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1715992

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Remote Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to increase the number of civil servants working from the office.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Research into workplace practices across all sectors was undertaken which confirmed the clear benefits of face to face, workplace based collaborative working, which led to agreement across government for such an approach. That's why I set out the expectation for staff to be in the office at least 60% of the time, and I believe that our senior civil servants need to set an example as leaders.</p><p>There are significant benefits from spending time working together in person, either within teams, with colleagues from the same department or – in Government hubs – with colleagues from other departments. These include collaboration, innovation and fostering a sense of community. We know that in particular junior colleagues benefit from having time face to face with senior leaders and that those early in their careers find working face to face with their peers and managers makes them more effective more quickly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/05/2024 16:39:55 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1716121

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy
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 potential impact of proposed reductions in the number of civil servants on the (a) capacity and (b) efficiency of the Civil Service.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	24927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s announcement of longer term reductions in Civil Service numbers is a reiteration of the policy announced by the Chancellor in October 2023. The longer term reductions will build on the shorter term headcount cap put in place through to March 2025, and the detail of how individual organisations will be affected by the return to pre-pandemic numbers will form a key part of the next comprehensive spending review.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/05/2024 16:39:01 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1714922

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Industrial Disputes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the average number of workdays lost in each strike action in each month in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Bob Seely
uin	24299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Hon. Member’s parliamentary question of 30/04/24 is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 24302 question first answered 09/05/2024 16:19:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen attachment 1 file name PQ24299_24302 (2).pdf title UKSA Letter
tabling member	4681 label Biography information for Bob Seely

1714925

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Industrial Disputes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the average number of workdays lost in each strike action in each (a) week and (b) month of 2024 as of 30 April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Bob Seely
uin	24302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Hon. Member’s parliamentary question of 30/04/24 is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 24299 question first answered 09/05/2024 16:19:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen attachment 1 file name PQ24299_24302 (2).pdf title UKSA Letter
tabling member	4681 label Biography information for Bob Seely

1714651

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to his Department was of (a) events, (b) activities, (c) merchandise and (d) other costs relating to Pride Month 2023.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	23981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>There was no cost related to Pride Month 2023 (June 2023) and no events or activities took place. Merchandise was provided by LGBT+ staff and supporters and not funded from any budget.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 08/05/2024 15:41:03 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1714039

registered interest
date	26/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw of 23 April 2024, from which (a) Departments, (b) arms length bodies and (c) other organisations the number of civil servants will be reduced to help fund the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	23834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s announcement of longer term reductions in Civil Service numbers is a reiteration of the policy announced by the Chancellor in October 2023. The longer term reductions will build on the shorter term headcount cap put in place through to March 2025, and the detail of how individual organisations will be affected by the return to pre-pandemic numbers will form a key part of the next comprehensive spending review.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 01/05/2024 15:51:31 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1713926

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his oral answer of 25 April 2024, whether the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has recused himself from any aspects of his role.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	23718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Under the terms of the Ministerial Code, Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their ministerial position and their private interests, financial or otherwise.</p><p>There is an established regime in place for the declaration and management of interests held by ministers. This ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any potential or perceived conflicts of interest. The Foreign Secretary has declared his interests in line with this process. Those interests judged, by the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, to be relevant to his ministerial role have been published in the List of Ministers’ Interests, which is available on GOV.UK.</p><p>As set out in the Ministerial Code, it is the personal responsibility of each Minister to decide whether and what action is needed to avoid a conflict or the perception of a conflict, taking account of advice received from their Permanent Secretary and the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ interests.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 30/04/2024 16:46:21 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1713941

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) men and (b) women died from synthetic drug use in the last year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	23764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Hon Member’s Parliamentary Question of 25/04 is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 03/05/2024 13:44:50 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen attachment 1 file name PQ23764 (1).pdf title UKSA Letter
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1713609

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Trade Union Officials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news story entitled Cabinet Office Minister writes to councils over spending on Trade Union facility time, published by his Department on 10 April 2024, which local authorities were sent the letter.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	23594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office wrote to 21 local authorities that, according to their self-reported facility time data, spent over 0.2% of their paybill on facility time. This information is available on gov.uk.</p><p>The Cabinet Office already publishes the information on facility time spend each year as part of the legislative requirements within the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017. This means that other than the issuing of the relevant letters, the time taken for which was negligible, there was very little other time spent on this particular exercise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 23595 question first answered 01/05/2024 15:51:20 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1713610

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Trade Union Officials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news story entitled Cabinet Office Minister writes to councils over spending on Trade Union facility time, published by his Department on 10 April 2024, how many hours of civil servants' time were used on the formulation of the (a) research, (b) letter and (c) associated press release.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	23595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office wrote to 21 local authorities that, according to their self-reported facility time data, spent over 0.2% of their paybill on facility time. This information is available on gov.uk.</p><p>The Cabinet Office already publishes the information on facility time spend each year as part of the legislative requirements within the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017. This means that other than the issuing of the relevant letters, the time taken for which was negligible, there was very little other time spent on this particular exercise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 23594 question first answered 01/05/2024 15:51:20 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy