Further communications are planned throughout the year to ensure on-going awareness of the ways individuals can raise whistleblowing concerns.<\/li><\/ul>"}
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leaseholds in Whitehall. It brings staff from departments together in a single, modern, and
efficient building in an area with lower rents to facilitate a collaborative Civil Service<\/p>
Once all government occupiers have relocated to HM Government 10 South Colonnade,
we expect to make savings of around £20 million per annum until the end of the lease in
2032.<\/p>"}
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The First Secretary has not had meetings with the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in
the last three months.<\/p>"}
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Referendums held under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
(PPERA) have not previously allowed for sub-agents to be appointed by referendum
agents. We will consider this matter further with the Electoral Commission and the
Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA).<\/p>"}
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I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 18th October 2017 to PQ7722.<\/p>"}
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The Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020 includes an action to pilot alternative to competency-based recruitment and promotion in the Civil Service. A number of departments are involved in piloting alternative approaches. In a small number of cases, external consultants have provided support for these alternative approaches, for example in developing specific assessment tests for use across the Civil Service. These have included IBM who were contracted to develop Verbal and Numerical reasoning tests; and CS judgement tests which were procured through Right Management (subcontracted to A&DC) with payments also made to WCN, providers of the CS Jobs site. The Digital Accessibility Centre was also commissioned to carry out an accessibility audit.<\/p>"}
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The allocation of resources and staffing levels required by HMRC after the UK leaves the European Union will be dependent on the outcome of negotiations.<\/p>"}
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HM Treasury is committed to ensuring that we access the very best scientific expertise. The Director for the Enterprise and Growth Unit, who is responsible for public science funding, acts as HM Treasury\u2019s Chief Scientific Adviser, working closely with the Government Office for Science and the wider network of scientific advisers. In addition, the Second Permanent Secretary is a member of the Prime Minister\u2019s Council for Science and Technology.<\/p>"}
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not hold information on VAT to this level of detail. The Retail Export scheme is operated and administered by the participating retailers. Retailers do not separately identify retail exports on their VAT returns so HMRC does not hold any record of the actual VAT refunds made.<\/p>
<\/p>
In a 2013 consultation document VAT: Retail Export Scheme, HMRC estimated that, in the UK, more than £300 million of VAT is refunded under the VAT Retail Export Scheme each year. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209487/20130627_Consultation_document_1_0_complete.pdf<\/a> (Paragraph 2.4)<\/p>"}
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