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1719556

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Veterans
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 19 March 2024 to Question 18033 on Civil Servants: Veterans, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans from minority ethnic backgrounds that were employed through the Great Place to Work for Veterans scheme in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	27241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>I have nothing further to add to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member on 20 May 2024. (UINs PQ26837-PQ26838-PQ26840).<strong><br></strong></p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 27242 question first answered 24/05/2024 10:39:13 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719557

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Veterans
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 1 March 2024 to Question 15550 on Civil Servants: Veterans, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans that were employed through the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative in the West Midlands in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	27242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>I have nothing further to add to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member on 20 May 2024. (UINs PQ26837-PQ26838-PQ26840).<strong><br></strong></p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 27241 question first answered 24/05/2024 10:39:13 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719023

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Veterans
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 19 March 2024 to Question 18034 on Civil Servants: Veterans, what his planned timetable is for implementation of those improvements.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>Further to question 18034, the Office of Veterans’ Affairs plans to launch the improvements by October.</p><p>Updated guidance on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> for veterans is underway, and will be updated iteratively as we work through the pages available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 24/05/2024 11:00:09 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719024

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Veterans
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 19 March 2024 to Question 18036 on Civil Servants: Veterans, whether he plans to capture regional data on veterans who access employment through the Great Work for Veterans initiative.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that all veterans have equal opportunities and can access valuable, sustainable careers, including in the Civil Service, after they leave the Armed Forces.</p><p>A breakdown of demographics and locations of veterans who apply to Civil Service roles is not held in the format requested.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 26838 26840 question first answered 24/05/2024 12:09:14 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719025

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Veterans
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 potential merits of collecting data on minority ethnic veterans employed through the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that all veterans have equal opportunities and can access valuable, sustainable careers, including in the Civil Service, after they leave the Armed Forces.</p><p>A breakdown of demographics and locations of veterans who apply to Civil Service roles is not held in the format requested.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 26837 26840 question first answered 24/05/2024 12:09:15 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719026

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Employment Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Veterans’ Career Development Fund on employment levels for veterans.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that our veterans and their families have equitable access and opportunity to a full range of career options after leaving military service, including access to the qualifications, training and skills development they may need to progress in their careers.</p><p>The recently announced Op PROSPER backed by £2.1 million in government funding includes the £700,000 Veterans’ Career Development Fund grant, which makes funding available to organisations providing qualifications, training and skills development to veterans and their families in locally based communities across the country.</p><p>The Veterans’ Career Development Fund is administered as a grant by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, and includes a planned evaluation of the overall Op PROSPER programme and its outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 24/05/2024 11:53:25 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719027

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Employment Schemes
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 the effectiveness of the Going Forward into Employment scheme for supporting ethnic minority veterans.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that all veterans have equal opportunities and can access valuable, sustainable careers, including in the Civil Service, after they leave the Armed Forces.</p><p>A breakdown of demographics and locations of veterans who apply to Civil Service roles is not held in the format requested.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 26837 26838 question first answered 24/05/2024 12:09:15 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719085

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking further steps with private sector employers to help support more veterans into employment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that our veterans and their families have equitable access and opportunity to a full range of career options after leaving military service, and to working with employers to make this vision a reality.</p><p>The recently announced Op PROSPER backed by £2.1 million in government funding will work closely with employers and industry bodies to establish new clear and accessible routes for veterans and their families into employment which makes the most of their skills and capabilities, in key industries at the forefront of innovation and economic growth.</p><p>We have also introduced and continued 12-month National Insurance relief for eligible employers recruiting veterans in their first civilian role after leaving military service, which is of benefit to all businesses and employers across the country.</p><p>This work is supported by the OVA-launched Employers Guide to Hiring Veterans which showcases innovation and best practice and the OVA-hosted Veteran Employers’ Group brings together leading employers from across the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 26843 question first answered 24/05/2024 10:58:18 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719086

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Employment
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 private sector employers on the employment of veterans.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that our veterans and their families have equitable access and opportunity to a full range of career options after leaving military service, and to working with employers to make this vision a reality.</p><p>The recently announced Op PROSPER backed by £2.1 million in government funding will work closely with employers and industry bodies to establish new clear and accessible routes for veterans and their families into employment which makes the most of their skills and capabilities, in key industries at the forefront of innovation and economic growth.</p><p>We have also introduced and continued 12-month National Insurance relief for eligible employers recruiting veterans in their first civilian role after leaving military service, which is of benefit to all businesses and employers across the country.</p><p>This work is supported by the OVA-launched Employers Guide to Hiring Veterans which showcases innovation and best practice and the OVA-hosted Veteran Employers’ Group brings together leading employers from across the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 26842 question first answered 24/05/2024 10:58:19 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719087

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: New Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what support his Department is providing to veterans to help them become entrepreneurs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making sure that our veterans have equitable access and opportunity to a full range of career options after leaving military service, including self-employment, SME (small &amp; medium-sized enterprise) ownership and entrepreneurship.</p><p>The Government-owned British Business Bank has a specialist delivery partner, X-Forces Enterprise, for its Start Up Loans programme which specifically supports veterans, members of the wider Armed Forces community and their family members. Since 2013 there have been over 3000 Start Up Loans delivered by X-Forces Enterprise, totalling over £33 million of finance provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 24/05/2024 10:41:03 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe