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1699049

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Defence Procurement in response to the question from the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent on 25 March 2024, Official Report, column 1253, whether he expects the RAF to meet their quota for successfully trained pilots this year.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	20585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 18/04/2024 09:12:55 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1699050

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Defence Procurement in response to the question from the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent on 25 March 2024, Official Report, column 1253, whether the RAF have met their quota for successfully trained pilots in (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	20586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 18/04/2024 09:13:22 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1520361

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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	Protective Clothing: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of PPE-related contracts still in active dispute.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	61009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>At the end of March 2022, the Department was involved in resolving disputes for 176 contracts with an aggregate value at risk of £2.6 billion. Further information for the first quarter of 2022/23 will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 61011 question first answered 24/10/2022 08:51:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1520362

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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	Protective Clothing: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of personnel currently employed to resolve PPE-related contractual disputes.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	61010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>There are currently 19 members of staff working on contract dissolution.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/10/2022 11:05:10 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1520363

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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	Protective Clothing: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the outstanding balance of disputed PPE-related contracts.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	61011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>At the end of March 2022, the Department was involved in resolving disputes for 176 contracts with an aggregate value at risk of £2.6 billion. Further information for the first quarter of 2022/23 will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 61009 question first answered 24/10/2022 08:51:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1519470

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Ascot Signs: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is currently in dispute with Ascot Signs over PPE contracts.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	59587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 59582 59588 59589 question first answered 13/10/2022 14:33:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1519471

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Carlton Packaging: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is currently in dispute with Carlton Packaging over PPE contracts.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	59588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 59582 59587 59589 question first answered 13/10/2022 14:33:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1519472

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Kingsbury Press: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is currently in dispute with Kingsbury Press over PPE contracts.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	59589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the information requested as it is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 59582 59587 59588 question first answered 13/10/2022 14:33:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1519768

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Cold Weather Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Cold Weather Payments have been distributed since that scheme's inception; and how much her Department has spent on those payments per annum.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	59590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>The current system of cold weather payments was introduced in 1988. The payment is a fixed amount for each week of cold weather. From 1995 this was set at £8.50 a week. The Cold Weather Payment was temporarily increased from £8.50 to £25 for the winters of 2008/9 and 2009/10. This increase was made permanent in November 2010.</p><p /><p>The table below shows the number of Cold Weather payments made and total expenditure in each year since 1988-89. 21/22 is due to be published in the next Annual Social Fund Report so has not been included below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>No. of cold weather payments (000)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1988-89</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>0.003</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1989-90</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1990-91</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1991-92</p></td><td><p>3,827</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1992-93</p></td><td><p>2,503</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1993-94</p></td><td><p>2,064</p></td><td><p>12.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1994-95</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1995-96</p></td><td><p>7,252</p></td><td><p>61.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1996-97</p></td><td><p>4,964</p></td><td><p>42.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997-98</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998-99</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999-00</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>3,535</p></td><td><p>30.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>1,804</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>1,675</p></td><td><p>14.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>418</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>988</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>402</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>472</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>8,416</p></td><td><p>210.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>11,590</p></td><td><p>289.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>17,232</p></td><td><p>430.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>5,167</p></td><td><p>129.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>5,845</p></td><td><p>146.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0.03</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>4,572</p></td><td><p>114.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>1079</p></td><td><p>27.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>3,951</p></td><td><p>98.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p> </p><ol><li>N/A= not available</li><li>Figures are for payments triggered in the relevant financial year.</li><li>There was a single level of payment each year, except in 1990-91 when the level of payment was increased during the year. A breakdown of the number <br> of payments for that year by level is not available. 3. Some people were made more than one payment in some years.</li><li>Numbers of payments made are rounded to the nearest 1,000, except for <br> 1988-89 where the number of payments is rounded to the nearest 100. <br> Amounts spent are rounded to the nearest £0.1 million, except for 1988-89 <br> where the amount spent is rounded to the nearest £1,000.</li><li>Data are not available on the numbers of payments received (as opposed <br> to made) or on the numbers of people who received payments. However, the <br> vast majority of payments are now made direct into bank accounts.</li><li><em>Source: Annual reports by the Secretary of State for Social Security/Work and <br> Pensions on the Social Fund</em></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 19/10/2022 11:58:46 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1507873

registered interest
date	23/09/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Mark Fullbrook
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information Mark Fullbrook, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, asked to declare upon his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	55043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>All government employees are subject to the necessary checks and vetting, and all special advisers declare their interests in line with Cabinet Office guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 55048 question first answered 11/10/2022 11:00:26 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith