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date	14/03/2023
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, with reference to page 17 of the UK Science and Technology Framework, published on 6 March 2023, what steps the Government plans to take to meet the target of increasing the proportion of STEM graduates in the Fast Stream to 50 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	165338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2023 answer text <p>The Civil Service is committed to delivering the Prime Minister’s priorities, and recognises the need to build a strong internal STEM capability. To help build this capability, we are targeting an increase in the proportion of Fast Stream hires with a STEM subject degree qualification to 50%. To meet this target we have:</p><ul><li><p>Developed a STEM-specific attraction strategy, in partnership with the Science and Engineering Profession, leveraging the Fast Stream brand to target a STEM audience.</p></li><li><p>Introduced a new Generalist-STEM recruitment option for the 2023 Fast Stream Campaign; which will enable us to attract and fairly select more graduates with STEM degree backgrounds to join the Fast Stream across a diverse range of roles in different government professions including Corporate Services, Operational Delivery, and Policy.</p></li><li><p>Used the Fast Stream target university list, to identify institutions that have a high representation of students with a STEM background.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Introduced a summer internship offer, with a specific focus on STEM graduates to act as a feeder for Fast Stream recruitment.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Re-introduced numerical reasoning tests within the Fast Stream selection process.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 22/03/2023 09:10:01 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1603046

registered interest
date	10/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to improve the transparency of public procurement rules for small and medium-sized enterprises.
tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
uin	904100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>This Government knows that small and medium sized businesses are the backbone of the British economy.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Procurement Bill we are introducing will bring four regimes into one and enable simpler, more flexible public procurement processes.</p><p> </p><p>The single central digital platform, with open contracting data standards and efficient ‘tell us once’ register of suppliers, will deliver a step-change in transparency, including for SMEs bidding for public contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 16/03/2023 17:42:45 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray

1603790

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that Government departments and agencies answer telephones within an adequate period of time.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	904101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. friend to the answers given to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-12-19/113291" target="_blank">113291</a>-<a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-12-19/113292" target="_blank">113292</a> on 13 January 2023.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Departmental helplines are not managed or run centrally. Therefore, each department is responsible for their own helpline, as well as response and waiting times.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 16/03/2023 17:45:00 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1601050

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Life Expectancy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made any assessment of any difference in life expectancy of prisoners to the population a whole; and if so, what is that difference.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL6095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question of 6 March is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p>8 March 2023</p><p>Dear Lord Patten,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking whether any assessment has been made of any difference in life expectancy of prisoners to the population as a whole; and if so, what is that difference (HL6095).</p><p>The ONS produces the National Statistics on life expectancy for the population as a whole, local areas of the United Kingdom and for socioeconomic classes. The ONS have not estimated the life expectancy of prisoners in its regular portfolio of life expectancy releases and would require new complex analyses to produce such statistics.</p><p>Currently, the Ministry of Justice provides official estimates of deaths in prison custody in England and Wales [1] as part of their Safety in custody statistics [2] , with reference to broad cause of death categories assigned prior to coroner’s inquest.</p><p>The ONS produce Experimental Statistics [3] on deaths in prisoners, by linking the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data together to give additional insight into suicide and drug-related deaths in prison custody [4].</p><p> </p><p>[1] Deaths in prison custody, Ministry of Justice.</p><p>[2] Safety in custody statistics, Ministry of Justice</p><p>[3] Experimental Statistics, ONS</p><p>[4] Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody in England and Wales: 2008 to 2019</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/03/2023 14:54:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL6095 (1).pdf title ONS Response
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten