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577108

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what lessons the Government has learned about voter registration from the EU referendum campaign.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	906133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>The EU Referendum campaign was the largest democratic exercise the United Kingdom has ever witnessed. Indeed, there were 46.5 million people on the electoral register for the EU Referendum, the largest UK Parliamentary register ever seen. Building on this success, the Government is currently undertaking a programme of work looking at how the electoral registration can be made more efficient and boost the levels of registration further. This includes piloting changes to the annual canvass to test new approaches which have been identified through working closely with Electoral Registration Officers.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/09/2016 14:13:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

577109

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures his Department is putting in place to make government more cost-effective.
tabling member constituency	Yeovil
tabling member printed	Marcus Fysh
uin	906128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>Improving the efficiency and productivity of the public sector is central to the work of the Cabinet Office and other government Departments. By 2014/15 the Government had saved £18.6 billion through efficiency and reform.</p><p>The government is continuing this work. For example, we are working to improve how the government operates across functional areas such as commercial, property, infrastructure and projects, and by tackling fraud, error and debt. We will continue to make government more effective throughout this parliament.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 906132 question first answered 07/09/2016 15:49:55 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4446 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Fysh

577110

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Flood Resilience Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress has been made on the National Flood Resilience Review.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	906131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>The National Flood Resilience Review has been assessing how England can be better protected from flooding and extreme rainfall. The review has been working to identify actions needed to strengthen our resilience to flooding.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 07/09/2016 15:54:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

577111

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures his Department is putting in place to make government more cost-effective.
tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
tabling member printed	Chris Davies
uin	906132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>Improving the efficiency and productivity of the public sector is central to the work of the Cabinet Office and other government Departments. By 2014/15 the Government had saved £18.6 billion through efficiency and reform.</p><p>The government is continuing this work. For example, we are working to improve how the government operates across functional areas such as commercial, property, infrastructure and projects, and by tackling fraud, error and debt. We will continue to make government more effective throughout this parliament.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 906128 question first answered 07/09/2016 15:49:55 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4376 label Biography information for Chris Davies

577112

registered interest
date	30/08/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Low Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ensure that all government departments produce an analysis of the effect of their policies on people who are low-paid.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	906130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>At each Budget and Autumn Statement, the Government already produces cumulative distributional analysis; this shows the impact of government policies since 2010 on the share of tax paid and spending received, across the household income distribution.</p><p>Where appropriate, departments also choose to publish analyses of the potential effects on protected characteristics, and of the effect of government policy on families.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 07/09/2016 15:52:22 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

542272

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Committees: Airports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to re-establish the Economic Affairs (Airports) sub-Committee.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	43921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>A full updated list of the Cabinet Committees will be published in the coming weeks. In line with the previous arrangements, there will be a Cabinet sub-Committee to consider airport capacity in the South East of England.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/09/2016 12:19:18 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

541216

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Lord Chancellor
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government to what extent the new Lord Chancellor meets the criteria for appointment laid down in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL1379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2016 answer text <p>Appointments of Government Ministers and the Lord Chancellor are for the Prime Minister to recommend to Her Majesty. I would note that Section 2 of the 2005 Act explicitly states that the Prime Minister may take into account experience as a Minister of the Crown and as a member of either House of Parliament when deciding whether a person is qualified by experience to be Lord Chancellor.</p><p>I would also refer the noble peer to the speech by the Lord Chief Justice at the swearing in of the Lord Chancellor, which provides background on the Lord Chancellor’s experience, but also the historical context of those who have had custody of the Great Seal of the Realm, including its first female keeper back in 1253.</p><p><a href="https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/lcj-speech-swearing-in-lord-chancellor-july2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/lcj-speech-swearing-in-lord-chancellor-july2016.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 28/09/2016 15:10:59 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden