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1545980

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date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diphtheria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the procurement agreement reached by the UK Health and Security Agency with Instituto Butantan on 29 July 2022, contract reference C96116, what was the nature of the incident that led to the procurement exercise; where in the UK did that incident take place; and what was the impact of that incident on the number of vials of diphtheria antitoxin held in the national stockpile.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) routine procurement exercise for diphtheria antitoxin, contract reference C96116, was to replace expiring stock in the national stockpile and at National Health Service holding centres.</p><p> </p><p>UKHSA holds a small stock of diphtheria antitoxin to replenish National Health Service holding centres when the antitoxin is clinically indicated for use. The centrally held stock is replenished as required when stock is either issued to holding centres or expires. The antitoxin is rarely used in the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 13/12/2022 11:50:28 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 39012 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546078

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2022 to Question 31787 on Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, what net expenditure was incurred through the use of Travel and Expenses cards against her Department’s budget in calendar years (a) 2019, (b) 2020, and (c) 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>Net expenditure through the use of Travel and Expenses against the Home Office’s budget in calendar years 2019 to 2021 is detailed in the below table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>844,746</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>761,535</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>799,042</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/12/2022 15:44:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546079

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2022 to Question 31787 on Home Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, what transparency publication is used to publish details of expenditure against her Department’s budget through the use of Travel and Expenses cards.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the Travel and Expenditure (T&amp;E) card expense data.</p><p>However, the Home Office does publish Senior Civil Servant 2 grade and above business expenses, in the transparency data on Gov.uk (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-board-expenses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/home-office-board-expenses</a>) which may include T&amp;E expenses expenditure.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/12/2022 15:45:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546080

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2022 to Question 31787 on Home Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, how many of the (a) Government Procurement and (b) Travel and Expenses Cards were held by staff employed within her Department’s Policy and Enablers sections.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>Following an organisational restructure, Policy and Enablers is no longer a recognised sub-set of Home Office business.</p><p>Whilst we can sort by Corporate Enablers this does not stretch to a generic policy identification. The answer would only be available by manual sort at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/12/2022 15:45:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546082

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2022 to Question 31794 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, how many people working in her Department’s executive agencies held electronic purchasing cards that allowed them to make purchases against her Department's budget as of 31 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>The number of electronic purchasing card holders in each of Defra’s executive agencies is as follows.</p><p> </p><p>Animal and Plant Health Agency: 50</p><p>Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science: 266</p><p>Rural Payments Agency: 12</p><p>Veterinary Medicines Directorate: 12</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 30/12/2022 11:15:36 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546083

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Telefónica
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) key datasets and (b) other deliverables are that will be obtained through the contract agreed by his Department with Telefonica on 14 September 2022 with procurement reference C2289; if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of that contract; and if he will publish the business case for that contract.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The datasets, deliverables and business justification for this contract will not be published, nor a separate assessment prepared, on security grounds. This procurement activity relates to the National Situation Centre, which is exempt from publishing Commercially Sensitive documents under National Security Exemptions. This procurement activity is exempt under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Sections 23 (Security Bodies) and 24 (National Security), and also under Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Section 15 (National Security).</p><p>The National Situation Centre’s business justification, which will not be published in full for the reasons listed above, included the following requirements for this contract:</p><ol><li><p>Anonymised and aggregated people count estimates at low levels of geography</p></li><li><p>Data down to equally-sized geographic areas (for example grids or hexagons). These areas should be reasonably low levels of geography, such as having a radius of 500m or smaller.</p></li><li><p>Ideally, in addition to the above, data provided at MSOA (Middle Layer Super Output Area) level of detail or more geographically granular</p></li><li><p>Data anonymised and aggregated (no private/personal data to be collected or communicated from the supplier)</p></li><li><p>Minimum coverage of 30% of the UK population and data weighted/aggregated up to population level</p></li><li><p>No more than 15 minute latency period</p></li><li><p>Underlying data delivered through API and CSV file formats</p></li><li><p>Access to real-time data in front-end map format via a portal</p></li><li><p>Must cover the UK (including Scotland)</p></li><li><p>Total contract value to not exceed £803,500 (Ex VAT)</p></li><li><p>A reasonable baseline figure for people counts. This may be average hourly people counts in a given area for historic and current months.</p></li><li><p>Derived products must be shareable across resilience and operational partners</p></li></ol> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/12/2022 12:05:01 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546084

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Telefónica
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department is taking steps to obtain insights on the (a) movement, (b) demography, (c) mobility-patterns and (d) behaviour of the proportion of the UK population whose data will not be covered by the contract agreed by his Department with Telefonica on 14 September 2022 with procurement reference C2289.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The department is not taking any steps to obtain insights on the movement, demography, mobility-patterns and behaviour of the proportion of the UK population whose data will not be covered by the contract at present. The data obtained through the contract, which covers 30% of the UK population, may be weighted and aggregated up to population level.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/12/2022 12:05:30 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546086

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 59548 on Ministry of Defence: Travel, what was his Department’s net expenditure on travel and accommodation using Electronic Purchasing Cards against the centralised Ministry of Defence travel solution in the individual months of (a) June, (b) July, (c) August and (d) September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>Total net expenditure on travel and accommodation, for the months requested, using Electronic Purchasing Cards against the centralised Ministry of Defence travel solution was as follows:</p><p>June 2022 - £14,591,140.93</p><p>July 2022 - £17,398,688.47</p><p>August 2022 - £12,605,818.19</p><p>September 2022 - £17,887,193.99</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 06/12/2022 16:33:04 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546087

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for (a) his Department and (b) HMRC as performance-related bonuses in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>We report on our non-cash bonus data monthly within the Corporate Centre Group and this data is stored centrally for monitoring and audit purposes.</p><p> </p><p>o 2017-18 – No data available</p><p>o 2018-19 - £45,960 including tax</p><p>o 2019-20 - £65,820 including tax</p><p>o 2020-21 - £83,770 including tax</p><p>o 2021-22 - £59,500 including tax</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 06/12/2022 15:27:37 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1546088

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what was the total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for (a) her Department and (b) UK Export Finance as performance-related bonuses in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	97499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>Bonuses paid out as non-cash vouchers is a standard practice across Government. The EdenRed contract came into effect in 2017 which allows departments access to non-cash vouchers for staff. The total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for the Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance as performance-related bonuses is as below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2017-18 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2021-22 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT</p></td><td><p>£15,818</p></td><td><p>£32,841</p></td><td><p>£69,057</p></td><td><p>£136,235</p></td><td><p>£142,537</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UKEF</p></td><td><p>£3,750</p></td><td><p>£1,900</p></td><td><p>£2,610</p></td><td><p>£870</p></td><td><p>£765</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 13/12/2022 15:47:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry