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706180

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date	28/02/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	65977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>GLD expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: £12,252.00</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: £24,933.12</p><p> </p><p>GLD has consistently consumed 13,960 boxes (69,800 reams) of paper per annum for the last 5 years. The cost for the period 2016-17 to date was £76,241. Accurate costs for earlier periods cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>HMCPSI Expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: nil</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: nil</p><p> </p><p>Accurate costs for paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>CPS and AGO</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not spent any money on iPads in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS, including the Attorney General’s Office, spend on tablets over the last five years has been provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost of Tablet including VAT(£)</p><p>2012 75,412</p><p>2013 0</p><p>2014 0</p><p>2015 46,077</p><p>2016 25,885*</p><p>*costs are estimated for 2016</p><p> </p><p>(b) The CPS estimates that it has spent the following amounts on paper over the last 5 years:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost (£)</p><p>2012* 1,120,904</p><p>2013* 926,609</p><p>2014** 983,802</p><p>2015** 847,431</p><p>2016** 445,717</p><p>* costs for 2012 and 2013 are based on historic data provided by CPS stationery suppliers</p><p>** costs for 2014, 2015 and 2016 are estimated and based on total stationery spend for the periods.</p><p>To identify all expenditure that relates solely and specifically to paper would involve the manual checking of thousands of invoices and would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Accurate costs for AGO paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">SFO </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The SFO does not separately record paper costs from overall stationery expenditure.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Stationery Year Cost (£) </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 64,094</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 69,657</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 74,750</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 52,721</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 40,916 </em></ins><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>iPads &amp; Tablets <em>Year Cost (£)</em></em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 10,423</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 9,475</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>*</em><strong><em>Spend as at 31/01/2017</em></strong></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/03/2017 16:25:26 question first ministerially corrected 09/03/2017 14:52:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 39303 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

706181

registered interest
date	28/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	65978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to 2014 there was no support for any tablet or iPad devices on the Cabinet Office IT system nor were there any tablet or iPad items available for staff to purchase.</p><p>Since 2014 the Cabinet Office have purchased the following Ipads and Tablets:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£1,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£6,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£17,012</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Since April 2015 the Cabinet Office have outsourced the printing capability functions and the associated paper purchase costs to a new supplier on a new system.</p><p>Due to the migration of Cabinet Office financial records onto a new shared services financial system all paper purchases prior to 2015 were aggregated into an overall stationary cost so are not readily available within a reasonable timeframe for an answer to the question.</p><p>For the financial years 2015/16 and 2016/17 the following information is available:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£45,610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£29,198</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 65990 question first answered 15/03/2017 12:42:50 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

693172

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many staff in his Department are employed in media relations and communications roles; and how much was spent on the salaries of such staff members in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	65101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>My Department's central communications function is responsible for media relations and external communications. At 28 February 2017, 26.9 full time equivalent staff were employed in this team. In relation to salaries, the information is not held centrally for the time period requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/03/2017 14:22:46 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

693332

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are employed in media and communications roles; and what the cost to the public purse was for the salaries of those staff in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	65065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2017 answer text <p>As of 31 January 2017 the central communication directorate employed 152.7FTE staff (156 people) as communications and media staff.</p><p>36 staff are also employed in communications roles in RICU (Research, Information and Communications Unit).</p><p>On 01 April 2010 the Home Office employed 324 staff in communication roles across the central communication function, UK Border Agency (UKBA) and Identity and Passport Service .</p><p>Salary costs for the communication directorate and RICU over the last 6 years are in the attached table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Salary* costs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£11,989,256</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£11,256,647</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£11,005,522</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£11,861,727</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£12,134,539</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£12,566,713</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*These figures include some non communications support staff</p><p>In 2013 staff previously embedded in UK Border Agency became part of communication directorate and in 2015 staff previously embedded in HM Passport Office became part of communication directorate.</p><p>Salary costs are not available pre 2010-11.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 17/03/2017 11:28:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

691799

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Leasehold Advisory Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to require whoever is Chair of the Leasehold Advisory Service to have no business interests in the leasehold sector.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	64504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <p>The terms and conditions of appointment confirm that the Chair of the Leasehold Advisory Service must declare any personal or business interests which may, or may be perceived to, influence their judgements in performing their functions. These interests are included in a register of interests maintained by LEASE which the Chair is obliged to keep up to date. Should a particular matter give rise to conflict of interest, the Chair is required to inform the Board in advance and withdraw from discussions or consideration of the matter. With these safeguards in place we do not consider it necessary to require the Chair to have no business interests in the leasehold sector.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 04/04/2017 15:49:00 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell previous answer version 36710 answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

691800

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Leasehold Advisory Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to require at least one member of the Board of the Leasehold Advisory Service to be an independent representative of leaseholders.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	64505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <p>The main purpose of the Leasehold Advisory Service is to support leaseholders by providing impartial free initial advice. It is desirable for Board members of the Leasehold Advisory Service to have knowledge or experience of the housing sector, particularly issues that affect the residential leasehold sector. However, there is no current or planned requirement for at least one member of the Board of the Leasehold Advisory Service to be an independent representative of leaseholders.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 04/04/2017 15:49:30 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell previous answer version 36711 answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

663023

registered interest
date	20/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Injury: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will extend the duration of her Department's consultation on Reforming the Soft Tissue Injury (Whiplash) Claims Process to take account of the Christmas period.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	58491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>The deadline for responses was 6 January 2017. The government is satisfied that this gave those with an interest in the proposed reforms sufficient time to respond.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 18/04/2017 15:20:08 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders