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760503

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	List of Ministerial Responsibilities
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish an updated edition of the list of ministerial responsibilities, last updated in October 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL1616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2017 answer text <p>The updated List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be published shortly. In the interim, a summary of Ministers responsibilities can be found on</p><p>Gov.uk: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 28/09/2017 13:08:26 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

760507

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Inflation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will continue to include figures relating to the Retail Price Index in the monthly press release on UK consumer price inflation issued by the Office for National Statistics.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL1620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 28/09/2017 13:19:47 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg attachment 1 file name HL1620 Lord Marlesford.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

760621

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to facilitate whistleblowing in his Department and its arm-length bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Over the last year a great deal of work has been undertaken in Cabinet Office to ensure all<br />staff are confident in raising whistleblowing concerns and assured that action will be taken<br />as a result. This includes:</p><ul><li>A new whistleblowing and raising concerns policy was introduced in July 2016, bringing the department in line with cross government best practice. This policy gives a clear outline of how to raise a whistleblowing concern in the department.</li><li>6 Nominated Officers have been trained over the last year and are currently in post to support staff and managers with raising whistleblowing concerns as an independent person. 3 additional Nominated Officers are to be trained in the next two months to ensure coverage in larger units as well as those units that may need to approach someone with higher security clearance.</li><li>A DG whistleblowing champion was put in place in October <del class="ministerial">2017</del><ins class="ministerial">2016</ins>.</li><li>Cabinet Office’s bespoke line manager training course includes a section that covers whistleblowing and how to deal with a whistleblowing concern as a line manager.</li><li>Cabinet Office took part in the cross government whistleblowing awareness week in October 2016 and whistleblowing awareness day in September 2017.</li><li>A new ‘Speak Up’ campaign was launched in April 2017 aimed at encouraging staff to raise all types of concerns. This campaign was refreshed in September 2017.</li><li>The Civil Service Commission attended a recent all staff diversity event to raise awareness of their part in hearing whistleblowing concerns under the Civil Service code.</li><li>Data is regularly collected and reviewed on numbers and types of concerns raised to inform continuous action and communications.</li><li>Further communications are planned throughout the year to ensure on-going awareness of the ways individuals can raise whistleblowing concerns.</li></ul> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/10/2017 12:00:41 question first ministerially corrected 23/10/2017 09:33:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes previous answer version 16130 answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760036

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside of government and (b) in from outside of the government in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government Commercial Function is staffed by employees working across many Civil<br>Service Departments. Within the Cabinet Office as at 30 th September 2017, there are 27.5<br>FTE in the Government Commercial Function who set the vision and direction of the<br>Government Commercial Function and support the running of the Government<br>Commercial Organisation.</p><p>The Government Commercial Organisation (GCO), founded in 2016, is the Central<br>employer of senior Commercial staff across the Civil Service. As at 30 th September 2017 it<br>employs 220 people as part of the Cabinet Office. Members of the GCO all sit within<br>government departments, working on commercial contracts within those departments. Two<br>members of the GCO are out on secondment, to MHRA and NEST. No members of the<br>GCO have been seconded in to the Civil Service.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/10/2017 12:04:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760037

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that all costs properly incurred in (a) the administration of elections, including electoral registration costs directly attributable to the election, are reimbursed to returning officers and their employing local authorities and (b) delivering electoral registration are automatically provided to local authorities without the need to revert to the justification-led bidding process.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The process for reimbursing properly incurred costs for electoral events is overseen by the<br>Election Claims Unit. Once claims have been received and properly scrutinised, expenses<br>necessarily incurred for the effective and efficient delivery of the poll will be reimbursed</p><p>The Election Claims Unit aims to settle claims within 12 months of them being received.</p><p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. The law does not allow for claims for electoral events to include costs<br>of electoral registration.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:54:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760038

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) men and (b) women have left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>Details of exits from my Department are routinely published in the Department’s Annual<br>Report and Accounts. These are available on the Cabinet Office website at<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office- annual-reports- and-accounts</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/10/2017 15:05:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

760112

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Oesophageal Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer aged between (a) 20 to 40, (b) 40 to 60 and (c) over 60 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	10316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I<br>have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:39:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ10316.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

760201

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Election 2017
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report, Turned Out 2017, published by the RNIB on problems experienced by blind and partially sighted voters at the 2017 General Election; and if he will implement that report's recommendations before local authority elections take place in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>I welcome the report by the RNIB on the experiences of blind and partially sighted people<br>at the 2017 General Election. The Government will consider these recommendations as<br>part of our current Call for Evidence on the experience of disabled people in registering to<br>vote and voting and will look at the evidence as a whole in planning how to take forward<br>any changes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:52:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

759604

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been paid to (a) men and (b) women who left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>Details of the number, type, compensation levels and cost of exits from my Department<br>are routinely published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. These are<br>available on the Cabinet Office website at<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office- annual-reports- and-accounts .</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/10/2017 15:02:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

759605

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Registration Officers: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for electoral registration officers.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	10117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. Since 2014 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to LAs to cover<br>the additional costs generated by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration,<br>including a second bidding round after the canvass if initial funding is insufficient to cover<br>costs incurred over the year.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:32:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham