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626501

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of women are employed by the Law Officers' Departments on an inner London pay structure in the following pay grades (a) Administrative Assistant, (b) Administrative Officer, (c) Executive Officer, (d) Higher Executive Officer, (e) Fast Streamer, (f) Senior Executive Officer, (g) Grade Seven, (h) Grade Six, (i) Senior Civil Service Band 1, (j) Senior Civil Service Band 1A, (k) Senior Civil Service Band 2 and (l) Senior Civil Service Band 3.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	51385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The proportion of women employed with the London pay structure against the specified grades, when compared to the total population of women employed with those grades, are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CPS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>GLD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Administrative Assistant</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Administrative Officer,</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>19.5%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>96%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Executive Officer</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>25.5%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>96%</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Higher Executive Officer</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>22.9%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>99%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(e) Fast Streamer</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(f) Senior Executive Officer</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>36.3%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>91%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(g) Grade Seven</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>22.3%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>96%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(h) Grade Six,</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>38.2%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>98%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(i) Senior Civil Service Band 1</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>16.7%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>98%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(j) Senior Civil Service Band 1A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(k) Senior Civil Service Band 2</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(l) Senior Civil Service Band 3</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/11/2016 18:10:10 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

626502

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has given to other government departments on answering Written Parliamentary Questions using a reference to the gov.uk website without referring hon. Members to a specific page where the information sought can be found.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	51397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>Ministers are responsible for the answers they give to Parliamentary questions. As explained within the Guidance on Drafting Answers to Parliamentary Questions, it is the Minister’s right and responsibility to decide on how to fulfil their obligations as set out within the Ministerial Code. Each Department is responsible for issuing their own guidance to employees on the Departmental requirements for answers to Parliamentary Questions.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2016 11:45:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

626503

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of women are employed by his Department on an inner London pay structure in the following pay grades (a) Administrative Assistant, (b) Administrative Officer, (c) Executive Officer, (d) Higher Executive Officer, (e) Fast Streamer, (f) Senior Executive Officer, (g) Grade Seven, (h) Grade Six, (i) Senior Civil Service Band 1, (j) Senior Civil Service Band 1A, (k) Senior Civil Service Band 2 and (l) Senior Civil Service Band 3.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	51386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has a London pay scale which applies to staff in London and Basingstoke. The Cabinet Office has amalgamated pay bands for its grades below the Senior Civil Service and this is reflected in the reply below.</p><p>52.17% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at AA and AO are female.</p><p>56.58% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at EO level are female.</p><p>56.67% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at fast streamer level are female.</p><p>52.77% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at HEO and SEO level are female</p><p>46.31% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at Grade 7 and Grade 6 level are female.</p><p>45.27% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at SCS1 are female.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not have any staff at SCS1A grade</p><p>33.33% of the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at SCS2 are female.</p><p>41.67% the staff in Cabinet Office on the London pay scale at SCS3 are female.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving female representation and tackling the gender pay gap in the Civil Service. From April 2017 we will be introducing new measures that require all organisations across the private, voluntary and public sector to regularly publish gender pay gap analysis and statistics, to bring greater transparency to pay disparities between men and women across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/11/2016 14:07:48 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

626504

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has to strengthen the security of voter identification to prevent electoral fraud.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	51374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling fraud and making our electoral process more secure. We have already taken steps to improve the security of UK polls through the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER).</p><p>The Government has welcomed Sir Eric Pickles’ report on his review into electoral fraud. The report sets out a number of findings and recommendations including in relation to voter identification. We are considering these carefully and will provide a response shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/11/2016 11:17:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

626505

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Cabinet Office plans to alter official guidelines for (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers to Ministers relating to meetings with members of the press.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	51376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government publishes details of all Ministers’ and Special Advisers meetings on a quarterly basis with newspaper and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives regardless of the purpose of the meeting. Similar information is published for Permanent Secretaries.</p><p>There are no plans to change the existing guidance.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 08/11/2016 12:29:20 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

626506

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
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 1 November 2016 to Question 49982, which Minister will exercise the prerogative to trigger Article 50 of the Treaty on the Functions of the EU on behalf of the sovereign.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	51394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that she will trigger Article 50 no later than the end of March next year.</p><p>The government is disappointed by Thursday's High Court judgement, but we have no intention of letting this change our timetable for triggering Article 50. We will appeal this judgement.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2016 15:09:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 18840 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

626507

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Sanitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which government departments allow professional drivers making deliveries to departmental premises to use employee toilet facilities.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	51435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>It is for individual departments to determine their own access arrangements. The Cabinet Office's own protective security arrangements apply to staff, contractors and all visitors. It is not the policy of the department to publish what those arrangements are.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2016 09:41:10 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

626508

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of women are employed by his Department on an inner London pay structure in the following pay grades (a) Administrative Assistant, (b) Administrative Officer, (c) Executive Officer, (d) Higher Executive Officer, (e) Fast Streamer, (f) Senior Executive Officer, (g) Grade Seven, (h) Grade Six, (i) Senior Civil Service Band 1, (j) Senior Civil Service Band 1A, (k) Senior Civil Service Band 2 and (l) Senior Civil Service Band 3. Band 3.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	51393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>For the breakdown of the proportion of women employed at each grade please refer to the Annual Report and Accounts which can be accessed via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 09/11/2016 15:22:45 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

626509

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Further Education and Sixth Form Education: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) further education colleges and (b) sixth form colleges paid in VAT in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	51488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes annual home VAT liabilities for each trade sector as defined by the ’Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities’. This is shown in Table 2.5 of the VAT Factsheet and includes home VAT liabilities for the ‘Education’ sector, and is available here: <a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Statistical%20Factsheets/VAT_Factsheet_16.xls" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Statistical%20Factsheets/VAT_Factsheet_16.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC is not able to separate this data into amounts of VAT paid by further education and sixth form colleges.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2016 14:05:21 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

626510

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix: Warrington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency have (i) been wrongly accused by Concentrix of falsely claiming tax credits and (ii) had tax credits wrongly withdrawn.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	51504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs will be preparing a regional breakdown of mandatory reconsideration requests in due course.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2016 14:06:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones