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483071

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Politically Exposed Persons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate his Department has made of the number of its senior civil servants who will potentially fall under the provisions of the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive, 2015/849; and what assessment he has made of which of his Department's agencies or other public bodies will potentially be classed as holding a prominent public function for the purposes of that directive.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	31823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Under the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which will be transposed into national law by June 2017, a politically exposed person is one who has been entrusted with a prominent public function domestically or by a foreign country. This would include some senior civil servants, such as ambassadors and chargés d'affaires.</p><p> </p><p>The Government's view is that the Directive permits a risk-based approach to the identification of whether an individual is a politically exposed person and, when identified, the Directive enables the application of different degrees of enhanced measures to reflect the risks posed. The Government will be setting out this view in a consultation which will be published shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/03/2016 11:10:44 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

479679

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much funding his Department received from the European Social Fund (a) between 2007 and 2014 and (b) from 2014 to the last month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	31647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Scotland Office has received no funding from the European Social Fund.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/03/2016 11:08:41 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

484600

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the renewables industry in Scotland of changes to renewables subsidies.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	904211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>Scotland’s renewable sector has seen record levels of growth and investment. The action we are taking to protect bill payers now puts the industry back on a sustainable footing for the future, which is also in the interest of investors.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 23/03/2016 15:34:08 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

484601

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Oil: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with Ministers of the Scottish Government on the effect of declining oil prices on public finances in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	904208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>I regularly engage with Ministers of the Scottish Government on a wide range of economic matters. As last week’s independent OBR estimates show, revenues from the North Sea are forecast to be negative for the next three years. March’s GERS figures show Scotland’s public spending was almost £15 billion more than its tax revenue in the last financial year. Thankfully, the north east of Scotland can rely on the broad shoulders of the United Kingdom to see it through these difficult times.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 23/03/2016 15:30:53 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

459051

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Security Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much security guards in his Department are paid.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	30593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Scotland Office has one contract which provides security services for the office in Edinburgh and uses a framework contract for building services held by the Ministry of Justice for security services in London.</p><p> </p><p>The Scotland Office does not set the wages paid by the contractors to its workers; however, the hourly rates paid by both contractors are above the current national minimum wage and national living wage, effective from 1 April 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 16/03/2016 16:02:28 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

458587

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what proportion of his Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	30314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Scotland Office currently has 50% of its Senior Civil Servants and 44% of its core policy civil servants based in London.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 15/03/2016 14:33:28 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

458156

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which external organisations officials in his Department have met to discuss the potential consequences of the UK leaving the EU in each of the last three years; and how many meetings such officials have had with each such organisation.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	30017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Scotland Office officials have not held any such meetings. At the February European Council, the Government negotiated a new settlement, giving the United Kingdom a special status in a reformed European Union. The Government's position, as set out by the Prime Minister to the House on 22 February, is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 10/03/2016 11:40:51 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

458157

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	30018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Scotland Office keeps the risk of fraud and financial error under constant review and is subject to audit by the National Audit Office. There have been no confirmed cases of fraud or known financial errors in the Scotland Office in each of the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 15/03/2016 14:27:46 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

458158

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent estimate he has made of the level of inward investment to Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	30019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>On 29 February 2016, UK Trade &amp; Investment published the number of Foreign Direct Investment projects by UK Region for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15. These figures show that Scotland attracted 531 projects during this period. These projects led to 26,184 new jobs, which is equal to 8.6 per cent of the total job creation for the UK as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 15/03/2016 14:31:54 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

458159

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Economic Growth: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers in the Scottish Government on the economic development of Scotland and steps to attract inward investment to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	30020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with Scottish Government ministers on a wide range of economic issues. At the end of February I was involved in the launch of the Exporting is GREAT road show together with Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney. Business investment from abroad in the whole of the UK, and what makes the UK the first choice for this investment, is a crucial part of the GREAT campaign. At this event we exchanged several ideas about Scotland’s economic situation during these challenging economic times, and I am committed to continuing that dialogue. On 17 March, I will be joining the First Minister at the SCDI’s Annual Forum which will focus on the future of Scotland’s economy.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 15/03/2016 14:30:30 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier