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	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	19/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:43:19
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:55:54 04/12/2018 13:43:03
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	identifier	HL11241
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/12/2018 13:10:58
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what is the estimated cost to the House of (1) restoration, (2) repair, and (3) fire protection work underway in (a) the Palace of Westminster, (b) Fielden House, and (c) Millbank House.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL11241
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL11241
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>‘Restoration’ has been taken to include work currently underway on the Estate to restore or conserve areas of the historic building fabric, including but not limited to the restoration work in Westminster Hall and the Encaustic Tile project. It does not include the estimated costs of the Restoration and Renewal Programme. ‘Repair’ includes project works underway on the estate but does not include general day to day maintenance. Fire protection work costs are based on the Fire Life Safety Works Programme.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Palace of Westminster</p></td><td><p>Millbank House</p></td><td><p>Fielden House</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Restoration</p></td><td><p>External Courtyards Conservation work (Phase 1) current approved cost: £20.2m; Westminster Hall current approved cost: £12.1m (subject to review); Elizabeth Tower current approved cost: £61.1m (subject to review); Cast Iron Roofs current approved cost: £84.4m; Encaustic Tiles current approved cost: £14.3m.</p></td><td><p>There is no restoration work currently underway.</p></td><td><p>There is no restoration work currently underway.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Repair</p></td><td><p>Works to the Palace in 2017/18 totalled £2m; works in 2018/19 are forecast to cost £2.8m.</p></td><td><p>Works to 5 Great College Street and its integration into Millbank House total £42.9m.</p></td><td><p>Planning is underway for the refurbishment of Fielden House. Surveying work is expected to commence in December 2018. The surveying working is required to finalise the business case. Until it is finalised it is not possible to provide an estimate.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fire Protection</p></td><td><p>The approved business cases forecast expenditure of £90m for fire safety work underway in the Palace of Westminster. The forecast expenditure of a project within the Fire Safety programme is currently being revised.</p></td><td><p>The cost of fire protection in the Great College Street area of Millbank House has been integrated into the project itself and therefore is included in the repair figure above. The cost of Fire Protection in 1&amp;2 Millbank is currently forecast at £1.6m excluding risk and optimism bias (OB) and £2.1m including risk and OB.</p></td><td><p>The cost of making Fielden House Fire Life Safety compliant will form part of the refurbishment project. Therefore, it is not possible currently to confirm how much it will cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> question first answered 04/12/2018 13:10:58 answering member 4148
	creator	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

895255

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	08/05/2018
	date	01/05/2018
	date tabled	01/05/2018
	ddp created	01/05/2018 20:01:17
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	14/05/2019 16:45:08 15/05/2019 18:07:02
	hansard heading	Fuels: Tax Evasion
	house id	1
	identifier	139991
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/05/2019 17:35:36
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 136367 on Fuels: Tax Evasion, whether any legal action followed those arrests.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 139991
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	139991
	version	3
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Of the three arrests made between 01 January 2017 and 31 March 2018 for fuel fraud, two were reported to the Public Prosecution Service in December 2018 while one remains under investigation pending report.</p> question first answered 15/05/2019 17:35:36 answering member 15
	creator	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

942622

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/07/2018
	date	16/07/2018
	date tabled	16/07/2018
	ddp created	16/07/2018 23:22:49
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	14/05/2019 16:45:10 15/05/2019 18:05:04
	hansard heading	Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves
	house id	1
	identifier	164422
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/05/2019 17:33:50
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gold reserves of the Bank of England were on 30 June (a) 1998, (b) 2008 and (c) 2018.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 164422
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	164422
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Bank of England does not own any gold reserves of its own, except for two bars held for display at the Bank of England Museum. However, the Bank provides safe custody for the UK's gold reserves and for other customers. It has only started recently publishing the weight of all the gold in its custody on its website, which includes data back to 2011. On 30 June 2018, it held 166,516,000 fine troy ounces of gold. There is no equivalent data available for 1998 and 2008.</p> question first answered 15/05/2019 17:33:50 answering member 15
	creator	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

964005

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/09/2018
	date	24/07/2018
	date tabled	24/07/2018
	ddp created	03/09/2018 17:16:43
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	04/09/2018 14:55:04 07/01/2019 17:49:01
	hansard heading	UK Relations with EU
	house id	1
	identifier	169344
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	07/01/2019 17:17:35
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions officials in his Department's Europe Unit had with representatives of EU member states and EU institutions prior to 12 July 2018 on the content of the White Paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 169344
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	169344
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In the run up to the publication of the White Paper, there was regular engagement with our EU counterparts, but no copies were shared with other Member States.</p><p> </p><p>Work to support this required a cross-government effort, including close collaboration the Cabinet Office Europe Unit, the Department for Exiting the European Union and other Government departments.</p><p> </p> question first answered 07/01/2019 17:17:35 answering member 15
	creator	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

964398

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/09/2018
	date	03/09/2018
	date tabled	03/09/2018
	ddp created	03/09/2018 17:31:11
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	03/09/2018 18:05:09 10/01/2019 13:09:01
	hansard heading	Lutfur Rahman
	house id	1
	identifier	169062
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/01/2019 12:38:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government Minister authorised the press statement issued by the Cabinet Office Press Department on 15 July 2018 on the legal costs associated with the Tower Hamlets Election Court case against Lutfur Rahman.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 169062
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	169062
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In order to satisfy the high volume and varied nature of media queries in a prompt manner, not all responses issued by departmental spokespeople to journalists are required to be individually approved by ministers. Information is routinely provided by government media officers to help journalists understand the policies and the background of the department’s policy</p> question first answered 10/01/2019 12:38:00 answering member 1609
	creator	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

964500

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	06/09/2018
	date	03/09/2018
	date tabled	03/09/2018
	ddp created	03/09/2018 17:34:55
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	03/09/2018 18:08:33 30/01/2019 14:54:02
	hansard heading	Government: Databases
	house id	1
	identifier	169861
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	30/01/2019 14:22:03
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures are in place to reduce the possession of duplicated citizens data across Government.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 169861
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	169861
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The government is committed to reducing the unnecessary duplication of data across the public sector. The General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act came into effect in the UK in 2018 and enshrines key principles of purpose limitation and data minimisation in the processing of personal data. The government will publish in due course a National Data Strategy which will set out specific measures to improve government's approach to the handling and use of data.</p> question first answered 30/01/2019 14:22:03 answering member 4441
	creator	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

971610

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/09/2018
	date	06/09/2018
	date tabled	06/09/2018
	ddp created	11/09/2018 20:01:21
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	12/09/2018 18:05:11 18/02/2019 11:16:02
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	identifier	173517
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	18/02/2019 10:43:26
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he publish the terms of reference of Operation Yellowhammer.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 173517
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	173517
	version	3
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Operation Yellowhammer is the randomly selected programme name for some elements of the contingency planning being undertaken by departments to mitigate the potential impacts of leaving the EU without a deal.</p><p>The Civil Contingencies Secretariat is coordinating Operation Yellowhammer contingency planning across government. Officials are working with the Devolved Administrations, Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and Local Resilience Forums. Departments are also leading engagement with key industry partners.</p> question first answered 18/02/2019 10:43:26 answering member 15
	creator	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

999303

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2018
	date	31/10/2018
	date tabled	31/10/2018
	ddp created	31/10/2018 21:52:05
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	ddp modified	31/10/2018 22:11:38 28/11/2018 10:17:01
	hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Brexit
	house id	1
	identifier	186198
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	28/11/2018 09:45:39
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 186198
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	186198
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>DCMS spend on consultancy fees for work relating to EU Exit totals £1.2m since July 2016. The suppliers of this work are PricewaterhouseCoopers and ICF Consultancy, as well as individual contractors.</p><p> </p> question first answered 28/11/2018 09:45:39 answering member 4115
	creator	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1001957

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/11/2018
	date	05/11/2018
	date tabled	05/11/2018
	ddp created	05/11/2018 22:17:42
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	05/11/2018 22:36:57 30/11/2018 14:52:02
	hansard heading	Veterinary Medicine
	house id	1
	identifier	188244
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	30/11/2018 14:20:43
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of vets required in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 188244
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	188244
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Defra officials continually study statistics about the veterinary profession. The sources are publicly available through the website of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).</p><p> </p><p>The number of vets who may be required after the UK leaves the EU varies according to the range of scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>We anticipate some extra demand would be created in the unlikely event that the UK does not reach a deal with the EU relating to the certification of animals and animal products for export to the EU. RCVS has announced its agreement to a proposal from Defra for the creation of a new type of a supporting officer role in aid of the export certification work. This would potentially reduce the additional demands on vets.</p><p> </p><p>Defra continues to work with other Government Departments and veterinary stakeholders on further initiatives to ensure sufficient veterinary capacity.</p> question first answered 30/11/2018 14:20:43 answering member 4033
	creator	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1000294

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	06/11/2018
	date	02/11/2018
	date tabled	02/11/2018
	ddp created	02/11/2018 15:18:47
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	02/11/2018 15:27:58 06/02/2019 15:48:01
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	identifier	187312
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	06/02/2019 15:16:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure access by non-UK non-seasonal workers to the agri-food sector after UK leaves the EU.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 187312
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187312
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the response that I gave to a question from the Honourable Member for Darlington on 22 October (180695).</p> question first answered 06/02/2019 15:16:03 answering member 4048
	creator	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil