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1400539

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	06/01/2022
	date tabled	06/01/2022
	ddp created	06/01/2022 17:48:33
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/01/2022 18:07:06 12/01/2022 18:31:09
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
	house id	1
	identifier	99115
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 17:59:18
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Fast Stream: recruitment data 2019, 2020 and 2021, whether his Department has identified any barriers to Fast Stream employment for applicants from low socio-economic backgrounds.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 99115
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99115
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Success rates for lower socio-economic applicants in Fast Stream have been increasing annually since 2017, with 2021 success rates approximately three times the 2016 figure.</p><p>73% of Fast Stream appointments in 2021 were outside London (against 69.5% in 2019). Regional appointments are achieved through the widest possible spread of school and college work experience opportunities, apprenticeships, internships and Fast Stream roles. Attraction activity for roles is delivered both country-wide and through online sites to deliver geographic diversity and meet our levelling up ambitions.</p><p>Steps to support both diverse socio-economic and ethnic minority applicants are broadly similar except that partners and the target audiences differ, according to these groups. Outreach, attraction and marketing is designed to encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds and locations via early stage schools, college and apprenticeship engagement, along with industrial placements. We have developed an inclusive website, and social media strategy, refreshed the target university list, and are undertaking outreach with diverse universities and engaging with diversity partners to support events. Activity also encompasses expanding the range of internships, undertaking cultural bias reviews of our selection processes, increasing assessor diversity, and continually improving our fair and inclusive selection processes, for example, incorporating more regional/virtual assessment.</p><p>Historical barriers to Fast Stream employment for applicants from lower socio-economic backgrounds were highlighted in the 2016 Bridge Group analysis, suggesting applications were more likely to come from less diverse universities and courses, and from higher socio-economic students, along with there being less awareness of Fast Stream amongst lower socio-economic graduates. There was also, amongst lower socio-economic students, a perception of a slow recruitment process, less geographic diversity in terms of selection and lower performance at selection stage. Significant improvements have been made against these areas, with socio-economic diversity improving consistently for appointments in the last 5 years.</p> question first answered 12/01/2022 17:59:18 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1400538

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	06/01/2022
	date tabled	06/01/2022
	ddp created	06/01/2022 17:48:29
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/01/2022 18:07:03 12/01/2022 18:31:11
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
	house id	1
	identifier	99114
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 17:59:18
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Fast Stream: recruitment data 2019, 2020 and 2021, what steps his Department took to ensure that the Fast Stream successful applicants were from diverse (a) socio-economic and (b) ethnic backgrounds.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 99114
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99114
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Success rates for lower socio-economic applicants in Fast Stream have been increasing annually since 2017, with 2021 success rates approximately three times the 2016 figure.</p><p>73% of Fast Stream appointments in 2021 were outside London (against 69.5% in 2019). Regional appointments are achieved through the widest possible spread of school and college work experience opportunities, apprenticeships, internships and Fast Stream roles. Attraction activity for roles is delivered both country-wide and through online sites to deliver geographic diversity and meet our levelling up ambitions.</p><p>Steps to support both diverse socio-economic and ethnic minority applicants are broadly similar except that partners and the target audiences differ, according to these groups. Outreach, attraction and marketing is designed to encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds and locations via early stage schools, college and apprenticeship engagement, along with industrial placements. We have developed an inclusive website, and social media strategy, refreshed the target university list, and are undertaking outreach with diverse universities and engaging with diversity partners to support events. Activity also encompasses expanding the range of internships, undertaking cultural bias reviews of our selection processes, increasing assessor diversity, and continually improving our fair and inclusive selection processes, for example, incorporating more regional/virtual assessment.</p><p>Historical barriers to Fast Stream employment for applicants from lower socio-economic backgrounds were highlighted in the 2016 Bridge Group analysis, suggesting applications were more likely to come from less diverse universities and courses, and from higher socio-economic students, along with there being less awareness of Fast Stream amongst lower socio-economic graduates. There was also, amongst lower socio-economic students, a perception of a slow recruitment process, less geographic diversity in terms of selection and lower performance at selection stage. Significant improvements have been made against these areas, with socio-economic diversity improving consistently for appointments in the last 5 years.</p> question first answered 12/01/2022 17:59:18 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1400537

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	06/01/2022
	date tabled	06/01/2022
	ddp created	06/01/2022 17:48:25
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/01/2022 18:06:59 12/01/2022 18:31:13
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
	house id	1
	identifier	99113
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 17:59:18
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Fast Stream: recruitment data 2019, 2020 and 2021, what plans he has to increase the number of successful applicants from outside London.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 99113
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99113
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Success rates for lower socio-economic applicants in Fast Stream have been increasing annually since 2017, with 2021 success rates approximately three times the 2016 figure.</p><p>73% of Fast Stream appointments in 2021 were outside London (against 69.5% in 2019). Regional appointments are achieved through the widest possible spread of school and college work experience opportunities, apprenticeships, internships and Fast Stream roles. Attraction activity for roles is delivered both country-wide and through online sites to deliver geographic diversity and meet our levelling up ambitions.</p><p>Steps to support both diverse socio-economic and ethnic minority applicants are broadly similar except that partners and the target audiences differ, according to these groups. Outreach, attraction and marketing is designed to encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds and locations via early stage schools, college and apprenticeship engagement, along with industrial placements. We have developed an inclusive website, and social media strategy, refreshed the target university list, and are undertaking outreach with diverse universities and engaging with diversity partners to support events. Activity also encompasses expanding the range of internships, undertaking cultural bias reviews of our selection processes, increasing assessor diversity, and continually improving our fair and inclusive selection processes, for example, incorporating more regional/virtual assessment.</p><p>Historical barriers to Fast Stream employment for applicants from lower socio-economic backgrounds were highlighted in the 2016 Bridge Group analysis, suggesting applications were more likely to come from less diverse universities and courses, and from higher socio-economic students, along with there being less awareness of Fast Stream amongst lower socio-economic graduates. There was also, amongst lower socio-economic students, a perception of a slow recruitment process, less geographic diversity in terms of selection and lower performance at selection stage. Significant improvements have been made against these areas, with socio-economic diversity improving consistently for appointments in the last 5 years.</p> question first answered 12/01/2022 17:59:18 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1400536

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	06/01/2022
	date tabled	06/01/2022
	ddp created	06/01/2022 17:48:21
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	06/01/2022 18:06:57 12/01/2022 18:31:15
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
	house id	1
	identifier	99112
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 17:59:18
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Fast Stream: recruitment data 2019, 2020 and 2021, what assessment he has made of the socio-economic diversity of successful Civil Service Fast Stream applicants; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 99112
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99112
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Success rates for lower socio-economic applicants in Fast Stream have been increasing annually since 2017, with 2021 success rates approximately three times the 2016 figure.</p><p>73% of Fast Stream appointments in 2021 were outside London (against 69.5% in 2019). Regional appointments are achieved through the widest possible spread of school and college work experience opportunities, apprenticeships, internships and Fast Stream roles. Attraction activity for roles is delivered both country-wide and through online sites to deliver geographic diversity and meet our levelling up ambitions.</p><p>Steps to support both diverse socio-economic and ethnic minority applicants are broadly similar except that partners and the target audiences differ, according to these groups. Outreach, attraction and marketing is designed to encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds and locations via early stage schools, college and apprenticeship engagement, along with industrial placements. We have developed an inclusive website, and social media strategy, refreshed the target university list, and are undertaking outreach with diverse universities and engaging with diversity partners to support events. Activity also encompasses expanding the range of internships, undertaking cultural bias reviews of our selection processes, increasing assessor diversity, and continually improving our fair and inclusive selection processes, for example, incorporating more regional/virtual assessment.</p><p>Historical barriers to Fast Stream employment for applicants from lower socio-economic backgrounds were highlighted in the 2016 Bridge Group analysis, suggesting applications were more likely to come from less diverse universities and courses, and from higher socio-economic students, along with there being less awareness of Fast Stream amongst lower socio-economic graduates. There was also, amongst lower socio-economic students, a perception of a slow recruitment process, less geographic diversity in terms of selection and lower performance at selection stage. Significant improvements have been made against these areas, with socio-economic diversity improving consistently for appointments in the last 5 years.</p> question first answered 12/01/2022 17:59:18 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1399930

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	05/01/2022
	date tabled	05/01/2022
	ddp created	05/01/2022 21:44:24
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	05/01/2022 22:02:50 12/01/2022 11:49:12
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	98499
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 11:17:49
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many current Government contracts are in the process of being allocated using emergency procurement regulations.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 98499
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98499
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Individual departments are responsible for their own commercial decisions including the award of contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p><p> </p> question first answered 12/01/2022 11:17:49 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1399929

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	05/01/2022
	date tabled	05/01/2022
	ddp created	05/01/2022 21:44:21
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	05/01/2022 22:02:48 12/01/2022 11:49:13
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	98498
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 11:17:49
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the value of contracts allocated by (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) other arm’s length bodies’ using emergency procurement regulations in the (i) first, (ii) second, (iii) third and (iv) fourth quarter of 2021.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 98498
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98498
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Individual departments are responsible for their own commercial decisions including the award of contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p><p> </p> question first answered 12/01/2022 11:17:49 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1399927

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	05/01/2022
	date tabled	05/01/2022
	ddp created	05/01/2022 21:44:16
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	05/01/2022 22:02:44 12/01/2022 11:49:15
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	98497
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 11:17:48
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts were allocated using emergency procurement regulations in the (a) first, (b) second, (c) third and (d) fourth quarter of 2021.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 98497
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98497
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Individual departments are responsible for their own commercial decisions including the award of contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p><p> </p> question first answered 12/01/2022 11:17:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1399926

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	05/01/2022
	date tabled	05/01/2022
	ddp created	05/01/2022 21:44:14
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	05/01/2022 22:02:41 12/01/2022 11:49:16
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	98496
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 11:17:48
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) other arm’s length bodies that have allocated contracts using emergency procurement regulations in the (i) first, (ii) second, (iii) third and (iv) fourth quarter of 2021.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 98496
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98496
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Individual departments are responsible for their own commercial decisions including the award of contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p><p> </p> question first answered 12/01/2022 11:17:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1399924

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2022
	date	05/01/2022
	date tabled	05/01/2022
	ddp created	05/01/2022 21:44:09
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	05/01/2022 22:02:37 12/01/2022 11:49:18
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	98495
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2022 11:17:48
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) other arm’s length bodies have allocated contracts using emergency procurement regulations in the (i) first, (ii) second, (iii) third and (iv) fourth quarter of 2021.
	session	2021/22
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2021/22 98495
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98495
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Individual departments are responsible for their own commercial decisions including the award of contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p><p> </p> question first answered 12/01/2022 11:17:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1237062

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	29/09/2020
	date	23/09/2020
	date tabled	23/09/2020
	ddp created	23/09/2020 19:48:41
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	ddp modified	23/09/2020 20:00:06 29/09/2020 08:21:05
	hansard heading	Performing Arts: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	identifier	94594
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	29/09/2020 07:49:55
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the latest covid-19 guidance, published on 22 September 2020 affects the ability for indoor grassroots performing arts organisations to rehearse and perform in groups of six.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 94594
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	94594
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>It is against the law to gather in groups of more than six, where people are from different households or support bubbles. Some activities - such as those organised for under-18s - are exempt. In a COVID-19 Secure venue or public outdoor place, non-professional performing arts activity, including choirs, orchestras or drama groups can continue to rehearse or perform together where this is planned activity in line with the performing arts guidance and if they can do so in a way that ensures that there is no interaction between groups of more than six at any time.</p><p>If an amateur group is not able to ensure that no mingling takes place between these sub-groups of no more than six (including when arriving at or leaving activity or in any breaks or socialising) then such non-professional activity should not take place.</p><p> </p> question first answered 29/09/2020 07:49:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	creator	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins