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Written Question
Agriculture: Accidents
Tuesday 14th February 2023

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of (1) deaths, and (2) serious injuries, in the agricultural industry from 2015 up until the last year for which records are available.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority

A response to the noble Baroness’ Parliamentary Question of 3 February is attached.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

8 February 2023

Dear Lady Kennedy,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what estimate has been made of the number of deaths and serious injuries in the agricultural industry from 2015 up until the last year for which records are available (HL5397).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. Mortality statistics are compiled from information supplied when deaths are certified and registered as part of civil registration. The information on occupation is supplied by the informant when registering the death. The ONS does not hold data on serious injuries occurring in the agricultural industry.

From 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2022, 10,240 deaths of persons aged 16 to 64 working in the agricultural industry were registered in England and Wales (including non-residents). These deaths were registered with the Standard Occupational Classification minor group codes 511 and 911. These agricultural and related trades occupations are defined as those who cultivate and harvest crops, breed and rear animals, raise animals for consumption, catch and breed fish and other aquatic life, grow plants, trees, shrubs and flowers for sale, tend private and public gardens, parks, sports pitches and other recreational areas, and perform a variety of other skilled occupations related to agriculture and fishing.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond


Written Question
Liver Diseases: Death
Tuesday 29th November 2022

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of deaths from liver disease since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Noble Lady’s Parliamentary Question: HL3553 is attached.


Written Question
Census
Thursday 17th February 2022

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when the data from the 2021 Census will be published.

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician

The Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

09 February 2022

Dear Baroness Kennedy,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking when the data from the 2021 Census will be published (HL5990).

We aim to release the first results for Census 2021 data on the population of England and Wales in late May 2022. This will be followed by the release of the full data from the census in stages through to spring 2023. This includes data for small areas on the full range and combinations of census variables that provide such a rich insight into the characteristics of the population. In total there will be billions of counts of information to inform decision making in the years ahead. The range of products planned will make census data accessible for people with a range of levels of interest and experience, from those with a passing interest in information about the country or their local area through to expert and professional users of data.

The planned release schedule for Census 2021 will make the information available significantly earlier than has been possible previously. Our proposed outputs and analysis release plans are set out on the Release Plans page on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website [1]. The ONS held a consultation on our Census 2021 outputs plans last year, further details and part one of the ONS’s response to feedback on the consultation are available on our website [2].

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

1. https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/census2021outputs/releaseplans

2. https://consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/census-2021-outputs-consultation


Written Question
Overseas Trade: Kashmir
Thursday 29th April 2021

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what five African countries have the largest total value of trade with the UK.

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician

The Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

26 April 2021

Dear Lady Kennedy,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what five African countries have the largest total value of trade with the UK (HL15101).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes monthly ‘All countries statistics’[1]. Services data for 2021 Q1 are not currently available at a geographical level but will be published in August 2021. Tables 1 and 2 provide details of UK Trade in Goods imports and exports for the top five African countries. Please note that data are in current prices and, as such, include the effect of inflation.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

Table 1: Trade in Goods imports, top five African countries, seasonally adjusted, £ million

Imports February 2021

South Africa

714

Morocco

93

Egypt

92

Kenya

37

Ivory Coast

35

Source: ONS

Table 2: Trade in Goods exports, top five African countries, seasonally adjusted, £ million

Exports February 2021

Egypt

156

South Africa

122

Nigeria

81

Ghana

40

Morocco

39

Source: ONS

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktradeallcountriesseasonallyadjusted


Written Question
Coronavirus
Tuesday 27th October 2020

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' statement on 9 July that "the greatest threat we face now is not the [COVID-19] virus itself, rather it is the lack of leadership and solidarity at the global and national levels".

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

The UK takes a strong global leadership role in collaborating with other countries in efforts towards the development and distribution of a successful vaccine for COVID-19 and we encourage other countries to do the same.

COVAX is an international initiative to support the discovery, manufacture and fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines for one billion people by the end of 2021.

The UK is actively engaging with the World Health Organisation, which has an important role to play in leading the global health response. The UK is committed to supporting the WHO as well as multilateral and international partners, such as Gavi and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.


Written Question
Trade: Taiwan
Friday 2nd October 2020

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what the level of trade is between the UK and Taiwan.

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.

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Dear Baroness Kennedy,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the level of trade is between the UK and Taiwan (HL8281).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK export/import statistics in our quarterly UK total trade: all countries, non-seasonally adjusted release. For 2019, the UK estimates of trade with Taiwan were £2.99bn worth of goods and service exports to Taiwan, and £4.1bn worth of goods and service imports from Taiwan.

For more detail, full annual and quarterly timeseries data on the export and import of goods and services by the UK from Taiwan can be found on our website.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/datasets/uktotaltradeallcountriesnonseasonallyadjusted


Written Question
Coronavirus: Disease Control
Monday 18th May 2020

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what scientific modelling they have seen to inform the development of possible strategies to replace the COVID-19-related lockdown in place in England.

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

Scientific advice and analysis have underpinned the Government's policy making in the development of current social distancing measures and our recently published roadmap. We will continue to be guided by science in our approach.


Written Question
Mesothelioma: Death
Monday 17th June 2019

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have died from mesothelioma in each year from 2010 to the last year for which figures are available.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Dear Baroness Kennedy,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people have died from mesothelioma in each year from 2010 to the last year for which figures are available (HL16256).

The Office for National Statistics is responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. The most recent figures published are for deaths registered in 2017[1].

Cause of death is defined using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10 edition (ICD-10). The underlying cause of death is defined by the World Health Organisation as (a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury.

Deaths due to an underlying cause of mesothelioma would be assigned the ICD-10 code C45.

Table 1 below provides the numbers of deaths from mesothelioma registered in England and Wales between 2010 and 2017.

Yours sincerely,

John Pullinger

Table 1: Number of deaths with an underlying cause of mesothelioma, persons, England and Wales, 2010 to 2017[2],[3],[4],[5]

Year

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Deaths

2,079

2,101

2,214

2,261

2,356

2,308

2,313

2,279

Source: Office for National Statistics

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables

[2]Underlying cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th edition (ICD-10) code C45.

[3]Deaths under 28 days are excluded.

[4]Figures for England and Wales include deaths of non-residents.

[5]Figures are for deaths registered, rather than deaths occurring in each calendar year.


Written Question
Local Government: Procurement
Tuesday 19th December 2017

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to help local authorities detect procurement bid rigging in contracts for which they are responsible.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a Screening for Cartels tool that will help public procurement professionals identify suspicious behaviour by suppliers when bidding for contracts:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/screening-for-cartels-tool-for-procurers

The CMA has also produced other guidance on bid-rigging to help procurers, including an e-learning module that gives pointers on what to look out for:

https://builtintelligence.com/pages/learn-how-to-spot-bid-rigging


Written Question
Government Departments: Procurement
Thursday 27th April 2017

Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to exclude from government procurement contracts companies that do not undertake appropriate human rights due diligence, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Human Rights in its report <i>Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability</i> published on 29 March (6th Report, HL Paper 153).

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.