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780319

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government by what methods they make it generally known that Universal Credit applicants can ask for 50 per cent advances, or other forms of emergency assistance, when faced with serious cash problems.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>Any need for an advance payment or other financial or budgeting support is established at the outset of a claim for Universal Credit. In the initial new claim interview, work coaches are trained to offer personal budgeting support and assess whether claimants need help to manage until their first Universal Credit payment. We have taken steps to increase awareness of this support by amending guidance to ensure that claimants are aware at the start of their claim of the maximum amount they can receive and repayment period as an advance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 13/11/2017 14:57:43 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

780320

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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	Food Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of the Feeding Birkenhead project; if so, what lessons they have learnt about preventing destitution; and what steps they are taking to apply those lessons.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to protecting the most vulnerable by ensuring that the welfare system provides a strong safety-net for those who need it. That is why it continues to spend over £90 billion a year on welfare for people of working age. The decision on engagement with food banks and other local community initiatives will continue to remain at local discretion: where Jobcentre Plus is invited to work with a food bank provider and where there is local need.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 06/11/2017 17:07:57 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

780321

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Trussell Trust about food and fuel poverty in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government has engaged with Trussell Trust as a key stakeholder but not specifically on the subject of food and fuel poverty in England and Wales.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 06/11/2017 17:08:21 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

780322

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Lebanon: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees figures showing that Lebanon is the country with the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide, what priority they give to providing refugee aid to Lebanon.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>Lebanon has shown enormous generosity in hosting around 1.5 million Syrian refugees – the highest concentrations per capita anywhere in the world. Building the resilience of the regional countries affected by the Syrian crisis has been<strong>,</strong> and continues to be<strong>,</strong> a top priority for the UK. The UK has led the international community in mobilising support for Syrian refugees, including by co-hosting pledging conferences in London (2016) and Brussels (2017). The UK has provided £466 million to support Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the Lebanese host communities. We remain at the forefront of delivering on pledges, having already allocated 97% of money pledged for 2017.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 10/11/2017 12:36:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

780323

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Palestinians: Politics and Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what means they are employing to support and make effective the newly agreed Palestinian Government of National Unity.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>Our Consul General in Jerusalem is in regular discussion with the Palestinian Authority (PA) ​about the process of reconciliation, making clear our support for the PA resuming government functions in Gaza and underlining the need for any future Palestinian unity Government to comply with the Quartet Principles: to renounce violence, recognise Israel and accept previously signed agreements.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/11/2017 17:46:57 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

780324

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, what was the (1) shortest, (2), median, and (3) longest, delay in days in paying Universal Credit, in each of the last four quarters of the financial year for which figures are available; whether those figures are based on all Universal Credit payments or payments to a representative group of applicants; and if the latter, what was the size of that group, and how was it composed.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>We do not have payment timeliness data broken down to the characteristics being requested. The latest data, published on 2 October on gov.uk, provides the most up to date information on payment timeliness and methodology, and is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 13/11/2017 15:24:12 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name HL2688 universal-credit-payment-timeliness-statistical-ad-hoc.pdf title Universal Credit Payment Timeliness Data
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

778051

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government: Borrowing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether local authorities are free to borrow against the security of their capital assets, for example for new housing; if so, whether such borrowing is treated as increasing the national debt; and if so, why.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>Under the prudential system, local authorities in England are free to borrow without government consent, providing that their borrowing is affordable. When calculating an affordable level of borrowing, local authorities are required by statute to have regard to the Prudential Code issued by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Borrowing in the Housing Revenue Account can be used to fund the delivery of new social housing. This borrowing is capped, but there remains unused borrowing headroom of £3.5 billion (up from £2.9bn in 2012).</p><p>The measure used in the Government fiscal mandate to measure the national debt is Public Sector Net Debt excluding public sector banks (PSND). This covers all institutions classified to the public sector by the Office for National Statistics apart from RBS and is produced on a consolidated basis. As part of the public sector, local authorities borrowing will therefore increase PSND.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 09/11/2017 14:06:40 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

777497

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the proposed agreement on EU citizens living in the UK will provide certainty about residence and benefits; and if so, how; and whether there will be a qualifying period for payments into the social security system; and if so, how long that period will be.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>We are within touching distance of reaching political agreement on the citizens' rights aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement, including on residence status and social security. <br><br>The UK Government's position is that to provide certainty on residence, all EU citizens lawfully residing within the UK with five years residence at a specified date, which is no earlier than the trigger of Article 50, and no later than the UK’s exit from the EU, will be able to apply for settled status. Those EU citizens with less than five years lawful residence who arrive before the specified date will be given time to stay until they have the five years of residency necessary to obtain UK settled status.<br><br>For EU citizens in the UK with rights protected under the Withdrawal Agreement, those on the pathway to settled status will continue to be able to access the same benefits that they can access now (broadly, equal access for workers/the self-employed and limited access for those not working). Once they are granted settled status, EU citizens will have access to benefits on the same basis as comparable UK nationals. Following the UK's withdrawal from the EU, access to benefits for those EU citizens protected by the Withdrawal Agreement will mirror any future changes potentially made to UK nationals’ entitlement. This means that an EU citizen protected by the Withdrawal Agreement will be no better or worse off than a UK national and will continue to enjoy equivalent access to benefits.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 09/11/2017 13:31:44 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

775932

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Syria: Islamic State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether following the fall of Aleppo, Mosul and Raqqa they intend to call for negotiations for the surrender of Deir ez Zor in order to prevent civilian casualties and the destruction of the city; and whether they have given similar consideration to the provinces of Idlib and Afrin.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Daesh captured the majority of Deir Ez Zor in 2014 and has remained in control since. Earlier this month, pro-regime forces broke the Daesh siege of regime-held parts of Deir Ez-Zor. It is for Daesh to avoid any further civilian bloodshed in Deir Ez-Zor or elsewhere by surrendering themselves and their weapons. The UK and the Coalition take all possible precautions to avoid civilian casualties when conducting any form of military operation. All missions are meticulously planned and every care is taken to ensure we minimise civilian casualties. Regarding Afrin, Idlib and all other areas of Syria, the Government will continue to support efforts to bring about a sustained reduction in violence across Syria.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/11/2017 17:14:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

775933

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rule of Law: Malta
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have received any requests from Malta for assistance to uphold law and justice and to prevent criminal activities by local and international gangs.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK is looking to identify how we can best support Malta at this time. We are liaising with the Maltese authorities and considering how we can provide support in the longer term.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 06/11/2017 17:09:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton