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178819

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of commissioners from local government have attended the Commissioning Academy; and by which local authorities those commissioners are employed.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	224134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Through its programme of Civil Service Reform, the Government is taking urgent action to address long-standing skills gaps in the Civil Service. Our pioneering Commissioning Academy is building commercial capability across the public sector, and improving how public services are delivered.</p><p> </p><p>To date 392 individuals have attended the central Commissioning Academy programmes, including 206 (52%) from central government. In the last year there was a 50% increase in demand for places on the programme, and it will be expanded to deliver 1,500 places by March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Commissioners have attended from the following local authorities:</p><p> </p><p>Basildon Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Basingstoke &amp; Deane Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Birmingham City Council</p><p> </p><p>Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Bristol City Council</p><p> </p><p>Canterbury and Coastal Clinical Commissioning Group</p><p> </p><p>Cheltenham Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Cherwell District, South Northants and Stratford on Avon Councils</p><p> </p><p>Cheshire East Council</p><p> </p><p>Cheshire West and Chester Council</p><p> </p><p>Cheshire West and Chester (a place-based group)</p><p> </p><p>Cumbria County Council</p><p> </p><p>Devon County Council</p><p> </p><p>Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Essex County Council</p><p> </p><p>Fenland District Council</p><p> </p><p>Gloucestershire County Council</p><p> </p><p>Harborough District Council</p><p> </p><p>Horsham District Council</p><p> </p><p>Kent County Council</p><p> </p><p>Knowsley Council (Health and Social Care Integration)</p><p> </p><p>Lancashire County Council</p><p> </p><p>Leicestershire County Council</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Barnet</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Haringey</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Lambeth</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Lewisham</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Sutton</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Waltham Forest</p><p> </p><p>Lowestoft Rising (Place based group)</p><p> </p><p>Manchester City Council</p><p> </p><p>Milton Keynes Council</p><p> </p><p>Norfolk County Council</p><p> </p><p>Northamptonshire County Council</p><p> </p><p>Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Shropshire</p><p> </p><p>Somerset County Council</p><p> </p><p>Southend-on-sea Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Staffordshire County Council</p><p> </p><p>Stoke-On-Trent City Council</p><p> </p><p>Suffolk Coastal</p><p> </p><p>Sunderland City Council</p><p> </p><p>Surrey County Council</p><p> </p><p>Swindon Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Tamworth Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Tri-borough councils: Hammersmith &amp; Fulham, Kensington &amp; Chelsea and Westminster</p><p> </p><p>Wakefield Metropolitan District Council</p><p> </p><p>Walsall Council</p><p> </p><p>Warrington Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>Waverley Borough Council</p><p> </p><p>West Sussex County Council</p><p> </p><p>Westminster City Council</p><p> </p><p>Wirral Council</p><p> </p><p>Worcestershire County Council</p><p> </p><p>A number of other programmes sit alongside the central programme under the Commissioning Academy umbrella. 78 officials have attended local programmes in Norfolk and Staffordshire, modelled on the central programme, with participants drawn from local authorities and other public sector bodies in the local area. In addition, 8 councillors have attended a streamlined programme for Local Authority elected members.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em><br> </em></strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 12/02/2015 16:46:22 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

178448

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to protect organisations and businesses in the UK from cybercrime and large-scale cyber-attack.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	223889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer my Rt hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on Thursday 11 December 2014 to the House; “Third Annual Report on Progress on the UK Cyber Security Strategy: Protecting and Promoting the UK in a Digital World” and the accompanying progress report “The UK Cyber Security Strategy: Report on progress and forward plans – December 2014”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 12/02/2015 07:51:55 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

178450

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 2.2 of the report The Performance of the Cabinet Office 2013-14, published by the National Audit Office in November 2014, when he expects the reports commissioned by his Department on examining the barriers faced by people (a) who declare disabilities, (b) from minority ethnic backgrounds and (c) who are LGBT in the civil service to be published.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	223890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>All three reports will be published in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 12/02/2015 07:53:06 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

178451

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the nature and the extent of voluntary work undertaken as part of the National Citizen Service in England.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	223910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Since 2011 over 130,000 young people have taken part in National Citizen Service (NCS), giving an estimated 3.2 million hours of volunteering to their communities. This has consisted of over 8,000 social action projects ranging from the renovation of community spaces, to charity fundraising events.</p><p> </p><p>The independent evaluation of the NCS programme also demonstrates that it is creating a movement of young people who feel a greater responsibility towards their community and who are more likely to help out locally in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 12/02/2015 07:50:55 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

178292

registered interest
date	06/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Unemployment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222628, when he expects to be able to release data on unemployment figures for December 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	223698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 11/02/2015 07:31:51 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 223698 ONS 41.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Unemployment Figures
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

178332

registered interest
date	06/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Crime: Surrey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the level of reported crime was for each type of offence in the Surrey police force area in each year since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	223713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 11/02/2015 07:33:14 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 223713 ONS 40.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Reported Crime
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

178066

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Departmental Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the process of reviewing the Cabinet Secretary's file to be completed; how many files are contained within that volume; how many such files have been indexed as part of the review to date; and for what reason those files were (a) uncatalogued and (b) unregistered before the review commenced.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	223655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>I have placed copies of the following documents in the Library:</p><p>· Cabinet Office Records Management Policy 2011</p><p>· Cabinet Office Information Retention Policy 2011</p><p>The policies in these documents in relation to paper files have remained the same as when the Hon. Member was a Minister in this Department. They were updated in 2011 to reflect changes in the Cabinet Office IT system.</p><p>The work outlined in my written statement of 4 February is underway and will be completed as quickly as possible. Information on the Cabinet Secretaries' Miscellaneous Papers, which was closed in 2007, can be found online on The National Archives Catalogue under the series CAB301. The Papers are covered by a Lord Chancellor’s retention instrument issued in 23 September 2014 under section 3(4) of the Public Records Act to allow series of records which form part of a backlog awaiting appraisal or preparation for transfer to TNA. This is standard practice for handling sensitive papers and has been in place since 1958. It would therefore be inappropriate to say anything further about their content.</p><p>Recording of file destruction is embedded within individual Cabinet Office records lists. Extracting the detail requested would have to be done manually and could only be delivered at disproportionate cost. The file marked for destruction had been reviewed in 2013 and had not met the criteria for permanent preservation as set out in the Records Collection Policy of The National Archives. Before final destruction took place, as part of standard processes, which have not changed since the Hon. Member was a Minister in this Department, a further review was undertaken and in the light of the content a decision was made not to destroy the file.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 223654 question first answered 10/02/2015 17:46:06 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

178067

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Departmental Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's record and retention policy; when that policy was last reviewed; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	223626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 February 2015 to PQ223654-PQ223655.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 223625 question first answered 11/02/2015 07:30:09 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

178068

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Departmental Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of the title of each file that has been destroyed by his Department in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	223625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 February 2015 to PQ223654-PQ223655.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 223626 question first answered 11/02/2015 07:30:09 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

178069

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the written statement of 4 February 2015, HCWS251, what the titles are of the four additional files that have been found; if he will place in the Library copies of those files; for what reason one file had been marked for destruction; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	223654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>I have placed copies of the following documents in the Library:</p><p>· Cabinet Office Records Management Policy 2011</p><p>· Cabinet Office Information Retention Policy 2011</p><p>The policies in these documents in relation to paper files have remained the same as when the Hon. Member was a Minister in this Department. They were updated in 2011 to reflect changes in the Cabinet Office IT system.</p><p>The work outlined in my written statement of 4 February is underway and will be completed as quickly as possible. Information on the Cabinet Secretaries' Miscellaneous Papers, which was closed in 2007, can be found online on The National Archives Catalogue under the series CAB301. The Papers are covered by a Lord Chancellor’s retention instrument issued in 23 September 2014 under section 3(4) of the Public Records Act to allow series of records which form part of a backlog awaiting appraisal or preparation for transfer to TNA. This is standard practice for handling sensitive papers and has been in place since 1958. It would therefore be inappropriate to say anything further about their content.</p><p>Recording of file destruction is embedded within individual Cabinet Office records lists. Extracting the detail requested would have to be done manually and could only be delivered at disproportionate cost. The file marked for destruction had been reviewed in 2013 and had not met the criteria for permanent preservation as set out in the Records Collection Policy of The National Archives. Before final destruction took place, as part of standard processes, which have not changed since the Hon. Member was a Minister in this Department, a further review was undertaken and in the light of the content a decision was made not to destroy the file.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 223655 question first answered 10/02/2015 17:46:06 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest