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884965

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what procedures are in place for Ministers to respond appropriately to correspondence from children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	135953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2018 answer text <p>Government Departments have worked with the Welsh Language Commissioner to develop their schemes.</p><p>Under the principle of equality, departments will write in Welsh to an individual, group or organisation which they know works mainly in Welsh, or which has already notified us that it prefers to receive letters in Welsh. It will also respond in Welsh following a face-to face meeting or telephone call conducted in Welsh where follow-up correspondence is required (unless they have indicated they would prefer a response in English).</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/04/2018 12:20:40 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

882268

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Family Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish his Department's report entitled Public Family Law Pressures - what do we know and what can be done.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	135390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the reply given to PQ125880 on 5 February 2018.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/04/2018 10:42:10 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

882433

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Statement of 13 March 2018, Spring Statement, HCWS 540, if he will publish a list of where the £49.4 million in EU exit funding for his Department will be allocated.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	135495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2018 answer text <p>My department has been allocated £49.4 million for essential EU Exit preparations in 2018-19. This will be spent on work to ensure departments have access to the specialist resource needed to deliver a successful EU Exit. As with all Reserve funding, finalised allocations will be confirmed at Supplementary Estimates 2018-19 in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/04/2018 10:53:29 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

882726

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Travellers
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 3 April 2018 to Question 134113, what progress (a) his Department and (b) the Race Disparity Inter-ministerial Group has made to ensure that government departments not currently collecting data based on the 2011 census classification for Gypsy Roma or Traveller start using those classifications.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	135788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2018 answer text <p>The ethnicity data published on the <em>Ethnicity Facts and Figures</em> website includes data from the Census, published official statistics, numerous Government surveys and Departments’ own administrative records.</p><p>Currently, the website has 48 measures (web pages) that present data using the detailed classification of ethnicity developed for the 2011 Census, which includes Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma Travellers (GRT). However, figures for the GRT ethnic group in some of these measures were suppressed for reasons of confidentiality protection and/or because the numbers were too small to enable robust estimates to be produced.</p><p>We continue to work with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Government Departments to identify methods to improve ethnicity data collection, consistency and how best to address data gaps for ethnic groups including GRT.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington grouped question UIN 135850 question first answered 20/04/2018 10:56:38 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

882792

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Travellers: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the response from Marcus Bell, Director, Race Disparity Audit, on 7 February 2018 to Q143 from the Women and Equalities Committee Oral Evidence: Race Disparity Audit, HC 5462, that none of the reasons given means that going forward there is nothing that can be done, what steps his Department is taking to include Gypsy, Roma and Travellers in the Race Disparity Audit data.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	135850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2018 answer text <p>The ethnicity data published on the <em>Ethnicity Facts and Figures</em> website includes data from the Census, published official statistics, numerous Government surveys and Departments’ own administrative records.</p><p>Currently, the website has 48 measures (web pages) that present data using the detailed classification of ethnicity developed for the 2011 Census, which includes Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma Travellers (GRT). However, figures for the GRT ethnic group in some of these measures were suppressed for reasons of confidentiality protection and/or because the numbers were too small to enable robust estimates to be produced.</p><p>We continue to work with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Government Departments to identify methods to improve ethnicity data collection, consistency and how best to address data gaps for ethnic groups including GRT.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington grouped question UIN 135788 question first answered 20/04/2018 10:56:38 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

874815

registered interest
date	06/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact report, The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund's (CSSF) aid spending: A performance review, published March 2018, what steps the Government is taking to tackle gaps in results management; and what assessment his Department has made of the value for money of existing CSSF programmes.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	135116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>Ministers will carefully consider all of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s recommendations and the Government will formally respond to them by 10 May 2018. The response will be made public on GOV.UK and deposited in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 18/04/2018 13:50:01 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

874813

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
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 develop policy guidance for security and justice work undertaken through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	135114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF<em>) </em>staff can access thematic training and analysis from across government on security and justice. The Stabilisation Unit (SU) designed a new Security and Justice training course in 2017, which was delivered both in the UK and overseas. The SU is producing a new Stabilisation Handbook, which will have chapters covering thematic issues including security and justice. It will contain advice and guidance on how to deliver programmes effectively and share best practice on operating and delivering in conflict and stabilisation contexts. The Handbook will be published later this year and will be used by the CSSF staff and implementing partners.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/04/2018 09:32:03 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

874821

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of Conflict, Stability and Security Fund spending by thematic area incurred by each Government department in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	135122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on CSSF thematic and department spend for financial year 16/17 can be found in our published Annual Report and Programme Summaries – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-cssf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-cssf</a></p><p>Further details of department, regional and thematic spend for financial year 17/18 will be published in the CSSF Annual Report, due to be released in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/04/2018 09:28:56 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

874822

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Security Capability Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the National Security Capability Review, published March 2018, whether the Government plans to produce a joint doctrine publication on the Fusion Doctrine.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	135123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Joint Doctrine publications are produced by the Ministry of Defence for defence purposes. They articulate how joint operators need to be told what to do to ensure safe, effective and coherent actions in operations. Joint Doctrine as a concept is explained in more detail at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/developing-joint-doctrine-handbook" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/developing-joint-doctrine-handbook</a></p><p>The Fusion Doctrine is the name we have given to a new whole-of-government approach to how we strengthen our national security. Further details of the Fusion Doctrine can be found on pages 10 and 11 of the National Security Capability Review available at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-capability-review-nscr" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-capability-review-nscr</a></p><p>The Government has no plans to produce a joint doctrine publication on the Fusion Doctrine at the present time.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/04/2018 09:34:47 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

874826

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of Conflict, Stability and Security Fund spending by country and region incurred by each Government department in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	135127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on CSSF spend by country, region and department for financial year 16/17 can be found in our published Annual Report and Programme Summaries – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-cssf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-cssf</a></p><p>Further details of department, regional and thematic spend for financial year 17/18 will be published in the CSSF Annual Report, due to be released in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/04/2018 09:30:11 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones