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426464

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers: Codes of Practice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with whom he consulted on recent changes to the ministerial code.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	15170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Ministerial Code is the Prime Minister’s guidance to his Ministers. It is normally updated and reissued following a General Election. The Code is not subject to external consultation. This has been the practice under successive Administrations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2015 11:00:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

521967

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with which countries the Government is working to establish the International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	38867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The government is working with international partners towards making the International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre operational by April 2017, including agreeing terms of reference and resourcing. UK law enforcement officials will be seconded into the centre, and initial funding will be provided from the Prosperity Fund. A number of other Summit participants have stated their intent to commit resource to the centre, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and Interpol.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 38849 38850 38868 question first answered 06/06/2016 10:18:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455697

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Oldham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the figures on central government spend with small and medium-sized enterprises, published on 5 December 2015, how much of the £12.1 billion was spent in 2014-15 with businesses located in the OL1, OL2, OL3, OL4, OL8, OL9 and M35 postcode areas.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	28763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Commercial Service only collects regional spend data for direct spend with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), so the following figures, which are taken from the Governments Spend Analytical tool, Bravo, do not incorporate spend through the supply chain.</p><p>Direct spend with SMEs of £205,978,657.91 was reported in 2014-15 for the North West of England.</p><p>During the same period, the following amounts were reported as going to small businesses in the requested locations:</p><p>OL1 - £2,706,290.86</p><p>OL2 - £18,611.30</p><p>OL3 - £54,984.10</p><p>OL4 - £66,325.40</p><p>OL8 - £83,737.93</p><p>OL9 - £566,399.25</p><p>M35 - £76,074.91</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 28726 question first answered 07/03/2016 13:04:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

443873

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government: Debt Collection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, paragraph 3.54, whether the Debt Market Integrator will take over the services currently contracted out to Concentrix; whether Concentrix is permitted to bid for the new contract; and what the timetable is for tendering.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	21762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>The Debt Market Integrator (DMI)will not be taking over the tax credit related services currently contracted out to Concentrix.Concentrix currently provides services through the &quot;Error &amp; Fraud Adding Capacity&quot; (EFAC) contract, which does not include debt collection services. There are no current plans to re-procure these services. Tax credit debt collection services will be provided through the DMI contract from July 2016. The DMI contract was awarded to TDX / Equifax in March 2015.</p><br /> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/01/2016 12:02:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

421463

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Foreign Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech in Singapore of 28 July 2015, when he plans to initiate the consultation into making property ownership by foreign companies more transparent; what format he plans for that consultation to take; who he plans to invite to participate in that consultation; and when he plans for it to be concluded.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	12011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>The consultation on making property ownership by foreign companies more transparent will be launched in the near future. The format and scope will be decided on shortly. The</p><p>consultation will allow stakeholders sufficient time to provide a considered response.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/10/2015 15:20:25 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

456248

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Graduates: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's comments on equality in the Guardian newspaper on 26 October 2015, how many graduate employers the Government approached to ask them to pledge to anonymise job applications; how many such requests were (a) accepted and (b) rejected; and which graduate employers (i) accepted and (ii) rejected those offers.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	29029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected or held centrally for this question as our approach is to role model best practice and encourage employers to adopt this practice.</p><p>A range of organisations from across the public and private sector, together responsible for employing 1.8 million people in the UK, have ​signed up to the pledge to operate recruitment on ‘name blind’ basis to address discrimination.</p><p>In October a number of organisations from across the public and private sector attended a roundtable at Downing Street ​to discuss this issue. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-time-to-end-discrimination-and-finish-the-fight-for-real-equality" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-time-to-end-discrimination-and-finish-the-fight-for-real-equality</a></p><p>The Civil Service has adopted this as their default position for all external recruitment, including for graduate​s.​Other graduate recruiters who have committed to or are already delivering name-blind applications for all graduate and apprenticeship level roles include ​KPMG, HSBC, Deloitte, Virgin Money, BBC, NHS, learn-direct​​, teach first and local government.​</p><p>We are continuing to encourage this practice across the public sector and beyond.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/03/2016 08:53:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 49000 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

390446

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Service: Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's article in the Huffington Post, published on 6 June 2015, what the source is for the Prime Minister's statement that the OECD has judged the UK to be one of only four countries globally which actively pursues bribery of foreign public officials.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	7514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The OECD collects data on enforcement from all 41 members of the convention on bribery of foreign public officials. Transparency International’s ‘Exporting Corruption’ report, last published in December 2014, ranked the UK as an ‘active enforcer’ against foreign bribery, together with Germany, the United States of America and Switzerland.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 20/07/2015 16:18:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

423388

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers: Codes of Practice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Ministerial Code updated in October 2015, what discussions he has had with the Cabinet Office on the removal from that code of reference to Ministers complying with international law, treaty obligations and upholding the administration of justice.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	13073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>Information relating to internal discussion and advice is not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/10/2015 12:01:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

349259

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the HM Treasury press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings his Department plans to make to achieve reductions of £17 million in its budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Manchester Central on 9 June 2015, to UIN: 1251.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/06/2015 11:26:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

432623

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Digital Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Departmental Settlement within the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what proportion of his Department's resource DEL is allocated to the Government Digital Service and related projects in each year to 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	17981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2016 answer text <p>The Spending Review settlement has shown Government's continued commitment to digital delivery of services to recast the relationship between the citizen and the state. £1.8 billion investment in digital technology was announced by the Government in the Spending Review, plus a £450m allocation for GDS.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/01/2016 16:37:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 33019 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh