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1694892

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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

1539329

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants and Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the breakdown by (1) sex, and (2) age, of (a) undocumented migrants, and (b) refugees, who have arrived in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Goddard of Stockport
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>In your question we have interpreted ‘undocumented’ as meaning people who are detected entering the UK who do not carry valid documentation which entitles them to come to the UK, and therefore are termed ‘irregular’ arrivals.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on irregular arrivals to the UK in the quarterly Irregular Migration to the UK release which can be found on gov.uk. Data on small boat arrivals by nationality are published on gov.uk.</p><p>If by ‘undocumented’ arrivals you meant undetected arrivals, we cannot provide this as by the very nature of these individuals going undetected, we hold no information on them. Please see the ‘About the statistics’ section of the Irregular Migration to the UK release on gov.uk for more information on what the statistics do and do not include.</p><p>Information on asylum cases is published in the Immigration statistics quarterly release on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Lord Murray of Blidworth grouped question UIN HL3190 question first answered 14/11/2022 16:15:48 answering member 4950 label Biography information for Lord Murray of Blidworth
tabling member	4334 label Biography information for Lord Goddard of Stockport

1360919

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Death
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total number of COVID-19 deaths in England since 1 July; and how many of those deaths were people who were either (1) unvaccinated, or (2) had underlying health conditions.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.</p><p> </p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician</p><p> </p><p>Lord West of Spithead</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p>27 October 2021</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord West of Spithead,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in England since 1 July; and how many of those deaths were people who were either (1) unvaccinated, or (2) had underlying health conditions (HL3191).</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes mortality statistics for England and Wales compiled from information supplied when deaths are certified and registered as part of civil registration. Based on the latest data in the bulletin ‘Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: 15 October 2021’<sup>1</sup>, there were 7,673 deaths involving COVID-19 registered between 1 July 2021 and 8 October 2021 in England.</p><p> </p><p>Information provided at death registration can be used to identify the presence of pre-existing health conditions. The data are published quarterly in the ‘Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, England and Wales’ dataset<sup>2</sup>. These are currently available until the end of June 2021. In the second quarter of 2021 (April to June), 18.8% of people who died due to COVID-19 in England and Wales had no pre-existing condition. The data for the third quarter (July to September) will be published on 23 November 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The vaccination status of the deceased is not recorded at death registration unless the certifying doctor or coroner considered it to be relevant to the cause of death. To produce statistics on deaths by COVID-19 vaccination status the ONS has created a linked dataset which includes death registrations, vaccination data from the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) and Test and Trace data on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results. The methods are described in ‘Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 2 July 2021’<sup>3</sup>. Unfortunately, this publication only covered deaths that occurred up to 2 July 2021. However, an update of this publication, covering deaths that occurred up to 24 September 2021, will be published on 1 November. Of the 51,281 deaths involving Covid-19 that occurred between 2 January and 2 July 2021, 38,964 (76.0%) occurred in unvaccinated individuals. Please note, however, that this proportion is likely to change in the most recent period, as an increasing number of people are now vaccinated.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p><p>1 <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/latest" target="_blank">Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: 15 October 2021</a></p><p>2 <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/preexistingconditionsofpeoplewhodiedduetocovid19englandandwales" target="_blank">Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, England and Wales</a></p><p>3 <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween2januaryand2july2021" target="_blank">Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 2 July 2021. 13 September 2021</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 27/10/2021 16:48:19 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1189673

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students: Scholarships
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that candidates in receipt of offers for Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships can take English language tests in their country of origin.
tabling member printed	Lord Hannay of Chiswick
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2020 answer text <p>Higher Education Providers (HEP) with a track record of compliance are able to decide how they assess the English language ability of their students studying at degree level or above. They can make this assessment however they choose and the Government does not impose any requirement for prospective students to travel to another country.</p><p>Due to Covid-19, the ability for Higher Education Providers to self-assess the English ability of their prospective students has been exceptionally extended to some students studying below degree level.</p><p>Where sponsors are not HEPs, students are required to demonstrate English ability to B1 level. These students must demonstrate their English language ability by undertaking a Secure English Language Test (SELT), or meet one of the exceptions.</p><p>There is currently a procurement project underway for SELT. Following mobilisation of new concessions there will be four overseas SELT Providers, which will increase customers choice of location for taking a test.</p><p>Both the Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships programmes have poli-cies in place to ensure maximum flexibility and opportunity for scholarship awardees from countries where English language testing facilities are limited or unavailable.</p><p>The Chevening Scholarship provides assistance to Chevening scholars who are required to travel internationally to take English Language Testing (ELTs), or if necessary, bring invigilators to posts.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL3189 HL3190 HL3192 question first answered 06/05/2020 15:54:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2167 label Biography information for Lord Hannay of Chiswick

788882

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT: Further Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what provision they have made for the teaching of digital skills and understanding in post-16 education; what assessment they have made of that provision; and whether they have any plans to change it.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>We have announced that one of the first three T-Levels will be a digital specialism, to be taught from 2020; and introduced new innovative employer accredited digital degree apprenticeships. We have also announced £20 million towards developing an Institute of Coding to serve as a national focus for improving digital skills provision as well as established Ada, National College for Digital Skills which will seek to train up to 5,000 students in its first seven years for a wide range of digital careers.</p><p> </p><p>To support those who have already left the formal education system, we announced in the March 2017 Digital Strategy that we will fully fund specified basic digital skills training for adults lacking these vital skills which will mirror existing entitlements for adult literacy and numeracy training. In the Budget we announced that digital skills will be an initial focus of the National Retraining Scheme, along with construction. As part of the scheme, the government will invest £30 million to test the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and innovative EdTech in online digital skills courses, so that students can benefit from this emerging technology, wherever they are in the country.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the digital skills partnership, seeking to work with industry to identify and fill skills gaps across the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 28/11/2017 17:25:18 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

637266

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
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	Employment Schemes: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to make additional funding available for specialist employment support for disabled jobseekers from next year.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Spending Review announced funding rising to at least £130 million a year by 2019/20 for the new Work and Health programme, including funding to be devolved to Scotland, focussing support on people with a disability, early access for priority groups and the long term unemployed. We are not yet able to confirm how many disabled jobseekers will access the programme but we expect the majority of people who will start the programme will be disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>The Work and Health Programme is only one part of a wider package of support for disabled people. ‘Improving Lives, The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper’ Cm 9342, published on 31 October, confirms that we will introduce a new Personal Support Package for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, which includes a range of new interventions and initiatives designed to provide support that is tailored to the individual needs of claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The Package will be delivered through Jobcentre Plus and will be coupled with significant new investment in a new Health and Work Conversation for all ESA claimants and additional Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres. We are also investing a further £15m in the Flexible Support Fund for claimants in the Work Related Activity Group.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, Specialist Employability Support provides employment support for those who are furthest away from the labour market and have complex needs, making other programmes unsuitable for them. The Green Paper confirmed that we are considering how we should continue this support in the future, including how to provide more places to individuals in the ESA Work-Related Activity Group and UC claimants with limited capability for work.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3189 HL3190 HL3192 question first answered 29/11/2016 15:06:34 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

425265

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Neural Tube Defects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the prevalence of births affected by neural tube defects in the United Kingdom, and how that figure compares with (1) other member states of the European Union, and (2) the United States and Canada.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Data about fortifying and non-fortifying countries is not extensive and does not identify fortifiers and non-fortifiers in a meaningful way. As a result we do not have comparable data for prevalence of births with neural tube defects (NTDs) across the European Union or with North America pre and post fortification. Available data on prevalence is in the public domain and is listed below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Prevalence of NTD per 10,000 births for those EU members states where figures are available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium 8</p></td><td><p>8.54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croatia</p></td><td><p>4.64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>11.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>12.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>11.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ireland</p></td><td><p>8.19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>5.36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Netherlands</p></td><td><p>6.71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>10.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portugal</p></td><td><p>4.27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>9.55</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><em>Source:</em> EUROCAT Special Report: Prevalence of Neural Tube Defects in younger mothers in Europe 20002008. EUROCAT (2010)</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>United States</p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><em>Source:</em> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Updated Estimates of Neural Tube Defects Prevented by Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification — United States, 1995–2011. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2015; 64: 1-5.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL3190 question first answered 16/11/2015 14:05:19 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

166207

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	International Commission on Missing Persons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they expect to secure international agreement on the legal status of the International Commission on Missing Persons as an international organisation.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text Yes. The UK and the Netherlands have led a recent initiative to draft an international agreement that will accord the International Commission on Missing Persons the status of an international organisation and we expect that the UK and other States will sign the agreement shortly. answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/12/2014 15:54:38 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale