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date	30/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Dominic Cummings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, under what authority Special Adviser Dominic Cummings has the ability to (a) hire and (b) dismiss staff from government departments.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	292306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Special Advisers must adhere to the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers. As it states in the code of conduct, all Special Adviser appointments must be approved by the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister may terminate employment by withdrawing his consent to an individual appointment at any time.</p><p>Dominic Cummings operates under the authority of his appointing Minister, the Prime Minister. An area which the PM has asked Dominic Cummings to lead on is decisions concerning the management of Special Advisers.</p><p>As the code of conduct sets out, Special Advisers cannot exercise any power in relation to the management of any part of the Civil Service, except in relation to another Special Adviser.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 03/10/2019 14:32:17 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1147028

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministerial Policy Advisers: Conduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has any plans to update the special advisers' code of conduct.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	292307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The last update to the Special Adviser’s Code of Conduct was in December 2016. This document is kept under regular review.</p><p>In December 2018, the Minister for the Constitution announced work to review how Special Adviser’s terms can be made clearer and consistent (19 December 2018 Vol. 651, [HCWS1216]). This work is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/10/2019 16:02:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1147101

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the results of the Government's stress testing of the effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	292328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Operation Yellowhammer is a cross government programme of work to ensure that government is prepared to mitigate the potential impacts of Brexit in the event the UK leaves without a deal.</p><p>In response to the Humble Address motion passed on Monday 9 September, The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster published the Yellowhammer reasonable worst case planning assumptions dated 2 August on gov.uk: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-humble-address-motion%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-humble-address-motion </a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 03/10/2019 16:23:57 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq