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709619

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Meetings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have had with (i) businesses and (ii) registered charities in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
	uin	67317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>Details of Ministers' and Permanent Secretary meetings with external organisations, including senior media figures, are published routinely on Gov.uk and can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</a></p><p> </p><p>Information about meetings between officials, businesses and charities are not centrally held and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/03/2017 12:44:24 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

691766

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many equality impact assessments have been carried out in the last three years on public service reforms which impact on (a) departmental staff and (b) members of the public; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	64440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Over the last three years the Cabinet Office has had and continues to have due regard, as necessary, to the public sector quality duty in exercising its functions. The Equality Act does not require this due regard to take the form of an equality impact assessment, nor does it define an equality impact assessment, and the Cabinet Office does not maintain a record of such assessments.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 24/02/2017 11:51:00 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

709618

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Secondment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff in his Department have been seconded from (i) businesses and (ii) charities.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
	uin	67308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>In my Department, at 28<sup>th</sup> February 2017, (a) eleven full-time staff, and (b) no part-time staff were seconded from (i) business, and (a) no full-time staff, and (b) five or fewer part-time staff were seconded from (ii) charities.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 16/03/2017 10:57:12 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

642140

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the contribution of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to the Environmental Audit Committee on 25 October 2016, Question 332, what proportion of existing EU legislation within the policy remit of his Department cannot immediately be brought into UK law upon the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	54189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government will bring forward legislation in the next session that, when enacted, will repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and ensure a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU. This ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will end the authority of EU law and return power to the UK. The Bill will convert existing European Union law into domestic law, wherever practical.</p><p>The Government will set out the content of the Bill and its implications in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 29/11/2016 10:22:15 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

675604

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the communique form the Anti-Corruption Summit held in London in May 2016, whether he asked the Financial Action Task Force, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes to develop initial proposals on ways to improve the implementation of the international standards on transparency, including on the availability of beneficial ownership information and its international exchange.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	60874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to being the most transparent in the world. The UK launched an initiative with the EU G5 for the systematic exchange of beneficial ownership information last year. Since then more than 50 jurisdictions have indicated their support for this initiative. The OECD, Global Forum and FATF have been asked by the G20 to examine how improvements can be made to improve international access to beneficial ownership information as part of the Government’s wider transparency agenda.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 27/01/2017 08:11:08 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

539819

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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, with reference to the Written Statement of 18 July 2016, Machinery of Government Changes, HCWS94, how many civil servants the Government plans to make redundant as a result of those changes.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	43287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2016 answer text <p>It is each individual Department’s responsibility to determine its workforce requirements, and this includes the new departments formed through recent Machinery of Government changes.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service constantly reviews its capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s agenda. Cabinet Office is working with all departments across the Civil Service to better understand their capacity and capability requirements following the decision to exit the EU, but it is too early to make a detailed assessment at this stage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 27/07/2016 09:26:52 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

683072

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Sixth Special Report (HC911), Tackling corruption overseas: Government Response to the Fourth Report from the International Development Committee, Session 2016-17, whether it remains the Government's policy to persuade the UK's Crown Dependencies to adopt public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	62682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>It remains the Governments ambition for public registers to become the global standard. Our priority is to implement the new bilateral arrangements concluded with the Crown Dependencies in 2016. Under the arrangements, the Crown Dependencies have committed to establish, where they have not already done so, central registers of beneficial ownership information or similarly effective systems, and to give UK law enforcement and tax authorities near real-time access to beneficial ownership information on corporate and legal entities incorporated in these jurisdictions. The Crown Dependencies have also committed to systematic exchange of beneficial ownership information as part of a wider international initiative.</p><p>These measures represent a significant step forward in our ability to investigate bribery and corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, and put the Crown Dependencies well ahead of several other jurisdictions. Should public central registries become the global standard we would expect the Crown Dependencies to follow suit.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 07/02/2017 10:08:01 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

707210

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the HM Revenue and Customs Digital press release of 13 February 2017, Green light for Government Gateway Transformation, which future transactions will be processed through the (a) new verification service and (b) Government Digital Service platform Verify.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	66306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2017 answer text <p>As the UK Digital Strategy and<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-transformation-strategy-2017-to-2020/government-transformation-strategy" target="_blank"> Government Transformation Strategy</a> both set out, government is committed to building and extending the use of shared components and platforms. GOV.UK Verify is government’s single, shared identity platform for citizens.</p><p> </p><p>The authentication service being developed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to replace Government Gateway will be for business representatives. HMRC is committed to GOV.UK Verify as the government’s identity platform for citizens.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is the biggest user of GOV.UK Verify, enabling access to its citizen-facing services such as Self Assessment, Personal Tax Accounts and other associated services, such as Check Your Income Tax.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Digital Service is working closely with HMRC and across government to develop a shared migration plan to GOV.UK Verify for citizen-facing services currently using Government Gateway.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/03/2017 13:55:32 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

707627

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the HM Revenue and Customs Digital press release of 13 February 2017, Green light for Government Gateway Transformation, how much his Department plans to spend on (a) establishing and (b) maintaining the new verification service.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	66488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The ‘new verification service’ to which this question refers is being developed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to replace the Government Gateway as a verification service for business representatives. It will complement GOV.UK Verify, the single identification service for individuals.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC agreed with the Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions to take on responsibility for decommissioning the existing Government Gateway, in line with current contractual arrangements, by March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has responded to a previous Parliamentary Question (PQ64720) on the issue of expenditure. The cost of building a replacement verification service for business representatives will be met by HMRC.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 13/03/2017 17:20:38 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

690196

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government Transformation Strategy, published on 9 February 2017, what the definition is of exploring component, platform and capability reuse beyond central government.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	64010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government Transformation Strategy sets out the definition of components, platforms and capabilities on p53 and p54. “Beyond central government’ means use by public or private organisations that are not Ministerial departments, non-Ministerial departments or their associated arm’s-length bodies. This strategy also sets out our ambition to make certain platforms available to local authorities and non-crown public sector bodies, and that we would further consider how the private sector can best reuse these services. <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify will be the first platform to pilot use by local authorities and to consider private sector reuse.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 24/02/2017 11:41:11 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne