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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

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

1486085

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
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: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	29883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade (DIT) was formed in July 2016 so represents the earliest date for DIT contracts. The number of contracts signed since this date is as below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£1m-£3m+ contracts signed</p></td><td><p>£3m+ contracts signed</p></td><td><p>£1m-£3m next 12 months</p></td><td><p>£3m+ next 12 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trade Remedies Authority</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DIT is a leading department in the implementation of contract management capability in seeking to ensure that contracts are managed by appropriately trained personnel but it does not hold the information pertaining to the amount spent or number of officials monitoring these contracts over this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/07/2022 11:02:15 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1485331

registered interest
date	01/07/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Australia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement will permit the import to the UK of food produced with pesticides banned in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	28902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) does not create any new permissions for imports from Australia. All products imported into the UK will, as they do now, have to comply with our high import requirements and standards.</p><p>The government has a comprehensive programme for monitoring pesticides residues in food to determine whether food available to UK consumers complies with the statutory residue levels and is safe.</p><p>The independent Trade and Agriculture Commission recently concluded that the UK-Australia FTA does not affect the UK’s statutory protections in relation to animal or plant life or health, animal welfare, and the environment.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/07/2022 13:47:31 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1483517

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	TRIPS Agreement: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment the Government has made of how the TRIPS outcome will help to achieve ensure the equitable distribution of second-generation vaccines across the world.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	25725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The consensus-based outcome reached at the World Trade Organisation’s Ministerial Conference streamlines processes provided in the TRIPS Agreement for developing countries to make use of the compulsory licensing (CL). The decision, which is limited to COVID-19 vaccines and has a duration of five years, is intended to facilitate production and exportation of vaccines by developing countries while protecting the international intellectual property framework, which has and will continue to allow the development and production of vaccines at unprecedented pace.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/07/2022 13:38:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1471706

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Import Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make an assessment of the applicability to decisions on tax treatment in the UK of the precedent established in the October 1958 GATT dispute initiated by Austria against Italy, case reference GD/54, and the resolution agreed between those countries in May 1961, publication reference SR 18/4.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	21133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>GATT dispute reports are often considered at the World Trade Organisation in dispute settlement proceedings. However, GATT dispute reports do not set precedents in the way that judgments do in the domestic legal system.</p><p> </p><p>The particular case referred to (GD/54) was settled following consultations (SR.18/4) and never came before a GATT adjudicator. There was therefore no GATT dispute report for this case.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 28/06/2022 15:39:03 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry