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1719908

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Carbon Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to align the UK's carbon border tax with the EU's mechanism to ensure that the UK steel industry is not adversely affected by the delayed implementation.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>A Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a novel mechanism yet to be fully implemented anywhere in the world.</p><p>Implementation of the UK CBAM by 2027 will allow government to consult fully with those affected throughout the design and implementation phases. It will also give those affected in the UK and overseas more time to prepare for the changes and put appropriate processes in place with their supply chains to enable them to comply.</p><p>The effective EU CBAM charge will be introduced gradually from 2026 to 2034 to match their phase out of free allowances for sectors covered by the CBAM, including iron &amp; steel. In 2026, only a relatively small amount of the emissions embodied in CBAM goods will face the EU CBAM charge when they are imported to the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 24/05/2024 11:43:21 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1715448

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) retain, and (2) attract, foreign financial firms and jobs in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Financial and related professional services employ more than 2 million people in the UK and the Government is committed to ensuring the UK remains the location of choice for top talent from across the world. This is part of the Government’s mission to ensure the UK retains its position as one of the most innovative and competitive financial centres in the world. Most recently, at Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor updated on the ambitious package of reforms which will help to deliver the Government’s vision for a financial sector that is open, sustainable, technologically innovative, and globally competitive.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 15/05/2024 16:00:12 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1714633

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Companies: Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the recent decline in corporate insolvencies, what steps they are taking to (1) identify the factors they believe contributed to this reduction, and (2) ensure this trend continues.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government was pleased to see that statistics reported by the Insolvency Service showed the number of corporate insolvencies in March 2024 had fallen by 28% compared to March 2023.</p><p>The Government continues to help businesses, including through a swathe of policy measures in the Autumn explicitly aimed at ‘Backing British business’. Recent and current Government policies supporting businesses include:</p><p>· Energy Bills Discount Scheme that provided discounts on high energy bills to eligible businesses and other non-domestic energy users from April 2023 to April 2024, with higher support to businesses in energy / trade intensive sectors.</p><p>· Continued frozen small business rates multiplier and business rates relief for the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure sector, the latter policy supporting around 230,000 properties up to £110,000 per business. Transitional Relief to protect ratepayers facing bill increases due to rising rateable value and scrapping ‘downwards caps’.</p><p>· Payment and cashflow review outlining measures to combat late payments that can jeopardise stable cashflows, and penalising late paying firms by exempting those paying invoices after an average of 55 days from bidding for Government contracts worth over £5mn.</p><p>The Government will continue to monitor the UK corporate sector, including insolvency trends, using official data and engaging with firms and business groups to inform policy decisions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/05/2024 15:54:57 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1714014

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Arts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the EU regarding barriers to trade and exports faced by the creative industries since Brexit; what steps they are taking to address this; and what plans they have to support UK creative businesses in global markets.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2024 answer text <p>The creative industries have been identified by the Government as one of five priority growth sectors. As set out in the Creative Industries Sector Vision,by 2030 the Government aims to grow our the creative industries by an extra £50 billion Gross Value Added, with a goal to increase creative exports 55% to £78 billion over this period.</p><p>The Government is committed to supporting the creative sector to adapt to requirements for working and touring in the EU. For example, 23 out of 27 EU Member States have clarified arrangements or introduced easements to allow visa and work permit free routes for UK touring performers.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 10/05/2024 13:49:26 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1713738

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
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	Immigration Controls: Borders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support small businesses in adapting to additional costs for post-Brexit border checks.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>To support SMEs, Defra has identified and issued guidance on a number of facilitations and mitigations to reduce the burden of sanitary and phytosanitary import requirements using groupage.</p><p> </p><p>The Common User Charge is designed to spread the costs to be recovered across the maximum number of imports. This approach distributes the cost across business of all sizes and sectors and provides a high level of predictability on costs for all importers.</p><p> </p><p>The impact of the Common User Charge on businesses, and especially on small businesses, will be kept under monthly and quarterly reviews, with rates reviewed and updated annually.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 13/05/2024 11:25:20 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1701640

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	Housing Market
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 findings of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey indicating a third consecutive monthly increase in demand in the housing market.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government closely monitors the state of the market and was pleased to see an increase in buyer demand in the latest RICS UK Residential Survey. We have taken a number of steps to support the market in recent months including extending the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, introducing the Mortgage Charter, reducing stamp duty and continuing our home ownership schemes such as First Homes, Shared Ownership and Lifetime ISA and our support for housebuilding.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Swinburne question first answered 30/04/2024 16:26:55 answering member 4985 label Biography information for Baroness Swinburne
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1700760

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mortgages: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the recent increase in cases of advance fee mortgage scams, what steps they are taking to prevent such scams.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>As part of our Fraud Strategy, we have worked closely with the financial services industry to protect customers against a variety of fraud types, including advance fee scams. This includes the Retail Banking Fraud Sector Charter which has delivered ambitious and innovative actions to prevent authorised fraud and protect customers. We have also agreed similar charters with the telecommunications, accountancy and online sectors.</p><p>According to the Crime Survey of England and Wales, ‘Advance fee fraud’ has decreased by 33% in the year ending September 2023 from 546,000 to 367,000 offences.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 29/04/2024 16:08:49 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1695571

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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	Import Controls: Small Businesses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address challenges faced by small businesses and importers due to the introduction of new border checks and paperwork requirements post-Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) sets out our new global regime of border controls that makes better use of technology and data to reduce friction and the cost of border controls for businesses and consumers when compared to the proposed July 2022 regime. It will create a radically simpler yet secure experience for traders moving goods across the UK border.</p><p> </p><p>After engaging with stakeholders and considering the implementation challenges they raised, alongside the need to manage biosecurity risks, we have adapted the timeline we originally published in the draft version of the BTOM to give businesses and their supply-chains more time to prepare. Many goods, including more than 60% of animal product consignments, are now deemed low risk and either not controlled at all or only subject to pre-notification, and medium risk goods are subject to fewer physical checks than the EU’s regime.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has also introduced several facilitations for groupage movements, as well as developing our Certification Logistics Pilot. Those facilitations include: relaxed official sealing requirements for animal products; greater flexibility in transporting groupage loads; elimination of 'Either/Or' sections in health certificates; the use of schedules allowing greater number of similar animal products under a single export health certificate, and greater flexibilities in the pre-notification and import declaration processes.</p><p> </p><p>All businesses will also benefit from the Single Trade Window, a simple service gateway that serves as a single point of interaction between businesses and UK border processes, submitting information to the Government only once and in only one place ensuring administration costs are kept to a minimum.</p> answering member printed Lord Douglas-Miller question first answered 26/03/2024 13:47:21 answering member 5006 label Biography information for Lord Douglas-Miller
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1694892

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to accelerate progress towards gender equality in the financial services industry.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government has a wide programme of work aimed at tackling gender inequality and supporting women in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2017, organisations with 250 or more employees have been required to publish specific data on their gender pay gaps annually, ensuring they are aware of their gender pay gaps and are taking steps to improve gender equality in their organisation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken action to ensure that working parents can balance work and care by expanding childcare entitlements, making flexible working simpler to access, and introducing carer's leave.</p><p>Regarding the financial services industry specifically, the Government has taken action to ensure the sector remains world-class, and as productive, innovative and competitive as it can be. In 2016, the Government launched the Women in Finance Charter, which aims to ensure that the right talent is being attracted to the sector and that the best and brightest can continue to rise to the top, regardless of their gender.</p><p>The Charter’s Annual Reviews have consistently shown that the Charter has stimulated positive progress across the sector. Participation in the Charter is voluntary, and the first wave of signatories to the Charter started out with an average level of senior female representation of 27%. The signatory base has grown since then and average representation now stands at 35%.</p><p>The Treasury Committee’s Sexism in the City inquiry recently made a number of recommendations to the industry, the regulators and Government to consider in order to accelerate progress. The Government will respond to the report and its recommendations in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 25/03/2024 16:58:46 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1694008

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Owner Occupation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support property owners facing challenges in refinancing against lower property values.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The most comprehensive measure of average house prices in the UK is published by the Office for National Statistics. <br>The vast majority of mortgage lenders have signed a voluntary industry agreement that allows their borrowers to secure a new fixed-rate deal without the need to undertake another affordability assessment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2024 15:17:38 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick