer phone lines draft guidance October 2015
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1243613

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Political Parties: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of raising the recordable and reportable donation thresholds for registered political parties in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-12/hl9043" target="_blank">HL9043</a> on 26 October 2020.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 28/10/2020 17:59:52 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1243611

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Commission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the effectiveness of the Electoral Commission.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission is independent of Government and accountable to Parliament via the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission.</p><p>The Government is committed to making sure that elections are secure and fit for the modern age. As part of this, we keep the Electoral Commission’s role and powers under review to ensure it is able to discharge its responsibilities effectively.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 28/10/2020 17:59:12 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1242235

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Political Parties: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the levels at which donations to political parties are recordable and reportable.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2020 answer text <p>UK electoral law sets out a stringent regime of donations controls to ensure that only those with a genuine interest in UK electoral events can donate to political parties and to ensure transparency of those donations.</p><p>All donations over £500 need to be recorded by political parties and checked for permissibility. Certain donations need to be reported to the Electoral Commission, including all donations from impermissible donors, all donations over £7,500 and donations that are over £1,500 and come from a source that parties have already reported in the same calendar year. To ensure transparency about party funding, donation reports are published by the Electoral Commission on its website.</p><p>The Government is committed to upholding the integrity of our electoral system. As part of that, we are taking forward a programme of work that will strengthen and update the UK’s electoral regulation to ensure it is fit for the modern age; provides a robust framework for campaign finance; and supports public confidence in our processes.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 26/10/2020 17:06:57 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1235839

	registered interest
	date	18/09/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the mechanisms used to ensure that the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are informed of actions being taken by the Government to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL8283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the devolved administrations.</p><p>The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, holds regular calls with the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales and the First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, and ministers from the devolved administrations will be invited to attend the Covid-Operations Committee on a weekly basis. This supplements wider joint working by ministers and officials. The purpose is not simply to ‘ensure that the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are informed of actions being taken by the Government’ but to share best practice and data, coordinate action and work together as set out in the Joint Statement of 25 September.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 02/10/2020 13:34:13 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

65260

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what factors they take into account when they propose use of negative, affirmative or super-affirmative resolution procedures for secondary legislation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Every delegated power has to be treated on its own merit and the level of parliamentary scrutiny proposed will depend on the nature of the delegated power, past precedent and the level of interest in a particular policy area. In line with the recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, the Government has agreed not to create additional procedures where it is not necessary to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 08/07/2014 16:30:50 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

901417

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Exports
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the breakdown by sector in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL7744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Kennedy of Southwark, dated 17 May 2018.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em></em></p><p>Dear Lord Kennedy,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the breakdown is, by sector, in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018 <strong>(HL7744).</strong></p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) trade statistics are currently produced on a product basis and not by industry sector. However, we are engaged in a wide development of UK trade statistics and are working towards producing our trade statistics by industry sector for the latter end of 2018. Further details can be found in our published trade development plan.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p>You can find data on trade in goods and services in the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/3tradeinservicesthepinkbook2016" target="_blank"><em>Quarterly Balance of Payments</em> release. </a>This data is broken down by service type and by goods commodity group. The latest data available is from 2017, and 2018 Quarter 1 data will be released on 29 June 2018. You can find the data on the ONS website[2], Table E for goods and Table F for services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we produce trade in goods further detail on a quarterly basis by <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08" target="_blank"><em>Classification of Product by Activity</em></a>, the latest data for which covers 2017 Quarter 4. This data can be accessed on the ONS website[3]; in Table 1 for total exports, Table 3 for EU exports and Table 5 for non-EU exports:</p><p> </p><p>You may also wish to note the latest export figures at an aggregate level via the UK Trade statistical bulletin[4] and corresponding publication[5].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/uktradedevelopmentplan/2017</p><p>[2]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/balanceofpaymentsstatisticalbulletintables</p><p>[3]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08</p><p>[4]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018</p><p>[5]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018/relateddata.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 22/05/2018 15:13:13 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1226203

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Nitrous Oxide: Death
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have died from inhaling nitrous oxide.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL7033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p><p>Dear Lord Kennedy,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people have died from inhaling nitrous oxide <strong>(HL7033)</strong>.</p><p>In March 2018 we published a report providing the number of deaths related to volatile substance abuse and helium in England, Wales and Scotland[1]. This report describes trends in deaths involving volatile substances registered between 2001 and 2016 in Great Britain. Please see table 1 below for data where types of volatile substance are mentioned on the death certificate from the March 2018 publication. We would recommend referring to the report, where possible, due to the complexity of the methodology surrounding the use of coroner’s text to identify relevant deaths.</p><p>Following the March 2018 publication, we published ad-hoc requests from members of the public, which include: the number of deaths in England and Wales involving nitrogen and nitrous oxide 2001-2016[2]; and deaths where nitrous oxide was mentioned on the death certificate 1993-2017[3]. Please note, published figures differ across these datasets due to the methodology used and the differing definitions of nitrous oxide deaths.</p><p>We intend to publish an update of the volatile substance report and accompanying datasets later this year. This is dependent on resource due to the current pandemic.</p><p>Yours sincerely</p><p><strong>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of deaths related to volatile substance abuse, where types of volatile substance mentioned on the death certificate, England and Wales, deaths registered in 2001 to 2016<strong>[4]</strong><strong>[5]</strong><strong>[6]</strong><strong>[7]</strong><strong>[8]</strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Registration Year</p></td><td><p>Nitrogen related deaths</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsrelatedtovolatilesubstancesandheliumingreatbritain/latest" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsrelatedtovolatilesubstancesandheliumingreatbritain/latest</a></p><p>[2]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/008203deathsinvolvingnitrogenandnitrousoxideinenglandandwales2001to2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/008203deathsinvolvingnitrogenandnitrousoxideinenglandandwales2001to2016</a></p><p>[3]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/009096drugrelateddeathsinvolvingnitrousoxideinenglandandwales1993to2017" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/009096drugrelateddeathsinvolvingnitrousoxideinenglandandwales1993to2017</a></p><p>[4]Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth revision (ICD-10) codes.</p><p>[5]Figures for England and Wales include deaths of non-residents.</p><p>[6]Figures are for deaths registered rather than occurring in each calendar year.</p><p>[7]Specific substances included in each category, details are available in the published dataset.</p><p>[8]Counts total to more than the total number of VSA deaths, because more than one substance group can be involved in a single death.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 27/07/2020 10:46:54 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

864507

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Infrastructure: Weather
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of the damage to infrastructure caused by the recent bad weather in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>Departments and agencies plan for seasonal disruption and the impact of bad weather. No specific estimates have been made of the cost of the damage to infrastructure caused by the recent spell of bad weather in the UK. However, in the case of road networks, the Department for Transport announced on 26th March 2018 funding of £100 million was being provided to local highway authorities in England, outside London, to help repair local highways and improve the resilience of roads to local flooding and other severe weather events. Details can be found at the following link;<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pothole-fund-boosted-to-repair-roads-after-winter-damage" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pothole-fund-boosted-to-repair-roads-after-winter-damage</a>”.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 19/04/2018 12:14:38 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1217789

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Mortality Rates
	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 possible reasons for the excess deaths in the UK since 1 March in which the cause of death was not recorded as COVID-19.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p><p>Dear Lord Kennedy,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what assessment has made of the possible reasons for the excess deaths in the UK since 1 March in which the cause of death was not recorded as COVID-19 (HL6132).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has investigated deaths not recorded as due to COVID-19 for England and Wales extensively, and published their findings on the website. The analysis presents excess deaths by age, sex, region of England, place of death and cause of death. Possible explanations for trends are put forward, and the extent to which weekly deaths registrations data support or contradict each suggestion is assessed. The main points of this analysis are outlined below:</p><ul><li><p>Between 7 March and 1 May, a total of 130,009 deaths were registered across England and Wales. This is an excess of 46,380 death registrations compared to the five-year average. 12,900 of these deaths (27.8%) did not involve COVID-19.</p></li><li><p>The ONS’ article is based on 98.1% of the total deaths registered and 43,903 excess deaths, because a small proportion of deaths take longer to be fully coded and validated for analysis.</p></li><li><p>Non-COVID-19 excess deaths occur predominantly in older age groups, to a greater extent with increasing age, and especially for the frail elderly with underlying conditions. Undiagnosed COVID-19 could help explain the rise in these deaths.</p></li><li><p>In the period from week ending 13 March to week ending 1 May, over 8,000 fewer deaths were registered in hospitals, which is a 20.9% decrease in comparison to the corresponding period in the five-year average. In contrast, almost 11,000 more deaths (an increase of 60.5%) were registered in care homes, and over 8,000 more deaths (an increase of 42.6%) were registered in private homes,</p></li><li><p>In the same period, the largest increases in non-COVID-19 deaths compared to the five-year average are seen in deaths due to ‘dementia and Alzheimer disease’ (5,404 excess deaths, an increase of 52.2%) and ‘symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions’, which indicates old age and frailty (1,567 excess deaths, an increase of 77.8%). Together, these comprise two thirds of total non-COVID-19 excess deaths in this period.</p></li><li><p>Deaths due to causes such as asthma and diabetes increased up to the week ending 24 April and occurred increasingly outside hospital. This could suggest that a delay in care for these conditions is leading to an increase in deaths, although it could also be related to undiagnosed COVID-19.</p></li><li><p>Changes to death registration processes implemented in the Coronavirus Act 2020 have led to an increased number of death registrations made by doctors, increasing registration efficiency overall. At present, it is not clear whether increased efficiency is a cause or result of an increase in weekly registrations, but some further effects may become apparent in the future for conditions where deaths have a longer registration delay.</p></li><li><p>The other theories investigated were reduced hospital capacity, and increases in deaths caused by stress-related conditions, but these cannot explain much of the increase in non-COVID-19 death registrations.</p></li></ul><p>A full analysis of non-COVID-19 excess deaths will only be possible in several months' time when longer-term effects and additional data, both death registrations and other sources, can be considered. This analysis only investigates death registrations in England and Wales, as the ONS does not hold data on death registrations in the rest of the UK. Given the novel and exploratory nature of this analysis, this report published in early June presented findings about death registrations up to 1 May. This was a stand-alone release, rather than a regular series. We are currently designing a follow-up, however we have no provisional date for release as yet.</p><p>The latest information on excess deaths in general are available in our weekly deaths registration data, with latest available for week ending 19 July.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p /><p /> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 08/07/2020 16:59:46 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark