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1581707

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date	30/01/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Ethiopia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the noble Lord Bishop’s Parliamentary Question of 30 January is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician</p><p>The Lord Bishop of St Albans</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>1 February 2023</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Bishop,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia; the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan; and the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea (HL5226; HL5227; HL5228).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK trade data at country level in our UK total trade, all countries release[1] .</p><p>Data on UK trade with Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea for 2016-2021 can be found in Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p>[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktotaltradeallcountri esseasonallyadjusted<br><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL5227 HL5228 question first answered 10/02/2023 08:50:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL5226_HL5227_HL5228.pdf title UKSA Response to HL5226, HL5227, HL5228
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1581708

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the noble Lord Bishop’s Parliamentary Question of 30 January is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician</p><p>The Lord Bishop of St Albans</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>1 February 2023</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Bishop,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia; the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan; and the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea (HL5226; HL5227; HL5228).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK trade data at country level in our UK total trade, all countries release[1] .</p><p>Data on UK trade with Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea for 2016-2021 can be found in Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p>[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktotaltradeallcountri esseasonallyadjusted<br><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL5226 HL5228 question first answered 10/02/2023 08:50:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL5226_HL5227_HL5228.pdf title UKSA Response to HL5226, HL5227, HL5228
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1581709

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Eritrea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the noble Lord Bishop’s Parliamentary Question of 30 January is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician</p><p>The Lord Bishop of St Albans</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>1 February 2023</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Bishop,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia; the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan; and the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea (HL5226; HL5227; HL5228).</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK trade data at country level in our UK total trade, all countries release[1] .</p><p>Data on UK trade with Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea for 2016-2021 can be found in Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p>[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktotaltradeallcountri esseasonallyadjusted<br><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL5226 HL5227 question first answered 10/02/2023 08:50:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL5226_HL5227_HL5228.pdf title UKSA Response to HL5226, HL5227, HL5228
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1580475

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Beef: Overseas Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much beef was (1) exported, and (2) imported, in the years (a) 2022, (b) 2021, (c) 2020, and (d) 2019.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website.</p><p> </p><p>Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist you in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff. Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by an eight-digit commodity code. These are publicly available from the UK Trade Tariff.</p><p> </p><p>Beef falls within commodity code chapter headings 0201 and 0202. The full commodity code would depend on the specific compounds of the beef.  There could be additional commodity codes that have not been included, that could be considered as ‘Beef’ depending upon the requestor’s specific definition.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of beef exported from and imported to the UK in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 is in the attached table and can be found on the UK Trade Information website and on Gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 07/02/2023 17:34:03 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn attachment 1 file name HL5034 supporting table.xlsx title Tabled referred to in answer
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1580476

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Gambling: Medical Treatments
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 efficacy of medication, such as paroxetine, for the treatment of problem gambling.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>Whilst no specific assessment has been made, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence is developing a clinical guideline for the treatment of harmful gambling. This will cover psychological and psychosocial interventions as well as pharmacological treatments, with publication expected in early 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 01/02/2023 15:08:53 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1580477

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dual Nationality: Iran
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have dual British-Iranian citizenship; and of those, what estimate they have made of the number currently residing in Iran.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>Under UK law, there is no restriction on holding other passports so only the ‘relevant’ nationality to a case is generally captured in a analysable form.</p><p>We cannot provide a figure on how many Iranians have rights or claims to dual British citizenship. Eligibility for British citizenship depends on an individual’s ability to meet all of the statutory requirements, and eligibility for dual nationality would also be subject to the rules of the other country involved.</p><p>In addition to foreign nationals who qualify for registration or naturalisation as a British citizen, there are a number of people who acquire dual nationality by virtue of their birth in the UK to foreign parents, or their birth overseas to British parents.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 09/02/2023 15:58:32 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1580478

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Dahua Technology and Hikvision
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the Chinese surveillance companies (1) Dahua, and (2) Hikvision; what assessment they have made of any links between those companies and human rights abuses in the Xinjiang province; and what assessment they have made of whether they constitute a security threat to the UK.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>The UK takes its national security extremely seriously. On 24 November 2022, the Government announced that Departments should cease deployment of visual surveillance systems produced by companies subject to China's National Intelligence Law onto sensitive sites. The Government has also consistently led international efforts to hold China to account for its human rights violations, including the use of invasive surveillance to target Uyghurs and other minorities. On 31 October, we supported a joint statement at the UN Third Committee alongside 49 other countries that specifically called out China's systematic use of invasive surveillance on the basis of religion and ethnicity. We also consistently raise the situation in Xinjiang with the Chinese authorities at the highest levels. Most recently, the Foreign Secretary did so in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart on 20 September.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/02/2023 16:46:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1580479

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any security threat posed by the collection of biometric data by direct-to-consumer DNA testing ancestry companies.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has made no such assessment.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth question first answered 08/02/2023 17:11:20 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1580480

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Somalia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct (1) imports, and (2) exports, to Somalia.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website. From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria.</p><p> </p><p>The value of UK imports and exports, where Somalia has been declared as the country of dispatch (for UK imports) or country of destination (for UK exports) is as follows</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1: UK Trade values (£) with Somalia, January - November 2022</p></td><td><p>Imports</p></td><td><p>Exports</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All commodities</p></td><td><p>638,928</p></td><td><p>13,153,065</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>• Data for 2022 is aligned with the most recently published data, e.g. up to and including November 2022</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>• 2022 is an open year and is therefore provisional and is subject to change</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>• Values are defined as statistical value.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Further information can be found on the UK Trade Information website.[1]</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/" target="_blank">UK Trade Info</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 07/02/2023 17:31:05 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1579923

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Village Halls: Community Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the contribution of village halls as community spaces, and (2) the risk of closures of such facilities; and what steps they are taking to support local authorities and community groups to keep village halls open.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL4986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>Defra is committed to supporting village halls and is well aware of their role as important rural community buildings. This support is predominately delivered through our funding of Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE).</p><p>Through a network of skilled advisers, ACRE coordinates a nationwide information and advice service for the volunteers who manage halls. Advisers are based in every rural county of England and combine their specialist knowledge of running community buildings with extensive local knowledge. The advisers help with a wide range of queries, from holding AGMs to recruiting volunteers, applying for funding and building relationships with local councils.</p><p>ACRE does not collect data on the number of village halls but estimates this to be around 10,000 in England. ACRE surveys the halls known to its members every 10 years. The last survey was in 2020 and found that halls were not closing at the same rate as pubs and religious buildings. When a hall closes it is usually because a new one is being built or users have moved to use a new hall in another local village, making the old hall no longer viable.</p><p>ACRE reported that while there were concerns that some village halls may not re-open after being temporarily closed during the Covid lockdown, ACRE has no evidence that the closure of halls is significant. There was also concern that halls might close over the winter due to rising energy costs, but ACRE has received no reports that this has happened.</p><p>Village halls across England can now apply for grants to improve and modernise their facilities. Launched to mark the occasion of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, the £3 million Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund recognises the important role that village halls play in supporting rural communities.</p><p>The fund is managed by ACRE on behalf of Defra. It is anticipated that the fund will support around 125 village halls over a three-year period creating bigger, better and brighter village halls for communities to enjoy. The Fund opened in December 2022 to applications from projects aiming to deliver a positive impact on the local environment, reduce rural loneliness, support the rural economy and contribute to community life. Capital grants will be allocated to support infrastructure improvements and measures to improve energy efficiency.</p><p>ACRE also administers the £700,000 Rural Community Buildings Loan Fund on behalf of Defra. The Fund helps community groups with renovation, refurbishment and building projects. The Rural Community Buildings Loan Fund can be used to support a larger number of halls regularly carrying out maintenance, repair and small improvements, whereas a progressively smaller number of halls undertake more costly projects, which the Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund is designed to assist.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon grouped question UIN HL4987 question first answered 30/01/2023 14:29:31 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans