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484427

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Anti-corruption Champion
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 21 March 2016 to Question 31068, how many meetings the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion had with (a) Ministers and officials of other government departments and (b) representatives from civil society and business between July 2015 and the end of February 2016.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	32148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>All Cabinet Office costs are published in its annual report and accounts available on the GOV.UK website.</p><p>The Anti-Corruption Champion has had a range of meetings with Ministers and officials from other government departments, as well as representatives from civil society and business, both in the United Kingdom (UK) and overseas.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 32149 question first answered 11/04/2016 09:54:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

484428

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Corruption
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 21 March 2016 to Question 31069 on corruption, what the usual practice is for disclosing such costs.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	32149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>All Cabinet Office costs are published in its annual report and accounts available on the GOV.UK website.</p><p>The Anti-Corruption Champion has had a range of meetings with Ministers and officials from other government departments, as well as representatives from civil society and business, both in the United Kingdom (UK) and overseas.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 32148 question first answered 11/04/2016 09:54:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

482990

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress his Department has made on allowing interns who successfully complete the Summer Diversity Internship Programme to pass straight to the Fast Stream assessment centre on the basis of having successfully completed that internship.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>We have been working closely with the Civil Service Commission to provide a mechanism for fast tracking those who have been on the internship to the Fast Stream assessment centre, based on positive appraisal of the intern’s placement performance and completion of the initial internship selection testing.</p><p>This initiative is therefore for interns who are successful during the internship programme and we are currently working through the implementation plan.</p><p>In the last 5 years 778 have undertaken the programme (2011 – 73; 2012 – 115; 2013 – 161; 2014 – 173; 2015 – 256), with a further 300 anticipated this year. The estimated conversion rate into Fast Stream is 10-15%. Accurate tracking of success into Fast Stream will be achievable for 2016, using an updated applicant tracking approach.</p><p>A number of criteria are used to measure socio-economic status, however the metric that is now used to designate lower socio-economic background is parental occupation (aligning with Office of National Statistics methodology). This approach is currently under review following a recent social mobility research study by the Bridge Group.</p><p>This internship allowance is taxable and the amount of tax paid will depend on which tax code the intern is put on before they start.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 31804 31809 31813 question first answered 24/03/2016 16:43:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

482991

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have participated in the Summer Diversity Internship Programme since its inception; and how many of those participants have subsequently been accepted onto the Civil Service Fast Stream.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>We have been working closely with the Civil Service Commission to provide a mechanism for fast tracking those who have been on the internship to the Fast Stream assessment centre, based on positive appraisal of the intern’s placement performance and completion of the initial internship selection testing.</p><p>This initiative is therefore for interns who are successful during the internship programme and we are currently working through the implementation plan.</p><p>In the last 5 years 778 have undertaken the programme (2011 – 73; 2012 – 115; 2013 – 161; 2014 – 173; 2015 – 256), with a further 300 anticipated this year. The estimated conversion rate into Fast Stream is 10-15%. Accurate tracking of success into Fast Stream will be achievable for 2016, using an updated applicant tracking approach.</p><p>A number of criteria are used to measure socio-economic status, however the metric that is now used to designate lower socio-economic background is parental occupation (aligning with Office of National Statistics methodology). This approach is currently under review following a recent social mobility research study by the Bridge Group.</p><p>This internship allowance is taxable and the amount of tax paid will depend on which tax code the intern is put on before they start.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 31803 31809 31813 question first answered 24/03/2016 16:43:36 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

482992

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the eligibility criteria are for the Summer Diversity Internship Programme for socially or economically disadvantaged groups.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>We have been working closely with the Civil Service Commission to provide a mechanism for fast tracking those who have been on the internship to the Fast Stream assessment centre, based on positive appraisal of the intern’s placement performance and completion of the initial internship selection testing.</p><p>This initiative is therefore for interns who are successful during the internship programme and we are currently working through the implementation plan.</p><p>In the last 5 years 778 have undertaken the programme (2011 – 73; 2012 – 115; 2013 – 161; 2014 – 173; 2015 – 256), with a further 300 anticipated this year. The estimated conversion rate into Fast Stream is 10-15%. Accurate tracking of success into Fast Stream will be achievable for 2016, using an updated applicant tracking approach.</p><p>A number of criteria are used to measure socio-economic status, however the metric that is now used to designate lower socio-economic background is parental occupation (aligning with Office of National Statistics methodology). This approach is currently under review following a recent social mobility research study by the Bridge Group.</p><p>This internship allowance is taxable and the amount of tax paid will depend on which tax code the intern is put on before they start.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 31803 31804 31809 question first answered 24/03/2016 16:43:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

482993

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Summer Diversity Internship Programme weekly training allowance is taxed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>We have been working closely with the Civil Service Commission to provide a mechanism for fast tracking those who have been on the internship to the Fast Stream assessment centre, based on positive appraisal of the intern’s placement performance and completion of the initial internship selection testing.</p><p>This initiative is therefore for interns who are successful during the internship programme and we are currently working through the implementation plan.</p><p>In the last 5 years 778 have undertaken the programme (2011 – 73; 2012 – 115; 2013 – 161; 2014 – 173; 2015 – 256), with a further 300 anticipated this year. The estimated conversion rate into Fast Stream is 10-15%. Accurate tracking of success into Fast Stream will be achievable for 2016, using an updated applicant tracking approach.</p><p>A number of criteria are used to measure socio-economic status, however the metric that is now used to designate lower socio-economic background is parental occupation (aligning with Office of National Statistics methodology). This approach is currently under review following a recent social mobility research study by the Bridge Group.</p><p>This internship allowance is taxable and the amount of tax paid will depend on which tax code the intern is put on before they start.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 31803 31804 31813 question first answered 24/03/2016 16:43:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

482994

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Social Class
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to introduce a civil service wide socio-economic background census.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>On 24 March, we published our 2016 Talent Action Plan for the Civil Service. As well as providing a progress update, it sets out how we will increase social mobility in the Civil Service.</p><p>We are making a specific commitment that the Civil Service will lead the way, working with major employers and organisations promoting social mobility, to develop a national set of measures of socio-economic background for employers.</p><p>The Civil Service will use these to measure the socio-economic background of its workforce, starting with the Senior Civil Service, the Fast Stream, apprenticeship starts and applicants to our corporate talent programmes.</p><p>The 2016 Talent Action Plan is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/04/2016 10:02:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

480618

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 5 of the publication, Socio-Economic Diversity in the Fast Stream, published in February 2016, what progress his Department has made on (a) targeting universities and academic departments, (b) evaluating the impact of campus activity and schools outreach, (c) the iterative use of live recruitment data to inform approaches to promoting SEB diversity and (d) introducing other enhanced data insights to direct resources more effectively through the attraction process.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>On 2 February we published a report by the Bridge Group on socio-economic diversity in the Civil Service’s flagship graduate recruitment programme, the Fast Stream. This report can be accessed from the link at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/socio-economic-diversity-in-the-fast-stream-the-bridge-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/socio-economic-diversity-in-the-fast-stream-the-bridge-report</a></p><p>We have today published our 2016 Talent Action Plan for the civil service. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success</a>. This will set out how we will increase social mobility in the civil service, including how we will implement the recommendations by the Bridge Group on increasing socio-economic diversity in our flagship graduate recruitment programme, the Fast Stream.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/03/2016 14:34:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 53237 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479501

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of producing single departmental plans for each central government department.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>All departments undertake business planning and performance management as part of business-as-usual to ensure the effective delivery of government. Single departmental plans have been introduced in this Parliament to be a common framework by which departments manage this business and the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury tracks progress against its commitments to the public.</p><p>The production of plans is part of this routine business planning, rather than an additional activity at additional cost. By rationalising reporting, we expect the process to become more efficient as it embeds.</p> answering member constituency West Dorset answering member printed Mr Oliver Letwin question first answered 22/03/2016 14:07:37 answering member 247 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Letwin
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479503

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of diversity of membership of the Civil Service Board; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Civil Service Board is the highest level of governance and the most senior collective leadership body. It is Chaired by the Cabinet Secretary and comprises the Chief Executive and senior Permanent Secretaries. Its current membership is:</p><p>Sir Jeremy Heywood</p><p>Melanie Dawes</p><p>Sir Robert Devereux</p><p>Dame Lin Homer</p><p>Sir Derek Jones</p><p>Mark Lowcock</p><p>John Manzoni</p><p>Sir Nick Macpherson</p><p>Sir Simon McDonald</p><p>Dame Una O'Brien</p><p>Mark Sedwill</p><p>Jon Thompson</p><p>Chris Wormold</p><p>Appointments to the Civil Service Board are made by the Chair and are selected from the pool of Permanent Secretaries who are heads of department. Board membership is reviewed on an ongoing basis and diversity is always a key consideration when making new appointments.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/04/2016 09:59:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh