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603990

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay
	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 23 May 2016 to Question 37393, how many civil servants have had their exit payments capped at £95,000 prior to 1 October 2016; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	48873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government legislated to end six figure exit payments in the public sector through the Enterprise Act and will lay secondary legislation to bring a £95,000 cap into force.</ins></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2016 16:10:50 question first ministerially corrected 21/10/2016 11:31:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 15558 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

731298

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Lobbying: Fines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many organisations have been fined for failing to comply with regulations on third party campaigning set out in the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	77
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">One organisation has been fined for failing to comply with regulations on third party campaigning set out in the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014. The Electoral Commission announced on 19 April 2017 that it had imposed a civil monetary penalty on Greenpeace Ltd, as the organisation did not register with the Electoral Commission at the 2015 General Election. Greenpeace Ltd was fined a total of £30,000.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The rules on third party campaigning at elections are set out in the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000. These rules were amended by the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Since the amendments made by the 2014 Act came into force, three organisations have been fined by the Electoral Commission. On 19 April 2016, the Electoral Commission announced that it had fined Steve Hart from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies £1100 for failing to deliver two donations reports on time. On 19 April 2017, the Commission announced that it had fined Greenpeace Limited a total of £30,000 and Friends of the Earth Limited £1000. Both organisations did not register with the Electoral Commission at the 2015 UK Parliamentary General Election before spending in excess of the registration threshold.</ins></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 27/06/2017 14:55:37 question first ministerially corrected 03/08/2017 11:02:42 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 304 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

810525

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the title was of each set of regulations introduced by his Department in each month since May 2010; which of those regulations have been (a) subject to the (i) one in one out and (ii) one in two out procedure and (b) (i) revoked and (ii) amended; and what the net cost to (A) the public purse; and (B) business of those regulations is.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p><em>The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 Parliament are recorded in Statements of New Regulation that were published every six months. These are available on </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>For the 2015-17 Parliament, the Government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that Parliament. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>For the current Parliament, the Government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the target that the Government is required to set under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.</em></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 120901 question first answered 08/01/2018 13:17:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

810556

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what processes his Department has put in place to (a) monitor, (b) collate cost information on, (c) review and (d) respond to requests to amend or revoke regulations introduced by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p><em>The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 Parliament are recorded in Statements of New Regulation that were published every six months. These are available on </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>For the 2015-17 Parliament, the Government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that Parliament. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>For the current Parliament, the Government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the target that the Government is required to set under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.</em></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 120870 question first answered 08/01/2018 13:17:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

788382

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Absent Voting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit the handling of postal ballots by campaigners for political parties.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	112480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The review by Sir Eric Pickles into electoral fraud considered postal voting and identified a number of areas in which the existing rules around postal voting at elections could be tightened.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Following this, the Government will look for opportunities to introduce measures that will prohibit party campaigners from handling postal votes, and apply a limit to the number of postal ballots that any one individual can hand in at a polling station. Our intention would be for the provisions to be backed up by a new offence, and will make a significant contribution to enhancing the security of postal voting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 16/11/2017 16:05:44 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

752887

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Delyn
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of constituents in Delyn constituency worked in the public sector in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	5494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p><strong></strong>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/07/2017 09:45:40 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ5494 v.02.pdf title UKSA Response to PQ5494
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

797676

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	General Election 2017
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to undertake a comprehensive investigation of intimidation of candidates and canvassers during the 2017 General Election.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	116639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p><strong>At the request of the Prime Minister, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) is currently carrying out a review of the intimidation of Parliamentary candidates, including those who stood at the 2017 General Election. The Committee will be publishing its report ‘Intimidation in Public Life: A Review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life’ on Wednesday 13 December. The Government will consider the report and its recommendations carefully.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:30:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

788386

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Elections: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance he has issued to the Elections Claims Unit on the publication of communications or queries relating to expenses for previous polls during subsequent polls.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	112484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p><strong>Cabinet Office officials advised the Association of Electoral Administrators that correspondence relating to expenses claims for previous polls would continue to be sent out by the Elections Claims Unit (ECU) during the period running up to the general election, in June 2017, on the basis that an immediate response would not be required and a longer deadline than normal would be set. This was to allow the ECU to continue their work on the scrutiny and settlement process for claims relating to the 2016 Police and Crime Commissioner election and the 2016 EU Referendum. </strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 16/11/2017 16:11:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759615

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ballots
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will conduct a review of the combination of polls which includes an assessment of (a) which polls should be automatically combined, (b) the maximum number of polls that should be combined on the same day and (c) the potential merits of combining polls for parish and community councils and neighbouring planning and council tax referendums with UK Parliamentary general elections.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	10264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p><strong>Combining polls can bring benefits in terms of enhancing voter participation and reducing cost. However, it is recognised that changing the rules surrounding the combination of polls would be a complex exercise involving amendments to primary legislation. We will continue to consider this matter with stakeholders to see where improvements can be made.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:53:34 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

786217

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	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, whether Government Ministers are routinely accompanied by Government officials when they meet foreign government ministers and officials.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	112055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p><strong>It is longstanding and established practice that Ministers are accompanied by officials when meeting foreign Government Ministers and officials.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 30/11/2017 11:19:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 21832 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin