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1662205

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
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	Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Written Statement by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 18 September (HLWS1021), following the Court of Appeal judgment of 11 July, has any implication for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL10340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2023 answer text <p>The National Disability Strategy contains commitments from departments across the UK Government; where these commitments involve Reserved or Partially Reserved matters, there may be implications for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as is usual in policy changes on reserved or partially-reserved matters. Departments leading on such issues are responsible for engaging with devolved administrations as necessary on specific issues where the policy is not fully devolved.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 28/09/2023 15:18:48 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1662206

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Newport Wafer Fab
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Viscount Camrose on 18 September regarding the Newport Wafer Fab factory (HL Deb col 1199), when they expect the judicial review to be completed, thereby enabling ministers to answer parliamentary questions on this issue.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL10341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2023 answer text <p>The timing of judicial reviews is a matter for the Court. The Investment Security Unit in the Cabinet Office is responsible for monitoring Nexperia’s compliance with the Final Order issued under the National Security and Investment Act 2021.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose question first answered 27/09/2023 09:31:26 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1660690

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	House of Lords: Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what the most recent annual cost for the House of Lords was (1) in total, and (2) per member.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL10170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The most recent costs of the House of Lords can be found in the Annual Report and Resources Accounts 2022-23 available on the Parliamentary website. Significant costs are incurred with running and maintaining the variety of the buildings across the World Heritage site of the Parliamentary Estate, and the associated non-cash costs (e.g. depreciation and revaluation adjustments).</p><p>For the 2022-23 financial year the costs of the House of Lords excluding estates and works expenditure and non-cash items was £104,670,000. Of this amount the costs directly relating to the Members Finance Scheme (including allowances and travel expenses) totalled £21,110,000. As at 31 March 2023 there were 776 members eligible to attend the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 21/09/2023 15:14:56 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1660691

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
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	ASW: Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have held with former Allied Steel & Wire employees regarding the non-payment of those employees' industrial pensions for the past 21 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL10171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme was among the earliest of the major schemes to benefit from the Financial Assistance Scheme. The former Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, Guy Opperman, met with members of the Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme on 16 June 2021 to discuss the financial assistance payments they have been receiving, in lieu of their pensions.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/09/2023 11:04:36 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1659998

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether Barnett consequential payments will be made to the Welsh Government arising from additional expenditure in England in the education sector on safeguarding buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL10108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2023 answer text <p>As our immediate support is being funded from existing unallocated budgets there will be no additional Barnett consequentials. The devolved administrations have already received funding through the Barnett formula at Spending Review 2021.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to working collaboratively with our devolved administration counterparts on this issue, and the Barnett formula will continue to apply in the usual way to any change in UK Government departmental budgets.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 22/09/2023 13:33:08 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1652169

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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	Energy: Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish a table showing, for the most recent period for which figures are available, the 15 local authorities with the lowest percentage of dwellings which have an EPC energy efficiency rating of 'C' or above.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL9273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>Data tables showing numbers of energy certificates lodged on the Energy Performance of Buildings Registers and energy efficiency ratings are published online <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-energy-performance-of-buildings-certificates" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-energy-performance-of-buildings-certificates" target="_blank">here</a>. The tables were last updated on 27 April 2023.</p><p>Local authority level data on Energy Performance certificates is published and available from the <a title="https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/" href="https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/" target="_blank">Open Data Community</a>.</p><p>The Energy Performance of Buildings Register ('the scheme') runs on a cost neutral basis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name Live tables on Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates - GOV.UK.pdf title Energy performance of buildings certificates 2 file name Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales.pdf title Energy performance of buildings data grouped question UIN HL9274 question first answered 24/07/2023 14:25:17 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1652170

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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	Energy: Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish a table showing the number of homes assessed by their energy efficiency scheme in each of the past 10 years and the total cost of that scheme in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL9274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>Data tables showing numbers of energy certificates lodged on the Energy Performance of Buildings Registers and energy efficiency ratings are published online <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-energy-performance-of-buildings-certificates" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-energy-performance-of-buildings-certificates" target="_blank">here</a>. The tables were last updated on 27 April 2023.</p><p>Local authority level data on Energy Performance certificates is published and available from the <a title="https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/" href="https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/" target="_blank">Open Data Community</a>.</p><p>The Energy Performance of Buildings Register ('the scheme') runs on a cost neutral basis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name Live tables on Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates - GOV.UK.pdf title Energy performance of buildings certificates 2 file name Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales.pdf title Energy performance of buildings data grouped question UIN HL9273 question first answered 24/07/2023 14:25:17 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1652171

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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	Batteries: Wales
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 Government of Wales concerning the development of a battery gigafactory in Wales.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL9275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade regularly engage with the Devolved Governments to discuss the successful transition to electric vehicles in the UK automotive industry.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 21/07/2023 11:46:46 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1650594

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Migration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many UK citizens emigrated in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL9085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Wigley</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p> </p><p>11 July 2023</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Wigley,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking for an estimate of how many UK citizens emigrated in each of the last five years for which figures are available <strong>(HL9085)</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The figures for British nationals emigrating out of the UK for the last five years are shown in Table 1 which is sourced from Figure 2 of our <em>Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending December 2022</em> bulletin [1] which was released in May.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of British nationals emigrating out of the UK, between 2018 and 2022</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>British</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2018</p></td><td><p>94,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2019</p></td><td><p>98,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2020</p></td><td><p>59,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2021</p></td><td><p>76,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2022</p></td><td><p>92,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Office for National Statistics</em></p><p> </p><p>Please note that these are currently our best estimates but are subject to change. This is because in September 2023 we will be updating our migration estimates across the previous decade as part of rebased population estimates to align with Census 2021. For more information, please see our <em>Provisional plans for publishing the latest population and migration estimates</em> [2].</p><p> </p><p>When accessing any of our files you may find it useful to read the 'notes, terms and conditions' contained within them.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingdecember2022#emigration-out-of-theuk" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingdecember2022#emigration-out-of-theuk</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/provisionalplansforpublishingthelatestpopulationandmigrationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/provisionalplansforpublishingthelatestpopulationandmigrationestimates</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/07/2023 16:55:17 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL9085 (1).pdf title UK Statistics Authority
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1650595

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Regional Planning and Development: EU Grants and Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what sums were received from the EU for economic, social and regional regeneration projects in each year since 2015–16 under programmes agreed prior to the UK's exit from the EU by (1) Wales and (2) the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL9086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>The UK’s participation in European Structural &amp; Investment (ESI) Fund programmes (ERDF, ESF, EAFRD and EMFF 2014-2020) will conclude at the end of December 2023 in relation to commitments made before the end of the transition period. The UK is allocated and therefore due to receive a total of €16.4bn to be spent by 31 December 2023.</p><p>Allocations under these programmes, including those for Wales, are set out in the EU Structural and Investment Funds: UK Partnership Agreement – Part 1, Sections 1 and 2 (Revised 31 January 2020) (attached Table 1.6).</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 24/07/2023 10:55:07 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto attachment 1 file name UK Partnership Agreement Revised January 2020 Table 1.6.pdf title Structural and Investment Funds
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley