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1126052

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Former Ministers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has paid to hon. Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	253621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Any such payments are published in the department's audited annual accounts, and these accounts can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 16/05/2019 16:37:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

971771

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of days of sick leave taken by staff in his Department for mental health reasons in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	173645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2018 answer text <p><br>The number of days of sick absence taken by staff in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for mental health reasons in each year since 2010 recorded on HR systems was as follows:</p><p>2010: 2,159<br> 2011: 888<br> 2012: 4,974<br> 2013: 4,730<br> 2014: 3,123<br> 2015: 2,180:<br> 2016: 4,772:<br> 2017: 4,734<br> 2018 (up until 30 June*): 1,764</p><p>* It is standard practice to report a year's worth of sickness absence data on a quarterly basis (in arrears). Our last quarterly reporting period was until June 2018.</p><p>The figures above relate to FCO UK-based staff only, and do not include local staff employed by missions overseas, for whom records are not held centrally. <br>&quot;Mental health&quot; includes any absence recorded in the categories of depression, mental illness and stress.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/09/2018 13:55:27 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

969264

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Mobile Phones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish a list of the mobile phone applications developed by his Department and its agencies in the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of developing of each of those applications.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	171509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>This Department and its agencies have not developed any mobile phone applications in the last three years. The cost to the public purse is therefore nil.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/09/2018 16:18:00 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

968364

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Peers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of the House of Lords hold (a) paid and (b) unpaid roles within (i) his Department and (ii) his Department's agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	170913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold a central record of all those who hold roles, either paid or unpaid, who are members of the House of Lords.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/09/2018 16:11:51 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

904855

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Paternity Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many male staff of his Department have taken shared parental leave; and what the average length of that leave was.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	144322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Since the legislation was introduced on 5 April 2015, 29 male UK Based staff members have taken shared parental leave. The average length of leave was 11 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/05/2018 15:38:37 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

896459

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	140806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>​We have not signed any non-disclosure agreements with employees in the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/05/2018 12:39:55 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

829967

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) art, (b) wine and (c) hospitality in each of the last seven financial years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	124701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>a) The information regarding the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) expenditure on art is publicly available as part of the FCO's annual report on the gov.uk website. The FCO accounts for art as expenditure under Antiques and Works of Art representations of the FCO.</p><p>b) No central record is held of global expenditure on wines and spirits in the UK and overseas FCO. The Government Wine Cellar is managed by the FCO's Protocol Department and has been self-financing since 2011: costs are covered by sales of older, higher value stock. An annual report on the Government Wine Cellar is presented to Parliament each year under cover of a Written Ministerial Statement and is available on the gov.uk website.</p><p>c) The FCO accounts for its hospitality expenditure under Representation of the FCO and Business Hospitality. The total cost is</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£7,840,245</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£8,206,034</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£9,096,057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£9,010,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£8,177,552</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£7,984,424</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£9,386,848</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 01/02/2018 16:19:28 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

800737

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether electronic communications from hon. Members to Ministers of his Department are passed through any third parties before they reach their recipient.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	117358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text Electronic communications are passed across the internet via internet service providers. The routing of an email between members of Parliament and a Government department is dependent on which system and by which service the email is sent. Ministers' Private Offices and correspondence teams routinely handle and respond to emails on behalf of their Ministers. answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 12/12/2017 15:25:41 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750005

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Chevening: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what grant in aid was awarded to the trustees of Chevening in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	3869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/07/2017 15:48:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750139

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	1 Carlton Gardens: Operating Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the annual running costs of No. 1 Carlton Gardens were in each of the last seven years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	3849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The annual running costs for 1 Carlton Gardens are shown below:</p><p>Financial year 2010/11 £751,802</p><p>Financial year 2011/12 £766,524</p><p>Financial year 2012/13 £721,231</p><p>Financial year 2013/14 £740,332</p><p>Financial year 2014/15 £933,736</p><p>Financial year 2015/16 £850,099</p><p>Financial year 2016/17 £984,491</p><p>The rise between 2013/14 and 2014/15 was due to an increase in annual rent (following a Crown Estates rent review). The rise between 2015/2016 and 2016/17 was primarily due to increased security costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/07/2017 15:42:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders