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1148160

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the civil service pay increase, announced in June 2019 is not in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	294201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.</p><p>For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.</p><p>MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 294202 294203 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:53:24 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1148161

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants and Members: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons hon. Members received a pay rise of 2.7 per cent which was backdated to April 2019 and civil servants received a pay increase of 1.84 per cent which was backdated to June 2019.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	294202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.</p><p>For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.</p><p>MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 294201 294203 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:53:24 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1148162

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to align the pay of civil servants in England, Scotland and Wales to the level of pay of civil servants employed in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	294203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.</p><p>For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.</p><p>MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 294201 294202 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:53:24 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1148166

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people in each Government Department that left work as a result of a (a) disability and (b) long-term health condition in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017 and (iii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	294117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of people in each government department who left work as a result of a disability or a long-term health condition is not held centrally by Cabinet Office.</p><p>The Civil Service is committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer by 2020; which means attracting and retaining the best talent from all diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability.</p><p>To achieve this, Sir Philip Rutnam, CS Disability Champion, has set out a clear vision for a disability confident and disability inclusive Civil Service; with a specific priority to develop and retain disabled talent. These include; ensuring our disabled staff have access to effective and timely workplace adjustments and access to mainstream talent development programmes and positive action schemes to enable disabled staff to thrive and realise their full potential. <a href="https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/22/my-priorities-as-civil-service-disability-champion/" target="_blank">https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/22/my-priorities-as-civil-service-disability-champion/</a></p><p>The Civil Service publishes annual statistics on the number of disabled employees. These show that the proportion of civil servants who are declared disabled has increased every year since 2010, from 7.6% in 2010 to 11.7% in 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 08/10/2019 14:57:38 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1147952

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated cost incurred will be in the event that the Government implements Operation Black Swan.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	293535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is not aware of the existence of an Operation Black Swan.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 293536 question first answered 07/10/2019 11:51:41 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1147953

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what conditions his Department has set which would trigger the implementation of Operation Black Swan.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	293536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is not aware of the existence of an Operation Black Swan.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 293535 question first answered 07/10/2019 11:51:41 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1147973

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Chief Data Officer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September to Question 286366 and with reference to page 10 of the Government Transformation Strategy, which Minister made the decision to extend the objective of appointing a Chief Data Officer from by 2020 to in 2020; and on what date that decision was made.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	293725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>No decision has been made regarding an extension of the objective of appointing a Chief Data Officer It remains our intention to appoint the Chief Data Officer in the timescales set out in the Government Transformation Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 08/10/2019 14:55:51 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1147983

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Office for Tackling Injustices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on the establishment of the Office for Tackling Injustices; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	293689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>We are considering how best to take forward this work in the light of the new Government’s domestic priorities and will provide an update in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 08/10/2019 17:00:30 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1147997

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the London Living Wage is paid by all Government Departments and their contractors.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	293677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government policy is that all workers in the UK are paid the statutory National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. This is based on the advice of the Low Pay Commission. In April 2019, the National Living Wage increased to £8.21 per hour, handing a full-time worker a further £690 annual pay rise. By 2024 the National Living Wage will rise to £10.50 per hour, reaching 66% of median UK earnings. The scope will be expanded to everyone aged 21 and over and is expected to benefit over 4 million low paid workers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 07/10/2019 14:22:29 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1148000

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings (a) members of the Cabinet and (b) their predecessors have had with EU officials in each of the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	293498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/10/2019 16:38:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb