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1136523

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Public Appointments
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 May 2019 to Question 255390, whether strategic oversight for the collection and use of data held by Government departments provided by the cross-government Data Advisory Board, chaired by the Chief Executive of the Civil Service, is a permanent​ arrangement.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	272942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Yes. The cross-government Data Advisory Board, chaired by the Chief Executive of the Civil Service, is a permanent board that provides strategic oversight for the collection and use of data held by Government departments.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 08/07/2019 15:11:29 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1136585

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to implement the Law Commission’s recommendation to consolidate the UK’s electoral laws into a single, consistent legislative framework governing all elections.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	272740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is continuing to work with the Law Commission, as well as other stakeholders such as the Electoral Commission, to consider ways to streamline and clarify our electoral system in order to make elections easier to administer and therefore more resilient to errors or fraud.<strong> </strong></p><p>We will consider their proposals in full once we receive the Law Commission’s final report.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/07/2019 13:14:12 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1136662

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the capacity of civil service pension funds to engage in shareholder advocacy with the companies in which they have holdings; and to what extent those funds have exercised that capacity to date.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	272842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>‘The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme and Civil Servants and Others Pension Scheme’ are unfunded schemes and therefore do not engage in shareholder advocacy as they do not have any direct share holdings in companies.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/07/2019 13:19:55 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1136670

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on the assessment of the reasons that EU citizens living in the UK were unable to register and vote in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	272799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>In line with their statutory duty, the Electoral Commission will be publishing a report into the administration of the polls later this year. The Government will consider this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/07/2019 13:13:20 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1136671

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with the Electoral Commission on EU citizens being unable to vote in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	272800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Ministers and officials meet frequently with external officials to discuss a wide range of electoral issues.</p><p>Details of external meetings by Ministers and Permanent Secretaries are published quarterly and are available on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/07/2019 13:13:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1136672

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the level of voter turnout of EU citizens living in the UK at the 2019 European Parliament elections.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	272801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Data on voting rates per nationality in the 2019 European elections is not collected centrally.</p><p>In line with their statutory duty, the Electoral Commission will be publishing a report into the administration of the polls later this year. The Government will consider this in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/07/2019 13:14:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1136713

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Overtime
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 amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in his Department in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	272747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Information about unpaid overtime is not held. Cabinet Office encourages staff and their Line Managers to adopt positive work/life balance arrangements which includes flexible working hours and working from home whilst ensuring business needs are met. But this is managed at a local level within Business Groups where it is the responsibility of line managers to ensure their staff are not working excessive hours and comply with the requirements of the Working Time Regulations 1998.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/07/2019 13:18:08 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1136759

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Bain and Company
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many consultancy contracts they have with Bain & Company, broken down by each government department.
tabling member printed	Lord Hain
uin	HL16909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>In order to enable government departments to quickly secure resource for critical work on preparations and implementation of EU exit at pace, the Cabinet Office have put in place a set of contracts for all government departments to access. This includes a contract with Bain and Co. The contracts have been published on contracts finder and spend under this arrangement is published monthly on GOV.UK titled ‘Central EU Exit Consultancy’.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL16910 question first answered 15/07/2019 14:53:31 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1136760

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Bain and Company
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any government department has used Bain & Company for any consultancy or advisory work since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Hain
uin	HL16910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>In order to enable government departments to quickly secure resource for critical work on preparations and implementation of EU exit at pace, the Cabinet Office have put in place a set of contracts for all government departments to access. This includes a contract with Bain and Co. The contracts have been published on contracts finder and spend under this arrangement is published monthly on GOV.UK titled ‘Central EU Exit Consultancy’.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL16909 question first answered 15/07/2019 14:53:31 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1136761

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Bain and Company
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration, if any, they have given to the probity and quality of Bain & Company's consultancy work for the South African Revenue Service in regard to any work by that consultancy for government departments.
tabling member printed	Lord Hain
uin	HL16911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is aware of this situation and is monitoring it. Assessments on the probity and quality of work on individual UK Government contracts are undertaken on a department by department basis.</p><p>A UK Government department seeking bids for contracts covered by the Public Contracts Regulations would need to follow the rules on exclusions as defined within Regulation 57.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/07/2019 14:54:50 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain