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35088

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/02/2014
	date	24/01/2014
	date tabled	24/01/2014
	ddp created	24/01/2014 20:54:36
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 17:47:50
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	2
	identifier	HL4953
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/03/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, of the £108 million allocated in the 2010 Spending Review to cover the costs of introducing individual electoral registration, how much was spent in (1) 2010–11, (2) 2011–12, and (3) 2012–13; and how much is planned to be spent in (1) 2013–14, and (2) 2014–15.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member printed	Lord Wills
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 HL4953
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4953
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>The spend to date and budgeted amounts are in the table below. The budget for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) was set in 2010, based on robust cost projections and included optimism bias in line with best practice. Careful management of budgets, combined with an agile approach to the development of the IT supporting the move to IER has helped to ensure that, to date, the programme has come in under budget. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The budget for IER has supported three rounds of pilots since 2011 and a complete national test of the IT that will support the automatic confirmation of at least 78% of current electors. It has enabled the allocation of resources to Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and partner organisations (&pound;4.2m in the current financial year) to improve the completeness and accuracy of the Electoral Register. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Actual:</p><p>&pound;2,369,719</p></td><td><p>Actual:</p><p>&pound;5,074,446</p></td><td><p>Budget:</p><p>&pound;26,148,664</p></td><td><p>Budget:</p><p>&pound;65,478,868</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For financial year 2015/16, &pound;148 million has been set aside for the costs of Individual Electoral Registration, the General Election and the 2015/16 Boundary Commission; specific budgets for each of these areas are yet to be allocated.</p><p> </p> question first answered 10/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1816
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	tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

9

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:39:46
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 20:14:40
	answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	58
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	154454
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the outcome of his Department's matching of the electoral register with Department for Work and Pensions data in communities with (a) seaside towns and (b) towns with high student populations; and what effect this work will have on the size of electorates in these constituencies.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 154454
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154454
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>As part of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER), entries on the electoral register will be matched against data held by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for the purposes of confirming existing electors, a process which will simplify the transition for the majority of existing electors. Last year the Cabinet Office undertook pilots to test this process and we published our evaluation of these pilots earlier this year which is available to download from:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-the-transition-to-individual-electoral-registration</p><p> </p><p>The evaluation report includes an analysis of match rates by population groups and while no specific analysis was undertaken of seaside towns, the results did suggest that match rates were lower in areas with high student populations. However, anyone who cannot be confirmed will still be invited to register individually and will retain their ability to vote in the 2015 general election. By using confirmation to simplify the process for the majority of electors it means resources can be focused on maximising registration among those people who cannot be confirmed, including individuals who are not currently registered. We are also currently running a separate set of pilots exploring whether data matching against DWP and other trusted national data sets can be used to find potential electors who are not currently registered but may be eligible to do so, in order to invite them to register. The results of the pilots, which are specifically targeted at boosting registrations among students, attainers and home-movers, will be published in the summer.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1609
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	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

10021

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 13:03:48
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:47:35
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	154017
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential risk of losses to the public purse arising from applying the current accounting officer conventions in the period leading up to the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Gregg McClymont
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 154017
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154017
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1535
	creator	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont

10022

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 13:03:48
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:47:36
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	154018
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with officials in his Department on how the accounting officers' conventions would apply to investment in Scotland in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Gregg McClymont
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 154018
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154018
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1535
	creator	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont

5107

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:55:42
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:00:39
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	153939
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the rate of underemployment in each UK parliamentary constituency in Scotland in each of the last five years.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 153939
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153939
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561
	creator	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

5108

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:55:42
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:00:40
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	153940
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the total loss to the economy as a result of underemployment in Scotland.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 153940
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153940
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>This is not a matter for Cabinet Office Ministers.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1609
	creator	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

5741

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:56:42
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:07:25
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	153902
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how his Department scrutinises the Fundraising Standards Board; when a review was last conducted; and what the outcome was of this review.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
	tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 153902
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153902
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Lord Hodgson assessed the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) as part of his review of the Charities Act 2006 and concluded in his report &lsquo;Trusted and Independent: Giving charity back to charities&rsquo; that it had broadly met 10 of the 12 success criteria set out when it was established in 2006. The FRSB and Cabinet Office are members of the Steering Committee established in response to Lord Hodgson's recommendations to drive forward further progress in strengthening self-regulation.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561
	creator	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

7952

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 13:00:31
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:28:24
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	154029
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed on zero-hours contracts in each government office region.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 154029
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154029
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561
	creator	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

11895

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 13:06:23
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 22:05:38
	answering body	Department for Education
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	153906
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	26/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to consult on eligibility for free school meals ahead of the introduction of universal credit.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 153906
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153906
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are working very closely with other departments, including the Cabinet Office and the Department for Work and Pensions, to simplify free school meals criteria under universal credit, while ensuring that free lunches continue to be available to the families who need them most. These discussions, which include consideration of a phased implementation timetable, are in recognition of the significant number and complexity of passported benefits across Government, most of which have different eligibility criteria.</p><p>We will allow good time to enable schools, local authorities and children's charities to comment on our proposals before we introduce new entitlement criteria for free school meals under universal credit.</p><p> </p> question first answered 26/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473
	creator	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

19992

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/11/2013
	date	11/11/2013
	date tabled	11/11/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 13:41:57
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 23:33:43
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	175475
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	07/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many overseas trips, and at what total cost, his Department has made in each year since 2010; and what the costs of (a) flights, (b) internal travel, (c) hotel accommodation and (d) subsistence were of each trip.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Chris Leslie
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 175475
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	175475
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p><em>Role of the Department</em></p><p>Reflecting our responsibilities for local government, housing, planning and communities across England, the work of the Department involves staff travelling to different parts of the country.</p><p>Improved procurement has reduced our average domestic hotel rate in the UK by 8% between 2009-10 and 2012-13. Moreover, domestic flights for longer journeys can avoid the need for paying for staff to stay in a hotel overnight.</p><p>Since 2011-12, the Department accepted responsibility for some new functions outside of London, including residual functions following the closure of the Government Offices for the Regions and then oversight of the European Regional Development Fund following the abolition of the Regional Development Agencies. As these business functions relate to work in areas outside of London and to the European Commission, this has therefore increased our travel spend compared to the base of 2010-11. However, this is far more than offset by the very significant savings to taxpayers of the abolition of these regional bodies.</p><p>Based on current estimates (which reflect accounting consequences from machinery of government changes) the DCLG Group is reducing its annual running costs by around 40% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15. This equates to net savings of at least £532 million over this spending review period and includes savings of around £420 million from the closure of the Government Offices for the Regions.</p><p>In addition to this, I note that the Regional Development Agencies were spending in the region of £246 million a year on administration (as cited in 11 March 2009, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 592W).</p><p><em>Spending data</em></p><p>The tables below list spending on travel by financial year. Figures for 2009-10 are from July 2009, as this is when the department's current approved travel agent contract commenced; those figures are therefore only for three-quarters of the financial year, and the full year is likely to be proportionately higher.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>Overseas Travel</em></p></td><td><p><em>Overseas Accommodation</em></p></td><td><p><em>Overseas Subsistence</em></p></td><td><p><em>Total</em></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>July 2009 - March 10</p></td><td><p>£408,621</p></td><td><p>£19,847</p></td><td><p>£79,574</p></td><td><p>£508,042 (part-year)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£56,304</p></td><td><p>£21,759</p></td><td><p>£27,798</p></td><td><p>£105,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£69,463</p></td><td><p>£21,204</p></td><td><p>£19,946</p></td><td><p>£110,613</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£78,474</p></td><td><p>£29,224</p></td><td><p>£21,911</p></td><td><p>£129,609</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>UK Travel</em></p></td><td><p><em>UK Accommodation</em></p></td><td><p><em>UK Subsistence</em></p></td><td><p><em>Total</em></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>July 2009 - March 10</p></td><td><p>£621,028</p></td><td><p>£309,260</p></td><td><p>£174,888</p></td><td><p>£1,105,176 (part-year)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£434,467</p></td><td><p>£199,563</p></td><td><p>£81,315</p></td><td><p>£715,345</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£980,307</p></td><td><p>£162,544</p></td><td><p>£71,913</p></td><td><p>£1,214,764</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£1,030,710</p></td><td><p>£166,149</p></td><td><p>£74,424</p></td><td><p>£1,271,283</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Explanatory notes:</p><p>- Overseas subsistence costs can include accommodation, meals and travel tickets purchased locally.</p><p>- The costs of internal travel abroad are not routinely recorded in the form requested and this information could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>- Data on cost per trip is not centrally held in the form requested.</p><p>- For car hire, the data from our finance systems do not separate out expenditure for domestic and international car hire and this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>- For helicopter hire, our records show that the Department has incurred no expenditure on this since 2010-11.</p><p>- Figures contained in this answer may differ from previous answers to Parliamentary Questions, as the data extracts have been re-run and reflect ongoing accruals and data. Delays in billing or crediting transactions can sometimes have an effect on the spend data between the financial years.</p><p>Taken in the whole, we have reduced overall travel spending compared to the last Administration, and delivered substantive savings for taxpayers' from the abolition of regional government in England.</p><p> </p> question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4009
	creator	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie