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1046958

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	House of Lords: Reform
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress the Government is making on reform of the House of Lords.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	211678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is continuing to work constructively with Peers, where there is consensus within the House of Lords, to enable them to achieve reforms that ensure the House continues to work effectively. The Prime Minister has committed to do her bit to reduce the size of the House by continuing the restrained approach she has taken so far to appointments. The Government welcomes the work of Lord Burns and his Committee and his second report which shows that good progress had been made on retirements.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 28/01/2019 12:49:34 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1046947

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Census: Sikhs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2018 to Question 202832 on Census: Sikhs, of the 53 participants who took part in the focus groups to consider the possible addition of new tick boxes, how many felt a specific Sikh ethnic tick-box was not acceptable.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/01/2019 16:16:22 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Combined PQ211865, 211866, 211867,211868_ (1).pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1046948

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Census: Sikhs
	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 number and proportion of Sikhs who did not tick the optional Sikh religious tick box in the 2011 census.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/01/2019 16:16:58 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Combined PQ211865, 211866, 211867,211868_ (1).pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1046950

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Sikhs
	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 number of Sikhs in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/01/2019 16:18:08 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Combined PQ211865, 211866, 211867,211868_ (1).pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1047040

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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, with reference to paragraph 3.89 of the White Paper entitled Help Shape Our Future: The 2021 Census of Population and Housing in England and Wales, which of the 55 proposed tick boxes received the most number of requests.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/01/2019 16:18:33 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Combined PQ211865, 211866, 211867,211868_ (1).pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1043737

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2018 to Question 197338 on Pubic Sector: Billing, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of using a business' ability to meet the core standard of paying 95 per cent of invoices within 60 days over the previous two six month periods to determine whether those businesses will be able to pay their sub-contractors within 30 days as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	210028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Following a public consultation in 2018, the standard of paying 95% of invoices within 60 days across both a supplier’s private and public sector business was deemed a suitable indicator of overall performance. There are a series of questions a supplier is expected to respond to about their payment practices and performance if they bid for a major Government contract from 1 September onwards.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 28/01/2019 13:37:48 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1043738

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2018 to Question 197334 on public sector: procurement, how many of those spot checks carried out by the Procurement Review Service were targeted at a contracting authority that had previously not complied with a part of public procurement regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	210029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>All spot checks to date have been carried out as a result of instances of non compliance identified by a supplier or potential supplier to central government or the wider public sector and subsequently investigated by the Public Procurement Review Service.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 28/01/2019 15:14:49 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1043739

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Procurement Review Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases have been raised with the Procurement Review Service broken down by (a) contracting authority and (b) contractor in each year since that service was established.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	210030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Public Procurement Review Service allows government suppliers and potential government suppliers to raise concerns anonymously about potentially poor public sector procurement practice. It would be inappropriate for us to publically name contractors/suppliers that have raised the concern.</p><p> </p><p>All case results (including the contracting authority in scope) are published on Gov.UK at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mystery-shopper-results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mystery-shopper-results</a></p><p> </p><p>No contracting authority has submitted a case for review to the service, all cases are from government suppliers, potential government suppliers and third parties.</p><p> </p><p>The number of cases received by the Public Procurement Review Services per financial year is as follows:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Cases Received</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19 (Year to Date)</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 28/01/2019 13:39:04 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1045621

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Leukaemia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have a diagnosis of myeloid leukaemia.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	210606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/01/2019 09:43:48 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ210606 (1).pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1045955

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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, how many civil servants by (a) government department, (b) executive agency and (c) non-departmental public body are located (i) in London and (ii) outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	211104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>In March 2018, 83,530 Civil Servants were reported as employed in London and 343,680 in locations outside London on a headcount basis.</p><p> </p><p>Civil Service employment by Government department and region is available in Table 12 ‘Civil Service employment; regional distribution by government department’ as part of the annual National Statistics publication, Civil Service Statistics at the following link: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>A table presenting the number of civil servants employed by government department, executive agency and Crown Non Departmental Public Body located in London and outside London has been placed in the library.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the regional employment of Non-Departmental Government Bodies is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 28/01/2019 13:40:39 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead