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78790

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date	17/07/2014
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Scotland Office has a 15 working day target for responding to correspondence. Performance in meeting the target is kept under regular review by Ministers and senior management.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 22/07/2014 14:06:48 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78577

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I refer the hon Member to my Rt hon Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General’s Written Statement of 13 May 2014, Official Report, Column 17WS.</p><p>The information requested is not held in the form requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 22/07/2014 16:11:58 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78578

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Sovereignty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what work the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland has commissioned by external consultants in relation to work on the Scotland Analysis programme; which consultants were used; and how much such consultancy has cost.
tabling member constituency	Perth and North Perthshire
tabling member printed	Pete Wishart
uin	206366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Office of the Advocate General, jointly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office, instructed independent legal experts, Professor James Crawford and Professor Alan Boyle, to provide the legal Opinion <em>Referendum on the Independence of Scotland – International Law Aspects</em>, which was published as an annex to the UK Government’s paper <em>Devolution and the Implications of Scottish independence</em>. This consultancy was paid from existing budgets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 22/07/2014 13:59:55 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	1440 label Biography information for Pete Wishart

78579

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Sovereignty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many officials of the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland have been allocated to work on the Scotland Analysis programme; and if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of that work.
tabling member constituency	Perth and North Perthshire
tabling member printed	Pete Wishart
uin	206364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Work on the Scotland analysis programme has been undertaken in the course of normal business across Government by policy and legal experts in relevant areas. In the Office of the Advocate General, any work relating to the Scotland analysis programme and any associated costs have been absorbed by existing teams within the Office of the Advocate General in addition to their day-to-day responsibilities and from existing budgets. Therefore there have been no additional costs involved in work of the Office of the Advocate General on the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 22/07/2014 14:04:45 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	1440 label Biography information for Pete Wishart

78581

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Sovereignty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) external organisations and (b) officials in the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland he has engaged with as part of the Scotland Analysis programme; and what was discussed at each such consultation.
tabling member constituency	Perth and North Perthshire
tabling member printed	Pete Wishart
uin	206363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Scotland analysis programme has been the most detailed examination ever undertaken of Scotland’s contribution to the UK and the benefits that Scotland gets from being part of the UK. The UK Government has engaged with a wide range of organisations in the development of and distribution of the analysis, including business organisations, academics and lawyers. The Office of the Advocate General for Scotland provides the UK Government with advice on Scots law and has been involved throughout the production of all of the Scotland analysis papers, along with officials from across Whitehall.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 22/07/2014 14:02:19 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	1440 label Biography information for Pete Wishart