Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia.
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 Lord Bishop’s Parliamentary Question of 30 January is attached.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
The Lord Bishop of St Albans
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
1 February 2023
Dear Lord Bishop,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia; the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan; and the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea (HL5226; HL5227; HL5228).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK trade data at country level in our UK total trade, all countries release[1] .
Data on UK trade with Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea for 2016-2021 can be found in Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3 respectively.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktotaltradeallcountri esseasonallyadjusted
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators in each of the past 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 response to the noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question of 21 December is attached.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
The Rt Rev. The Lord Bishop of St Albans
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
10 January 2023
Dear Lord Bishop,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators in each of the past five years (HL4504). The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes 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. As gambling operators do not contribute to this process, the ONS does not hold any information on suicides that have been reported by gambling operators.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Forces in Mind Trust report The United Kingdom Armed Forces Veterans' Health and Gambling Study, published on 23 September.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
This UK wide study explores levels of gambling participation and attitudes towards gambling in ex-serving personnel and adds to the important existing data on the issue of gambling in our veteran community. We will consider the study’s findings as part of our broader research programme looking at a range of policy issues which may affect veterans and their families.
We are fully committed to providing support to our veterans. Veterans can access a range of health and wellbeing services to help them with mental and physical health problems. Veterans who need support can access it via the Veterans' Gateway which provides a single point of contact to make it easier for veterans, service personnel and their families to get the right information, advice and support 24/7. The National Gambling Helpline also gives confidential information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling problems in England, Scotland and Wales.
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to facilitate an emergency meeting of the G7 to address the (1) hoarding, and (2) wasting, of COVID-19 vaccines by developed countries.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The UK continues to work with our G7 partners to implement the vaccines commitments made at the G7 Leaders' Summit and to coordinate further international efforts, including ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Rome 30-31 October, to support our shared goal of global vaccination from COVID-19.
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the ethical implications of awarding public contracts to firms which (1) directly, or (2) indirectly, help to promote tax avoidance.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
Aggressive tax avoidance is unacceptable.
The grounds for exclusion of bidders from public procurement procedures relating to tax are set out in The Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 10 November (HL9675), how many contracts they have issued to Pyronix-Hikvision in (1) 2018, (2) 2019 and (3) 2020 to date; and what was the value of each such contract.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
This information is not held centrally, as individual departments are responsible for their own procurements.
Central Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether all government departments have now adopted the Office for National Statistics rural-urban classification in their analyses of data and evidence.
Answered by Lord Bridges of Headley
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.