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1487379

registered interest
date	07/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cammell Laird: Strikes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department holds documents on the 1984 Camell Laird dispute; and whether he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	32467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold any documents on the 1984 Cammell Laird dispute. Records created in 1984 have been transferred to The National Archives as required by the Public Records Act 1958.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 12/07/2022 10:11:33 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1486883

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members' Interests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Committee on Standards and Public Life's report on MPs' Outside Interests and the Committee on Standards' report entitled, New Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules: promoting appropriate values, attitudes and behaviour in Parliament, published on 24 May 2022, if the Government will take steps to implement the recommendations in those reports on the rules on (a) paid advocacy and (b) the provision of advice on parliamentary affairs.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	31912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is carefully considering the Committee on Standards' report, the Committee’s draft Procedural Protocol and covering report. The Government will be responding in full to the report and its various recommendations. The Code of Conduct for MPs rightly remains a matter for Parliament and any changes must be taken forward on a cross-party basis, in order to ensure a standards system that is robust, fair and has the backing of the public and MPs.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/07/2022 16:26:30 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1486907

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	31723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department is unable to provide spend on legal disputes, as this is not recorded separately from wider legal expenditure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Somerset answering member printed Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg question first answered 15/07/2022 13:49:07 answering member 4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486953

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people held electronic purchasing cards that allowed them to make purchases against the budgets of (a) his Department and (b) 10 Downing Street as of 31 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	31790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>As of 31 March 2022, the Department had 283 cardholders.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For management and staffing purposes the Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office. It is not possible to provide a separate figure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Somerset answering member printed Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg question first answered 15/07/2022 12:08:31 answering member 4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1486957

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Information Commissioner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what has been the cost to the public purse of appealing the Information Commissioner’s Decision Notice of 18th December 2019, reference FS50772671.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	31916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to his previous Parliamentary Question answered on 8 March <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-03-02/133263" target="_blank">PQ133263</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The government does not comment on the costs of ongoing litigation and will publish the costs after the conclusion of the case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/07/2022 16:26:44 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1486494

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) direct employees, (b) contractors and (c) agency workers in his Department and relevant agencies and public bodies who receive a wage below the (i) UK real living wage outside of Greater London and (ii) London living wage inside of Greater London as determined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	31235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>In April 2022, the statutory National Living Wage was increased to £9.50 per hour. By 2024, the Government have committed that the National Living Wage will reach 66% of median UK earnings.</p><p>As of 07/07/2022, the total number of direct employees in the Cabinet Office earning below the Real Living Wage rate of £9.90 per hour was 0 and for the London Living Wage rate of £11.05 per hour was 0.</p><p>We are unable to provide details on Contractors and Agency workers' pay as they are not employees of the departments in which they work, nor of the Civil Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/07/2022 16:25:58 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray

1486596

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Property Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the presentation slides on the Government Property Agency’s Workplace Services Transformation Programme that was delivered to the PCS Union in a meeting with the Government Property Agency on 13 June 2021.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	31145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Please find a copy of the presentation attached.</p> answering member constituency North East Somerset answering member printed Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg question first answered 11/07/2022 16:27:03 answering member 4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg attachment 1 file name WSTP PCS Union engagement session 13.06.22 v1.0r.pptx (1).pdf title PCS Union engagement session
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1486597

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Property Agency: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Property Agency has made a delivery model assessment in respect of retendering facilities management contracts in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	31146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The GPA can confirm that the Workplace Transformation Programme (WSTP) Supply Chain Project (SCP) which has been initiated to Procure and deliver the Workplace Service contracts in 2022 has completed a Delivery Model Assessment (DMA).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Somerset answering member printed Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg question first answered 11/07/2022 15:35:49 answering member 4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1486713

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Business: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Procurement Bill on procurement opportunities for ethnic minority business owners.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	30985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Procurement Bill contains proposals to simplify the procurement process and make it easier for all companies to bid rather than specific groups. The changes that are proposed are designed in particular to benefit businesses of all sizes throughout the whole economy, including ethnic minority businesses; this includes measures that will reduce barriers to entry including establishing a single transparency platform so that bidders only have to submit their core credentials once, and making reforms to procurement frameworks so that suppliers are not locked out.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Somerset answering member printed Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg question first answered 11/07/2022 16:25:11 answering member 4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1483326

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Heating
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 28 April (HL7750), whether they will now answer the question with the details requested, namely, in respect of the principal offices of each government department located in central London, (1) what temperature the offices are heated to during working hours in winter, and (2) what assessment they have made of the advantages and disadvantages of reducing that temperature by 2°C.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL1278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>With respect to part 1 of the question, Government Property Agency (GPA) managed offices located in central London are heated to 22°C with a ± 2°C tolerance.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>With respect to buildings which GPA does not manage, the individual departments are responsible and it would be for them to respond.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 set requirements for most aspects of the working environment. Regulation 7 deals specifically with the temperature in indoor workplaces and states “during working hours, the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings shall be reasonable”. The reasonableness of the temperature is dependent on the work activity being conducted.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) approved code of practice and guidance (L24) advises the minimum temperature for a workplace should normally be at least 16°C</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>With respect to part 2 of the question, the temperature of an office floor plate is not uniform. There will be areas which when heated to 22°C with a ± 2°C tolerance will be at the lower end of the spectrum. In naturally ventilated buildings, ventilation is provided by the controlled opening of windows by the occupants. This means that from time to time temperatures are likely to dip lower than the noted threshold.</p><p>Reducing nominal temperatures by 2°C moves GPA into an operational band of 18-22°C, which, if windows are open could risk falling close to the lower threshold of 16°C.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 11/07/2022 16:27:27 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas