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1144404

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rail Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government Rail Review, how much his Department (a) has paid Keith Williams and (b) plans to pay Keith Williams in total.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	286368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Keith Williams is not paid for his work on the Rail Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:47:03 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1144406

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rail Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost to the public purse of the Williams Rail Review.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	286370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Williams Rail Review is funded from the Department for Transport’s existing budget. Neither Keith Williams nor the members of the Expert Challenge Panel are being paid.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 13:24:50 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1144409

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish workforce data showing the (a) headcount and (b) the full-time equivalence of staffing levels of each train operating company.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	286372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road publish information on the total number of employees for each train operating company in Great Britain. The Department does not publish any official statistics on Train operating companies’ workforce.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total number of employees, 2018-19</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Train Operating Company </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>c2c</p></td><td><p>690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caledonian Sleeper</p></td><td><p>174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chiltern</p></td><td><p>852</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CrossCountry</p></td><td><p>1,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands Trains</p></td><td><p>2,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Govia Thameslink Railway</p></td><td><p>7,276</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Central</p></td><td><p>193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Great Western Railway</p></td><td><p>6,343</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Anglia</p></td><td><p>3,103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull Trains</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London North Eastern Railway</p></td><td><p>3,012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Overground</p></td><td><p>1,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyrail</p></td><td><p>1,206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern</p></td><td><p>6,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ScotRail</p></td><td><p>5,168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southeastern</p></td><td><p>4,410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Western Railway</p></td><td><p>5,177</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TfL Rail</p></td><td><p>1,401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TfW Rail</p></td><td><p>2,293</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transpennine Express</p></td><td><p>1,258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Virgin Trains West Coast</p></td><td><p>3,724</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Trains</p></td><td><p>2,834</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Additional years are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/compendia/toc-key-statistics/" target="_blank">https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/compendia/toc-key-statistics/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:57:49 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1144410

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of railway stations staffed on a (a) full-time and (b) part-time basis.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	286373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold this information. Train operating companies are responsible for station operations and are therefore best placed to determine the appropriate level of staffing for each station.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 13:24:00 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1144411

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average number of hours is that part-time staffed railway stations are staffed.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	286374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold this information. Train operating companies are responsible for station operations and are therefore best placed to determine the appropriate level of staffing for each station.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:38:56 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1142769

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Pets: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on delivering a public information campaign alongside the introduction of the ban on commercial third-party sales of puppies and kittens in April 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	284374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019, known as ‘Lucy’s Law’, bans the commercial third party sales of puppies and kittens and will come into force in April 2020. We intend to launch a campaign focused on helping the public understand how to responsibly source a puppy or kitten in early 2020, in the run up to the ban coming into force. The campaign is currently under development.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith question first answered 09/09/2019 11:35:36 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1142775

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2019 to Question 278600, for what reason that Answer did not confirm whether the Government has requested an extension for Windows 7 support from Microsoft.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	284390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government Digital Service (GDS) provides government departments with guidance on selecting technology through the Technology Code of Practice. Further details can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technology-code-of-practice/technology-code-of-practice</p><p>Individual technology choices and volumes purchased rest with individual departments. As such, GDS does not provide guidance to departments on specific operating systems, such as Windows 7 and the Government does not hold information concerning departments choice to use Windows 7 machines centrally. Microsoft provides guidance for its operating systems should departments need specific information.</p><p>Additionally, the National Cyber Security Centre published information on their blog on the upcoming removal of Windows 7 Support. The blog post can be found here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/one-year-left-windows-7-support</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 05/09/2019 14:31:09 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1142979

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) Cabinet and (b) former Cabinet members have returned severance payments to the public purse in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	284484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Severance payments for Ministers are a statutory entitlement under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991. Information relating to Cabinet Ministers’ severance payments is held by individual departments, and is published in their departmental annual report and accounts. These are published on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 05/09/2019 15:50:09 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1143414

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Digital Technology
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 24 July 2019 to Question 279145, on what date his Department most recently assessed the number of Government Transformation Strategy objectives on track to be met by 2020; and if he will set a time frame for the publication of this information.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	284928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government Transformation Strategy concludes in March 2020. The Government Digital Service (GDS) will publish an assessment of progress against the commitments set out in the strategy later in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 05/09/2019 14:29:14 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1143481

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Former Ministers: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what severance payment the rt hon. Member for South Staffordshire received after he left his position as Secretary of State for Defence.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	285450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 sets out Ministers' entitlement to severance payments. Any such payments are published in each department's audited annual accounts, and these accounts can be found in the Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Account Index where the severance pay for the right hon. Member for South Staffordshire will be published in 2020. As detailed in Section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991:</p><p>'the amount of the payment to which a person who has ceased to hold a relevant office is entitled under this section is an amount equal to one-quarter of the annual amount of the salary which was being paid to that person in respect of that office immediately before the material time.'</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/09/2019 15:19:46 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt