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77401

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on responding to parliamentary questions where the subject file or letter is within the scope of the Official Secrets Act 1989.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	205432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office follows Cabinet Office guidance on drafting answers to Parliamentary Questions which is publicly available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 11:46:06 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

77405

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (i) have let and (ii) plan to let that are worth (A) between £1 million and £3 million and (B) over £3 million since 2010; how much his Department has spent on monitoring each such contract; and how many officials in his Department monitor each contract.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	205369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Since 2010, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has awarded 34 contracts over £3 million and 40 contracts between £1-3 million (lifetime value). Contracts awarded by agencies and Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) are delegated to the relevant agency or body.</p><p>We anticipate awarding a further 21 contracts between £1-3 million and 9 contracts over £3 million within the remainder of this Financial Year.</p><p>In keeping with the Government’s transparency commitments, since 2012 contracts are published online for public scrutiny. This means taxpayers can hold us to account and make sure our contracts provide them with value for money and achieve what they are supposed to do. Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.</p><p>In the last four years we have significantly built up our capability to commercially manage our contracts in line with wider government initiatives to improve supplier management. We have also provided training to officials to equip them with skills to negotiate the best prices with suppliers and resolve disputes satisfactorily and the FCO executive committee regularly meet supplier board members to oversee progress. We further manage risk and costs by appointing officials to manage individual contracts and be accountable the performance of each supplier.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 12:04:17 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77402

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Children: Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any files on child abuse have been passed to his Department by (a) other parts of the Government or (b) hon. Members; and in what year such files were so passed.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	205426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The FCO’s human resource, personnel security and records management departments are not aware of any files on child abuse which have been passed to the FCO from other parts of government or from Honorable Members.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 18:45:44 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann