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1133269

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Kier Group: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions the Government has had with Kier on the effect of job redundancies at Kier on delivery of public services by that company.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	266675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>We continue to monitor the financial health of all of our strategic suppliers, including Kier. We remain in close communication with Kier’s management and will continue to discuss their proposed strategy. Kier has a large number of contracts across the private and public sector and we are confident they can continue to deliver quality public services.<br /><del class="ministerial">Kier has a large number of contracts across the private and public sector and we are confident they can continue to deliver quality public services.</del></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 24/06/2019 14:41:18 question first ministerially corrected 25/06/2019 10:45:21 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden previous answer version 124697 answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1133270

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Kier Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Kier has indicated to his Department that it plans to terminate any of the public sector contracts it holds.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	266676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>We remain in close communication with Kier’s management and will continue to discuss their proposed strategy. Our priority is always to protect the continuity of public services.</p><p>Kier has a large number of contracts across the private and public sector and we are confident they can continue to deliver quality public services.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Kier has a large number of contracts across the private and public sector and we are confident they can continue to deliver quality public services.</del></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 24/06/2019 14:37:25 question first ministerially corrected 25/06/2019 10:45:02 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden previous answer version 124690 answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1133285

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Kier Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the new rules to prevent government suppliers from winning government contracts if they do not pay their suppliers on time are now in force; and whether Kier's recent payment performance falls below the standards expected by those rules.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	266680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>From 1 September, in government procurements that are over £5m per annum and subject to the Public Contract Regulations 2015, suppliers will need to demonstrate good payment with their subcontractors. Suppliers that cannot demonstrate a fair, effective and responsible approach to payment in their supply chain should expect to be excluded from the procurement process for major government contracts.</p><p>The payment performance of all large businesses, including Kier and its relevant corporate entities, is available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/check-when-businesses-pay-invoices" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/check-when-businesses-pay-invoices</a>.</p><p>Kier has a large number of contracts across the private and public sector and we are confident they can continue to deliver quality public services.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Kier has a large number of contracts across the private and public sector and we are confident they can continue to deliver quality public services.</del></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 24/06/2019 14:38:23 question first ministerially corrected 25/06/2019 10:44:40 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden previous answer version 124692 answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1130745

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pusuant to the Answers of 5 June 2019 to Questions 257798 and 257799, and in the format of the Answer of 11 April 2019 to Question 241458, what proportion of jobs in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire, (c) South Yorkshire and (c) Barnsley are paid the (i) National Living Wage and (ii) National Minimum Wage.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	261537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>Through the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW), the Government ensures that the lowest paid in our society are fairly rewarded for their work. April 2019’s increase to the NLW will see nearly 1.8 million workers in the UK receive a 4.9% pay rise. A full-time worker on the NLW will now be more than £2,750 better off over the year compared to when it was first announced in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides estimates for the number and proportion of jobs in the UK and Yorkshire and the Humber on the NLW and NMW in 2019. The most recent available data for Barnsley, and South Yorkshire, shows that there were an estimated 5,500 workers and 47,200 workers respectively who were on the NLW or NMW.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>National Living Wage</strong></ins></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>National Minimum Wage</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Number of jobs</em></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>% of jobs</em></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Number of jobs</em></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>% of jobs</em></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">UK</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,762,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">7.2%</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">341,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">9.8%</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Yorkshire and the Humber</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">172,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">8.8%</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">36,000</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">12.0%</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 13/06/2019 16:04:20 question first ministerially corrected 20/06/2019 15:16:09 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 122690 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1126921

registered interest
date	15/05/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of uprating state pensions for pensioners who live overseas.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	254754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">All political parties since WW2 have</del> <ins class="ministerial">Successive post-war Governments have followed</ins> the same policy. Up-rating UK State Pensions for recipients who are overseas residents is longstanding; state Pensions are payable worldwide and are up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The policy on the up-rating of UK State Pensions paid to recipients living outside the UK has been in place for over 70 years. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality. Entitlement to the UK State Pension is based on the national insurance contributions on a person’s national insurance record. The annual index-linked increases to UK State Pensions are paid to recipients overseas only where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in EEA countries or in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement in place that provides for the up-rating of the UK State Pension. The Government has no plans to change the policy <ins class="ministerial">upheld by all previous Governments, Labour, Coalition and Conservative for the past 70 years.</ins> <del class="ministerial">of all Governments, Labour, Coalition or Conservative since WW2.</del></p><p> </p><p>The estimated costs of up-rating state pensions overseas where they are currently not up-rated are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/05/2019 16:41:54 question first ministerially corrected 20/06/2019 15:16:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 119892 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1122465

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Infant Mortality
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 child infant mortality rate in each National Statistics socio-economic classification category in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	246460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to <del class="ministerial">reply.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">reply and a table has been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ 246460.pdf title UKSA Response 2 file name PQ 246460 - Table .xlsx title UKSA Response - Table 1 question first answered 29/04/2019 16:17:10 question first ministerially corrected 20/06/2019 15:16:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 115526 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ 246460.pdf title UKSA Response 2 file name PQ 246460 - Table .xlsx title UKSA Response - Table 1 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane