Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to requiring each major food retailer to publish on their website a convenient way to report cases of food poisoning that are likely to have been caused by their products, and to take specified action upon such reports.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
There are currently no plans to implement this. Food poisoning cases and other food safety or hygiene issues should be reported directly via the Food Standards Agency website, or directly to local authority food safety teams who are responsible for all types of food businesses in the area.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether, when the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber makes a serious adverse ruling against a school but the judgment is not made public, it communicates the judgment to the relevant inspectorate; and, if not, why.
Answered by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The provision of written reasons for decisions in Special Educational Needs and Discrimination (SEND) proceedings in the First-tier Tribunal is governed by the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Rules 2008. The rules can be found at the following link: The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Rules 2008.
Rule 30 provides that written reasons must be provided to the parties where (i) the decision finally disposes of all issues in proceedings or (ii) the Tribunal makes a determination in a preliminary issue. The decision in individual cases on whether to disclose a written decision to someone other than a party to the proceedings is a judicial one and not something in which Ministers can intervene.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government, for each of the postcode areas BN20, BN21, BN22 and BN23, and for the BN postcode area as a whole, for pupils who did their GCSEs in each of the summers of 2022, 2023 and 2024, what number of pupils at state schools progressed to (1) academic sixth forms in independent schools, (2) academic sixth form in state schools, (3) state sixth form colleges and state further education colleges, (4) vocational qualifications at state colleges, (5) apprenticeships, (6) work and (7) unemployment; and, for each of those educational destinations, what was the average distance as the crow flies between home and 16-18 education.
Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Minister for Women and Equalities)
The information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
However, the department publishes annual data on the destinations sustained, rather than progressed to, by pupils in the academic year following the end of key stage 4 study. This information includes detail on the number of pupils who sustained education, apprenticeships and employment destinations, or did not sustain any, by institution. This can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-destination-measures#explore-data-and-files.
The latest available data is for the 2021/22 cohort of school leavers, completing GCSEs in summer 2022, and their sustained activity in the following year. Institution level data is available in the release, however, the geographic indicators in these statistics relate to school location rather than pupil location. All destinations are presented against the institution they completed key stage 4.
The underlying data does not include information on pupils’ home postcodes and distance to institutions. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Livermore on 24 February (HL5145), since 2017 on how many occasions the online marketplace paid VAT due from a seller, voluntarily or after court action.
Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
In all cases, when a Joint & Several Liability notice has been issued, the online marketplace has removed the relevant seller from their platform. Since 2017, 9 assessments have been raised by HMRC against online marketplaces following the issue of a Joint & Several Liability notice where the online marketplace had failed to remove the seller within the relevant time limits.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what the implications are for the security of parliamentary data and devices of the decision by Apple to reduce the security features they make available to UK users.
Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Apple has removed Advanced Data Protection in the UK, meaning some iCloud data categories now have standard rather than end-to-end encryption. Parliament-issued devices have separate security protocols, and we continue to provide advice to Members on how to protect Parliamentary and personal data on iPhones. The Parliamentary Security and Digital Departments do not assess that this change will have an adverse impact on Security.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the College of Policing or the National Police Chiefs Council report to them about any analysis those organisations have undertaken on the effectiveness of recording non-crime hate incidents in (1) reducing, and (2) preventing, hate crime; and, if so, how often.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary is clear a consistent and common-sense approach must be taken with NCHIs.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), supported by the College of Policing, is currently conducting a review on the use and effectiveness of NCHIs.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what analysis, if any, they have undertaken to measure the effectiveness of the police recording non-crime hate incidents in detecting hate crime.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary is clear a consistent and common-sense approach must be taken with NCHIs.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), supported by the College of Policing, is currently conducting a review on the use and effectiveness of NCHIs.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what analysis, if any, they have undertaken to measure the effectiveness of the police recording non-crime hate incidents in reducing hate crime.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary is clear a consistent and common-sense approach must be taken with NCHIs.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), supported by the College of Policing, is currently conducting a review on the use and effectiveness of NCHIs.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government how often since 2017 has the joint liability rule been used to pursue an online marketplace for VAT which a seller on that marketplace has evaded; and with what success.
Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
Since the start of 2017, HM Revenue & Customs has issued over 17,000 notices to online marketplaces resulting in the successful removal of non-compliant sellers.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many pupils took examinations in summer 2024; how many GCSEs each pupil took on average; and what was the average grade achieved by the worst-performing 10 per cent of pupils in (1) mainstream schools, (2) special schools, (3) alternative provision and (4) all of the above.
Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Minister for Women and Equalities)
In 2023/24, there were 629,275 pupils in state-funded schools at the end of key stage 4. Of these pupils, 614,265 took at least one GCSE. The average number of GCSEs taken by pupils at the end of key stage 4 in state-funded schools was 7.3. This figure includes pupils who did not take any GCSEs.
These figures are all publicly available in the key stage 4 performance statistics release and the Compare School and College Performance (CSCP) website, which are available via the following links: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance and https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/.
The table below shows the average score for the lowest performing 10 percent of pupils broken down by school type. This is based on grading from 1 to 9, with grades U and X assigned a score of 0.
| Average score for lowest performing 10% | |
| All pupils at the end of key stage 4 (1) | All pupils with an entry (2) |
All state-funded schools (including Hospital, pupil referral units (PRU), alternative provision (AP)) | 0.62 | 1.12 |
State-funded mainstream schools | 1.04 | 1.18 |
All state-funded special schools | 0.00 | 0.05 |
Hospital schools, PRU and AP | 0.00 | 0.00 |
(1) Includes all pupils at the end of key stage 4. If no examinations were entered a pupil’s total grade is counted as 0.
(2) Includes pupils who have at least one entry which counts towards performance tables.
(3) Includes scores from all qualifications that count towards performance tables, not just GCSEs. All qualifications are assigned scores on the 1 to 9 scale.
(4) State-funded mainstream schools includes community schools, voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools, sponsored academies (mainstream), converter academies (mainstream) and free schools (mainstream).
(5) State-funded special schools includes community special schools, foundation special schools, special sponsor-led academies, special converter academies and special free schools.
(6) Alternative provisions includes pupil referral units, academy alternative provision, community hospital schools, and free school alternative provision.