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1129278

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of staff working at 10 Downing Street who attended a state school.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	259283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this<br>answer</p><p>Information about schools attended by staff in my Department is not held centrally and<br>could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 11/06/2019 14:33:54 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1129709

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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, what steps he is taking across all Government departments to ensure social value is delivered in public procurement.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	259992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>We are extending the application of the Social Value Act in central government to ensure all<br>major procurements explicitly evaluate social value where appropriate, rather than just<br>‘consider’. This will ensure central government contracts take account of areas as diverse as<br>the employment of disabled people, the use of social enterprises, the prevention of modern<br>slavery and the protection of the environment</p><p>We are developing a simple, systematic approach to bring departments up to a consistent,<br>minimum level of operating, and ensuring additional reporting does not add complexity or<br>cost to the procurement process, restrict markets or exclude small businesses from<br>government contracts</p><p>Government is committed to train all 4,000 commercial buyers on how to take account of<br>social value and procure successfully from social enterprises - training for government<br>commercial staff will help unlock more opportunities for voluntary, community and social<br>enterprise organisations. We will also require all departments to report on the social impact<br>of major new procurements.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 11/06/2019 14:38:07 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1130470

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Sanitary Products
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any Government departments (a) offer free sanitary products in the workplace and (b) have plans to introduce such provision.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	261295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 11/06/2019 14:35:10 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1130517

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what additional support is provided to disabled applicants for civil service roles.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	261219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Civil Service is committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer by 2020, and needs to recruit and retain diverse talent from all backgrounds; including people with a disability</p><p><br>All main government departments have achieved Disability Confident Leaders (level 3) status, the highest level on the Government’s new Disability Confident Scheme. The scheme provides employers with the tools to recruit, retain and develop disabled people, and acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement. <br> <br>Departments have been introducing and piloting inclusive recruitment methods such as Diverse Panels, video attraction and strength-based selection. The Civil Service Disability Inclusion Programme works closely with the Government Recruitment Service to ensure that recruitment processes are fully accessible and inclusive to disabled people who are seeking to join the Civil Service.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 11/06/2019 14:36:46 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1124136

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Employment: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has plans to introduce further auditing and fines for employers who cannot prove their gender equality practices.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	249918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Organisations with 250 or more employees are now required to publish specific gender pay gap data on an annual basis. We believe that this transparency is motivating employers to take action, but these regulations are new and we will be monitoring them closely.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to urge employers to go beyond the reporting requirements by publishing an action plan, setting out the steps they are taking to improve gender equality, just under half of employers did this in the first year. I intend to write to all public sector employers urging them to develop a plan, and will meet influential business leaders to press them to take action in their sectors.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/06/2019 14:56:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125354

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, for what reasons the UK has not accepted the obligation under Article 4.3 of the European Social Charter to recognise the right of men and women workers to equal pay for work of equal value.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	251971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government supports the work of the Council of Europe and continues to support the European Social Charter (1961). Since the European Social Charter came into force in the UK we have introduced a number of policy and legislative reforms that provide equivalent or greater protections for individuals in the field of equal pay.</p><p> </p><p>We have also ratified a number of international conventions which provide equivalent protections and which the UK has implemented via national legislation.</p><p> </p><p>We are fully committed to the Equal Pay protections in the Equality Act 2010. In 2014, we introduced equal pay audits for when employers are found to have breached equal pay law and in 2017 we introduced gender pay gap reporting.</p><p> </p><p>Our equal pay legislation complies with EU requirements, which are reflected in Article 4.3 of the European Social Charter. We are committed to ensure that the robust protections provided by Equality Acts 2006 and 2010 and equivalent legislation in Northern Ireland continue to apply after the UK leaves the EU, as will Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which will become part of EU-retained law.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/06/2019 14:59:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1127763

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Disability: Access
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to improve enforcement of requirements of the Equality Act 2010 on access to facilities for disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Camborne and Redruth
	tabling member printed	George Eustice
	uin	256978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 contains strong, enforceable protections for disabled people who experience discrimination, including a failure by employers or service providers to make reasonable adjustments to enable disabled people to access work and services like everybody else.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 the Government committed to the commencement of section 36 of the Equality Act, which will enable disabled tenants to require that landlords and building owners to make reasonable adjustments to the common parts of dwellings, such as entry points, landings and stairs. Work to determine the cost of implementation is proceeding and an announcement will be made in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which enforces the Equality Act, recently delivered a Legal Support Project to increase access to justice for people experiencing disability discrimination. It offered groups £189,000 for legal assistance across 94 cases in areas including employment.</p><p> </p><p>The EHRC has increased its capacity to advise on discrimination cases in its new strategic plan, and has supported several court cases which resulted in strengthened rights for disabled people, including those wishing to make reasonable adjustments to their homes and disabled children who may demonstrate a tendency to physical abuse as a result of their disability, whose schools must now make reasonable adjustments in such cases.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/06/2019 14:58:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3934 label Biography information for George Eustice

1128844

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments for industrial injuries disablement benefit have been granted in the UK by (a) region, (b) Department for Work and Pensions division and (c) local authority area in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	258998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes quarterly statistics on claims paid and assessments made under the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) scheme here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics on claims paid under the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit scheme are to September 2018. Table 2.2 of this publication provide the number of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit in payment by region.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for anything below regional level, including DWP divisions and local authority areas, is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/06/2019 14:59:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1128949

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have appealed successfully at Tribunal to receive employment support allowance (ESA) but have been unable to remain in receipt of ESA because they have been moved to the universal credit system in the interim.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	259310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/06/2019 15:05:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1129307

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to rectify any potentially misleading messages on universal credit published in the Metro newspaper in May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	259428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>We are the biggest Government Department with a day to day operation on which around 22 million citizens depend. We have a responsibility to advertise Universal Credit and have been doing so for some time. This helps ensure people understand the benefits they may be entitled to and that they have the information they need when it comes to making a claim.</p><p>The Department has a responsibility to ensure claimants do not miss out on their full entitlements and to encourage people to make their claim as quickly as possible.</p><p>To identify complaint cases concerning the Universal Credit campaign in the Metro newspaper would require every complaint case to be examined. So, this data could only be collated at a disproportionate cost to the Department.</p><p>In November 2018 Ministers agreed to the principle of national media partnership. The specific Metro campaign was taken forward by Departmental officials. Ministers agreed the content of the launch products.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 259429 question first answered 11/06/2019 14:26:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel