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1713014

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will provide a list of ministerial visits to the Midlothian constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	23248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Scotland Office Ministers have conducted one visit to the constituency of Midlothian in the past five years. This was by Iain Stewart MP, while Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Scotland Office, to Midlothian Council Projects on 4 February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 30/04/2024 09:33:57 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1701499

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) staff and (b) running costs for his Department in financial year 2023-24; and how much he has allocated for 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	22078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Scotland Office and Office for the Advocate General are currently in the process of finalising the department’s figures for financial year 2023-24. These figures are subject to external audit and the department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2023-24 are expected to be available later this year. The budget for the department for financial year 2024-25 as agreed in Spending Review 2021 is £13.354m.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 22/04/2024 09:39:49 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1701509

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the administration costs of his Department were in each year since his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	22082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Scotland Office and Office for the Advocate General publish an Annual Report and Accounts which contains the information requested. The latest version can be found at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1170084/SO_Report_2022-23_-_web_version.pdf" target="_blank">Scotland Office Annual Report 2022-23</a>. Prior year Annual Reports and Accounts for the Scotland Office and Office for the Advocate General are available online or can be obtained from the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 22/04/2024 09:38:36 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1608480

registered interest
date	29/03/2023
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Food: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on promoting and supporting the Scottish food and drink sector.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	904302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Scotland Office takes issues raised by businesses very seriously indeed. That is why we have listened to the concerns of businesses, particularly small businesses, in relation to the Scottish Government's Deposit Return Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>I hope that the new First Minister and the Scottish Government will do the same and pause its scheme so that we can work together to find solutions that work for Scotland and the whole of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk answering member printed John Lamont question first answered 29/03/2023 14:55:49 answering member 4608 label Biography information for John Lamont
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1579715

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	European Union: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January to Question 126735 on European Union: Scotland, what evidence he used to determine that there is no desire in Scotland to have membership of the EU in his Oral Contribution on Impact of Leaving the EU on 11 Januarys 2023, Official Report, Column 546.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	129916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>Polling is clear the people of Scotland want their currency to be Sterling. I was clear in my contribution of 11 January, the people of Scotland do not favour abandoning Sterling in order to create a new, temporary currency that would require to be superseded by the Euro.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 30/01/2023 10:35:59 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1568206

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	European Union: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January to Question 122480 on European Union: Scotland, whether his Department has commissioned (a) polling, (b) focus groups and (c) studies on attitudes towards the EU of people in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	126735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>The Scotland Office does not conduct its own polling, focus groups, or attitudinal studies on this or any other issue.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 23/01/2023 10:40:39 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1566805

registered interest
date	13/01/2023
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	European Union: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department has made an assessment of attitudes towards the EU of people in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	122480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>I recently made clear in Parliament my view that people in Scotland should understand the difficulties an independent Scotland would face in re-entering the EU in terms of currency, deficit thresholds, pensions and many other issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 18/01/2023 14:24:51 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1381319

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department takes to ensure that at least one official from his Department is present during all (a) meetings and (b) phone calls relating to Government business between Ministers and third parties.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	80400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>Ministers holding meetings or phone calls on government business are routinely accompanied by a private secretary or other official, in line with the expectations of paragraph 8.14 of the Ministerial Code. Specific procedures are in place for external meetings involving ministers. These are publicly available and can be found in the <a href="https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/popapersguidance2009.pdf" target="_blank">Guidance on the management of Private Office Papers.</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 30/11/2021 11:24:33 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1380234

registered interest
date	19/11/2021
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will provide details of his Department’s process for recording and retaining minutes from meetings in respect of Government business.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	78451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>Formal, structured meetings are usually minuted, however, not all meetings need to be minuted. It is expected that the general guidance that departments give to their staff will help officials make judgements as to what meetings need to be minuted, noting their Civil Service Code obligation to ‘keep accurate official records.’</p><p>Specific procedures are in place for external meetings involving ministers. These are publicly available and can be found in the <a href="https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/popapersguidance2009.pdf" target="_blank">Guidance on the management of Private Office Papers.</a></p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/11/2021 09:36:59 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1282496

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Marketing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2021 to Question 141530, if he will publish copies of all the marketing and advertising materials published by his Department costed in his response.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	146938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>The requested public information campaign materials promoted by the Department are freely and publically available for anyone to view online at the Facebook Ads Library:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&amp;ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&amp;country=GB&amp;view_all_page_id=159100234275780&amp;sort_data%5bdirection%5d=desc&amp;sort_data%5bmode%5d=relevancy_monthly_grouped" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&amp;ad_type=political_and_issue_ads&amp;country=GB&amp;view_all_page_id=159100234275780&amp;sort_data[direction]=desc&amp;sort_data[mode]=relevancy_monthly_grouped</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 04/02/2021 11:52:58 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson