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1001944

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Health Lottery: Prizes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to decide whether to raise the limit on prize values for the Health Lottery .
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	188237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The consultation on society lottery reform sought views on raising prize limits. The consultation closed on 7 September after we had received over 1,600 responses. DCMS officials are now carefully considering the evidence and we hope to respond to the consultation in the first half of next year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/11/2018 16:40:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1003622

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Impact Bonds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the savings social impact bonds have made to the public purse since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	189695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Social Impact Bonds have been used by a range of commissioners, both national and local, to commission public services. DCMS has not estimated total savings delivered to the public purse using Social Impact Bonds since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Several Social Impact Bond programmes have been independently evaluated and some of these evaluations estimate savings. The Government Outcomes Lab, a partnership initiative between DCMS and the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, provides links to SIB evaluations in their <a href="https://golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge/resources/" target="_blank">online publications library</a>.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/11/2018 16:37:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1003623

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Impact Bonds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent promoting social impact bonds since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	189696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>DCMS manages expenditure for the £20m Social Outcomes Fund and the £80m Life Chances Fund to promote the development of social impact bonds. These contribute to the cost of outcomes delivered by social impact bond programmes led by local commissioners or other government departments. £19,440,000 had been spent up to 31st March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/11/2018 17:36:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1003832

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Netball: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department has made available to netball organisations in the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	189547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong>Government has invested over £47M of Exchequer and Lottery funding since 2010 through Sport England, supporting England Netball and a range of delivery partners across the country to run and promote the sport.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/11/2018 17:35:16 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

964434

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the total cost to the public purse of his Department’s work preparing for the UK to leave the EU has been since 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	168894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This breaks down as:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£412m of additional funding over the spending review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International Trade and the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>£286m of additional funding for 17/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 17/18).</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 18/19. A full breakdown of which can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on 13 March.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/09/2018 10:27:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

964448

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of leaving the EU in accordance with (a) the proposals set out in the Government’s White Paper and (b) a no-deal scenario.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	168908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the Chancellor also set aside £1.5 billion of additional funding for EU Exit preparations in 2019/20. Departments will be invited to bid for 2019/20 EU Exit preparation funding later in the year. Details of timings and process will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/09/2018 10:28:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

964530

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost to the public purse has been of his Department hiring additional staff to cover issues related to the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	168938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available as we do not account for costs in this way. The total expenditure on staff and staff numbers are disclosed in the Departmental Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/09/2018 10:29:49 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

968390

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Peers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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	170936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s Ministerial team includes one member of the House of Lords, who holds an unpaid position. The Department has no agencies.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/09/2018 10:30:58 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

971787

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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	173660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The number of sick leave days taken by staff due to mental health reasons at the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales for which data is available, is set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of days lost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales is not an employer in its own right; our staff are employed under Ministry of Justice contracts. We therefore comply with the Ministry of Justice’s attendance management policy to ensure that staff’s wellbeing is maintained and to provide the necessary support so that staff who are absent due to sickness (including mental health related reasons) are enabled to return to work at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/09/2018 14:12:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

972511

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff (a) are employed directly by (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	174101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales does not employ staff directly. All staff working at the Office are employed by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ).</p><p>2.3 (FTE) staff are seconded to the Office from the Government Legal Department.</p><p>There are no staff working under contract to the Department. Contractors delivering services to the Office do so under other government departments’ contracts.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/10/2018 10:06:27 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West