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1148160

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
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, for what reasons the civil service pay increase, announced in June 2019 is not in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	294201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.</p><p>For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.</p><p>MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 294202 294203 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:53:24 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1148161

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants and Members: Pay
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, for what reasons hon. Members received a pay rise of 2.7 per cent which was backdated to April 2019 and civil servants received a pay increase of 1.84 per cent which was backdated to June 2019.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	294202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.</p><p>For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.</p><p>MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 294201 294203 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:53:24 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1148162

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
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, if he will take steps to align the pay of civil servants in England, Scotland and Wales to the level of pay of civil servants employed in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	294203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.</p><p>For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.</p><p>MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 294201 294202 question first answered 08/10/2019 14:53:24 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1148166

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Disability
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 estimate he has made of the number of disabled people in each Government Department that left work as a result of a (a) disability and (b) long-term health condition in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017 and (iii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	294117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of people in each government department who left work as a result of a disability or a long-term health condition is not held centrally by Cabinet Office.</p><p>The Civil Service is committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer by 2020; which means attracting and retaining the best talent from all diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability.</p><p>To achieve this, Sir Philip Rutnam, CS Disability Champion, has set out a clear vision for a disability confident and disability inclusive Civil Service; with a specific priority to develop and retain disabled talent. These include; ensuring our disabled staff have access to effective and timely workplace adjustments and access to mainstream talent development programmes and positive action schemes to enable disabled staff to thrive and realise their full potential. <a href="https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/22/my-priorities-as-civil-service-disability-champion/" target="_blank">https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/22/my-priorities-as-civil-service-disability-champion/</a></p><p>The Civil Service publishes annual statistics on the number of disabled employees. These show that the proportion of civil servants who are declared disabled has increased every year since 2010, from 7.6% in 2010 to 11.7% in 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 08/10/2019 14:57:38 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1148234

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Databases
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 discussions he has had with the Prime Minister and his advisers concerning centralisation of data collection in Government.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	294101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The details of meetings between Ministers and their advisers are confidential.</p><p>Having a comprehensive anonymised view of how people interact with government services online is an important part of developing services which provide information in a way users understand.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 08/10/2019 14:59:04 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1147890

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Chief Digital Information Officer: Government Chief Data Officer
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 1 October 2019 to Question 291432, if he will list the job responsibilities of the Chief Data Officer role and how they will work with the Government Chief Digital Information Officer.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	293724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The role of Chief Data Officer will be outlined in due course.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 07/10/2019 14:19:37 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1147900

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Data Protection
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 1 October 2019 to Question 291339 on Cabinet Office: Data Protection, (a) who the decision-maker was and (b) when the decision was made to create a separate account to hold centralised data collected from GOV.UK services; and was that decision reviewed by the Information Commissioners Office.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	293504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The work to create a centralised anonymised analytics account is part of the Government Digital Service’s wider strategy for GOV.UK. It has been GDS’ intention to move towards this model for a while. This is standard practice for industry, and is how a modern government should operate.</p><p>The GDS takes the privacy of citizens’ data extremely seriously. In developing this project, GDS have taken into account both the data protection regime and other guidance like the Government’s Data Ethics Framework. Holding the anonymised cross-domain data in a separate account is just one of a range of technical, privacy and information assurance measures put in place before the start of the project.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 07/10/2019 14:23:55 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1147902

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Data Protection
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 Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 291339 on Cabinet Office: Data Protection, how many (a) Ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) special advisers have access to that data.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	293505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>No ministers or special advisers have access to the Google Analytics account containing the data referred to in the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 291339. To date, 24 security cleared staff working on the project have access to the data. Access is granted on a case-by-case basis as required by business need to further ensure that only appropriate people have access to the data.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 07/10/2019 14:21:08 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1147973

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Chief Data Officer
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 3 September to Question 286366 and with reference to page 10 of the Government Transformation Strategy, which Minister made the decision to extend the objective of appointing a Chief Data Officer from by 2020 to in 2020; and on what date that decision was made.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	293725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>No decision has been made regarding an extension of the objective of appointing a Chief Data Officer It remains our intention to appoint the Chief Data Officer in the timescales set out in the Government Transformation Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 08/10/2019 14:55:51 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1147997

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: 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, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the London Living Wage is paid by all Government Departments and their contractors.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	293677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government policy is that all workers in the UK are paid the statutory National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. This is based on the advice of the Low Pay Commission. 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> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 07/10/2019 14:22:29 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook