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456012

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Personation
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 scale of fraud carried out against the public sector by (a) individuals and (b) serious and organised criminals by means of (i) identity theft and (ii) creation of fake identities.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	28950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>We do not have any estimates on the scale of public fraud carried out by individuals or by serious and organised criminals in relation to identity theft or the creation of fake identities.</p><p>In the financial year 2014/15, £4.13m worth of detected external identity theft was reported to the Cabinet Office through the fraud and error MI collection. Identity theft includes: fraudulently obtained genuine documents; counterfeit documents; and, forged documents. We do not have a breakdown of whether this was committed by individuals or organised criminals.</p><p>The National Crime Agency, not the Cabinet Office, lead on matters related to serious and organised crime.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 03/03/2016 10:29:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

456015

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Proof of Identity: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate has been made of uptake of the gov.uk Verify programme for each socioeconomic group.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	28948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>442,000 individuals’ identities have been verified on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify and the service has been used 1,100,000 times. <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify is not designed for businesses.</p><p>The current percentage coverage for <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify, based on a representative sample by demographic group, is available here: <a href="https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/estimating-what-proportion-of-the-public-will-be-able-to-use-gov-uk-verify/" target="_blank">https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/estimating-what-proportion-of-the-public-will-be-able-to-use-gov-uk-verify/</a></p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify publishes information about its performance - including authentications - weekly on the performance platform:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/performance/govuk-verify" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/performance/govuk-verify</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 28949 question first answered 03/03/2016 10:28:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

456016

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Proof of Identity: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) individuals and (b) businesses are registered for the gov.uk Verify programme; and what the average number of authentications is for each such group interacting with Verify supported services.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	28949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>442,000 individuals’ identities have been verified on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify and the service has been used 1,100,000 times. <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify is not designed for businesses.</p><p>The current percentage coverage for <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify, based on a representative sample by demographic group, is available here: <a href="https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/estimating-what-proportion-of-the-public-will-be-able-to-use-gov-uk-verify/" target="_blank">https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/estimating-what-proportion-of-the-public-will-be-able-to-use-gov-uk-verify/</a></p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify publishes information about its performance - including authentications - weekly on the performance platform:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/performance/govuk-verify" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/performance/govuk-verify</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 28948 question first answered 03/03/2016 10:28:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

456017

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Oldham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 5 and 16 February 2016 to Questions 25342 and 26658, by when he expects the land and property for disposals to be identified; and whether he expects the decisions on the selection of that property to be subject to public consultation.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	28898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The land and property for disposals will be identified in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 03/03/2016 13:15:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

456019

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Research: Finance
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 effect on organisations commissioning academic research of his Department's proposed regulations that would prevent recipients of government grant funding for research in using that work to call for government policy changes.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	28820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The new clause is about ensuring taxpayers money is only used for the intended purposes. The use or otherwise of research findings is already set out in grant agreements. There should, therefore, be no effect on organisations, which are free to use other funding to lobby, but not to spend taxpayers’ hard-earned cash on lobbying.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/03/2016 08:52:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 48999 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

456020

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Lobbying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his oral contribution of 25 February 2016, Official Report, column 486, when he plans to bring proposals for an anti-lobbying clause in Government grant agreements to the House for debate.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	28850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The grants clause will help to ensure that grant funding is always used for the intended purpose. It will <ins class="ministerial">not</ins> prevent organisations from using their own privately raised funds to campaign as they see fit. Given the clear intention of the clause, To ensure taxpayers’ money is well spent, there are no plans to debate it at present.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock previous answer version 48997 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock 49287 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock question first answered 07/03/2016 08:52:42 question first ministerially corrected 09/03/2016 11:03:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

455200

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Human Rights Act 1998
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil law suits have been brought against his Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold the information that has been requested as separate data for cases based wholly or partially on the Human Rights Act 1998 are not recorded.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 14:59:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455201

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Overtime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>As part of this Government’s transparency agenda, all Departments are required to publish monthly workforce statistics that includes overtime costs. This information is available from the Cabinet Office website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 13:52:19 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455202

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars his Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Since December 2012 a policy of 'digital by default' has been applied to all Cabinet Office publications. All publications and consultations are published via <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a></p><p>All publications are searchable by date and displayed by title.</p><p>A search of <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> shows 1110 publications in total since 1st August 2012; this includes 33 consultations.</p><p>For circulars, including newsletters and group emails, an accurate answer could only be provided at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 13:51:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455203

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many consultants' contracts were terminated early in each of the last six years for which figures are available; and what the cost of each such termination was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 13:52:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth