Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Hanson of Flint on 30 April (HL6646) and 25 March (HL5728), what plans they have, if any, to collect data on the revocation of student visas.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their policy on the (1) funding, and (2) engagement, with the band Kneecap, with reference to the guidance published on 14 March 2024 Government's principles of engagement.
Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The Department of Business and Trade decided not to award a grant to Heavenly Records. My Department has not had any engagement with Kneecap and is currently reviewing how the scheme operates, with the intention of introducing appropriate eligibility criteria for any future grant rounds, to address the risk that an artist or the applicant awarded support may say or behave in a way that could bring the scheme into disrepute.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they have allocated to (1) the police service, and (2) the fire and rescue service in 2025–26 to cover the cost of the rise in employers' National Insurance contributions; what methodology they used to calculate the amount allocated to each service; and what methodology they used to calculate the funding allocated to (a) standalone fire and rescue authorities, and (b) fire and rescue services that are part of a county council.
Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
At the Budget in October the Chancellor set aside £4.7 billion of funding for departments in order to support them with the increased costs as a result of the rise in employer national insurance contributions.
This funding has been allocated to departments, with the Barnett formula applying in the usual way, which is in line with the approach taken under the previous Government’s Health and Social Care Levy. It is for the relevant department to decide the appropriate distribution of funding amongst workforces, including police and fire services.
Updated departmental budgets for 2025/26 including allocations were published at the Spring Statement. The Government also plans to publish individual departments’ allocations as part of Main estimates.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 10 February, what steps they are taking to reduce expenditure and staff time spent on diversity schemes in the NHS.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Taxpayers rightly expect value for money from the funding that is spent in the National Health Service.
The NHS and the Department’s arms-length bodies are continually expected to review their expenditure with a view to finding efficiency savings and ensuring value for money for the public purse.
Equality and diversity initiatives that exist within the NHS focus on targeting health inequalities as well as addressing the abuse and discrimination that some NHS staff face in the workplace. They also help NHS organisations comply with legal requirements set out for public bodies in the Equality Act 2010, and the public sector equality duty.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 22 April 2025 (HL6561), whether there are informal or political committees of Cabinet which are not listed on the Cabinet Office's list of Cabinet committees and whether this includes a ministerial 'quad' meeting.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
There are various configurations of ministerial meetings. Cabinet committees are publicly listed on GOV.UK
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the impact of the European Union’s proposed Capital Requirements Directive VI and its prohibition on the provision of cross-border banking services to European Economic Area clients on UK financial services and consumers.
Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The impact of Capital Requirements Directive VI on UK financial services is uncertain and will vary across different UK financial services firms. This will be dependent on the nature of services that those firms provide to European Economic Area (EEA) clients and the approach to implementation of the Directive in the respective EEA member states. UK consumers should not be affected as the EU’s Capital Requirements Directive VI applies to services being provided to EEA clients.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 7 April (HL6174), what specific factors they have taken into account in deciding not to collect and publish data on the revocation of foreign student visas.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
I refer the Rt. Hon. Lord to the Answer he received on 26 March 2025 to UIN HL6174.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many times Jonathan Ashworth has visited the London office of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport since July 2024.
Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Jonathan Ashworth has visited our London office in a personal capacity on two occasions since July 2024.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 15 November 2024 (HC11596), whether there is a quadrilateral meeting to discuss government business.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Various forms of Ministerial meetings take place.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement the recommendations in the report published on 19 March, Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender, by Professor Alice Sullivan.
Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
I refer the noble Lord to the answer I gave to Question UIN HL5960 on 2 April 2025.