Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what were the annual child hospital admission rates for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government which hospitals had the highest patient admissions for child asthma in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the monthly rate for child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many immigrants arrived in the UK (1) legally, and (2) illegally, in each calendar year since 2015.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
The Home Office publishes the following data on gov.uk:
Data on visas granted are published in table Vis_D02 of the ‘Immigration System Statistics release’. These statistics refer to the number of visas granted, and do not necessarily reflect the number of arrivals from long-term immigrants.
Data on asylum seekers and refugees resettled in the UK can be found in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Immigration System Statistics release’. Data on detected irregular arrivals to the UK is published in table Irr_01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK summary tables’. These statistics should not be used to infer the size of the irregular population in the UK, nor the total number of people entering the UK irregularly.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many seasonal agricultural workers there have been in 2023 so far through the seasonal agricultural workers scheme; and from which countries those workers originated.
Answered by Lord Murray of Blidworth
The Home Office publishes data on Seasonal Worker visas by nationality in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of Seasonal Worker visas are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset. Selecting ‘Seasonal Worker (previously Tier 5)’ from the visa type subgroup filter will output data on Seasonal Worker visas. Nationality and time frames can also be filtered. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to the end of March 2023.
| 2021 Q2 | 2021 Q3 | 2021 Q4 | 2022 Q1 | 2022 Q2 | 2022 Q3 | 2022 Q4 | 2023 Q1 |
Work | 55,928 | 72,842 | 70,154 | 77,562 | 110,675 | 123,068 | 111,708 | 142,320 |
Investor, business development and talent | 1,421 | 1,959 | 1,499 | 1,564 | 1,153 | 2,284 | 2,323 | 2,583 |
Other work visas and exemptions | 8,216 | 8,465 | 6,367 | 5,011 | 10,340 | 7,428 | 6,188 | 5,510 |
Temporary Worker | 18,024 | 15,258 | 13,051 | 13,837 | 30,380 | 17,893 | 10,548 | 17,559 |
Worker | 28,267 | 47,160 | 49,237 | 57,150 | 68,802 | 95,463 | 92,649 | 116,668 |
It is important to note that the Seasonal Worker visa includes mostly horticultural workers, but also includes a small number of poultry workers.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many 'orphan' waste sites deal with hazardous waste; and what recent discussions they have had with businesses about minimising taxation barriers for such sites.
Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Environment Agency has no records of orphaned waste sites containing hazardous waste. Local Authorities will hold records of orphan sites on their contaminated land registers.
A Call for Evidence was held from 21 July to 18 August 2022 on a Proposed Landfill Tax Grant Scheme. The Grant Scheme, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the last Spring Budget, will help Local Authorities cover the cost of landfill tax in land remediation projects. The Government Response to the Call for Evidence was published on 15 March 2023 and the Grant Scheme is currently under development.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what system they use to process advanced DBS checks for professionals newly arrived in the UK from Hong Kong and applying for jobs; and what risk assessment they have made of the consequences of seeking information from the Hong Kong Police Force when carrying out such checks.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The system for processing DBS checks for professionals newly arrived from Hong Kong is the same as the system used for all applicants regardless of where an individual is from. The DBS takes its information from what is held on the Police National Computer (PNC) and does not seek information from the Hong Kong Police Force when carrying out such checks.
Information about overseas criminal records is entered on the Police National Computer (PNC) only when the British police are advised by a police force from overseas, or an agency such as Interpol.
If an employer is recruiting people from overseas and wishes to check for any foreign criminal record, a DBS check can only access criminal records from the PNC and cannot access criminal records systems in other territories.
Where overseas criminal records are held on the PNC, these would be revealed as part of a DBS check, as appropriate.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the UN Human Rights Council about the situation of Tamil communities in Sri Lanka.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK, alongside our partners in the Core Group, have led international efforts to promote human rights for all communities in Sri Lanka, including through resolution 51/1 at the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution renewed the mandate of the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights to report on Sri Lanka and to protect and preserve evidence of past human rights abuses to use in future accountability processes. We have made our stance clear in statements to the Council, most recently on 7 March. The UK also made recommendations including on the need to address issues around the expropriation of land in the North and East during Sri Lanka's Universal Periodic Review in February.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many newly settled children from overseas have not been able to immediately take up allocated school places due to pressures on school numbers in the past year.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Individual local authorities are under a duty to ensure that children in their areas are receiving a suitable education. We do not routinely collect data on the nationality of children whose parents are seeking school places. However, because of the high levels of migration from the beginning of 2022, the department did conduct a monthly survey of school placements for children from outside the UK between May and September 2022 to obtain better data on school place pressures. The data is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-placements-for-children-from-outside-of-the-uk.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many school children in England have had an unauthorised school absence in each of the past five years.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Schools are required to record in the register once in the morning session and once in the afternoon session whether or not a pupil is absent.
The attached table below shows the number of pupil enrolments in England with one or more sessions of unauthorised absence by academic year.
In the 2021/22 academic year, 366,042 pupil enrolments missed 10% or more of possible sessions due to unauthorised absence. This figure covers state-funded primary, state-funded secondary and special schools in England.
Unauthorised absence includes pupils who arrived late (after registration has closed), unauthorised holidays, reason for absence not yet provided, and other unauthorised absence.
The data used in this answer are published in the National Statistics release on pupil absence in schools in England, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england.