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445852

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date	19/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Paper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a reduction in the use of paper in departments.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	23076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>Individual Departments are responsible for making their own reductions to their use of paper, including as part of the Greening Government Commitments. The Cabinet Office’s own use of paper in 2015/16 to date has reduced by around 60% against the 2009/10 baseline. This reduction has been achieved including through the use of more flexible laptop-based IT and electronic records systems which means that printing requirements have reduced considerably.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/01/2016 12:20:47 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 40565 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

445856

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of ministerial letters have been signed on behalf of Ministers in their absence in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	23025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>In line with the guidance on handling Ministerial correspondence, the Cabinet Office ensures that all correspondence, wherever possible, is personally hand-signed by the appropriate responsible Minister.</p><p>Guidance to Departments on handling correspondence is available on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441892/Cabinet_Office_Guidance_on_correspondence.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441892/Cabinet_Office_Guidance_on_correspondence.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/01/2016 12:21:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 40564 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

445857

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Oldham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will commission an assessment of the potential economic impact on Oldham of the reduction in Oldham's public estate.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	23030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government Property Unit is working closely with Oldham Council and others across Greater Manchester on future plans across the public sector estate. Oldham Council is part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Partnership on the One Public Estate Programme. The programme, delivered by Cabinet Office and the Local Government Association, aims to maximise local economic growth from better use of public assets. 108 councils have recently joined a third phase of the programme. Together, they expect to generate £172 million capital receipts, reduce running costs by £65 million, and create 30,000 new homes and 43,000 new jobs over the next 5 years.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/01/2016 12:22:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 40566 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

445859

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy
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 effect of civil service redundancies in the last 12 months on the effectiveness of departments' work.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	23139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>To remain the best in the world, the Civil Service needs to respond to both the challenges and opportunities of our times.The Civil Service continues to require new and different skills to respond to the fiscal environment, global competition and changes in technology, whilst at the same time delivering better services more efficiently: in short, doing more for less.</p><p>The size of the Civil Service has already reduced by 20% since March 2010 and has helped save taxpayers £2.8bn over the last Parliament. Despite this reduction in numbers, employee engagement rates were higher in 2015 than in 2010 and departments have successfully maintained delivery of our public services.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2016 13:29:13 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis