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177167

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Tony Blair
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Tony Blair has carried out any work for the Government since he left office.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	222868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Mr Blair has not carried out any work for the Government since leaving office.</p><p> </p><p>Mr Blair has a role as The Quartet Representative. The Quartet in an international body that has a mandate to help mediate Middle East peace negotiations. It consists of representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia. Mr Blair is not paid for this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 10/02/2015 13:50:29 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

229459

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Efficiency and Reform Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to achieve savings through the work of his Efficiency and Reform Group.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	908318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>In 2013/14, we delivered audited savings of £14.3bn against a 2009-10 baseline and, at Autumn Statement, we set out our ambition to go further with an additional £10bn for 2017/18, and £15-20bn for 2019/20.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 25/03/2015 16:18:56 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

179521

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides to its managers on how many days training should be made available to staff.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>We want to ensure that the Civil Service is ready to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.</p><p>Through our programme of Civil Service Reform the Government is working to address long-standing weaknesses in four key skills areas: commercial, programme and project delivery, digital delivery, and leading and managing change across the Civil Service.</p><p>Civil Servants are encouraged to take at least five days learning a year but the key point is to ensure that civil servants have the particular skills they need to do their jobs well. The Functional Heads, most of whom report to the Chief Executive of the Civil Service, will set the learning curricula for their functions.</p><p>Most learning is now provided by Civil Service Learning.</p><p>Complete central records are not held on the number of days training, training budgets or training expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 224469 224488 224507 question first answered 26/02/2015 14:29:49 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179522

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average number of days training of full-time equivalent staff employed in his Department was in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>We want to ensure that the Civil Service is ready to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.</p><p>Through our programme of Civil Service Reform the Government is working to address long-standing weaknesses in four key skills areas: commercial, programme and project delivery, digital delivery, and leading and managing change across the Civil Service.</p><p>Civil Servants are encouraged to take at least five days learning a year but the key point is to ensure that civil servants have the particular skills they need to do their jobs well. The Functional Heads, most of whom report to the Chief Executive of the Civil Service, will set the learning curricula for their functions.</p><p>Most learning is now provided by Civil Service Learning.</p><p>Complete central records are not held on the number of days training, training budgets or training expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 224420 224488 224507 question first answered 26/02/2015 14:29:49 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179523

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's training budget was in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>We want to ensure that the Civil Service is ready to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.</p><p>Through our programme of Civil Service Reform the Government is working to address long-standing weaknesses in four key skills areas: commercial, programme and project delivery, digital delivery, and leading and managing change across the Civil Service.</p><p>Civil Servants are encouraged to take at least five days learning a year but the key point is to ensure that civil servants have the particular skills they need to do their jobs well. The Functional Heads, most of whom report to the Chief Executive of the Civil Service, will set the learning curricula for their functions.</p><p>Most learning is now provided by Civil Service Learning.</p><p>Complete central records are not held on the number of days training, training budgets or training expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 224420 224469 224507 question first answered 26/02/2015 14:29:49 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179524

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on training in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>We want to ensure that the Civil Service is ready to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.</p><p>Through our programme of Civil Service Reform the Government is working to address long-standing weaknesses in four key skills areas: commercial, programme and project delivery, digital delivery, and leading and managing change across the Civil Service.</p><p>Civil Servants are encouraged to take at least five days learning a year but the key point is to ensure that civil servants have the particular skills they need to do their jobs well. The Functional Heads, most of whom report to the Chief Executive of the Civil Service, will set the learning curricula for their functions.</p><p>Most learning is now provided by Civil Service Learning.</p><p>Complete central records are not held on the number of days training, training budgets or training expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 224420 224469 224488 question first answered 26/02/2015 14:29:49 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

222878

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Accountancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government plans to publish results of its trial of open book accounting; and what plans the Government has to mandate open book accounting for contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>We will announce in due course guidance on the proportionate use of open book techniques, including conclusions from our internal study on open book accounting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 26/02/2015 14:23:41 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

222879

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the extent to which departments take account of past performance when re-tendering or contracting for new services.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government Procurement Policy Note 09/12 ‘Taking Account of Bidders’ Past Performance’, issued in November 2012, applies to all departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 26/02/2015 14:22:41 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

225623

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the executive summary of the Government's Digital Inclusion Strategy, published in April 2014, what his latest estimate is of the proportion of the adult population who will never gain basic digital capabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	226582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Latest estimates are that 10% of the adult population will never gain basic digital capabilities. We will update this figure as new data becomes available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 12/03/2015 17:15:04 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

226422

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many of the Government Digital Service's 25 exemplar services are now live; and how many of those services he expects to be live by the end of March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	227063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Information about the transformation of these government services can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/transformation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/transformation</a> where it is regularly updated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 16/03/2015 16:05:14 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah