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512446

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Trident Submarines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of staff of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority have been assigned to work on the Government's Successor submarine programme; and what (a) their grades, (b) their job titles and (c) the dates of their assignment to work on that programme are.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	33827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Successor programme is one of 188 projects reported on the Government Major Project Portfolio (GMPP) at the time of the last Major Projects Annual Report. The Infrastructure and Projects Authority undertakes a number of activities across the 188 major projects on the GMPP, including collecting quarterly programme performance data; the arrangement of independent assurance; and, providing expert advice to project and departmental leadership. These activities do not involve the assignment of individual IPA staff to work on this project specifically, but are undertaken by a number of staff working in a range of functions across the IPA.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/04/2016 09:46:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 55815 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

512447

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Commission On Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what timetable he has set for publication of information on the cost to the public purse of the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	33788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The final costs for the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information are currently being assembled and I expect to be able to publish the information shortly.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/04/2016 08:52:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 55813 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

512449

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government recorded in his Department's spending analysis tool that it spent on acquisitions from external suppliers in the last year for which figures are available; and how much and what proportion of central government spending the Government spent with each of the 20 suppliers which received the largest proportion of that spending in that period.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	33803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>In 2014-15 central government (excluding Network Rail) spent a total of £43.8 billion with external suppliers.</p><p> </p><p>Recorded expenditure with each of the top 20 suppliers is set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Spend</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bae Systems Plc</p></td><td><p>£3.3bn</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hewlett Packard Ltd</p></td><td><p>£1.3bn</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Babcock International Group</p></td><td><p>£1.2bn</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Awe Management Limited</p></td><td><p>£1.1bn</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capgemini Uk Plc</p></td><td><p>£900m</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita Plc</p></td><td><p>£700m</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finmeccanica Spa</p></td><td><p>£690m</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rolls-Royce Plc</p></td><td><p>£650m</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telereal Trillium</p></td><td><p>£640m</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT Group Plc</p></td><td><p>£620m</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Airtanker Limited</p></td><td><p>£490m</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Atos</p></td><td><p>£490m</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Boeing Company</p></td><td><p>£460m</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qinetiq Limited</p></td><td><p>£440m</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Connect Ltd</p></td><td><p>£430m</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serco Limited</p></td><td><p>£400m</p></td><td><p>0.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thales Group</p></td><td><p>£380m</p></td><td><p>0.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Interserve Plc</p></td><td><p>£350m</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Airwave Solutions</p></td><td><p>£340m</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carillion Plc</p></td><td><p>£330m</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/04/2016 09:53:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 55814 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

511275

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Anti-corruption Champion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April 2016 to Question 32149, on what page in the Cabinet Office annual report and accounts the specific costs incurred by the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion are set out.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	33684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>Overseas travel costs for the Anti-Corruption Champion will be included in the next Cabinet Office annual report and accounts, which will be published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> in due course.</p><p>There were no costs incurred by the Cabinet Office for the Anti-Corruption Champion in the latest annual report and accounts published. Any costs covered by the Cabinet Office for the Anti-Corruption Champion will be included in the next report which will be published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 33685 question first answered 19/04/2016 09:38:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 55807 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

511276

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Anti-corruption Champion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of travel overseas by the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion during the course of his duties.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	33685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>Overseas travel costs for the Anti-Corruption Champion will be included in the next Cabinet Office annual report and accounts, which will be published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> in due course.</p><p>There were no costs incurred by the Cabinet Office for the Anti-Corruption Champion in the latest annual report and accounts published. Any costs covered by the Cabinet Office for the Anti-Corruption Champion will be included in the next report which will be published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 33684 question first answered 19/04/2016 09:38:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 55805 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

480618

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 5 of the publication, Socio-Economic Diversity in the Fast Stream, published in February 2016, what progress his Department has made on (a) targeting universities and academic departments, (b) evaluating the impact of campus activity and schools outreach, (c) the iterative use of live recruitment data to inform approaches to promoting SEB diversity and (d) introducing other enhanced data insights to direct resources more effectively through the attraction process.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>On 2 February we published a report by the Bridge Group on socio-economic diversity in the Civil Service’s flagship graduate recruitment programme, the Fast Stream. This report can be accessed from the link at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/socio-economic-diversity-in-the-fast-stream-the-bridge-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/socio-economic-diversity-in-the-fast-stream-the-bridge-report</a></p><p>We have today published our 2016 Talent Action Plan for the civil service. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success</a>. This will set out how we will increase social mobility in the civil service, including how we will implement the recommendations by the Bridge Group on increasing socio-economic diversity in our flagship graduate recruitment programme, the Fast Stream.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/03/2016 14:34:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 53237 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479504

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what projection he has made of the number of civil service apprenticeships that will be created in each department in each year until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of individual Departments to project their workforce, including apprenticeships. The Civil Service implemented a single apprenticeship target of a minimum 2.3% of the workforce in England as apprenticeships starts from 1 January 2016. Departments have agreed to achieve 2.3% of their workforce in England as apprenticeship starts. This is an annual target that will be measured by financial years based on headcount at the start of that reporting period.</p><p>We estimate that there will be at least 30,000 apprenticeship starts in the Civil Service in England by the end of the Parliament.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/03/2016 11:49:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 52866 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479506

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what wage the Government plans to pay civil servant apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>Pay below the Senior Civil Service is delegated to Departments and agencies, including for apprenticeships. There is also no single apprenticeship grade. Apprentices on the Civil Service Fast Track are paid at least £19,500 (£22,000 in London).</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/03/2016 11:45:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 52869 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479509

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Permanent Secretaries: Social Class
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many permanent secretaries are from a lower socio-economic background.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Data on the socio-economic background of Permanent Secretaries is not available. We are introducing a metric of social mobility as part of our 2016 Talent Action Plan and this is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/03/2016 16:42:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 52864 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

475586

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Lobbying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of science and research and charity organisations on the potential effect of including anti-lobbying clauses in grant agreements.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	31171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The new clause in government grants makes sure that taxpayers’ money is not diverted from their intended purpose and wasted on political campaigning and political lobbying.</p><p>As indicated at the House of Lords Science Technology Committee, BIS and Cabinet Office are looking into how this new clause will apply to academic research.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/03/2016 16:42:19 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 52584 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner