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41989

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate the net benefit to the UK economy of data.gov.uk since it publicly launched in January 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	191143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p> We know that open data is of huge value to the economy. It is difficult to cite an exact figure for the net benefit of data.gov.uk. </p><p /> <p>A recent <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/198905/bis-13-743-market-assessment-of-public-sector-information.pdf" target="_blank">Deloitte report</a>, available at LINK, cited £1.8bn of direct benefit and £6.8bn of indirect benefit to the UK economy from the use of open data, although this also includes data that is not government data. </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

44643

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to incentivise departmental officials to bring old Government data sets online in accessible formats.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	193287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The UK has been recognised as the international leader in data transparency. During our Presidency of the G8 in 2013 we led Members to commit to publishing data openly by default as a matter of principle through the Open Data Charter.<br> <br> Departments are engaging the public and special interest groups about the most important data held by Government (whether old or new); publishing open data strategies and reporting to Parliament on progress on a quarterly basis.<br> <br> Those data sets that are judged to have the most significant economic and social impact we refer to as the National Information Infrastructure, and are our priority for making available and accessible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

61451

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Census
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he for the future of the UK Census; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	200302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value of the census but I have long said that it is outdated in its current form and could be more effectively and more cheaply delivered. Decisions about its future will be announced in the usual way, but the Government agrees with the conclusion of the Public Affairs Select Committee that the census needs to change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 18/06/2014 12:11:21 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

63176

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was saved as a result of digitising data records in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	201677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government announced Digital and IT savings of £0.3bn for 2010-11, £0.2bn for 2011-12, and £0.5 bn for 2012-13, against a 2009-10 baseline.</p><p>We don't hold full details of the discrete savings made by departments in digitising their data records.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 30/06/2014 16:32:04 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

61581

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
	tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
	uin	200439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>One Parliamentary Question, which was tabled the day before prorogation, did not receive a substantive answer</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/06/2014 16:26:38 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

40900

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what funding his Department provided for staff to carry out trade union activities in each of the last three years; and how many days staff spent on those activities in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
	tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
	uin	190235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p>Prior to January 2013, the Cabinet Office did not differentiate between time spent on Trade Union Activities and time spent on Trade Union Duties in recording the usage of Trade Union Facility Time.</p><p>No Facility Time has been granted for Trade Union Activities since January 2013.</p><p>Since January 2013, data relating to departmental Facility Time is published on the GOV.UK website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time</a>).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

63840

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voluntary Organisations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the (a) total value of public service contracts that have been awarded to voluntary sector organisations in each year since 2008-09 and (b) proportion of overall public expenditure which was spent on public service contracts with voluntary sector organisations in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	202407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Since January 2011 Government departments have published information on the contracts they award on Contracts Finder: <a href="http://www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Central government departments publish their expenditure with Voluntary and Community Sector organisations as part of their Quarterly Data Summaries (QDS): <a href="http://www.gist.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/oscar/" target="_blank">http://www.gist.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/oscar/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 30/06/2014 16:29:54 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

46189

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Civil Service jobs dealing primarily with reserved and excepted matters have been transferred from Northern Ireland in the last six years; and how many such jobs are planned to be so transferred in the next year.
	tabling member constituency	South Down
	tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
	uin	194750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not hold data centrally on the transfer of civil servants across the United Kingdom. Workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each individual Department to determine.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 194751 question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

46190

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Civil Service posts were relocated from London to Northern Ireland in the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	South Down
	tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
	uin	194751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not hold data centrally on the transfer of civil servants across the United Kingdom. Workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each individual Department to determine.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 194750 question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

48733

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that public sector, in-house, social enterprise and not-for-profit provision are given full consideration before public services are contracted out to the private sector; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	196855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government believes that public service commissioners should consider <em>all</em> options when tendering contracts, securingbest quality service for users at the best value for taxpayers. This includes social enterprises, not-for-profit organisations and public sector mutuals.</p><p>We have provided support through the £10 million Mutuals Support Programme, another £10 million through the Investment and Contract Readiness Fund, and also established a programme of ‘commercial masterclasses' on the skills needed to win public sector contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas