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647991

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Economic Growth: Forecasts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the growth forecasts made by the Office for Budget Responsibility since 2010; and what assessment they have made of the accuracy of each of those forecasts.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL3687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibilities (OBR) forecasts for the economy and public finances are available in the Economic and Fiscal Outlook publications. The OBR regularly publishes Forecast Evaluation Reports, in which they compare their forecasts to subsequent outturns and explain any forecast errors.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 12/12/2016 14:59:26 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

657411

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Office for Budget Responsibility
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 12 December (HL3687), whether they have made a separate assessment of the accuracy of the forecasts for the economy and public finances made by the Office for Budget Responsibility since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL4044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 requires the Non-executive members of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to commission an external review every five years, to examine the content and quality of the reports published by the OBR. To this end, the Page review was published in September 2014. HM Treasury published its own review of the OBR in 2015, building on evidence from the Page review.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 21/12/2016 12:33:39 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

77794

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury's speech to the Centre for Transatlantic Relations in Washington on 26 June, of how many jobs in each sector is the 3.3 million that the HM Treasury analysis says are connected to Britain's place in the European Union comprised.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL1091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2014 answer text <p>The Treasury estimate that 3.3 million jobs in the UK may be related to exports to other European Union countries. This figure is based on the assumption that the share of UK employment associated with UK exports to the EU is equal to the share of output that is exported to the EU, making allowance for the composition of the UK economy. It is not an estimate of the impact of EU membership on employment.</p><p> </p><p>Allocating all of these jobs to specific sectors is challenging in the absence of data providing both a sectoral and geographical breakdown of exports. Such estimates would be very sensitive to the further assumptions required to allocate jobs to sectors.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 28/07/2014 11:47:45 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

789877

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the total net contribution of the UK to EU expenditure for the past 20 years, expressed in 2017 prices.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL3261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not hold estimates of the total net contribution of the UK to EU expenditure in 2017 prices.</p><p> </p><p>Using the Office for National Statistics’ GDP Deflator, as of March 2017, the House of Commons Library briefing paper <em>The UK’s contribution to the EU Budget </em>has calculated the total annual UK contributions to the EU and its predecessors in real (2016) prices, dating back to 1973.</p><p> </p><p>Both gross and net contributions are given in Table 3, page 10 of the document. The totals for net contributions do not account for payments made directly from the EU to private sector bodies.</p><p>All other underlying assumptions used are detailed in the publication.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/11/2017 13:05:18 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

798074

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 28 November (HL3261), whether the Answer indicated that they accept the calculations of the total annual UK contributions to the EU and its predecessors since 1973 in real (2016) prices set out in the House of Commons Library briefing paper The UK’s contribution to the EU Budget; whether they maintain their own statistics on those contributions; and if so, where those statistics are published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL3770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government provides cash figures for the UK contribution to the EU budget, through HM Treasury’s annual publication <em>European Union Finances </em>(previously HM Treasury’s<em> Statement on the 19XX Community Budget</em>). The Government do not maintain real price statistics of historical EU contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s cash figures have been used in the House of Commons Library briefing paper <em>The UK’s contribution to the EU Budget </em>in the calculation to determine the real price equivalents. The Government has not reviewed this calculation.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/12/2017 12:35:47 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

846826

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they have allocated to the privatised railway system in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL5788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Net support to the railways in Great Britain by the Government is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Government net support to the rail industry<sup>1</sup></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£million (nominal)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>5,315</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>5,003</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>4,696</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>4,251</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>4,554</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>5,173</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>5,370</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>4,864</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>4,763</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>4,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em> Includes support from the Department for Transport, and the Scottish and Welsh Governments</em></p><p><em>Source: Office of Rail and Road (ORR)</em></p><p> </p><p>The figures represent the net contribution made by the Government and are offset against payments received from rail industry bodies, such as the overall premium paid by Train Operating Companies (TOCs). The grant given to Network Rail and direct Government funding towards railway projects are included in the total.</p><p> </p><p>These figures reflect Government support to the GB national railway and therefore do not include any Government support to tram, light rail, underground networks or the Northern Irish rail networks.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 06/03/2018 17:36:13 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

421793

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the United Kingdom's overseas development budget is distributed via the European Union; and what amount that represents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL2664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest Statistics on International Development (published in 2014) show that in 2013, UK ODA attributed from the Development Share of the EU Budget was £813 million, and ODA contributions to the off-budget European Development Fund were £407 million. Combined this is around 11% of UK ODA.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 27/10/2015 16:16:25 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1125837

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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	Combined Authorities
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 7 May (HL Deb, col 1140), with regard to combined authorities in England with directly elected mayors (1) what powers those authorities have in common, (2) what powers are specific to individual combined authorities or to groups of combined authorities, (3) what are the dates of the next elections for each mayor, and (4) what was the turnout in each combined authority in the most recent election for each directly elected mayor.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL15627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>1) All eight mayoral combined authorities (MCAs) in England - Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, North of Tyne, Sheffield City Region, Tees Valley, West of England and West Midlands- have the following functions in common:</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong> <em>Integrated transport functions</em></strong></li><li><strong> <em>Bus improvement powers including bus franchising</em></strong></li><li><strong> <em>Economic development and regeneration powers</em></strong></li><li><strong> <em>Power to borrow for transport functions</em></strong></li></ul><p> </p><p>They also all have a power of competence over areas where they have had functions conferred. In the case of Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough and West of England this is the General Power of Competence that principal local authorities have.</p><p> </p><p>2) Each MCA has a different set of functions conferred on them, reflecting the bespoke nature of devolution deals as shown below:</p><ul><li><strong> <em>Power to raise a precept on council tax to fund mayoral powers </em></strong>- all MCAs except West of England.</li><li><strong> <em>Power to pay grant </em></strong>- all MCAs except Sheffield City Region.</li><li><strong> <em>Power to establish Mayoral Development Corporations </em></strong>- all MCAs, apart from Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough and Sheffield City Region</li><li><strong> <em>Power to borrow for any combined authority function </em></strong>- all MCAs except North of Tyne and Sheffield City Region</li><li><strong> <em>Adult education functions -</em></strong>all MCAs except North of Tyne and Sheffield City Region</li><li><strong> <em>Homes England powers around regeneration </em></strong>- all MCAs except Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough, Tees Valley and Sheffield City Region.</li><li><strong> <em>Power to raise a business rates supplement </em></strong>- Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough. Liverpool City Region, West of England and West Midlands.</li><li><strong> <em>Strategic planning powers </em></strong>- Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and West of England</li><li><strong> <em>Police &amp; Crime Commissioner functions -</em></strong> exclusive to Greater Manchester.</li><li><strong> <em>Fire &amp; Rescue Authority </em></strong>- exclusive to Greater Manchester</li><li><strong> <em>Public health functions</em></strong> - exclusive to Greater Manchester</li><li><strong> <em>Powers in relation to combined authority roads, as defined in legislation - </em></strong>exclusive to West Midlands.</li></ul><p> </p><p>3) The dates for the next mayoral election in each MCA are as follows:</p><p><strong>7 May 2020: </strong>Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands</p><p><strong>6 May 2021: </strong>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, West of England</p><p><strong>5 May 2022: </strong>Sheffield City Region</p><p><strong>2 May 2024: </strong>North of Tyne</p><p> </p><p>4) The turnout for the inaugural mayoral election in each combined authority is as follows:</p><p><strong>4 May 2017:</strong></p><ul><li>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - a turnout of 33.57%</li><li>Greater Manchester - a turnout of 28.93%</li><li>Liverpool City Region - a turnout of 26.1%</li><li>Tees Valley - a turnout of 21.31%</li><li>West of England - a turnout of 29.72%</li><li>West Midlands - a turnout of 26.7%</li></ul><p><strong>3 May 2018</strong></p><ul><li>Sheffield City Region - a turnout of 25.82%</li></ul><p><strong>2 May 2019</strong></p><ul><li>North of Tyne - a turnout of 32.3%</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 22/05/2019 14:11:45 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

1130605

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Mayors: Elections
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 27 May (HL15627), what was the cost of running each of the most recent eight mayoral elections.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL16149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Costs of elections of combined authority mayors are met by the combined authorities and this information is held locally. Certain combined authorities have also reported and published their running expenses for conducting elections in their General Fund Revenue Account Outturns and these are set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Combined authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Year of election</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£ (thousands)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough</p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,151 (2017-18 return)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool City Region</p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,532 (2016-17 return) + £630 (2017-18 return) = £2,162</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,083 (2017-18 return)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,318 (2017-18 return)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West of England</p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,534 (2017-18 return)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Link to the 17-18 data (attached):</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/787871/RO6_2017-18_data_by_LA_-_revised.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/787871/RO6_2017-18_data_by_LA_-_revised.xlsx</a></p><p>Link to the 16-17 data (attached):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/659779/RO6_2016-17_data_by_LA.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/659779/RO6_2016-17_data_by_LA.xlsx</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 190617 Copy of RO6 2016-17 data by LA - HL16149.xlsx title 16-17 data 2 file name 190617 Copy of RO6 2017-18 data by LA revised - HL16149.xlsx title 17-18 data question first answered 18/06/2019 15:01:01 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

846825

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many police officers have been recruited via the Direct Entry Superintendents Scheme in each year since that scheme was introduced.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL5787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Direct entry offers the opportunity to widen the talent pool from where we attract our police officers and will bring in people from a diverse range of backgrounds. The introduction of direct entry allowed professionals from other sectors to join policing at a senior rank for the first time. These individuals have demonstrated that it is possible to join at this rank and gain the skills and competencies required to perform the job while also bringing a fresh perspective to police leadership.</p><p>The College of Policing is responsible for delivery of the direct entry scheme and will be publishing an evaluation fo the implementation of direct entry next year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 13/03/2018 14:26:16 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott