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1699058

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Goldman Sachs report entitled the Structural and Cyclical Costs of Brexit, published on 9 February 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	20572
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government keeps track of external analysis from third parties often based on a range of assumptions and hypothetical views. Since leaving the EU, the Department for Business and Trade has secured free trade deals with 73 countries in addition to the EU, partners which accounted for £1.1 trillion UK trade in 2022, and simplified import tariffs to lower costs for businesses and households.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s total trade with the world (including goods and services) increased by £43bn (inflation adjusted) in 2023 compared to 2018. Since the referendum, the UK has grown faster than Germany, Italy, and Japan and the IMF forecasted that the UK will see the 3rd fastest cumulative growth in the G7 over 2024-2029, ahead of Germany, Italy, France, and Japan.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 18/04/2024 16:11:40 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1695341

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	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	UK Health Security Agency: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2024 to Question 16638 on UK Health Security Agency: Finance, on what basis the information requested is considered to be commercially sensitive.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	18089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Further breakdown of customers groupings would identify individual customers and the value of individual vaccine sales. These grouping are varied and include customers such as wholesalers, hospitals, medical centres, travel clinics and other providers of vaccination services. To break this information down to a level that would identify individual purchases could prejudice future commercial relations with the UK Health Security Agency customers.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 26/03/2024 13:52:31 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1697488

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of banning the sale of tobacco products to people born after 1 January 2009 on tobacco duties.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	19577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text The Government published an Impact Assessment to support the ‘Tobacco and Vapes Bill’ on 20 March, which includes estimate of the reduction in tobacco duty over the period 2027 and 2056:<p><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-04/0189/Tobacco_and_vapes_bill_IA.pdf" target="_blank">Tobacco_and_vapes_bill_IA.pdf (parliament.uk)</a></p>The impact of final decisions on tobacco duties will be assessed and reflected in the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecast. . answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 25/03/2024 14:09:18 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693360

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>New appointments to Defra undergo pre-employment criminal record checks. Where a conviction is flagged, appointment is dependent on a role-specific risk assessment. Convictions for the following offences result in the individual automatically failing pre-employment checks and not being appointed: life sentences, arson, sexual offences and hate and terror offences.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has participated in the Going Forward into Employment Scheme for Ex-Offenders and has appointed to posts via this scheme. We can confirm that the numbers appointed under this scheme are currently less than 10. However, exact numbers may enable individuals to be identifiable and the privacy and confidentiality of this information requires us to ensure individuals are properly protected.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/03/2024 14:40:03 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693577

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally by the Department and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. The Department undertakes Baseline Personnel Security Standard pre-employment checks for all new joiners. The FCDO's approach to employ those with a criminal record is assessed at national security level and all decisions are made in line with Cabinet Office's Security Vetting Guidance.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 14/03/2024 16:53:03 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693580

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>This information is not centrally held and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, Civil Service applicants must declare any criminal convictions during the application process. This is reviewed during the security clearance process run by UKSV. The Ministry of Defence does not routinely employ people with unspent convictions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 13/03/2024 15:07:18 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693356

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants in her Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>DBT do not centrally hold data on employees with criminal convictions. This information will be captured and considered at application stage by the Government Recruitment Service through the BPSS checks. In line with wider <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.civil-service-careers.gov.uk%2Fprison-leaver-recruitment%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DThe%2520good%2520news%2520is%2520that%2Cwill%2520be%2520immediately%2520sifted%2520out&amp;data=05|02|parly.pqs%40businessandtrade.gov.uk|2d00add2b6394e99196508dc41e4230e|8fa217ec33aa46fbad96dfe68006bb86|0|0|638457695294969417|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D|0|||&amp;sdata=irVOe77HfsqRM4Ihtj%2Bbb5tvd%2FQ4%2B1zLuJCDfldumrA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Civil Service guidance</a>, the Department does encourage applications from those with prior convictions via our recruitment campaigns on Civil Service Jobs. The department also supports the Going Forwards into Employment, Prison Leaver scheme which is an exception to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/03/2024 17:43:02 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693358

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants in her Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not collect or hold information on the criminal convictions of its civil servants.</p><p>The department does require that, prior to commencing employment, individuals have cleared the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). This includes a check for live convictions and is the minimum level of clearance for all people working across the Civil Service. These checks are also carried out for existing civil servants moving into the department.</p><p>If checks highlight convictions, the department will consider the appointment if a conviction relates to any of the following: life sentences, arson, sexual offences, hate and terror offences, the department will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role (the department also undertakes an internal fraud database check, which identifies civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned).</p><p>The department is engaged in the ‘Civil Service Prison Leavers’ scheme but has not yet made any appointments. This scheme ensures that if an individual is a prison leaver, then having a criminal conviction is not a barrier to joining the Civil Service. The department only asks about criminal convictions once a job offer has been made and excepted and the BPSS checks completed.</p><p>The department expects its civil servants to abide by the Civil Service Code of Conduct and the departmental standards of behaviour. Employees must inform their manager if they are arrested, are charged and released, refused bail, or convicted of any criminal offence. If they fail to do so, the department will take disciplinary action for non-disclosure.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/03/2024 17:29:25 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693582

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>As of September 2023, there were 101,276[1] (FTE) staff in post across the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).</p><p>To provide the quantitative base to answer this PQ, this could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. This would require manually entering each individual record to extract the data and engaging with all workplaces across England and Wales to ascertain locally managed/ recorded information.</p><p> </p><p>All Ministry of Justice staff are held to high levels of professional and personal conduct and are subject to pre-employment vetting checks to ensure suitability for employment into post. Across the MoJ, all directly employed roles require a minimum of Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) level to enter the organisation and this includes a request of criminal conviction history. For any roles requiring a higher security level, roles may require an enhanced DBS check or be subject to National Security Vetting (NSV) checks which are carried out externally by UK Security Vetting (UKSV).</p><p> </p><p>Across the MoJ, we must act in accordance with the high expectations that the Government and members of the public expect from us to ensure we drive our vision to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone. People are at the heart of what we do, and security and safety considerations are paramount in ensuring we welcome the right people to come to work for us to deliver our objectives. This might mean that some people may not ever be considered suitable to hold employment with us because of their background. Criminal conviction history of the applicant, including offence type and length of time since conviction will be assessed during vetting decision making to assess suitability for the role applied.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-moj" target="_blank">Workforce management information: MOJ - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 12/03/2024 17:26:38 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1693357

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants in her Department have a criminal conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	16661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>No civil servants at DCMS hold a criminal conviction.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 12/03/2024 16:59:33 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies