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722419

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: West Bromwich East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in West Bromwich East constituency are employed on zero-hour contracts.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	71269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 27/04/2017 09:46:37 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 45689 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

720219

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are employed on zero-hours contracts in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	uin	70251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 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 Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/04/2017 14:23:16 question first ministerially corrected 25/04/2017 16:21:39 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ70251, 70252 v.02 (1).pdf title UKSA Response to PQ70521 and PQ70252 previous answer version 45930 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

720220

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged between 16 and 24-years old are employed on zero-hours contracts in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	uin	70252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 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 Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/04/2017 14:23:17 question first ministerially corrected 25/04/2017 16:20:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ70251, 70252 v.02 (1).pdf title UKSA Response to PQ70251 and PQ70252 previous answer version 45931 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

723227

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Self-employed: Married People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many couples there are in the UK where both partners are self-employed.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	71669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 27/04/2017 09:46:50 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 46572 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

715131

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Uber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings were held between civil servants, advisers or Ministers of 10 Downing Street and Uber between May 2010 and July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	69905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>Details of Ministers and Permanent Secretary meetings with external organisations, are published routinely on Gov.uk</p><p> </p><p>Information about meetings between other Civil Servants and external organisations is not centrally held and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">More broadly, I would note that the Government is aware of concerns regarding the increase in the size of the private hire market and the impact of new and innovative ways of working on traditional business models. The Government supports choice for consumers and wants to see both taxis and private hire vehicles prosper.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/04/2017 12:02:57 question first ministerially corrected 19/04/2017 09:01:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 43439 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

711810

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what 10 Downing Street's average response rate was to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month from July 2016 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p>FOI statistics are Official Statistics and are governed by the standards set out by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) in their Code of Practice. To publish information outside of the release timetable would be a breach of Protocol 2 of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">The latest Freedom of Information statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/03/2017 11:23:14 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2017 13:14:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 41317 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

712871

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Newspaper Press: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the budget the Government has for advertising in newspapers for each government department in the 2017-18 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	68736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold information regarding government departments’ budgets for newspaper advertising in the 2017/18 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental marketing communications teams, working with their media planning and buying agencies, take decisions about which kinds of media and specific channels will be used within their communications campaigns to best reach their target audiences, once their campaign strategies have been defined.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/04/2017 14:40:03 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 42261 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

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

712872

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Evening Standard
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government spent on advertising in the Evening Standard newspaper in the last financial year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	68738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>In the full 2015/16 financial year, government spending on advertising in the Evening Standard newspaper totalled £297,037 (spending on print advertising and digital advertising where it was bought directly). This equated to approximately 0.22% of all media buying for government advertising in that financial year.</p><p> </p><p>I am aware of the comments that the Hon. Member has made in the media on the appointment of the new editor of the <em>Evening Standard</em>. I would note that any spending on advertising is in line with the Government Communication Service’s Propriety Guidance. In addition, departmental Accounting Officers have a particular responsibility for the propriety of using public resources for advertising, as well as for the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of their use. The resources employed should be proportional to the objectives or policy of the programme involved and justifiable on value-for-money grounds. I believe this provides an appropriate system of checks to avoid any conflict of interest and ensure taxpayers’ money is properly spent.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/04/2017 14:33:42 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 42262 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

711351

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the Crown Dependencies to introduce public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	68007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government works closely with the Crown Dependences on tax and transparency issues. Our priority is the implementation of the new bilateral arrangements concluded with them in 2016, which are due to come into effect by June this year. Under these arrangements, the Crown Dependencies have committed to establish, where they have not already done so, central registers of beneficial ownership information, or similarly effective systems and to give UK law enforcement and tax authorities near real-time access to beneficial ownership information on corporate and legal entities incorporated in their jurisdictions. Nevertheless, it remains the Government’s ambition for public registers to become the global standard. If this happens, we would expect the Crown Dependencies to follow suit.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/03/2017 11:32:42 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 41247 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff