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42679

registered interest
date	06/03/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on the proper use of national statistics.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	902991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2014 answer text <p>Responsibility for monitoring the quality of official statistics lies with the independent UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>Cabinet Office Ministers have Parliamentary responsibility for the Authority and have met with the Chair and the National Statistician to discuss statistical matters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 12/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

172745

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Welsh Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what consideration he has given to adopting a Welsh language policy for his Department.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	220150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office manages the <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website, through which UK citizens can access government information and digital services. We are working closely with the Wales Office to ensure that the Welsh language content on GOV.UK is underpinned by high quality user research that provides a simpler, clearer and faster service for users.</p><p>GOV.UK links to all Welsh-language government transactions (via <a href="https://www.gov.uk/cymraeg" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/cymraeg</a>), and has Welsh-language content for a number of commonly-used services, such as information on car tax and bank holidays. The site also gives government departments the ability to publish Welsh-language content in line with the requirements of their individual Welsh Language Schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 12/01/2015 13:33:17 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

446734

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues on conducting public consultations during the summer recess.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	23597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Cabinet Office publishes Consultation Principles, which it expects all government departments to follow. They were most recently updated on 14 January in response to feedback from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee.</p><p>Principle G includes the line:</p><p>‘When the consultation spans all or part of a holiday period, consider how this may affect consultation and take appropriate mitigating action, such as prior discussion with key interested parties or extension of the consultation deadline beyond the holiday period’.</p><p>The Principles also make clear that formal consultation should only form part of the engagement process and that departments should make use of new digital tools and consider whether an iterative approach is appropriate.</p><p>The Principles can be found online on gov.uk and a copy can be found in the House of Commons Library.</p> answering member constituency West Dorset answering member printed Mr Oliver Letwin question first answered 28/01/2016 15:49:07 answering member 247 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Letwin
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

446735

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Job Satisfaction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the public sector exit payments cap on morale in the Civil Service.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	23612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Civil Service has successfully changed the way it operates and become more efficient - it is now delivering far more, for less, than it did before 2010. The Government has delivered a range of policy changes over the last five years to modernise the Civil Service and save taxpayers money. During this time employee engagement rates have actually increased.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2016 14:47:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448596

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which 100 constituencies have the highest proportion of public sector employees.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	24828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 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 Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 24828 table FINAL.xlsx title Excel Table for Member 2 file name 24828 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter for Member - Constitutencies question first answered 02/02/2016 17:36:29 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

448595

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) number and (b) proportion of civil servants will be affected by the Government's proposed exit payment cap.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	24843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>To remain the best in the world, the Civil Service needs to respond to both the challenges and opportunities of our times. The Civil Service continues to require new and different skills to respond to the fiscal environment, global competition and changes in technology, whilst at the same time delivering better services more efficiently: in short, doing more for less.</p><p>The numbers of civil servants affected by the Government’s action to end six figure pay outs in the public sector will depend upon the terms applicable when the staff leave and which staff are exited.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/02/2016 09:33:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479057

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Iron and Steel
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 (a) domestically produced and (b) imported steel that was procured by each government department in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p>All departments are now required to implement the new guidelines, published on 30 October last year, which set out how government buyers should source steel for major projects so that the true value of UK steel is taken into account in major procurement decisions.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 21/03/2016 14:50:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479482

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to develop a standardised methodology for measuring SME spending by government departments which can be used as a baseline over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>We have developed our methodology over time, starting in 2010 when there was no reliable estimate for spend with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We now have much better data than before 2010 and we are continuing to improve our understanding of spend. The Government exceeded its target of 25% of central government procurement spend going to small and medium businesses by 2015, achieving over £12 billion (27.1%) of spend with SMEs by the end of the last Parliament.</p><p>The Government standardised its methodology for collecting data on direct spend with SMEs in 2011-12; data on direct spend published since that point is comparable. Data on indirect spend for 2013-14 and 2014-15 is also comparable. This is an area of continuous improvement and we intend to standardise our methodology again during 2016-17.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/04/2016 10:16:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

485507

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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 value and proportion of central government procurement was made by each department in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Total central government procurement spend is published as part of the annual reporting of spend with small and medium-sized businesses at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/04/2016 09:55:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

512456

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the net earnings were from direct investment in UK companies in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	33930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 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 Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 33899 question first answered 18/04/2016 10:07:13 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name UKSA responses to 33930 33899 .pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Net Earnings
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan