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1580996

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
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	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group Child of the North Child Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis, published on 23 January, what steps they are taking to help mitigate the effects of the increased cost of living for families in areas with the highest levels of child poverty.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL5095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing child poverty and supporting low-income families. We will spend over £245bn through the welfare system in 2022/23 including £111bn on people of working age.</p><p> </p><p>In 2023/24, subject to parliamentary approval, we are uprating all benefit rates and State Pensions by 10.1%. In order to increase the number of households who can benefit from these uprating decisions the benefit cap levels are also increasing by the same amount.</p><p /><p>The Government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living this winter and is taking action to help. The Government's Energy Price Guarantee will save a typical British household around £900 this winter, based on what energy prices would have been under the current price cap - reducing bills by roughly a third. This is in addition to the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>For those who require additional support the current Household Support Fund, running in England from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023, is providing £421 million of funding. The devolved administrations have been allocated £79 million through the Barnett formula.  The Household Support Fund will continue until March 2024. This year long extension allows Local Authorities in England to continue to provide discretionary support to those most in need to help with the significantly rising cost of living. The Devolved Administrations will receive consequential funding as usual to spend at their discretion.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, for 2023/24, households on eligible means-tested benefits will get up to £900 in Cost of Living Payments. This will be split into three payments of around £300 each across the 2023/24 financial year. A separate £300 payment will be made to pensioner households on top of their Winter Fuel Payments and individuals in receipt of eligible disability benefits will receive a £150 payment. Further to this, the amended Energy Price Guarantee will save the average UK household £500 in 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>With 1.16 million job vacancies across the UK, our focus remains firmly on supporting parents to move into, and progress in work, an approach which is based on clear evidence about the importance of employment - particularly where it is full-time - in substantially reducing the risks of child poverty and in improving long-term outcomes for families and children. To further support those who are in work, from 1 April 2023 subject to parliamentary approval, the National Living Wage (NLW) will increase by 9.7% to £10.42 an hour for workers aged 23 and over - the largest ever cash increase for the NLW.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 02/02/2023 17:36:10 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

1567034

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
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	Disability Living Allowance: Mobility
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many people have directed the mobility component of their Disability Living Allowance to the purchase of a vehicle in each of the last three years, broken down by regions of the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL4812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Claimants who receive the higher rate mobility component for Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the enhanced rate of the mobility component for Personal Independence Payment, Armed Forces Independence Payment or War Pensioners Mobility Supplement can exchange part or all of their mobility component for a leased car, wheelchair or powered chair/scooter through the Motability scheme regardless of their income.</p><p> </p><p>The Department directly transfers the mobility allowance to Motability on behalf of the eligible claimant once they elect to join the Scheme.</p><p> </p><p /><p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The latest Motability annual report published on 14<sup>th</sup> December 2022 does show that over 650,000 people use the scheme.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 26/01/2023 15:00:08 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1565735

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
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	Kickstart Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) rate, and (2) value, of losses since the launch of the Kickstart Scheme in 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Leong
uin	HL4620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>The Kickstart Scheme has not declared any losses.</p><p><br> The National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Kickstart Scheme was published in November 2021. This report contains details on spend as of the end of September 2021. You can access the NAO report <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Employment-support-the-Kickstart-Scheme.pdf" target="_blank">here.</a></p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 24/01/2023 17:56:28 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4959 label Biography information for Lord Leong

1565321

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Low Incomes: Government Assistance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what further steps they are taking to provide cash support for low-income households.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government's Energy Price Guarantee will save a typical British household around £900 this winter, based on what energy prices would have been under the current price cap - reducing bills by roughly a third.</p><p> </p><p>For those who require additional support the current Household Support Fund, running in England from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023, is providing £421 million of funding. The devolved administrations have been allocated £79 million through the Barnett formula.</p><p> </p><p>The Household Support Fund will continue until March 2024. This year long extension allows Local Authorities in England to continue to provide discretionary support to those most in need to help with global inflationary challenges and the significantly rising cost of living. The Devolved Administrations will receive consequential funding as usual to spend at their discretion.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>All benefit rates and State Pensions will increase in line with the Consumer Prices Index for the year to September 2022. This will mean that, subject to parliamentary approval, they will increase by 10.1% in April. In order to increase the number of households who can benefit from these uprating decisions the benefit cap will also be increased by 10.1% subject to parliamentary approval.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, for 2023/24, households on eligible means-tested benefits will get up to £900 in Cost of Living Payments. This will be split into three payments of around £300 each across the 2023/24 financial year. A separate £300 payment will be made to over eight million pensioner households on top of their Winter Fuel Payments and individuals in receipt of eligible disability benefits will receive a £150 payment. Further to this, the amended Energy Price Guarantee will save the average UK household £500 in 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>To further support those who are in work, from 1 April 2023 subject to parliamentary approval, the National Living Wage (NLW) will increase by 9.7% to £10.42 an hour for workers aged 23 and over - the largest ever cash increase for the NLW.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 20/01/2023 14:32:44 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1563839

registered interest
date	21/12/2022
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	Poverty: Older People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many older people they estimate are currently living in (1) relative, and (2) absolute, poverty.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2023 answer text <p>National Statistics on the number of pensioners with low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication and the latest available estimates are for 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The overall trend in the number of pensioners living in low income shows a fall over recent decades.</p><p>(1) In 2020/21, there were 1.9 million pensioners in relative low income, before housing costs. This is a fall of 200 thousand since 2009/10. In 2020/21, there were 1.7 million pensioners in relative low income, after housing costs. This is a fall of 100 thousand since 2009/10.</p><p>(2) In 2020/21, there were 1.5 million pensioners in absolute low income, before housing costs. This is a fall of 400 thousand since 2009/10. In 2020/21, there were 1.2 million pensioners in absolute low income, after housing costs. This is a fall of 400 thousand since 2009/10.</p><p>The Government is committed to action that helps to alleviate levels of pensioner poverty.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022/23, we will spend £134 billion on benefits for pensioners in GB, 5.4% of GDP. This includes £110 billion spending on the State Pension in 2022/23. Subject to Parliamentary approval in April 2023 the State Pension and the Pension Credit standard minimum guarantee will increase by 10.1%.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, to reduce the risk of poverty for future pensioners, automatic enrolment into workplace pensions has transformed pension participation for millions of workers. To date, over 10.8 million people have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, with over 2.1 million employers complying with their duties.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 10/01/2023 11:46:54 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1542092

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion: China
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the brief of the new Trade Envoy for the Indo-Pacific includes the promotion of trade with China.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL3332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>Richard Graham MP has been reappointed as PMs Trade Envoy to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and ASEAN. The role does not include the promotion of trade with China.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 23/11/2022 17:14:02 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1541067

registered interest
date	09/11/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the volumes of Russian steel entering the UK that have been processed in third countries; and whether steel entering the country in this way would violate existing sanctions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL3324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of efforts to restrict imports from key Russian industries following their illegal invasion of Ukraine. This includes steel products, where we have banned the import of all finished steel, and put in place tariff increases of 35 percentage points on all steel. Since April, the UK has imported no steel defined as finished or semi-finished directly from Russia.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that any circumvention of sanctions measures through third countries undermines their wider impact, and we are working alongside international partners to address any potential loopholes in our sanctions regimes.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 23/11/2022 15:04:51 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1539358

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
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: Pakistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what (1) tools, and (2) criteria, the Department for International Trade will use to monitor Pakistan's compliance with the human rights and labour provisions of the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Wallace of Tankerness
uin	HL3220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The government believes that secure and growing trading relationships can enable open conversations with partners on a range of issues, including human rights and labour rights. At the same time, the Government is committed to working with international partners and businesses to ensure global supply chains are free from the use of modern slavery and other human rights abuses.</p><p>Countries - including Pakistan - that will benefit from the Developing Countries Trading Scheme may have preferences suspended if they have engaged in serious and systematic violations of human rights and labour rights contained in 16 international conventions.</p><p> </p><p>The tools to monitor compliance may include reports from international convention bodies, reports produced by international organisations and reporting from the Government’s diplomatic network.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria the Government may consider include the nature, scale, impact, frequency and pattern of violations.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 22/11/2022 16:12:48 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness

1537279

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Forced Labour
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the legislative proposal from the European Commission to ban the marketing of goods made with forced labour; and whether they plan to introduce such a ban in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL3031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has serious concerns about the situation in Xinjiang. Robust action has been taken to help ensure that no British organisations are profiting from or are contributing to human rights violations in Xinjiang. We have, amongst other actions, introduced guidance on the risks of doing business in Xinjiang, led a ministerial campaign of business engagement to reinforce the need for UK business to act and have announced our intention to introduce financial penalties for businesses that do not comply with their transparency obligations under the Modern Slavery Act. Import bans are one of a range of tools that could be used to tackle forced labour in global supply chains, and we continue to keep this policy response under close review.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL3032 question first answered 14/11/2022 12:53:00 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1537280

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Forced Labour: Xinjiang
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Import of Products of Forced Labour from Xinjiang (Prohibition) Bill 2021–22; and whether they plan to ban products of forced labour from Xinjiang.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL3032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has serious concerns about the situation in Xinjiang. Robust action has been taken to help ensure that no British organisations are profiting from or are contributing to human rights violations in Xinjiang. We have, amongst other actions, introduced guidance on the risks of doing business in Xinjiang, led a ministerial campaign of business engagement to reinforce the need for UK business to act and have announced our intention to introduce financial penalties for businesses that do not comply with their transparency obligations under the Modern Slavery Act. Import bans are one of a range of tools that could be used to tackle forced labour in global supply chains, and we continue to keep this policy response under close review.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL3031 question first answered 14/11/2022 12:53:00 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool