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.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to complete their review of beaver release policy in England.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only.
We will continue to work with Natural England to develop our approach to beaver reintroductions in England. Further information on this will be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the report of the review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender, led by Professor Alice Sullivan.
Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The review, led by Professor Alice Sullivan, is an independent review into data and statistics on sex and gender. Ministers are currently considering next steps on the review and will make decisions, including on publication, in due course.
Asked by: Lord Lucas (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to use the powers in clauses 2 and 4 of the Data (Use and Access) Bill to require the Student Loans Company to collect data on the courses its customer attended when incurring their student debt and their subsequent career progression in order (1) to assess the long-term value of those courses, (2) to propose course improvements, and (3) to enable universities to improve the quality of the data they provide to prospective students about likely career destinations and progression for students of each course.
Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Minister for Women and Equalities)
The government has no plans to ask the Student Loans Company for data about its customers for these purposes.
The Office for Students (OfS) uses Graduate Outcomes survey data to monitor providers’ compliance with registration condition B3, which stipulates that at least 60% of a providers’ students must progress into professional employment or further study within 15 months of graduating. Students can see how providers are performing against this target on the OfS's website.
The OfS considers B3 and National Student Survey (NSS) data alongside submissions from providers and students to award ratings of Gold, Silver or Bronze to providers which take part in its Teaching Excellence Framework.
Students can also find information about different courses on the Discover Uni website, which is the official source of information about higher education across the UK and uses the NSS, Graduate Outcomes survey and Longitudinal Education Outcomes data.