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973344

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that all Government suppliers are signatories of the Prompt Payment Code.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	174704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2015 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy strengthened the Prompt Payment Code. The majority of government's 28 strategic suppliers are signatories the Prompt Payment Code, promising to pay suppliers, including small businesses in their supply chain, promptly and fairly. A list of these signed suppliers has been published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. Payment practices of those strategic suppliers who are not signatories to the Code, are regularly monitored to ensure that they are in line with the aims of prompt payment policy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all public sector buyers must have 30 day payment terms in their contracts and through their supply chains; they must also publish their payment performance bi-annually.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:00:33 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972270

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to review the effectiveness of the civil service.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	906839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to continually strengthening the Civil Service. We use a range of internal and external work to inform our understanding of current effectiveness and to shape work to continue making improvements. Recent examples include the Barber Review, the PACAC Inquiry into Whitehall effectiveness, and the International Civil Service Effectiveness Index.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/09/2018 15:02:23 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

972271

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What estimate he has made of the proportion of public procurement spending on digital and technology services placed with small and medium-sized enterprises in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
tabling member printed	Dr Caroline Johnson
uin	906840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s Digital Marketplace has opened up opportunities for almost 5,000 small and medium businesses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In August, we announced that over £4 billion has been spent through the Marketplace since 2012, and almost half of that - £1.9 billion - has gone to smaller businesses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>And between 2015-16 and 2017-18, spending with SMEs has almost doubled.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/09/2018 15:01:20 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4592 label Biography information for Dr Caroline Johnson

972350

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the commitments made by the UK at the Anti-Corruption Summit 2016, when the Crown Commercial Service plans to introduce a new check to prevent corrupt bidders winning public contracts.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	174038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government committed in its Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2022 to trial in the Crown Commercial Service, a new conviction check.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of the trial was to establish whether convictions data could be accessed at source to undertake conviction checks on preferred bidders on behalf of Government departments and complement existing provisions in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The trial is now complete and Cabinet Office is analysing the results before identifying a preferred approach and timescales for implementation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 174039 question first answered 09/10/2018 11:02:13 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972351

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the commitments made by the UK Government at the Anti-Corruption Summit 2016, how an additional conviction check at the Crown Commercial Service will complement existing checks on convictions.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	174039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government committed in its Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2022 to trial in the Crown Commercial Service, a new conviction check.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of the trial was to establish whether convictions data could be accessed at source to undertake conviction checks on preferred bidders on behalf of Government departments and complement existing provisions in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The trial is now complete and Cabinet Office is analysing the results before identifying a preferred approach and timescales for implementation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 174038 question first answered 09/10/2018 11:02:13 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972356

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to require bidders to declare (a) convictions under Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010 and (b) similar additional information in pre-contract questionnaires.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	174040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide an exhaustive list of the grounds on which a bidder must or can be excluded from a procurement procedure, which are derived from the EU Procurement Directives.</p><p> </p><p>The grounds on which a bidder can be excluded on a discretionary basis include where the bidder is guilty of grave professional misconduct, which renders its integrity questionable.</p><p> </p><p>Where a bidder has committed serious offences, such as an offence under Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010, this may give rise to grounds for exclusion. The particular circumstances would be considered on a case by case basis by the relevant procuring authority, including any evidence of self-cleaning put forward by the bidder.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:01:19 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972357

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the UK has excluded a company from public procurement for reasons of corruption.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	174041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Exclusion decisions in public procurement are taken by individual contracting authorities and government does not hold this data centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:01:44 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972443

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Temporary Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department are classified as contingent labour.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	173979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>In Quarter 1 (April, May and June 18/19) Cabinet Office had 323 Contingent Labour workers.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:00:59 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

971662

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Digital Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2018 to Question 169867 on Government Digital Service: Staff, what the gender balance of the staff that work for the Government Digital Service.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	173616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government Digital Service is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the diversity of the Cabinet Office workforce (and other Civil Service Departments) including gender is published annually by the Office for National Statistics in their Civil Service Statistics bulletin. The latest bulletin (at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2018) can be downloaded at: <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 Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 08/10/2018 13:14:50 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

971696

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who the small business ministerial champion is in each Government Department.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	173547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is in the table below</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Minister</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Remit</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HO</p></td><td><p>Baroness Williams</p></td><td><p>Minister of State for Countering Extremism and Minister for Equalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MoD</p></td><td><p>Stuart Andrew</p></td><td><p>Minister for Defence Procurement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NIO</p></td><td><p>Minister Vara</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT</p></td><td><p>Graeme Stuart</p></td><td><p>Minister for Investment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BEIS</p></td><td><p>Kelly Tolhurst</p></td><td><p>Minister for Small Business</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MHCLG</p></td><td><p>Rishi Sunak</p></td><td><p>Minister for Local Government</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DDCMS</p></td><td><p>Lord Ashton</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DfE</p></td><td><p>Lord Agnew</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defra</p></td><td><p>George Eustice</p></td><td><p>Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DExEU</p></td><td><p>Suella Braverman</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FCO</p></td><td><p>Sir Alan Duncan</p></td><td><p>Minister of State for Europe and the Americas at the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DHSC</p></td><td><p>Steven Barclay</p></td><td><p>Minister of State for Health</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DFID</p></td><td><p>Lord Bates</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MOJ</p></td><td><p>Rory Stewart</p></td><td><p>Minister of State for Prisons</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DfT</p></td><td><p>Baroness Sugg</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMT</p></td><td><p>Robert Jenrick</p></td><td><p>Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMRC</p></td><td><p>Mel Stride</p></td><td><p>Financial Secretary to the Treasury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DWP</p></td><td><p>Baroness Buscombe</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Lords)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WO</p></td><td><p>Minister Andrews</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SO</p></td><td><p>Lord Duncan of Springbank (TBC)</p></td><td><p>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 08/10/2018 13:42:57 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies