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1060482

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Taxation: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the use of tax raising powers available to that Government.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	909253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with Scottish Government ministers on a wide range of issues that are important to Scotland’s economic performance. The Scottish Government must work with us on ensuring that Scotland’s economy thrives, but making Scotland the highest taxed part of the UK is setting the wrong signal.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 20/02/2019 15:36:51 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1058960

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	219559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 13/02/2019 10:54:22 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1055344

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Cold Weather Payments: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what progress has been made in the devolution of cold weather payments to the Scottish Government.
	tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
	tabling member printed	David Duguid
	uin	217132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Scottish Parliament have had legislative competence for cold weather payments since May 2017. DWP’s responsibility for cold weather payments in Scotland will transfer to Scottish Ministers from April 2020. We are awaiting details of how the Scottish Government intend to deliver their new scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 12/02/2019 11:38:27 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4606 label Biography information for David Duguid

1052165

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251 on Government Departments: Staff, how many civil servants in his department were working (a) part and (b) full time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (i) June 2016 and (ii) December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	215092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>None. The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high risk projects in which the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has a facilitating role.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 07/02/2019 14:55:08 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1050469

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Scotland Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2019 to Question 207564 on Scotland Office: Brexit, for what reason his Department holds no estimate of what it has spent on no deal preparations, which cannot readily be separated from other EU exit and devolution functions in general.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	213907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of preparations for a successful EU exit, the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has been allocated additional EU exit funding. OSSS officials are working across a range of areas (including but not limited to no deal preparations), in their EU exit work. As no deal preparations form part of the broader EU exit work of the department, it is not possible to separate how much has been spent only on no deal preparations.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 05/02/2019 16:30:54 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1050507

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Fuel Poverty: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on tackling fuel poverty in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
	uin	214091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Fuel poverty policy is devolved and is therefore a matter for the Scottish Government. I have regular discussions with Scottish Government ministers on a range of issues, and recognise the importance of this issue, in particular for those who have difficulty in paying for essential energy costs.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 05/02/2019 16:35:23 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1050300

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Scotland Office: Trade Associations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which regulatory functions imposed by legislation for which his Department has responsibility are currently undertaken by trade associations; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	213188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for the Secretary of State for Scotland does not have any functions imposed by legislation which are being undertaken by trade associations.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 05/02/2019 16:29:21 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1046899

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Brexit: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Trades Union Congress on the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
	uin	211874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>I have extended an invitation to the Scottish Trades Union Congress to discuss issues around EU Exit.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 30/01/2019 12:37:09 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1046928

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Scotland Office: Sikhs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) religious group.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies, principally the Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Government, who remain the employers.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 30/01/2019 12:38:05 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1045897

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	City Region Deals: Tayside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions his Department has had with stakeholders on the Tay Cities Deal.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
	uin	211333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Since the Tay Cities Heads of Terms were signed on 22 November my officials have met with local partners on a number of occasions to progress the Tay Cites Deal. My officials will continue to engage at a pace set by the local partners.</p><p> </p><p>A further meeting is planned for 5 February with Angus Council to hold further detailed discussions on the conditions of the ring-fenced fund for Angus.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 29/01/2019 17:19:12 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair