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1151713

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to move public sector jobs outside London.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	900092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensure that more civil service roles and public bodies should be located in the regions and nations of the United Kingdom.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is co-ordinating this activity through the Places for Growth programme. The Programme has identified over three thousand roles for relocation over a phased timetable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 23/10/2019 15:06:05 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1150980

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether all staff of the Prime Minister's Office are paid the London Living Wage; and whether it is a requirement for all Government Departments' contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to his question (PQ 293677) on 7 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:06:16 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1150983

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	10 Downing Street: Catering and Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what arrangements the Government has with contractors for (a) cleaning and (b) catering in 10 Downing Street.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>Cleaners in No 10 are Civil Servants and are not contractors. The catering services are provided via the Government Property Agency's Total Facilities Management Contract.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 09:03:36 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1151005

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of civil servants employed directly or indirectly by each London-based Government Department or agency that are paid below the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	2834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>This government is committed to paying people a decent living wage, which is being addressed through the statutory National Living Wage. In April 2019, the National Living Wage increased to £8.21 per hour, handing a full-time worker a further £690 annual pay rise. By 2024 the National Living Wage will rise to £10.50 per hour, reaching 66% of median UK earnings. The scope will be expanded to everyone aged 21 and over and is expected to benefit over 4 million low paid workers.</p><p>Pay for grades below the Senior Civil Service is delegated to departments to determine and they will of course comply with the statutory National Living Wage. As at 31 March 2019, almost 46,000 (~11%) of civil servants earn below the Living Wage Foundation’s living wage (for those based outside of London) or London living wage (for those based inside London). It is not possible to provide a detailed breakdown by department and these estimates may differ from those calculated by departments using their internal data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:07:08 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1151096

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 904, what the campaigns and initiatives referred to in the Answer were; and how many staff took part in each of them.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	2699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>As referenced in the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 904, Cabinet Office has run a number of campaigns and initiatives in the past year to improve the personal wellbeing of staff relating to physical, mental and social wellbeing. The department receives consistently strong engagement rates in activities relating to these campaign events. Whilst we cannot give exact numbers, we estimate that around 2000 members of staff taking part in events and initiatives in the first ten months of 2019, either physically or remotely through the use of video technology.</p><p>A breakdown of events can be seen below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Type of initiative</p></td><td><p>Staff Engagement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>Wellbeing Month - we organised 29 events and training sessions throughout the month, including resilience workshops, park runs, mindfulness sessions and a visit by ‘wellbeing dogs’</p></td><td><p>Over 400 people attended workshops, 30 colleagues joined sessions remotely (via google hangout), and hundreds of colleagues visited the wellbeing dogs.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>Time to Talk Day events</p></td><td><p>Circa 50 attended events</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>Mental Health Awareness Week – 5 talks organised and ‘This is me’ campaign where Cabinet Office staff shared their own personal stories with mental health</p></td><td><p>Raised £219 by selling green ribbons to staff Circa 500 members of staff took part in this campaign either through buying a ribbon or attending one of the talks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>Civil Service Active Wellbeing Week, led by Civil Service Sports Council. To support the week, colleagues across Cabinet Office volunteered their own time to run a series of events, such as bike rides, pilates sessions and wellbeing walks.</p></td><td><p>As these were organised by volunteers, we do not have an estimated number of staff who attended these events, however they were very popular amongst colleagues.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>National Suicide Prevention Day – guest speaker</p></td><td><p>Circa 50 members of staff attended the talk on the day, and a further 150 watched the talk remotely through the use of video technology.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>Know Your Numbers Week. A national campaign led by Blood Pressure UK to encourage staff to know their vital health statistics, such as blood pressure, heart rate, hydration and body mass index. As part of this event, we arranged for health check kiosks to be made available for staff in our London and Newcastle offices</p></td><td><p>A total of 683 people using these kiosks. In addition, 30 people took part in the smoothie bike challenge which formed part of the event</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>Cabinet Office encouraged staff to stop smoking for 28 days as part of the Stoptober campaign. We promoted this campaign via the intranet and set up stalls manned by specialist stop smoking advisors</p></td><td><p>Circa 30 people visited stalls</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>World Mental Health Day. This included a tea &amp; talk session, a panel discussion and a mental wellbeing workshop.</p></td><td><p>Around 300 people took part in these events, with a further 200 people buying green ribbons to support the day</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:04:17 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1151133

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 359 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, for what reason the Answer did not publish the 46 Government services which were originally intended to be accessible through GOV.UK Verify by March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	2952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>As per PQ 359 not all the services originally considering using <a href="http://gov.uk" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify completed their digital transformation, or had well-evidenced need for digital identity. It is therefore not appropriate to publish these services, a number of which are no longer in existence. The current government services available through GOV.UK Verify are available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 24/10/2019 16:00:47 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1150347

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release, Government’s streamlined messaging service to save taxpayer £175m, published on 26 September 2019, what the sources are of the savings that the GOV.UK Notify system will deliver in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	1564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Notify currently has 1,322 services with over half a billion total notifications sent to date (see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/performance/govuk-notify" target="_blank">here</a>). The benefits of <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Notify are primarily driven by HMG only having to incur a cost once instead of multiple times across the 1,322 services. The benefits fall into two broad categories &quot;One-off avoided costs&quot; &amp; &quot;Avoided ongoing costs&quot;. These benefits are driven by the number of services adopted across HMG and the transactions of each of those services. Both are forecasted forward based on a combination of statistical techniques using historical data and engagement insight with OGDs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 22/10/2019 15:13:40 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1150348

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent civil servants worked on delivering the objectives of the Government Transformation Strategy in the most recent three years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	1565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government Transformation Strategy is a cross-government programme of work that touches on all aspects of digital transformation. We estimate that there are approximately 17,000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) professionals employed across government and directly supporting delivery of the strategy, in addition to a significant number of non-DDaT civil servants working on related activities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 22/10/2019 15:15:42 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1150349

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made on transferring Verify to the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	1566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office and DCMS announced a call for evidence on 19 July 2019, to seek views on how government can support the development and secure use of digital identities fit for the UK’s growing digital economy.</p><p>The Cabinet Office and DCMS also announced the creation of a new Digital Identity Unit, which will help bring the public and private sector together, ensure the adoption of interoperable standards, specification and schemes, and deliver on the outcome of the call for evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 22/10/2019 16:54:32 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1150412

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Appointments: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to increase the diversity of public appointments.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	1567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In June this year, the Government updated its Public Appointments Diversity Action Plan which sets out steps for improving the diversity of public appointees. The Prime Minister remains committed to this plan, including the aspirations that by 2022, 50% of all appointees should be female, and 14% of appointments made should be to those from ethnic minority backgrounds.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The latest figures show that 43% of appointees are female compared to 39% in March 2014. The recent report from the Commissioner for Public Appointments shows that 11.9% of appointments made in 2018/19 were to those from ethnic minorities compared to 8% in 2013/2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 22/10/2019 15:10:25 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett