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1023069

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether a suicide note is classified as a legal document.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	200564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office is not responsible for determining the legal status of any document. The legal status of a document would depend on a number of factors including the context it was being presented in.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/12/2018 10:55:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

671646

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Government Legal Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many lawyers are employed in the Government Legal Service; and how many such lawyers are (a) women and (b) from ethnic minority communities.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	59592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government Legal Service (GLS) is not a department but a grouping of the legal profession within Government. Government lawyers take different forms; some are employed by the Government Legal Department (GLD), others employed by regulators and organisations at arm’s length from Government. The GLS is supported by a very small secretariat of fewer than five staff and does not systematically collect information as data is held by the lawyer’s own organisations. We are therefore unable to provide this information for the GLS. There is data for the GLD, which is the single largest ‘member’ of the GLS and the largest provider of legal services to government. As of 31 December 2016 the figures for the Government Legal Department are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of lawyers</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of female lawyers</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of lawyers from ethnic minority communities *</p></td><td><p>187</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of female lawyers from ethnic minority communities *</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*This figure is obtained from the information that is voluntarily self-recorded by employees</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 19/01/2017 14:42:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

672035

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Legal Profession
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to his Department was of the use of external lawyers by his Department (a) in general and (b) related to the work of the Treasury Solicitors in (i) 2016, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	59708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>The cost relating to the use of external lawyers (including lawyers in the Government Legal Department, formerly the Treasury Solicitor’s Department) by the Attorney General’s Office for the last three financial years is in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£</p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of GLD lawyers</p></td><td><p>425,859</p></td><td><p>330,442</p></td><td><p>322,023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of GLD disbursements (Counsel)</p></td><td><p>210,537</p></td><td><p>340,640</p></td><td><p>220,182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of GLD disbursements (Other external lawyers)</p></td><td><p>40,153</p></td><td><p>8,677</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-GLD legal fees (Counsel)</p></td><td><p>18,816</p></td><td><p>14,252</p></td><td><p>18,949</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total external legal fees</strong> <strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>695,366</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>694,011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>561,153</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are exclusive of VAT.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/01/2017 14:43:50 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1019532

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens residing in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	198181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 10/12/2018 10:37:34 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ198181 Response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1023065

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Suicide
	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 number of suicides in England and Wales in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	200550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 13/12/2018 17:08:27 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 200550 - Holding.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1050104

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Personal Income: Leicester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average annual earnings were of the bottom five deciles in Leicester in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	213221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/01/2019 16:21:46 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 213221.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

453842

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the Civil Service workforce is from BME backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	27695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>In 2015, the proportion of senior civil servants from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds was 4.1%; and the proportion of the whole civil service workforce from BAME background was 10.6% as I set out in my recent speech <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/addressing-inequality-in-the-public-sector-and-beyond-matt-hancock-speech" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/addressing-inequality-in-the-public-sector-and-beyond-matt-hancock-speech</a>.</p><p>While BAME representation throughout the civil service workforce is consistent with the economically active population, in order for the civil service to reflect diversity of Modern Britain we need to do more to increase BAME representation in the senior civil service. We have increased capacity of summer diversity internships and the Positive Action Pathway programme and will soon launch ‘Accelerate’ (a development programme for SCS from BAME backgrounds to reach the most senior grades within the Civil Service). We anticipate that over time these and other initiatives will result in an increase in the proportion of the SCS coming from BAME backgrounds.</p><p>The proportion of applicants and appointments from BME backgrounds to the Civil Service Fast Stream from 2012 to 2014 are listed in the table below.</p><p>Data on the 2015 cohort is due to be released later this year in the 2015 Fast Stream Annual Report.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Proportion from an ethnic minority background – Civil Service Fast Stream (all schemes)</p></td><td><p>Applicants</p></td><td><p>Appointments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>19.4%</p></td><td><p>14.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>13.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>16.9%</p></td><td><p>12.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 27694 27696 question first answered 29/02/2016 14:03:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

453843

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of applicants to the Civil Service Fast Stream are (a) from BME backgrounds and (b) successful and from BME backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	27696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>In 2015, the proportion of senior civil servants from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds was 4.1%; and the proportion of the whole civil service workforce from BAME background was 10.6% as I set out in my recent speech <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/addressing-inequality-in-the-public-sector-and-beyond-matt-hancock-speech" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/addressing-inequality-in-the-public-sector-and-beyond-matt-hancock-speech</a>.</p><p>While BAME representation throughout the civil service workforce is consistent with the economically active population, in order for the civil service to reflect diversity of Modern Britain we need to do more to increase BAME representation in the senior civil service. We have increased capacity of summer diversity internships and the Positive Action Pathway programme and will soon launch ‘Accelerate’ (a development programme for SCS from BAME backgrounds to reach the most senior grades within the Civil Service). We anticipate that over time these and other initiatives will result in an increase in the proportion of the SCS coming from BAME backgrounds.</p><p>The proportion of applicants and appointments from BME backgrounds to the Civil Service Fast Stream from 2012 to 2014 are listed in the table below.</p><p>Data on the 2015 cohort is due to be released later this year in the 2015 Fast Stream Annual Report.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Proportion from an ethnic minority background – Civil Service Fast Stream (all schemes)</p></td><td><p>Applicants</p></td><td><p>Appointments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>19.4%</p></td><td><p>14.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>13.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>16.9%</p></td><td><p>12.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 27694 27695 question first answered 29/02/2016 14:03:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

596001

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Consumers: Racial Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will extend the proposed audit of public services to reveal racial disparities to all organisations and companies which provide (a) car insurance and (b) other consumer services required by law.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	47432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>All companies and other organisations that provide a service to the public are legally obliged under the Equality Act 2010 to ensure no race discrimination occurs. The Race Disparity Audit was set up to identify and analyse racial disparities in public services, working with data from Government departments and their arm’s length bodies to build a complete and accurate picture across the country. This is a unique and ambitious undertaking and there are no current plans to extend it beyond public services.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 13/10/2016 09:12:43 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

681336

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	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 number of EU citizens who have entered the UK since 23 June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	62291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 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 06/02/2017 09:21:03 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ62291v0.5.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - EU Citizens
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz