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1602180

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date	07/03/2023
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	Universal Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many Universal Credit claimants received (1) £10–19 per week, (2) £20–£29 per week, (3) £30–39 per week, (4) £40–£49 per week, (5) £50–£59 per week, (6) £60–£69 per week, (7) £70–£79 per week, (8) £80–£89 per week, (9) £90–£99 per week, (10) £100–£109 per week, (11) £110–£119 per week, (12) £120–£129 per week, (13) £130–£139 per week, (14) £140–£149 per week, and (15) £150 and above per week, in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>Universal Credit is paid to households monthly and the official statistics, including the amounts paid per month, are published every three months on Stat-Xplore. The latest statistics are in the following table.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of Households in receipt of Universal Credit, by monthly payment amount, in November 2022.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Payment Amount</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Households</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than £40</p></td><td><p>72,857</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£40 - £79.99</p></td><td><p>53,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£80 - £119.99</p></td><td><p>63,360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£120 - £159.99</p></td><td><p>73,342</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£160 - £199.99</p></td><td><p>77,612</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£200 - £239.99</p></td><td><p>100,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£240 - £279.99</p></td><td><p>224,528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£280 - £319.99</p></td><td><p>136,853</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£320 - £359.99</p></td><td><p>203,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£360 - £399.99</p></td><td><p>67,924</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£400 - £439.99</p></td><td><p>74,063</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£440 - £479.99</p></td><td><p>85,036</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£480 - £519.99</p></td><td><p>111,719</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£520 - £559.99</p></td><td><p>103,904</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£560 - £599.99</p></td><td><p>130,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£600 or more</p></td><td><p>2,747,768</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>4,327,245</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a> – Households on Universal Credit</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes: </strong></p><ol><li>Statistical disclosure control has been applied to these figures to avoid the release of confidential data. Totals may not sum due to the disclosure control applied.</li><li>These figures do not include households with a nil award. Households may not be in payment if, for example, earnings for the period are sufficiently high that the taper rate reduces their entitlement to £0.</li><li>These figures are provisional and will be subject to revision. It is expected that overall provisional figures will be within two per cent of their revised figure in future releases.</li><li>Monthly award amounts include any awards due to entitlement such as the standard allowance or housing entitlement plus any advance payments. Advance payments will normally be recovered during subsequent assessment periods.</li></ol> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/03/2023 14:59:09 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1422174

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NatWest
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the statement published by the US Department of Justice on 21 December 2021 after the guilty plea by NatWest for various fraud schemes in the markets for US Treasury securities and futures contracts, what plans they have to commission an independent inquiry into the bank’s operations.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>‘Spoofing’ is the practice of placing orders in financial markets with the intention of cancelling said orders and attempting to profit from any resulting price changes. It is prohibited under the UK Market Abuse Regulation, as it gives false or misleading signals as to the supply or demand of a financial instrument.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK, the FCA is responsible for identifying and preventing market abuse, and taking enforcement action against persons committing market abuse where appropriate. The FCA actively monitors UK markets for potential market manipulation, and any investigation into that activity would be conducted by the regulator. UK trading venues and persons professionally arranging or executing transactions who are located in the UK are required to have arrangements in place to monitor, detect, and report such market manipulation to the FCA.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn grouped question UIN HL6193 question first answered 23/02/2022 15:37:04 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka

1218510

registered interest
date	29/06/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Performing Arts: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they estimate live arts performances to resume (1) with, and (2) without, social distancing restrictions.
tabling member printed	Lord Aberdare
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>As part of continued engagement with our sectors, DCMS Ministers, and officials have spoken to many organisations in the arts and culture sectors directly, as well as arms-length bodies and sector representatives.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Through this engagement we know that the capacity needed to make a profit varies not just between the sub-sectors, but also between individual organisations and on an even more granular level, what those organisations programme. These considerations, as well as costs relating to staffing, fixed costs, maintenance, production costs, and loans, also impact upon the size of the possible finance gap an organisation may have when considering when and whether to reopen.</p><p> </p><p>Following the establishment of the Cultural Renewal Taskforce, on 23 June the Prime Minister announced that from 4 July theatres will be permitted to reopen for rehearsal, pre-production and broadcast, although not yet for live performance with an audience. Alongside the work that we are doing with representatives of the entertainment and events industry to develop supporting guidance, this represents the first steps in the roadmap to recovery for our nations’ theatres.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government remains committed to supporting the cultural sector through this pandemic and getting the curtain up at venues for live performances across the country as soon as it is safe to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL6190 HL6191 question first answered 14/07/2020 11:14:19 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3898 label Biography information for Lord Aberdare

857883

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Ferries: Isles of Scilly
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the status and current value of the sinking fund for a new ferry to which to which the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company committed in return for a Government interest free loan toward the purchase of the Scillonian III.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>I am not aware of the existence of any formal extant sinking-fund for this purpose, nor of a current obligation to hold one, although the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company are indeed responsible for providing the vessels necessary for their operations.</p><p> </p><p>The IoSSC is due to be meeting Nusrat Ghani on 18 April to discuss. She is also meeting the Isles of Scilly Council next week to get their views on transport links to the Scillies.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 22/03/2018 16:15:04 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

712597

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	PAYE
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the average per capita annual PAYE receipts in each of the last five years, broken down by electoral division in the 23 June 2016 referendum.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>Analysis of income tax liabilities by region is published in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) statistics table 3.15 – “Income and tax by Parliamentary Constituency”, which is available on the gov.uk website[i].</p><p> </p><p>This liabilities table relates to income tax whether collected through PAYE or another mechanism (such as Self-Assessment). Furthermore, the liabilities table excludes Class 1 National Insurance Contributions which are collected through PAYE.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold information on all PAYE receipts broken down by parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-and-tax-by-parliamentary-constituency-2010-to-2011</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/04/2017 14:57:45 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name table3-15final.pdf title Table 3.15
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

452291

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Trade Unions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the 1984 agreement on trade union political funding between Lord King of Bridgwater and Lord Murray of Epping Forest, then General Secretary of the TUC.
tabling member printed	Lord Monks
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>I have placed in the House Library a copy of the exchange of correspondence from February 1984 between the Secretary of State for Employment and the General Secretary of the TUC.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/02/2016 12:18:37 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4186 label Biography information for Lord Monks

44243

registered interest
date	20/03/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ensure that when the East Anglia One wind farm is constructed the ducting for the underground cables from the land point at Bawdsey to the inverter at Bramford are of a dimension also able to accommodate the cables from the proposed three subsequent North Sea wind farms landing at the same point.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL6192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State is currently considering the report and recommendation from the Planning Inspectorate into the application for development consent for onshore and offshore works that would comprise the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. The Secretary of State will consider all material considerations in reaching his decision. He has three months from 18 March 2014 to announce his decision and it would be inappropriate to comment on any material issues at this time.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford