Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average amount paid to each individual for each passported benefit.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Passported benefits, such as free school meals and help with healthcare costs are owned and delivered by different departments across government and Local Authorities.
This information would not be held by one single department, to get this information you would need to approach each department individually.
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total annual value of passported benefits, for the most recent year for which figures are available, broken down by each passported benefit.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Passported benefits, such as free school meals and help with healthcare costs are owned and delivered by different departments across government and Local Authorities.
This information would not be held by one single department, to get this information you would need to approach each department individually.
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many "gig economy" workers there are in the UK workforce at present; and how many there were in each of the previous five years.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A holding response to the Noble Peer’s Parliamentary Question of 18th April is attached in the answer and the completed response will be deposited in the House of Lords Library.
The Rt Hon. the Lord Field of Birkenhead
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
03 May 2023
Dear Lord Field,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many "gig economy" workers there are in the UK workforce at present; and how many there were in each of the previous five years (HL7206). Statisticians at the Office for National Statistics are currently undertaking additional analysis to answer your question and will place a copy in the House of Lords Library as soon as it is complete.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will provide, in the form of a table, the number of families who they forecast will take up the Healthy Start Scheme in the current year, alongside the figures for the previous five years.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We have no current plans to make a forecast of the number of families who will take up the Healthy Start scheme in the current year. Forecast data for the previous five years is not available.
The following table shows the number of beneficiaries on the Healthy Start scheme in the previous five years.
Month and year | Number of beneficiaries on the scheme |
April 2018 | 320,613 |
April 2019 | 289,160 |
April 2020 | 274,521 |
April 2021 | 337,204 |
April 2022 | 315,851 |
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government (1) how many families are forecast to take up the Healthy Start Scheme in the current year, and (2) how many took it up in the previous five years.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We have no current plans to make a forecast of the number of families who will take up the Healthy Start scheme in the current year. Forecast data for the previous five years is not available.
The following table shows the number of beneficiaries on the Healthy Start scheme in the previous five years.
Month and year | Number of beneficiaries on the scheme |
April 2018 | 320,613 |
April 2019 | 289,160 |
April 2020 | 274,521 |
April 2021 | 337,204 |
April 2022 | 315,851 |
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost of housing failed asylum seekers, broken down by the cost of (1) the border force, (2) hotels and other accommodation, and (3) any other costs.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information.
However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts.
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the cost of running the UK's border policy for each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
Border Force does not hold the cost of running the UK’s border policy for each of the last 10 years in an easily accessible format.
However, I enclose the Home Office annual reports and accounts link below:
Home Office annual report and accounts, 2012 to 2013 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2014 to 2015 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2017 to 2018 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2018 to 2019 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to secure Joshua Reynold's portrait of Omai for the nation.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
We are in regular contact with the National Portrait Gallery and fully support their efforts to purchase this exceptional painting. In view of the strong support we have seen so far, the Government has extended the export deferral period to 10 June 2023 to provide every opportunity to save the Portrait of Omai so that the widest possible audience can see, enjoy, and learn from it for generations to come.
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many Universal Credit claimants received (1) £10–19 per week, (2) £20–£29 per week, (3) £30–39 per week, (4) £40–£49 per week, (5) £50–£59 per week, (6) £60–£69 per week, (7) £70–£79 per week, (8) £80–£89 per week, (9) £90–£99 per week, (10) £100–£109 per week, (11) £110–£119 per week, (12) £120–£129 per week, (13) £130–£139 per week, (14) £140–£149 per week, and (15) £150 and above per week, in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Universal Credit is paid to households monthly and the official statistics, including the amounts paid per month, are published every three months on Stat-Xplore. The latest statistics are in the following table.
Table 1: Number of Households in receipt of Universal Credit, by monthly payment amount, in November 2022.
Payment Amount | Number of Households |
Less than £40 | 72,857 |
£40 - £79.99 | 53,878 |
£80 - £119.99 | 63,360 |
£120 - £159.99 | 73,342 |
£160 - £199.99 | 77,612 |
£200 - £239.99 | 100,586 |
£240 - £279.99 | 224,528 |
£280 - £319.99 | 136,853 |
£320 - £359.99 | 203,224 |
£360 - £399.99 | 67,924 |
£400 - £439.99 | 74,063 |
£440 - £479.99 | 85,036 |
£480 - £519.99 | 111,719 |
£520 - £559.99 | 103,904 |
£560 - £599.99 | 130,586 |
£600 or more | 2,747,768 |
Total | 4,327,245 |
Source: Stat-Xplore – Households on Universal Credit
Notes:
Asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what were the (1) minimum, and (2) maximum, benefit sanctions issued in the latest period for which data are available; and what was the average duration of benefit stoppage in that period.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.