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1650405

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 3 July to Question 190603 on Cabinet Office: Members, what the deadline to respond to correspondence set by each Government Department was as of 5 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	192553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Members’ correspondence. As set out in the Guide to Handling Correspondence on gov.uk and in the response to Question 190603, the deadlines set by Departments for responding to correspondence should not exceed 20 working days and they are strongly encouraged to set more challenging deadlines to ensure greater efficiency in responding to correspondence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>While each Department is responsible for managing their own timeliness in responding to correspondence, the Cabinet Office, as owners of the Guide to Handling Correspondence, regularly engages with correspondence officials in Government Departments to discuss and review performance and issues that may be impacting performance. The Cabinet Office also publishes correspondence performance data on GOV.UK on a regular basis, detailing departmental performance in handling correspondence. This can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1145941/Data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-MPs-and-Peers-in-2022.docx.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1145941/Data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-MPs-and-Peers-in-2022.docx.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 192554 192555 question first answered 10/07/2023 17:01:18 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1650408

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant the Answer of 3 July 2023 to Question 90603 on Cabinet Office: Members, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on factors that may be impacting their Department's performance in responding to correspondence.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	192554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Members’ correspondence. As set out in the Guide to Handling Correspondence on gov.uk and in the response to Question 190603, the deadlines set by Departments for responding to correspondence should not exceed 20 working days and they are strongly encouraged to set more challenging deadlines to ensure greater efficiency in responding to correspondence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>While each Department is responsible for managing their own timeliness in responding to correspondence, the Cabinet Office, as owners of the Guide to Handling Correspondence, regularly engages with correspondence officials in Government Departments to discuss and review performance and issues that may be impacting performance. The Cabinet Office also publishes correspondence performance data on GOV.UK on a regular basis, detailing departmental performance in handling correspondence. This can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1145941/Data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-MPs-and-Peers-in-2022.docx.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1145941/Data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-MPs-and-Peers-in-2022.docx.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 192553 192555 question first answered 10/07/2023 17:01:18 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1650410

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 3 July 2023 to Question 190603 on Cabinet Office: Members, what comparative assessment he has made of the performance of each Department at meeting the 20-day target.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	192555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Members’ correspondence. As set out in the Guide to Handling Correspondence on gov.uk and in the response to Question 190603, the deadlines set by Departments for responding to correspondence should not exceed 20 working days and they are strongly encouraged to set more challenging deadlines to ensure greater efficiency in responding to correspondence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>While each Department is responsible for managing their own timeliness in responding to correspondence, the Cabinet Office, as owners of the Guide to Handling Correspondence, regularly engages with correspondence officials in Government Departments to discuss and review performance and issues that may be impacting performance. The Cabinet Office also publishes correspondence performance data on GOV.UK on a regular basis, detailing departmental performance in handling correspondence. This can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1145941/Data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-MPs-and-Peers-in-2022.docx.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1145941/Data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-MPs-and-Peers-in-2022.docx.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 192553 192554 question first answered 10/07/2023 17:01:18 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1646442

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 12 June 2023 to Question 188915, what steps he is taking to increase compliance with the 20-day target across Departments.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	190603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Departments across government work to strict internal deadlines to ensure responses are progressed within 20 working days. The Guide to Handling Correspondence on gov.uk clearly sets out the importance this government attaches to the effective and efficient handling of correspondence received from Members.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Whilst 4 weeks is the deadline to respond to correspondence, departments are encouraged to set more challenging deadlines.</p><p /> <p>Officials working on correspondence across government departments are encouraged to engage regularly with policy officials, to ensure responses going out to Members are drafted and progressed as efficiently as possible. Cabinet Office regularly engages with correspondence officials in other Government departments to discuss performance and what may be impacting their performance.</p><p /> <p>As set out in the response to Question 188915, Government Ministers are expected to respond quickly and effectively to Members’ correspondence and I will continue to drive that message. Every effort must be made to reply to correspondence promptly and within the original deadline.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 03/07/2023 08:50:31 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1643757

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average time is for a Department to respond to casework queries from Rt hon. and hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	188915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As per the Cabinet Office’s Guide to Handling Correspondence on gov.uk, departments and agencies should aim to respond to correspondence from MPs within a 20 working day target deadline, but are advised to consider setting more challenging deadlines than 20 working days to ensure a better minimum service level.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Performance data on responses to correspondence from Parliamentarians for 2022 can be found on gov.uk. This data shows the volume of correspondence received by government departments and agencies from Parliamentarians and the percentage that was responded to within each department’s target deadline as well as the 20 working day maximum target deadline.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>I expect Government Ministers to respond quickly and effectively to Members’ correspondence and I will continue to drive that message.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 15/06/2023 14:23:55 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1343768

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment: Vacancies
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 estimate he has made of the (a) number of job vacancies in each sector and (b) rate of change in those vacancies over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2021 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ_27150 (1).xls title UKSAs response to PQ27150 2 file name UKSA's final response to PQ27150.pdf title UKSAs response to PQ27150 question first answered 08/07/2021 16:45:33 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1257774

registered interest
date	03/12/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Charities: Redundancy
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 trends in the number of redundancies in the charity sector.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	124174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 07/12/2020 17:43:07 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ124174.pdf title UKSA response PQ124174
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1037041

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: EEA Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to change paragraph 1.20 of the civil service nationality rules guidance in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	205914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to change paragraph 1.20 of the Civil Service Nationality Rules guidance in the unlikely scenario that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. EEA nationals who are civil servants on exit day will be able to continue to be civil servants; and it will continue to be possible for the civil service to recruit EEA nationals.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 11/01/2019 16:39:30 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1022821

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: EEA Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to change paragraph 1.20 of the civil service nationality rules in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	200599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>There is no paragraph 1.20 in the Civil Service Nationality Rules themselves. There is a paragraph 1.20 in the Civil Service Nationality Rules Guidance which states that ‘EEA nationals are eligible for employment in all non-reserved posts in Civil Service’.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 21/12/2018 13:07:37 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1020854

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number non-UK EU citizens employed by in each Government Department as a (a) civil servant and (b) contractor.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	200126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of non-UK EU citizens employed by as civil servants and contractors is not consistently collated across Government, therefore it is not possible to provide an overall number.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 18/12/2018 16:09:00 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern