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1135841

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date	01/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Plastics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that procurement processes reduce the use of single-use plastics.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	271372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has stated that the commitment in the 25 Year Environment Plan to remove all Consumer Single-Use Plastics (CSUP) from the central government estate offices will be delivered by 2020, with the option for any department to do so earlier if desired.</p><p>In advance of this ban on CSUP, Cabinet Office and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) have developed an elimination scheme to be implemented through the facilities management (FM) suppliers on the CCS FM framework. It has established steps that can be taken to remove CSUP from new and existing contracts with departments at neutral cost, in support of this commitment.</p><p>The elimination scheme took effect from 1 August 2018, enabling departments and supply chains (including those related to waste management) to phase in alternatives to CSUP in time for the ban coming into force. Government’s FM suppliers report that these steps are helping lead many of their private sector clients to adopt similar plastics elimination measures.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 04/07/2019 15:45:11 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1131218

registered interest
date	11/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of Government Departments that plan to set up foodbanks in their offices.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	263052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">We are not aware that any department has plans to open a foodbank.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government is committed to ensuring our democracy is robust, trusted and open so all those who are eligible can participate with confidence. We have convened partners in local authorities and homeless charities to codesign and test ideas to address barriers to electoral registration for the homeless. These will be made available shortly on Gov.uk.</del></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 17/06/2019 13:16:18 question first ministerially corrected 27/06/2019 15:57:41 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden previous answer version 123008 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1131219

registered interest
date	11/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of staff in his Department in London that are paid less than the London living wage.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	263053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>No staff in Cabinet Office are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage of £10.55 per hour.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 17/06/2019 16:15:38 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1091288

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of civil servants employed directly or indirectly by the Government (a) inside and (b) outside of Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	234079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to paying people a decent living wage, which is being addressed through the national living wage, with a commitment to increase this to reach 60% of median earnings by 2020. As of 31 March 2018, 0.9% of civil servants employed by the Government inside of London were paid below the London Living Wage rate of £10.20 per hour and 1.9% of civil servants outside of Londno, including where their location is not specified in this dataset, were paid below the Living Wage rate of £8.75 per hour. Data is not held centrally on indirectly employed agency staff and contractors working in government departments.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/03/2019 14:36:38 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1088364

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Stress
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of stress in the civil service.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	231901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to the health and wellbeing of all our staff, including helping them to manage stress in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed to delivering the Thriving at Work standards to refine our approach to mental health support in the workplace. The Civil Service health and wellbeing strategy features specific actions including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A Health and Wellbeing Dashboard which tracks progress against six health and wellbeing indicators.</li><li>Wellbeing Confident Leaders interventions to equip all Senior Civil Servants with the knowledge and tools to understand their impact on staff stress and embed wellbeing into planning, decision-making, communications and change management.</li><li>A Resilience and Wellbeing toolkit that includes learning, resources, frequently asked questions (FAQs) and practical tips to manage resilience and wellbeing individually or in team supplemented by departmental resources.</li><li>Promoting softer adjustments for mental ill health such as adjustable start and finish times and working from home</li></ul><p>Building a network of an estimated 4000 Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA’s) or equivalent who are equipped with the knowledge to recognise early symptoms and provide initial help to colleagues experiencing mental health concerns.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 18/03/2019 15:07:12 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1012323

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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 information his Department holds on the socio-economic background of civil servants employed in each Government Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	194607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office holds data on socio-economic background (SEB) in the following ways: from applications to the Fast Stream graduate programme and the centrally run accelerated development schemes, including the Future Leaders’ Scheme (FLS), the High Potential Development Scheme (HPDS) and the Senior Leaders’ Scheme (SLS) and is piloting other ways of gaining data, on a voluntary and anonymous basis, including from the annual People Survey, in future years.</p><p> </p><p>The SEB measures are questions which the Civil Service developed over two years to assess socio-economic background.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service Fast Stream has been recording socioeconomic background data of its applicants since 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service Future Leaders Scheme (FLS) and Senior Leaders Scheme (SLS) have been recording SEB data from its applicants since 2016. The Civil Service High Potential Development Scheme have been recording SEB data from its applicants since 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Individual departments may have undertaken surveys of the socio-economic background of their employees, but this is not held by the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/11/2018 11:22:33 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham