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1606932

registered interest
date	23/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what evidence they received from local authorities about the impact of Local Housing Allowance shortfalls on (1) homelessness levels, and (2) temporary accommodation costs, in the lead up to the Spring Budget 2023.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL6787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government engages with a range of stakeholders on issues relating to the Local Housing Allowance, homelessness and temporary accommodation.</p><p>In April 2020, in response to the pandemic, Local Housing Allowance rates were raised to the 30th percentile of market rates. As a result of this increase, over 1.5 million households gained just over £600 per year on average in 2020/21. We have maintained rates at this elevated cash level and will continue to review rates annually.</p><p>Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are also available from local authorities for tenants who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.6 billion in DHP funding to local authorities.</p><p>The Government is committed to preventing homelessness where possible. We have allocated £654 million through the Homelessness Prevention Grant which provides funding to enable Local Authorities to invest in prevention activities and helps meet their temporary accommodation costs. This is in addition to the £50m top-up to the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2022/23 announced in December.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 30/03/2023 10:18:17 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1605355

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what capital departmental spending limits are set under the Spring Budget 2023 for the next three years for expenditure on (1) highways, (2) other roads, (3) High Speed 2, (4) other railways, (5) shipping, and (6) air transport.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>The Spring Budget confirmed the Department’s budgets for 2023-24 and 2024-25, where we received an additional £200m in 2023-24 for local authorities to repair potholes. We are currently working through to finalise our budgets as part of our internal business planning process. Our forward plans will be detailed in the Annual Report and Accounts under the ‘Expenditure Tables’ Annex, which the Department intends to publish in July.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 28/03/2023 11:37:17 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1605368

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	UN Commission on the Status of Women
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether civil society and youth representatives were included in the UK delegation at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting as requested by UN Women; and if so, (1) how they were selected, and (2) how they liaised with and reflected the views of the other UK civil society representatives at CSW.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL6628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The UK delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was led by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon. Officials from FCDO and the Cabinet Office were also part of the delegation. The UK does not include civil society and youth representatives on the delegation, instead we hold regular briefing sessions with them to keep them updated. The relationship that the Government delegation has with civil society representatives at CSW is often held up as a model of good practice.</p><p>Some other visitors to CSW from the UK are allowed to attend and are thus provided with delegate passes for the purpose of access to the UN building. This year this included a number of parliamentarians, a civil society speaker at one of our side events and a UN Women Youth delegate. We do not, though, consider them members of the official HMG delegation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 30/03/2023 10:22:20 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1605371

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to make the Government Gateway more accessible for new users.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL6633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Before a customer can interact with HMRC online services we need to be confident that the customer has the right to do so and that customer data is suitably protected. Core tools that help HMRC to gain this confidence are:</p><ul><li>Identity Verification (IV): What is the real world identity of the user accessing the online services</li><li>Authentication: Confidence that a returning user is the same user who created the original account</li></ul><p> </p><p>HMRC currently use Government Gateway and HMRC Identity Service for online authentication and identity verification respectively but are planning to migrate to a new service titled Gov.UK One Login.</p><p> </p><p>Gov.UK One Login is a cross-Government service being developed by Government Digital Service (GDS). The service aims to simplify access to all Government services by allowing a customer to prove their identity once and to then re-use that identity. This reduces the barrier created in requiring customers to prove their identity multiple times across different Government departments.</p><p> </p><p>Accessibility and inclusivity are a priority for the programme and GDS have a plan of activity to improve inclusion over time. Examples include:</p><ul><li>A wider selection of data sources and options for a customer to use to prove their identity</li><li>Offline channels available to those who cannot use the online offering</li></ul><p> </p><p>This intention to migrate to Gov.UK One Login as the cross-Government strategic solution means that HMRC will limit any activity to increase accessibility within Government Gateway and the internal HMRC identity verification services. This is due to the limited remaining window to gain benefit from improvements to those services and the need to avoid duplication of effort.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:05:10 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

1605372

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Complaints
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many complaints they have received about difficulty accessing the Government Gateway.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL6634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The HMRC Technical help desk received 508 complaints for the period March 2022 to March 2023.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 30/03/2023 10:18:44 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

1605393

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will submit their report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this year.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL6629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>We will not be submitting a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this year. Since we last went through the reporting cycle there has been a change in process, and we now follow the simplified reporting procedure.</p><p>Under the simplified reporting procedure, the Committee sends a list of issues to the state party, to which the state party sends a reply. This reply constitutes the periodic report. This change came into effect after the Committee issued their concluding observations on our eighth periodic report in 2019.</p><p>The Committee has not yet indicated when they will send the list of issues.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 30/03/2023 10:22:33 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1605401

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of manufactured goods that are transported from Great Britain for end use in Northern Ireland and are for companies with a turnover in excess of £2 million.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL6656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text The Windsor Framework significantly expands the number of businesses able to be classed as internal UK traders and move goods through the green lane. For manufacturing and processing companies, the existing £500,000 turnover limit will be quadrupled to £2 million, meaning around four-fifths of manufacturing and processing companies in Northern Ireland who trade with Great Britain will automatically be in scope of using the green lane.<p> </p><p> </p>Companies moving goods into NI for processing or manufacturing for use in the animal feed, healthcare, construction, not-for-profit and food sectors may also be eligible to move such goods in the green lane even if the company has a turnover in excess of £2 million.<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Movements of goods not eligible for the green lane, but which can be demonstrated not to have entered the EU Single Market, will be able to benefit from a new tariff reimbursement scheme. answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:01:47 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1605053

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 14 March (HL6096), what assessment they have made of why there have only been two prosecutions for female genital mutilation out of the 229 offences recorded.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL6584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government is committed to tackling female genital mutilation (FGM) and all forms of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The familial and hidden nature of FGM presents challenges in bringing a prosecution. Victims are mostly of a young age and vulnerable, and they often do not want to report offences that could lead to them giving evidence against family members. Some identified FGM victims have had the procedure before coming to the UK to live; in these circumstances there may not be jurisdiction to prosecute where the offence had no connection to the UK. Securing prosecutions is important, but it is also essential to protect women and girls at risk and to prevent FGM happening in the first place. FGM Protection Orders, mandatory reporting by front-line staff and an offence of failing to protect a girl from FGM are being used to safeguard those who may be at risk. The Government is funding a feasibility study to explore whether a more rigorous estimation of the prevalence of FGM and forced marriage in England and Wales can be made, to allow a deeper understanding of these crimes.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The CPS is working closely with stakeholders, including FGM support organisations, to develop a new VAWG Strategy to bring more offenders to justice and to improve victims’ experience of the criminal justice system. It will be published in Summer 2023.</p> answering member printed Lord Stewart of Dirleton question first answered 29/03/2023 16:22:50 answering member 4899 label Biography information for Lord Stewart of Dirleton
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1605058

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Finance
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 additional capital resources the childcare sector will require to enable it to implement fully the expansion of childcare provision announced in the Spring Budget on 15 March; and what capital funding support they will provide.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL6589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>In the Spring Budget 2023, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced transformative reforms to childcare for parents, children, and the economy. By 2027/28, the department expects to be spending in excess of £8 billion every year on free hours and early education, helping working families with their childcare costs. This represents the single biggest investment in childcare in England ever.</p><p>Our reforms include:</p><ul><li>Providing over £4.1 billion by 2027/28 to fund 30 hours of free childcare for children over the age of nine months.</li><li>Investing £204 million from September 2023, rising to £288 million in 2024/25 to uplift the rates for existing entitlements.</li><li>Increasing the supply of wraparound care through £289 million startup funding.</li><li>Attracting more people to childminding through an maximum £7.2 million startup grant fund.</li><li>Giving providers more flexibility by changing staff-to-child ratios to 1:5 for two year olds in England.</li><li>Launching a consultation on further measures to support reform of the childcare market, to explore further flexibilities for providers.</li></ul><p>The department will continue to work closely with the sector on the implementation of these reforms, and explore how we can support the sector to deliver the additional places that will be required.</p><p>The department will work closely with local authorities and providers to identify what needs to be in place to support this significant expansion in childcare provision, including capital requirements as well as workforce.</p><p>We will set out further details in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 30/03/2023 10:16:26 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme