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1460455

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Public Inquiries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has instructed No. 10 staff to preserve evidence for the inquiry into the Government's handling of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	160546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>All departments are aware that the Covid inquiry will bring with it substantial obligations to provide relevant records, information and data, and that preparation for the inquiry includes the need to ensure that no material of potential relevance to the inquiry is destroyed. The Cabinet Office raised this to the attention of all departments across Whitehall in June 2021 and again in February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 28/04/2022 10:17:02 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1401384

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	EU Law
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 his Department has plans to bring forward proposals on retained EU law in spring 2022.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	100675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>As set out in the Paymaster General’s Written Ministerial Statement of 9 December 2021, officials in the Cabinet Office are continuing to undertake two reviews into retained EU law, one into the substance of retained EU law and one into its status in law.</p><p>Any proposals for change will be finalised at the conclusion of the reviews. The Queen’s speech will set out the Government’s legislative programme in the normal way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/01/2022 16:58:12 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1401424

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	EU Law: Reviews
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 her Department holds responsibility for the review of retained EU law following the resignation of Lord Frost.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	100677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Brexit Opportunities Unit in the Cabinet Office is leading reviews of Retained EU law (REUL). The aim of these two reviews, into the substance and status of REUL, is to ensure that REUL - as established by the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 - does not stagnate on the UK statute book.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>An announcement will be made in due course to confirm which Minister will lead these reviews, following the resignation of my Rt Hon Friend Lord Frost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/01/2022 17:57:55 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1385388

registered interest
date	06/12/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	10 and 11 Downing Street: Air Conditioning
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 air filtration systems have been installed in Number 10 and Number 11 Downing Street since March 2020; which rooms those systems have been installed in; and when they were installed.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	87824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2021 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office, which includes the buildings in Downing Street, follows the appropriate <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-covid-19/offices-factories-and-labs" target="_blank">Working Safely During Coronavirus guidance</a>. This includes consideration of ventilation as part of any risk assessment. The HSE also provides guidance on this issue.</p><p> </p><p>Air filtration units are one option (not a requirement) that may be used as a mitigation where it is not possible to improve poorly ventilated areas.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In that light, the Cabinet Office has not deemed it necessary, at this time, to install such systems. We will keep this matter under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 87825 question first answered 23/12/2021 13:35:56 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1385389

registered interest
date	06/12/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	10 and 11 Downing Street: Air Conditioning
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 cost of installing air filtration systems in Number 10 and Number 11 Downing Street since March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	87825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2021 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office, which includes the buildings in Downing Street, follows the appropriate <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-covid-19/offices-factories-and-labs" target="_blank">Working Safely During Coronavirus guidance</a>. This includes consideration of ventilation as part of any risk assessment. The HSE also provides guidance on this issue.</p><p> </p><p>Air filtration units are one option (not a requirement) that may be used as a mitigation where it is not possible to improve poorly ventilated areas.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In that light, the Cabinet Office has not deemed it necessary, at this time, to install such systems. We will keep this matter under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 87824 question first answered 23/12/2021 13:35:56 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1357974

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers
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 days the Prime Minister has stayed at Chequers overnight in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021 to date.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	54005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Chequers is not a government building; it is run and managed by an independent trust.</p><p>As has been the practice under successive Premiers, the Prime Minister uses Chequers consistent with the wishes of the donor, the late Sir Arthur Lee, who gave it to the nation for the use of the Prime Minister. Chequers is available to Ministers for both official and private use.</p><p>Sir Arthur Lee’s wishes are set out in the Chequers Estate Acts 1917: “It is not possible to foresee or foretell from what classes or conditions of life the future wielders of power in this country will be drawn. Some may be as in the past men of wealth and famous descent; some may belong to the world of trade and business; others may spring from the ranks of the manual toilers. To none of these in the midst of their strenuous and responsible labours could the spirit and anodyne of Chequers do anything but good. In the city-bred man especially, the periodic contact with the most typical rural life would create and preserve a just sense of proportion between the claims of town and country. To the revolutionary statesman the antiquity and calm tenacity of Chequers and its annals might suggest some saving virtues in the continuity of English history and exercise a check upon too hasty upheavals, whilst even the most reactionary could scarcely be insensible to the spirit of human freedom which permeates the countryside of Hampden, Burke and Milton. Apart from these more subtle influences, the better the health of our rulers the more sanely will they rule and the inducement to spend two days a week in the high and pure air of the Chiltern hills and woods will, it is hoped, benefit the nation as well as its chosen leaders.&quot;</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 54006 question first answered 18/10/2021 09:37:45 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1357975

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers
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 bedrooms are available for use at Chequers as at 23 September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	54006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Chequers is not a government building; it is run and managed by an independent trust.</p><p>As has been the practice under successive Premiers, the Prime Minister uses Chequers consistent with the wishes of the donor, the late Sir Arthur Lee, who gave it to the nation for the use of the Prime Minister. Chequers is available to Ministers for both official and private use.</p><p>Sir Arthur Lee’s wishes are set out in the Chequers Estate Acts 1917: “It is not possible to foresee or foretell from what classes or conditions of life the future wielders of power in this country will be drawn. Some may be as in the past men of wealth and famous descent; some may belong to the world of trade and business; others may spring from the ranks of the manual toilers. To none of these in the midst of their strenuous and responsible labours could the spirit and anodyne of Chequers do anything but good. In the city-bred man especially, the periodic contact with the most typical rural life would create and preserve a just sense of proportion between the claims of town and country. To the revolutionary statesman the antiquity and calm tenacity of Chequers and its annals might suggest some saving virtues in the continuity of English history and exercise a check upon too hasty upheavals, whilst even the most reactionary could scarcely be insensible to the spirit of human freedom which permeates the countryside of Hampden, Burke and Milton. Apart from these more subtle influences, the better the health of our rulers the more sanely will they rule and the inducement to spend two days a week in the high and pure air of the Chiltern hills and woods will, it is hoped, benefit the nation as well as its chosen leaders.&quot;</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 54005 question first answered 18/10/2021 09:37:46 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1135181

registered interest
date	27/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Oxford-Cambridge Arc
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and which local authorities were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements by (a) his Department and (b) Highways England as part of the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway project.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	270389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Confidentiality Agreements are used to protect both Highways England’s information and the information of the other signatory party and are in accordance with typical business practice. Confidentiality Agreements help to avoid placing homes and businesses in unnecessary blight and protect commercially sensitive information and the personal information of those potentially affected by any proposed changes. Highways England does not discuss the existence or otherwise of specific arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has not asked any local authorities to sign a Confidentiality Agreement in relation to this project. Both the Department and Highways England will continue to work closely with all local authorities and other stakeholders in the development of the expressway and a full public consultation is planned for later this year.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 02/07/2019 13:52:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran