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599328

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Distributed Ledger Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	47976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and blockchain are exciting new developments. The Government is open minded about their potential, along with other emerging technologies, to help better meet user needs. At this stage more research is needed in order to determine their potential uses and whether the technologies are appropriate as a vehicle for public service delivery. The Government will be guided by the Chief Scientific Adviser’s 2016 report on the topic available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/distributed-ledger-technology-beyond-block-chain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/distributed-ledger-technology-beyond-block-chain</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/10/2016 09:12:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

599633

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the net change in the number of jobs in the UK since 23 June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	48154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2016 14:44:04 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ48154 v.03 (1) (1).pdf title UKSA response to 48154
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

598076

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Ministers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to appoint a new Minister of State for the Department for International Development in the House of Lords as a replacement for the current Minister; and if so, when they intend to make that appointment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	uin	HL2105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The Rt Hon Lord Bates has been appointed as Minister of State at the Department for International Development (DfID).</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 18/10/2016 15:57:10 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

600992

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, (a) how many former Civil Servants have taken up employment in roles that directly relate to their work for the Government since May 2015 and (b) how many of those Civil Servants are working in the private sector.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	48527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>Information about appointments taken up by former Senior Civil Servants after leaving government is published either on the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACoBA) website, or on the relevant Department’s gov.uk page.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/10/2016 09:15:21 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

596134

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Unpaid Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what statistics are held by the Government relating to incidences of unpaid trial shifts since May 2010 relating to (a) individuals not claiming benefits and (b) people under 25 years old.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	47058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2016 14:41:46 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ 47058 V.03 (1) (1) (2).pdf title UKSA Response to PQ47058
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell