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433735

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions a special adviser in his Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	18495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive Administrations, civil servants, including special advisers, may routinely accompany their Ministers on official visits.</p><p>Information relating to Ministers' overseas visits are published on my Department’s website, as part of the Government’s wider transparency agenda.</p><p>All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/12/2015 16:25:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

436534

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	902477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>We are committed to the Freedom of Information Act. An independent commission was established review the workings of the Act. The Government will consider the Commission’s report when it is received.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/12/2015 17:58:14 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

436536

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the morale of staff within the civil service.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	902481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>It should be a source of pride that the Civil Service has successfully changed the way it operates and become more efficient - it is now delivering far more, for less, than it did before 2010. It is a tribute to the dedication and work of individual Civil Servants that job satisfaction remains high and wellbeing has increased.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/12/2015 17:56:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

436538

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to implement efficiency savings across government departments.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Sir Simon Burns
uin	902475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>In May 2010 the deficit between government revenue and public spending was the largest percentage of GDP of any developed country. As part of our long-term economic plan to ensure the country lives within its means, we took action to drive efficiency from day one.</p><p>By 2014/15 the Government had saved £18.6 billion through efficiency and reform, and tackling fraud, error and uncollected debt (against a 2009/10 baseline). At a very conservative estimate this is equivalent to £850 for each working household across Britain.</p><p>The £18.6 billion saving includes £6.1 billion by improving how government buys goods and services and £1.5 billion by transforming how government works, including putting services and transactions online and rationalising the government’s property portfolio - releasing government land, by moving to shared property and using less office space, enables land to be released which can be put to better economic use.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/12/2015 17:57:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

436541

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Industrial Relations
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 effect of the provisions in the Trade Union Bill on industrial relations within the civil service.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	902480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Modernising the law governing Trade Unions will improve industrial relations. We have already seen the benefits in the Civil Service of reforming facility time, where we have delivered a saving to the taxpayer of over £52million, and the majority of departments have removed the outdated system of collecting union dues by check off. These benefits will now be delivered across the public sector.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/12/2015 17:57:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

436542

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Welsh Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Welsh language is taken into account in his Department's policy development processes.
tabling member constituency	Montgomeryshire
tabling member printed	Glyn Davies
uin	902478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>We expect all policy making to take account of the needs of all parts of the UK, including Wales, and continue to build up our policy making capability to do so. The government fully recognises the importance of the Welsh language in providing services to citizens. For Cabinet Office, the priority is to make sure that GOV.UK carries high quality Welsh content and to provide the tools for other parts of government to publish in both languages.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/12/2015 17:56:50 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4041 label Biography information for Glyn Davies