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date	11/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forced Marriage: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether there have been any child marriage convictions in the UK since the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 came into effect in February 2023.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
uin	HL10040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2023 answer text <p>The UK is a world leader in the fight to stamp out the practice of forced marriage, with our dedicated Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) leading efforts to combat it both at home and abroad.</p><p>The new legislation which came into force in February this year is intended to proactively close potential loopholes and make prosecution under the existing law easier by removing the need to prove the use of coercion, which may require evidence from the victim. The FMU has undertaken a range of activity to raise awareness of the extended offence.</p><p>Data on convictions for criminal offences is published by the Ministry of Justice. The latest publication is to December 2022, before the extended offence came into force.</p><p>Additionally, we protect both adults and children with our Forced Marriage Protection Orders (FMPOs) and have criminalised the breach of FMPOs once in place. The number of forced marriage protection orders made in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021 and (4) 2022 can be found in the table attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL10039 question first answered 25/09/2023 10:47:06 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom attachment 1 file name HL10040.png title Table
tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1249811

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date	09/11/2020
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	Unemployment Benefits: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) 16, (2) 17, (3) 18, and (4) 19, year-olds registered for unemployment-related benefits in the months of (a) September, and (b) October.
tabling member printed	Lord Baker of Dorking
uin	HL10040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>Numbers of people claiming unemployment-related benefits by single year age band are publicly available through the department’s Stat Xplore website.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of people nationally aged 16, 17, 18 and 19 years old in the Universal Credit (UC) searching for work conditionality group – for people claiming UC whom are closest to the labour market - in September and October 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Age</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>September 2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>October 2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p>861</p></td><td><p>940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p>4630</p></td><td><p>4563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p>49828</p></td><td><p>51602</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p>70483</p></td><td><p>71766</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>125795</p></td><td><p>128878</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of people nationally aged 16, 17, 18 and 19 years old and are claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance – a legacy unemployment-related benefit - are published quarterly by DWP on Stat Xplore. However, the latest data available is May 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Age</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>May 2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p>Negligible or nil number of claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p>972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>1450</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 23/11/2020 17:14:21 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	1028 label Biography information for Lord Baker of Dorking

967559

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date	04/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Stamp Duty Land Tax
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to reform Stamp Duty Land Tax.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL10040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government reformed Stamp Duty Land Tax on residential properties at Autumn Statement 2014, cutting the tax for 98% of people who pay it, unless they are purchasing additional property.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s priority is to support first-time buyers. At Autumn Budget 2017, the Government removed Stamp Duty Land Tax for all first-time buyers purchasing properties up to £300,000 with the relief also extending to purchases worth up to £500,000. Since introduction, these changes have benefitted 121,500 households with one million households expected to benefit over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review as part of the Budget process.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/09/2018 11:49:41 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott