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1653216

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Visits: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many visits he has made to Wales since his appointment.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	194291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>I attended a Civil Service Live event at Cardiff’s City Hall on Thursday 13 July 2023, marking my first official trip to Wales since being appointed. I look forward to visiting Wales again in the future.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 24/07/2023 15:28:48 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1584574

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to improve the energy efficiency of Government buildings.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	140356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Net Zero Strategy, the Government aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from public sector buildings by 75% by 2037. To support this, £2.5 billion is being invested through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme over the financial years 2020/21 to 2024/25 to provide grants for public sector bodies in England to fund heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency measures.</p><p>The Office for Government Property has published the Net Zero Estate Playbook providing guidance to support government property organisations to decarbonise their estate. This includes recommendations of how to reduce operational energy use, including through fabric improvements.</p><p>The Government Property Function on 15 November published its Government Property Strategy, which commits to delivering a range of interventions designed to create a smaller, better, and greener public estate. The greener element is focused on supporting delivery of the Greening Government Commitments, which include carbon emissions reduction targets for all government departments.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 14/02/2023 16:07:41 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1584575

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason some Government buildings are lit internally outside of normal working hours.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	140357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government Property Agency (GPA) in the Cabinet Office manages government office buildings on behalf of occupying departments. This response is limited to the office estate that it manages.</p><p>There are many reasons why government buildings could be lit outside normal working hours. For example, cleaning, engineering, and security teams all carry out duties out of hours, alongside civil servants and ministers undertaking urgent tasks.. This work could not be done without internal lighting in government buildings.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 15/02/2023 10:57:49 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1522439

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Chequers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on which date the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip made his last visit to Chequers.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	63330
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer of UIN 54005, 18 October 2021 [of session 2021 - 2022].</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/10/2022 14:22:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1522440

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Chequers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Prime Minister has visited Chequers since her appointment as Prime Minister.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	63331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer of UIN 54005, 18 October 2021 [of session 2021 - 2022].</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/10/2022 14:23:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1521344

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Food: Newport West
	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 average annual grocery bill for residents in Newport West constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	62105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 12 October is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/10/2022 14:12:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name UKSA_Response_to_PQ62105.pdf title Annual grocery bills
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1490388

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Temperature
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he discussed with the Welsh Government plans to announce a level 4 alert under the Heatwave Plan for England before that announcement was made on 15 July 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	38837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>Officials from the Welsh Government were first engaged by their counterparts in the Cabinet Office and the Met Office with respect to the possible severity of the current heatwave on 7 July 2022.</p><p>The First Minister for Wales was directly engaged by Cabinet Office Ministers on 14 July 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 22/07/2022 13:08:14 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1487992

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many former Ministers will be entitled to severance pay since 6 June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	33926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>Under the provisions of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, a former eligible minister only becomes entitled to a severance payment in the event that they are not appointed to another relevant office within three weeks of stepping down. Currently, no minister who has left office since 6 June 2022 is entitled to a severance payment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/07/2022 14:28:38 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1458541

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers: Codes of Practice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the fixed penalty notices issued to hon Members of Her Majesty's Government in April 2022, if he will undertake a review of the adequacy of the Ministerial Code.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	155915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The Ministerial Code is the responsibility of the Prime Minister of the day, as befits his or her constitutional position as the Sovereign’s principal adviser, and is customarily updated and issued upon their assuming or returning to office.</p><p> </p><p>Section 1.6 of the Ministerial Code sets out that Ministers are personally responsible for deciding how to act and conduct themselves in the light of the Code, and for justifying their actions and conduct to Parliament and the public.</p><p> </p><p>With reference to the fixed penalty notice, I would refer you to the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of 19 April 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 27/04/2022 10:50:35 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1454313

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Racial Discrimination
	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 tackle alleged racial discrimination in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	147100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>A ‘Respect and Inclusion review’ for the Cabinet Office is currently underway. In the recent <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/declaration-on-government-reform" target="_blank">Declaration on Government reform</a>, Ministers and Permanent Secretaries committed to set a new standard for diversity and inclusion, including guaranteeing fairness at work and zero tolerance for Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination.</p><p>Our position at the centre of government - delivering against an ambitious agenda - means we have a responsibility to get this right. The review will have a particular focus on race and disability where our data shows scope for improvement.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 31/03/2022 08:20:01 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones