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1150857

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Regeneration: Birkenhead
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 much funding was (a) awarded and (b) allocated to Birkenhead under neighbourhood and community renewal schemes in each year since since 1989.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	2688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be produced at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 28/10/2019 17:12:58 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1150902

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conservative Party-DUP Agreement
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, with reference to the policy paper Confidence and Supply Agreement between the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party, what plans the Government has to review the (a) aims and (b) principles of that agreement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	2762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The 2017 Confidence and Supply Agreement, which was for the duration of this Parliament, has provided certainty and stability that the country needed as we embarked on Brexit and beyond.</p><p>The Conservative and Unionist Party has worked with the Democratic Unionist Party to govern in the national interest.</p><p>Parliament has now resolved to hold an early general election, which will bring this Parliament and the 2017 Agreement to a close.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 31/10/2019 15:47:10 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1150926

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Islam
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 staff in his Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	2779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020, the Civil Service is an inclusive employer. The Civil Service and the Cabinet Office are committed to becoming more inclusive and it is a key pillar of the Cabinet Office People Strategy.</p><p>The tables in Annex A show the number of CO employees declaring their religion as Islam as of September 30th 2019. The second table shows what ethnicities have been declared where people have identified their religion as Islam broken down by paygrade. The second table shows how people declaring Islam as their religion have recorded their ethnicity.</p><p>Please note that due to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) we have not been able to disclose values less than 10. These have been shown as a grey square.</p><p>Please also refer to data from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES), which provides detail on the number of civil servants reporting their religion by department or grade but not by the two measures combined. It also provides detail on the number of civil servants from an ethnic minority background by department and grade. Latest figures are as at March 2019:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2019</a></p><p /><p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 2797 question first answered 28/10/2019 17:23:55 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart attachment 1 file name PQ 2779 and 2797 - Annex A.docx title Annex A
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1150946

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Islam
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 staff in his Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	2797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020, the Civil Service is an inclusive employer. The Civil Service and the Cabinet Office are committed to becoming more inclusive and it is a key pillar of the Cabinet Office People Strategy.</p><p>The tables in Annex A show the number of CO employees declaring their religion as Islam as of September 30th 2019. The second table shows what ethnicities have been declared where people have identified their religion as Islam broken down by paygrade. The second table shows how people declaring Islam as their religion have recorded their ethnicity.</p><p>Please note that due to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) we have not been able to disclose values less than 10. These have been shown as a grey square.</p><p>Please also refer to data from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES), which provides detail on the number of civil servants reporting their religion by department or grade but not by the two measures combined. It also provides detail on the number of civil servants from an ethnic minority background by department and grade. Latest figures are as at March 2019:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2019</a></p><p /><p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 2779 question first answered 28/10/2019 17:23:55 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart attachment 1 file name PQ 2779 and 2797 - Annex A.docx title Annex A
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1150971

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	European Parliament and Local Government: Elections
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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of the report entitled, May 2019 European Parliamentary elections and local elections, published by the Electoral Commission in October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	2807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government will carefully consider the Electoral Commission's report and respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2019 13:47:24 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1150980

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: 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, whether all staff of the Prime Minister's Office are paid the London Living Wage; and whether it is a requirement for all Government Departments' contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to his question (PQ 293677) on 7 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:06:16 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1150983

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	10 Downing Street: Catering and Cleaning Services
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 arrangements the Government has with contractors for (a) cleaning and (b) catering in 10 Downing Street.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>Cleaners in No 10 are Civil Servants and are not contractors. The catering services are provided via the Government Property Agency's Total Facilities Management Contract.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 09:03:36 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1151005

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: 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, what recent estimate he has made of the number of civil servants employed directly or indirectly by each London-based Government Department or agency that are paid below the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>This government is committed to paying people a decent living wage, which is being addressed through the statutory National Living Wage. 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>Pay for grades below the Senior Civil Service is delegated to departments to determine and they will of course comply with the statutory National Living Wage. As at 31 March 2019, almost 46,000 (~11%) of civil servants earn below the Living Wage Foundation’s living wage (for those based outside of London) or London living wage (for those based inside London). It is not possible to provide a detailed breakdown by department and these estimates may differ from those calculated by departments using their internal data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:07:08 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1151056

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Jainism and Zoroastrianism
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, when representatives of the (a) Jain and (b) Zoroastrian community were invited to national events organised by his Department in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	2655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Ministers across Government have attended a number of key events coordinated by Jain and Zoroastrian organisations, and officials have invited representatives from both communities to participate in roundtable discussions where relevant issues are discussed.</p><p>The Jain and Zoroastrian communities of this country have made, and continue to make a positive contribution to life in the United Kingdom. The Government values this contribution enormously.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/10/2019 17:58:51 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1151096

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Health
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 21 October 2019 to Question 904, what the campaigns and initiatives referred to in the Answer were; and how many staff took part in each of them.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	2699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>As referenced in the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 904, Cabinet Office has run a number of campaigns and initiatives in the past year to improve the personal wellbeing of staff relating to physical, mental and social wellbeing. The department receives consistently strong engagement rates in activities relating to these campaign events. Whilst we cannot give exact numbers, we estimate that around 2000 members of staff taking part in events and initiatives in the first ten months of 2019, either physically or remotely through the use of video technology.</p><p>A breakdown of events can be seen below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Type of initiative</p></td><td><p>Staff Engagement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>Wellbeing Month - we organised 29 events and training sessions throughout the month, including resilience workshops, park runs, mindfulness sessions and a visit by ‘wellbeing dogs’</p></td><td><p>Over 400 people attended workshops, 30 colleagues joined sessions remotely (via google hangout), and hundreds of colleagues visited the wellbeing dogs.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>Time to Talk Day events</p></td><td><p>Circa 50 attended events</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>Mental Health Awareness Week – 5 talks organised and ‘This is me’ campaign where Cabinet Office staff shared their own personal stories with mental health</p></td><td><p>Raised £219 by selling green ribbons to staff Circa 500 members of staff took part in this campaign either through buying a ribbon or attending one of the talks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>Civil Service Active Wellbeing Week, led by Civil Service Sports Council. To support the week, colleagues across Cabinet Office volunteered their own time to run a series of events, such as bike rides, pilates sessions and wellbeing walks.</p></td><td><p>As these were organised by volunteers, we do not have an estimated number of staff who attended these events, however they were very popular amongst colleagues.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>National Suicide Prevention Day – guest speaker</p></td><td><p>Circa 50 members of staff attended the talk on the day, and a further 150 watched the talk remotely through the use of video technology.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>Know Your Numbers Week. A national campaign led by Blood Pressure UK to encourage staff to know their vital health statistics, such as blood pressure, heart rate, hydration and body mass index. As part of this event, we arranged for health check kiosks to be made available for staff in our London and Newcastle offices</p></td><td><p>A total of 683 people using these kiosks. In addition, 30 people took part in the smoothie bike challenge which formed part of the event</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>Cabinet Office encouraged staff to stop smoking for 28 days as part of the Stoptober campaign. We promoted this campaign via the intranet and set up stalls manned by specialist stop smoking advisors</p></td><td><p>Circa 30 people visited stalls</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>World Mental Health Day. This included a tea &amp; talk session, a panel discussion and a mental wellbeing workshop.</p></td><td><p>Around 300 people took part in these events, with a further 200 people buying green ribbons to support the day</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:04:17 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane