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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 16 Oct 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Melanie Ward (Lab - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) State recognise the concerns that the safer phones Bill—the Protection of Children (Digital Safety and Data - Speech Link
2: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Wyre) experience of poverty feels hereditary too. - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) He is absolutely right about the appalling inheritance: one in four children in absolute poverty—that - Speech Link


Written Question
Family Resources Survey: Ethnic Groups
Wednesday 16th October 2024

Asked by: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to increasing the number of black and minority ethnic families sampled as part of the Family Resources Survey to improve the available data on poverty among different ethnic groups.

Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

In the latest year [2022-23] of the Family Resources Survey approximately 11% of adults were black or minority ethnic individuals. This sample is large enough to provide income and poverty data breakdowns by ethnicity.

The Family Resources Survey sample is drawn by address with stratification of postcode areas by economic standing, such that the achieved sample is representative by economic status. The FRS sample is not drawn by any family characteristic, protected or otherwise, because only the address is known at the point of draw; the address’ occupants are unknown until the later stage of interview. Thus, there is no direct mechanism to alter the issued sample to increase the number of black or minority ethnic families.

We already publish accredited official statistics, including poverty data broken down by ethnicity, in the annual Family Resources Survey-based Households below average income (HBAI) statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab).

In addition, we use the Family Resources Survey data to publish additional low income data by ethnicity in the Ethnicity Facts and Figures portal - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk_ (opens in new tab).


Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Local Government and Housing Directorate

Oct. 15 2024

Source Page: Details of Housing 2040 Strategy Board meetings: FOI release
Document: FOI 202400430142 - Information released - Annex (PDF)

Found: poverty rate of between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 people within the sector.10 A higher rate of poverty amongst


Scottish Government Publication (Minutes)
Energy and Climate Change Directorate

Oct. 15 2024

Source Page: Local Electricity Network Coordination Group minutes: August 2023
Document: Local Electricity Network Coordination Group minutes: August 2023 (webpage)

Found: nature of the relationship between customers and DNOs, which means organisations do not have access to data


Westminster Hall
Business Confidence - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) A survey by Evelyn Partners shows that 29% of business owners are looking to sell, while hard data shows - Speech Link
2: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) higher in the UK than in every other large European economy, with unemployment halved and absolute poverty - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) , by the way, that Treasury officials were unable to find when the Financial Times asked to see the data - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) that end, we will engage on those more complex issues that we know are barriers to investment: skills, data - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) makes it absolutely clear that urgent and emergency care services are also struggling, with the latest data - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (Con - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) 48,000 people a year lose their lives to sepsis, but the truth is that we do not know, because the data - Speech Link
3: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) The Government like to talk about the record of their first 100 days in office but, according to data - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) winter fuel payment will cause 262,000 cold pensioners to seek NHS treatment, according to the End Fuel Poverty - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rural Communities - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Dillington (XB - Life peer) In 2017, the Social Mobility Commission reported that social mobility and inter-generational poverty - Speech Link
2: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The rural fuel poverty gap is nearly double the national average.As other noble Lords have said, there - Speech Link
3: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) ambulatory vets, there has been a deterioration in mobile coverage for voice calls, text messages and data - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) to publish this later this year as a Green Paper.The Government are also committed to tackling fuel poverty - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab - Filton and Bradley Stoke) It was the last Labour Government’s response to the Make Poverty History campaign that showed me that - Speech Link
2: Steff Aquarone (LD - North Norfolk) It is powered not by the invention of electricity, but by data. - Speech Link
3: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) I am so challenged by the poverty of ambition that exists on the Government Benches. - Speech Link


Bill Documents
15 Oct 2024 - Written evidence
Written evidence submitted by Professor Aoife M. Foley, Chair in Net Zero Infrastructure, School of Engineering, Joint appointment to the Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Engineering Management, The University of Manchester; Dr Dlzar Al Kez, Research Associate Net Zero Infrastructure, School of Engineering, Joint appointment to the Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Engineering Management, The University of Manchester; Professor Alice Larkin, Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy, School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Management Engineering, Tyndall Centre, The University of Manchester; Professor Carly McLachlan, Professor of Climate, School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Management Engineering, Tyndall Centre, The University of Manchester; Dr Tim Braunholtz-Speigh, Lecturer in Climate, School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Management Engineering, Tyndall Centre, The University of Manchester; and Dr Andrew Welfle, Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Management Engineering, Tyndall Centre, The University of Manchester (GBEB27)
Great British Energy Bill 2024-26

Found: stability issues with high distributed generation penetration, energy storage, smart appliances and data


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Oct. 14 2024

Source Page: FCDO/BII Financial Services (FI) Evaluation: Final Synthesis
Document: (PDF)

Found: investing to (1)support the business growth and economic stability that enables countries to leave poverty