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909287

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contractors currently employed by his Department are paid £1,000 or more per day.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	146800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office utilises contingent labour to supply specialist skills and capability not readily available within the Civil Service. 13 contractors currently engaged by the Cabinet Office receive £1000 or more per day.</p><p> </p><p>13 contractors currently engaged by the Cabinet Office receive £1000 or more per day. Out of these, nine are deployed to work on departmental transformation projects in other government departments; three have been engaged for 1-2 months; and one has been engaged for 14 months.</p><p> </p><p>Additional information about the numbers and costs of contingent labour working in the Cabinet Office (including temporary staff) is published monthly and 2017/18 statistics are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2017-to-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 28/06/2018 10:45:08 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

914986

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Constituencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent from the public purse to date on the 2018 boundary review; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>Figures for expenditure over each financial year are published by the separate Boundary Commissions for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as part of their annual reports.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 03/07/2018 10:30:13 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

919147

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much money has been allocated from the public purse by the Legal Aid Agency for legal teams of the survivors and bereaved families in the Grenfell Inquiry as of the start of the opening statements to that inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	151224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has made clear that survivors, families of victims and local residents affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy will have government funding for legal representation. This was confirmed by the Prime Minister’s notice of determination to the Inquiry, published on 22 August.</p><p><br></p><p>The independent Inquiry will publish details of its expenditure, including legal costs, on its website in due course.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 27/06/2018 08:49:08 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

923343

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Operation Blue Star
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the scope of the Heywood review into the Amritsar massacre in June 1984.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	153429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>I am confident that the scope of the cabinet Secretary’s review was thorough.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/06/2018 10:44:00 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

924166

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Hogan Lovells: South Africa
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments by the Deputy Director General of the South African Treasury in relation to Hogan Lovells LLP; and what plans, if any, they have to let government contracts to Hogan Lovells LLP in future.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL8645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government is aware of this situation and is monitoring it. Any bidder, including Hogan Lovells, which bids for a Government contract covered by the Public Contracts Regulations, would be subject to the rules on exclusions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 28/06/2018 17:03:04 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

926492

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Customs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how often the two Cabinet Sub-Committees which are currently examining the two proposed models for future customs cooperation with the EU have met; and when they are expected to reach a conclusion.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
	uin	HL8742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has established two working groups to consider the Government’s options for future customs arrangements. We do not comment on the details of work that relates to Cabinet or its sub-Committees.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has set out two potential models for the UK’s future customs relationship – a new customs partnership and a highly streamlined customs arrangement, and will set out further detail on its preferred customs model in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 26/06/2018 16:37:22 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

926926

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government’s plans to move Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers onto the Alpha Pensions Scheme from April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	tabling member printed	Jamie Stone
	uin	155365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government has carried out extensive reforms of public service pension schemes to ensure that they are fair and sustainable, including the introduction of new pension schemes for the main public sector workforces in 2015. As part of these reforms the Government plans to move Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers into the Alpha Pension Scheme in due course. <ins class="ministerial">Officials are continuing to engage on this issue. </ins></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/06/2018 15:33:05 question first ministerially corrected 28/06/2018 10:56:43 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden previous answer version 66146 answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4612 label Biography information for Jamie Stone

927921

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Policy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the main policy priority is for his Department for 2018; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	155734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>Cabinet Office published an updated Single Departmental Plan on 23 May 2018. This set out the department’s main policy objectives and how it will achieve them. Single Departmental Plans will be revised annually to reflect new priorities or changes in responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/06/2018 09:32:14 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

928733

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) level of funding and (b) projects the Government has provided to each country through the Conflict Stability and Security Fund in 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	156381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Further details of where the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) operates and information on our programmes will be published in the CSSF Annual Report on .gov.uk, due to be released next month. The report will also detail department, regional and thematic spend for financial year 17/18.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) guidance is designed to ensure that our assistance meets the UK’s human rights obligations and values and our policy is to apply it to all relevant programming. OSJA assessments are part of the wider risk management arrangements in place for CSSF-funded projects. OSJAs are live documents and are regularly updated. The OSJA guidance directs staff as to when Ministers would need to approve programming.</p><p> </p><p>177 FY 2017/18 CSSF projects are registered as having completed an OSJA. The Government will provide further information on the implementation of the updated OSJA guidance in the FCO’s next Annual Human Rights Report. This will include an estimate of the number of OSJA assessments carried out during the previous financial year and a quantitative analysis of their geographical use. It will also summarise steps taken to implement the OSJA guidance across Government.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington grouped question UIN 156382 156383 156384 156385 question first answered 28/06/2018 16:31:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

928737

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding the Government has allocated through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund to states classified as countries of concern/priority in relation to human rights.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	156382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Further details of where the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) operates and information on our programmes will be published in the CSSF Annual Report on .gov.uk, due to be released next month. The report will also detail department, regional and thematic spend for financial year 17/18.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) guidance is designed to ensure that our assistance meets the UK’s human rights obligations and values and our policy is to apply it to all relevant programming. OSJA assessments are part of the wider risk management arrangements in place for CSSF-funded projects. OSJAs are live documents and are regularly updated. The OSJA guidance directs staff as to when Ministers would need to approve programming.</p><p> </p><p>177 FY 2017/18 CSSF projects are registered as having completed an OSJA. The Government will provide further information on the implementation of the updated OSJA guidance in the FCO’s next Annual Human Rights Report. This will include an estimate of the number of OSJA assessments carried out during the previous financial year and a quantitative analysis of their geographical use. It will also summarise steps taken to implement the OSJA guidance across Government.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington grouped question UIN 156381 156383 156384 156385 question first answered 28/06/2018 16:31:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry