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1701357

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Privy Council: Termination of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, how many Privy Council Office staff have left that organisation in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	22035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Privy Council Office is part of the Cabinet Office. Some of the information requested is held centrally.</p><p>As far as data is centrally held, I refer the hon. Member to the Civil Service statistics for the Cabinet Office available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics</a> and <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/04/2024 16:22:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1692832

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Legislative Drafting: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to the Answer of 19 June 2023 to Question 187222, on Legislative Drafting: Gender, whether the revised guidance has been completed; and whether she continues to plan to place it in the Libraries of both Houses and publish it on the gov.uk website.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
uin	16442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel has updated its drafting guidance in general and, following the written statement, has further information for drafters on gendered language. This will be published on GOV.UK in due course.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 15/03/2024 10:53:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1656969

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, whether she has made an estimate of how many and what proportion of written questions from Hon and Rt hon. members have resulted in the Government (a) changing policy and (b) taking particular action in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	197229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. Decisions on each policy area are a matter for individual Departments.</p><p>Written Parliamentary Questions and Early Day Motions are important ways in which MPs can hold the Government to account and scrutinise policy.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 197321 question first answered 07/09/2023 16:22:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1657472

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Early Day Motions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, whether she has made an estimate of how many and what proportion of Early Day Motions tabled by hon. and Rt hon. Members have resulted in the Government (a) changing policy and (b) taking particular action in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	197321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. Decisions on each policy area are a matter for individual Departments.</p><p>Written Parliamentary Questions and Early Day Motions are important ways in which MPs can hold the Government to account and scrutinise policy.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 197229 question first answered 07/09/2023 16:22:39 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1623441

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, whether the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill will (a) return to Parliament before the end of the 2022-23 Session or (b) be carried over into Session 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	182326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>We have some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world and we continue to strengthen these even further. Since 2010 we have:</p><ul><li>Introduced new regulations for minimum standards for meat chickens;</li><li>Banned the use of conventional battery cages for laying hens;</li><li>Made CCTV mandatory in slaughterhouses in England;</li><li>Made microchipping mandatory for dogs in 2015;</li><li>Modernised our licensing system for a range of activities such as dog breeding and pet sales;</li><li>Protected service animals via ‘Finn’s Law’;</li><li>Banned the commercial third-party sales of puppies and kittens (‘Lucy’s Law’);</li><li>Passed the Wild Animals in Circuses Act;</li><li>Led work to implement humane trapping standards;</li><li>Passed the Animal Sentience Act;</li><li>Passed the Ivory Act;</li><li>Increased maximum sentences for animal cruelty from six months to five years’ imprisonment;</li><li>Delivering one of the toughest bans in the world on the import of hunting trophies;</li><li>Supporting a Bill to ban the import and export of detached shark fins and shark fin products;</li><li>Supporting a Bill to prohibit the advertising and offering for sale, here, of unacceptably low welfare activities involving wild animals;</li></ul><p>We recognise the strong support for getting provisions in the Kept Animals Bill onto the statute book and we are fully committed to delivering our manifesto commitments on animal welfare. All future business will be announced in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/04/2023 11:13:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1601314

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Urgent Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, what steps she is taking to help ensure Ministers are appropriately briefed for Urgent Questions so they are able to answer questions from Members.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	158988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>The briefing provided to Ministers in response to Urgent Questions is a matter for individual Departments.</p><p>The Guide to Parliamentary Work is produced by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons, working closely with colleagues across government, and in the service of the House of Commons and House of Lords. It is designed for civil servants who work closely with Parliament and, in particular, Parliamentary teams across Whitehall. In November 2022 my office published an updated guide which is available on Gov.uk: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-parliamentary-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-parliamentary-work</a>.</p><p>The Parliamentary Capability Team in the Cabinet Office also provides training on managing parliamentary work to civil servants of all departments and grades.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/03/2023 16:47:02 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1601319

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Legislation: Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, what steps she is taking to help ensure Government impact assessments contain sufficient information and analysis for Members to scrutinise and suggest amendments to legislation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	158991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government response to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's report on Losing Impact: why the Government’s impact assessment system is failing Parliament and the public (HL Paper 116), was published on 15 December 2022, and is available on parliament.uk (<a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/" target="_blank">https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/</a>).</p><p>The Government has taken a number of steps to ensure that best practice is followed by departments, for example:</p><ul><li>providing, and regularly updating, centralised guidance through the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-making-legislation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-making-legislation</a>.</li><li>the Parliamentary Capability Team in the Cabinet Office provides training on managing parliamentary work to civil servants of all departments and grades.</li></ul><p>Published impact assessments, including their date of publication, are available on the Parliament website (<a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/</a>).</p><p>The Government is clear that Parliament should have the information it needs and that impact assessments should be published, where possible, when legislation is laid before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 158990 158993 question first answered 09/03/2023 16:51:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1601321

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Legislation: Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, how many impact assessments on legislation the Government has published after a bill has (a) been introduced to the House and (b) passed all its stages in the House in this Parliament as of 6 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	158993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government response to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's report on Losing Impact: why the Government’s impact assessment system is failing Parliament and the public (HL Paper 116), was published on 15 December 2022, and is available on parliament.uk (<a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/" target="_blank">https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/</a>).</p><p>The Government has taken a number of steps to ensure that best practice is followed by departments, for example:</p><ul><li>providing, and regularly updating, centralised guidance through the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-making-legislation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-making-legislation</a>.</li><li>the Parliamentary Capability Team in the Cabinet Office provides training on managing parliamentary work to civil servants of all departments and grades.</li></ul><p>Published impact assessments, including their date of publication, are available on the Parliament website (<a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/</a>).</p><p>The Government is clear that Parliament should have the information it needs and that impact assessments should be published, where possible, when legislation is laid before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 158990 158991 question first answered 09/03/2023 16:51:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1583722

registered interest
date	03/02/2023
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Leader of the House of Commons: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, how much her office has spent on headhunters in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	139342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons has not incurred headhunter costs in any of the last three financial years.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/02/2023 11:41:03 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1490186

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Visits Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Minister of State for Trade Policy was officially representing her Department when she attended the Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue convened by the Hoover Institution and Annenberg Foundation Trust in California between 5 and 7 December 2021; and whether she was supported at that event by (a) officials and (b) briefing from her Department.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>The Minister for Trade Policy attended the Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue as a UK Government representative at the request of the British Embassy Washington. The event was added to the Minister’s existing programme on her visit to a number of US States to advance UK-US interests. She was supported during the visit by UK Government officials.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/07/2022 13:25:37 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt previous answer version 15104 answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry