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535165

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contract staff are employed in his Department; and what the total wage bill (a) is in 2016-17 and (b) was in 2015-16 for such staff.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	42457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The number of Cabinet Office non payroll staff (excluding contractors) as of May 2016, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data</a></p><p> </p><p>The overall total spend on agency and temporary staff in FY 2015/16 is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/07/2016 07:54:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

533620

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of public bodies across government.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	42122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>This government will streamline the public bodies landscape through a robust programme of “tailored reviews” overseen by the Cabinet Office and department-led transformation programmes. Non-ministerial departments, non-departmental public bodies and executive agencies will be reviewed once per parliament. These reviews will examine whether their functions should still be delivered at arm’s length, and if so, aim to increase their efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability. This builds on the public bodies reform programme delivered from 2010-15, which successfully produced fewer, more accountable, and more efficient public bodies.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/07/2016 08:27:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

533313

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
	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 13 June 2016 to Question 39321, on Civil Service recruitment, what assessment he has made of the effect of the geographical focus on London of fast stream recruitment on his Department's plans to diversify the civil service.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	42082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>Research undertaken within the Civil Service (by the Bridge Group in 2015/16) and externally (e.g. by Trendence in 2015) shows that lower socio-economic applicants are potentially more likely to be less mobile and less willing to move to London.</p><p>A dedicated new assessment centre will open in Newcastle in Autumn 2016. From Autumn 2017 we intend to regionalise further, introducing 'pop up' centres in support of our fixed assessment locations.</p><p>Beyond the assessment process, we also require all centrally managed Fast Streamers to undertake a regional place.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/07/2016 08:16:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

533425

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Inquiries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will bring forward proposals to limit the duration of public inquiries.
	tabling member constituency	Southend West
	tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
	uin	41991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The running of a public inquiry is normally a matter for the independent Chair. However, good practice is that when establishing a public inquiry, Departments should seek to include in the terms of reference an estimate of the likely duration of the Inquiry.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/07/2016 08:41:13 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

532400

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Iraq Committee of Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what support the Government plans to provide to veterans of the Iraq Conflict who are concerned by the findings of the Chilcot Report and its implications for their service records.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	41744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The report of the Chilcot Inquiry was published on 6 July and is available to access online in searchable format. The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to all military veterans, especially those who have been injured in conflict, and a range of support mechanisms are available to Iraq veterans where required, including support in the transition to civilian life and access to pension and compensation schemes where injured as a result of their service. We will, of course, engage with and support any individuals who are concerned by any findings of Sir John Chilcot’s report.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/07/2016 08:35:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 6179 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

532401

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government has taken to improve the performance of the Civil Service Pension Scheme since the publication of the National Audit Office report, Investigation into Members' experience of civil service pension administration, published in February 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	41705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>Since the publication of the National Audit Office report earlier this year Cabinet Office has established updated governance on the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with a greater focus on service performance. This has helped facilitate an improvement in service performance from the pension administrator MyCSP. The Cabinet Office is committed to continuing to work with MyCSP to see this performance increase further still.</p><p>Through a process to re-set the contract with MyCSP the Cabinet Office is re-establishing the full service expectations and requirements under the contract. The focus going forward will be to work closely with MyCSP to ensure that all aspects of the service members receive is improving and is satisfactory to the scheme membership.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/07/2016 08:23:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

532402

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants have (a) not received an annual benefit statement and (b) received such a statement late from MyCSP in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	41660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>Retired Civil Servants are not entitled to receive Annual Benefit Statements.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/07/2016 08:20:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

532403

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants have not received pension payments from MyCSP for which they are eligible in (a) each of the last 12 months and (b) each month since MyCSP has been processing such payments.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	41661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>Where MyCSP has been notified by the member, or their employer, that they wish to receive their pension, all retired civil servants have had their pensions put into payment since MyCSP began processing such payments. Any pension entitlement not put into payment will be because either MyCSP has not been informed or because further information is required to enable the pension to be calculated accurately.</p><p>Of the Scheme’s 658,000 retired civil servants at transfer (14,000 of which were overseas pensioners), the vast majority continued to be paid accurately and on-time. Delays occurred for 36 overseas pensioners as new banking mandates had to be completed to allow processing by the new paying bank. It was subsequently discovered that the previous paying authority had not issued notification to any overseas pensioners advising them of the change in paying administration. All delayed cases were rectified promptly when the mandates were received.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/07/2016 08:33:25 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

532404

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Iraq Committee of Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to provide similar support for injured veterans of the Iraq conflict following the publication of the Chilcot Report to that provided to the next of kin of people who lost their lives in that conflict.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	41752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The report of the Chilcot Inquiry was published on 6 July and is available to access online in searchable format. The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to all military veterans, especially those who have been injured in conflict, and a range of support mechanisms are available to Iraq veterans where required, including support in the transition to civilian life and access to pension and compensation schemes where injured as a result of their service. We will, of course, engage with and support any individuals who are concerned by any findings of Sir John Chilcot’s report.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/07/2016 08:35:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 6176 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

532405

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Iraq Committee of Inquiry
	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 15 June 2016 to Question 38697, what steps his Department has taken to provide injured veterans of the Iraq conflict with free copies of the Chilcot Report.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	41753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The report of the Chilcot Inquiry was published on 6 July and is available to access online in searchable format. The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to all military veterans, especially those who have been injured in conflict, and a range of support mechanisms are available to Iraq veterans where required, including support in the transition to civilian life and access to pension and compensation schemes where injured as a result of their service. We will, of course, engage with and support any individuals who are concerned by any findings of Sir John Chilcot’s report.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/07/2016 08:35:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 6177 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson