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759714

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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: Redundancy Pay
	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 has been paid out to (a) men and (b) women who left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	10050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not run any exit scheme for its UK based staff in the period since 31 March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 20/09/2017 12:45:39 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760085

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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: Redundancy
	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 (a) men and (b) women have left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	10338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not run any exit scheme for its UK based staff in the period from 31 March 2016 to date.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/10/2017 16:19:32 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760099

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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: Procurement
	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 civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside the Government and (b) in from outside the Government in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	10450
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>We currently have fewer than five officers working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that are part of the Government Commercial Function. We are therefore unable to confirm the precise numbers as this might enable individual identities to be revealed.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/10/2017 16:49:13 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760681

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	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: Arms Length Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 8242, on Foreign and Commonwealth Office: arms length external organisations, what the timetable is for the estimate of the number of arms-lengths bodies that will be established after the UK leaves the EU to be made and published.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	105200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>​The UK's future relationship with the EU's decentralised bodies after leaving the EU is a matter for the negotiations. As such, it is, at the present time, too early to say when any such projection would be made.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/10/2017 16:50:15 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765483

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2017 to Question 8037, on Foreign and Commonwealth Office: cybercrime, whether his Department requires contractors to have obtained a certificate from the Government Cyber Essentials scheme; and how many and what proportion of contractors working for his Department have obtained such a certificate.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	105823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) recognises Government Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 09/14 in its internal guidance. This PPN requires any suppliers bidding for certain high risk contracts to be 'Cyber Essentials'-certified. Current contracts are primarily those that involve the handling of personal data, and IT contracts related to sensitive information. Several of our IT contracts are through G-Cloud or other Government Digital frameworks; in line with the PPN these are already subject to comprehensive cyber security obligations and exempt from Cyber Essentials.</p><p><br>The FCO requires a privacy impact assessment for projects, programmes and policies which will involve the use of personal data in any way – this includes the collection, storage, transfer and/or disclosure of such data. As part of this assessment our IT security advisors review the security protocols of partner organisations where appropriate.</p><p><br>Authority to enter into contracts is devolved to directorates and departments within the FCO in London as well as the global network. It would take a disproportionate amount of time to determine how many contracts hold the Cyber Essentials certification.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 16/10/2017 14:53:12 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

782136

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2017
	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 his Department holds a central list of the IT and digital assets of its arm's-length bodies.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	110727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office only holds details of its own IT and digital assets, including those located at arms-length bodies. Separate systems owned and used by the FCO’s arms-length bodies are managed by their own IT departments.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 10/11/2017 09:31:17 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

782750

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	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	Diplomatic Service: Recruitment
	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 diplomatic positions have been established since June 2016; and what the cost of their salaries is to the public purse.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	111109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>​The FCO keeps its staff numbers under regular review in response to Ministerial priorities. Since June 2016, in response to the EU referendum, we have added 50 diplomatic positions to our Europe network and a further 6 positions at multilateral posts. The cost of posting these staff – including salary, overseas compensation and accommodation – is £4.2 million. Some of these posts have been funded through resource efficiencies and re-prioritisation identified by the Diplomacy 20:20 transformation programme.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/11/2017 17:41:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

783205

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2017
	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: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of his Department's spend in the last year has been with Government strategic suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	111284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>​In FY16-17 ​the Department spent 10 per cent through Government Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Strategic Suppliers.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/11/2017 17:52:53 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

784890

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	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: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which public telephone lines for his Department's services are charged at higher rates; and how much was taken by each such telephone line in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	111478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office public telephone numbers are prefixed with either London or Milton Keynes codes, or are of the local call rate type. No premium rate numbers are used.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/11/2017 13:45:53 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

797505

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee on 31 October, how many civil servants his Department (a) has recruited and (b) expects to recruit to work on leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	116468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) keeps its staff numbers under regular review in response to Ministerial priorities. Furthermore, the FCO works closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union and other Government Departments to prepare for EU Exit. Staff within the FCO's Europe Directorate lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU Exit and exit-related issues. However, staff across the Department leading on other issues also provide advice and analysis as required. It is therefore not possible to give an accurate figure for the number of officials working on issues related to the UK leaving the EU, given the interactions between EU Exit work and the FCO's other priorities.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 07/12/2017 17:14:02 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett