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1727191

registered interest
date	03/09/2024
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	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for the future of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
tabling member printed	Lord Hutton of Furness
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>Decisions on funding post March 2025 are a matter for the Budget on October 30th.</p><p>We recognise the challenges this brings for some projects. We are working closely with local authorities and key stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition to future funding, so communities continue to benefit from this vital support. In the meantime, officials remain available to discuss any issues impacting delivery.</p> answering member printed Baroness Taylor of Stevenage question first answered 16/09/2024 12:10:39 answering member 4956 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
tabling member	494 label Biography information for Lord Hutton of Furness

1674203

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Property: Management
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, since the Social Housing (Regulations) Act 2023 received Royal Assent, (1) what steps they have taken regarding the implementation of the requirement under the Act for property managing agents responsible for managing the common parts of private and mixed tenure tall buildings to obtain an appropriate housing management qualification, and (2) what discussions they have held with stakeholders regarding this requirement.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>Since the Act received Royal Assent, we have been working to develop our consultation on new competence and conduct regulatory standards, which will include qualification requirements for senior managers and executives in the social housing sector. As part of this we have had extensive engagement with a range of stakeholders including resident groups, landlords and qualifications providers. This stakeholder engagement has informed the proposals outlined within our consultation. The consultation will be published shortly.</p><p>The power within the Social Housing Regulation Act will be used to apply qualification requirements to housing managers within the social housing sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 06/12/2023 15:00:46 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1468291

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Honours: South Yorkshire
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many honours above OBE level were awarded to people who were (1) living in, or (2) working or providing service to, the South Yorkshire area at the time of their nomination for an honour in The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>There are currently 63 living recipients of the Companion of Honour. We do not collect the information requested on political affiliation, nor do we monitor areas of residence after an award is bestowed.</p><p> </p><p>In supporting the levelling up agenda, Her Majesty’s Government would like to see representation in the honours system from across the whole of the United Kingdom, reflecting the extraordinary contributions made across the country.</p><p> </p><p>Data is collected using the county that the recipient gives as their correspondence address; this is usually their current home address and does not necessarily reflect their area of origin.</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of BD22 recipients living in each region by level is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes honours transparency data broken down by both town/city and county. Data is collected using the county the recipient gives as their correspondence address (usually their home address rather than their places of origin). This data relates only to the main Prime Minister’s List and does not include data from the Defence List or the Overseas and International List, which are not administered by the Cabinet Office. The transparency data for the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022 can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-queens-birthday-honours-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-queens-birthday-honours-2022</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL708 HL709 question first answered 16/06/2022 13:58:31 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True attachment 1 file name PQ HL708, HL709 and HL710 table only.pdf title data table
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1330266

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which government departments are participating in Stonewall's Diversity Champions Programme; how much they are spending on the Programme; whether any government departments are making payments to Stonewall for other initiatives; and if so, how much is each department spending.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The Government supports inclusive workplaces and, as has been the case for many years, departments work with a variety of external schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 23/06/2021 16:35:13 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1175265

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the regional disparities in small business lending, as reported in The Times on 21 January.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to levelling up across the whole country so that businesses can access the funding they need to thrive wherever they are.</p><p> </p><p>The British Business Bank (BBB) is a government-owned economic development bank which helps to drive economic growth by making finance markets work better for small businesses, enabling them to prosper and grow. Since BBB was established in 2014, it has supported over £7 billion of finance to over 91,000 SMEs across the UK (as at June 2019) and continues to grow. The stock of finance supported by the bank grew by 31% year on year (from June 2018 to June 2019).</p><p> </p><p>BBB’s Start Up Loans programme has so far provided 69,201 loans worth over £558m to small businesses (at end-December 2019) and has delivered loans in every parliamentary constituency in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BBB has introduced specific funds and activities to help address regional disparities in access to finance, which are having an increasingly significant impact. These have equity and debt finance components, with the balance of debt to equity set according to the specific needs of the businesses in those regions.</p><p> </p><p>The funds include:</p><ul><li>The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) which has invested over £140m of an overall £400m fund in over 500 ambitious SMEs across the Northern Powerhouse region, in deals that have attracted an additional £140m of investment from the private sector (as of Nov 2019). £80.6m of NPIF so far has been made in debt finance to 474 businesses;</li><li>The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) which has invested over £48 million of an overall £250m fund in over 200 businesses, in deals that have attracted an additional £27m of investment from the private sector (as of Nov 2019). £23.9m of MEIF so far has been in debt finance to 177 businesses.</li></ul><p> </p><p>For equity investment, the BBB also has a £100m Regional Angels Programme, which is designed to help reduce regional imbalances in access to early stage equity finance for smaller businesses across the UK (launched in October 2018 by British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank). In September 2019, the first £10m commitment through the programme was made to one of the largest business angel networks in the North of England which primarily operates in the North West, Yorkshire and the North East with more commitments to be announced in the coming year.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Network, established in early 2019 by the British Business Bank is a UK-wide network of relationship managers which will continue to enhance and further build BBB’s relationships with key SME access to finance stakeholders across the UK and thereby help tackle regional imbalances in access to finance, including for smaller businesses seeking debt finance at all stages of their development.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:13:10 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

750578

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many ectopic pregnancies have been treated in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS regions in England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Taylor of Bolton
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The data requested cannot be provided by National Health Service region as regional boundaries have changed during this period. A table showing finished admissions episodes with a primary diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy by Government Office Region has been attached due to the size of the data.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 19/07/2017 13:49:59 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL710 formatted table.docx title Finished admissions episodes ectopic pregnancy
tabling member	407 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Bolton

525438

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Ectopic Pregnancy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 14 June (HL Deb, col 1099), what action they are taking in response to the practice by some companies of supplying low-tax foreign markets with more tobacco than they are capable of consuming, thereby facilitating their products being brought back to the UK and depriving HM Revenue and Customs of revenue.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>The UK introduced stringent rules in 2006 requiring all UK Tobacco Manufacturers (TMs) to control their supply chains. These rules required them to take steps to avoid supplying cigarettes and/or HRT (hand rolling tobacco) to persons who are likely to smuggle them into the UK or resupply them to other persons who are likely to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Tobacco manufacturers can face penalties of up to £5m for failing to comply with the rules. HMRC action, in monitoring TM’s compliance, is reflected in a reduction in supplies of UK brand cigarettes to high risk markets of 20% since 2010. At the same time, supplies to those markets of UK brand Hand Rolling Tobacco (HRT) has reduced by 36%.</p><p> </p><p>Despite this success HMRC is not complacent. They continue to closely monitor the illicit market in the UK, which today is made up of a mix of unregulated brands, non UK brands, and counterfeit as well as genuine UK brands, to ensure the legislation is working. HMRC also robustly challenge TM’s supply chain policies and procedures to ensure their continued compliance with the rules.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC cannot comment on the progress of individual investigations but it is a matter of public record that one manufacturer has been subject to a supply chain penalty. This penalty is currently under to appeal.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley grouped question UIN HL712 question first answered 29/06/2016 14:09:15 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

384499

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the government of Israel following the decision of the Military Advocate General not to seek an indictment over the killing of four Palestinian children on the beach in Gaza in July 2014.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text Our Ambassador in Tel Aviv met the Israeli Military Advocate General on 17 June, during which he discussed this incident. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 03/07/2015 13:54:34 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

64627

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: EU Action
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 eventual cost to HM Treasury of the European Union's proposed ban on short selling should it be enforced in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>There is no proposed ban on short selling of securities so it is not possible for the Government to assess the costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Short Selling Regulation, which came into force on 1 November 2012, is an EU-wide Regulation that lays down a common regulatory framework for powers and requirements related to the short selling of securities. In particular, it gives powers to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ban or impose restrictions on short selling of securities in certain circumstances, as well as impose the requirement on investors to disclose net short positions (both publicly, and privately to the FCA).</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 10/07/2014 14:38:20 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch