Asked by: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans are in place to ensure those areas in England without mayors and not part of a combined authority will be represented in the Council of the Nations and the Regions to enable them to contribute and participate.
Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The membership of the Council of the Nations and Regions is drawn from the directly elected leaders of central, devolved and local government across the UK with additional devolved powers. On 16 July 2024 the Deputy Prime Minister wrote to all areas that do not have a devolution deal to invite them to come forward with a proposal. New Mayors established through this process would also be eligible to sit on the Council of the Nations and Regions. The Government is committed to working productively with local government and has established the Leaders Council to bring together other local government leaders and Ministers to identify and tackle the strategic challenges facing local government.
Asked by: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people who are UK (1) citizens, and (2) residents who (a) have, or (b) are entitled to dual nationality of another EU member state.
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 Lord Inglewood,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking what estimate has been made of people who are UK (1) citizens, and (2) residents who (a) have, or (b) are entitled to dual nationality of another EU member state (HL13401).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes estimates of the UK population by country of birth and nationality based on the Annual Population Survey (APS)[1]. The latest estimates are for the year July 2017 to June 2018 and these show the number of British citizens resident in the UK was 59,216,000, with a confidence interval of plus or minus 364,000, and the citizens of other EU member states resident in the UK as 3,723,000, with a confidence interval of plus or minus 91,000 (all figures rounded to the nearest thousand).
In the 2011 census, ONS collected data about dual passport holders which is the closest approximation to dual nationality available. Table 1 below shows the numbers from the census. ONS has no data about entitlement to dual nationality.
Yours sincerely,
John Pullinger
Asked by: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many holders of a British passport living outside the UK were not entitled to vote in the referendum on leaving the EU.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
The Government does not hold this information.