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1715554

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to reply to the correspondence of (a) 4 March and (b) 3 April 2024 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on digital exclusion on behalf of a constituent.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	24631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence. As per the Cabinet Office’s Guide to Handling Correspondence on gov.uk, departments and agencies should aim to respond to correspondence within a 20 working day target deadline.</p><p>Following transfer on 7 May of the Hon. Member’s correspondence of 4 March and 3 April 2024 from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology to the Cabinet Office, I can confirm a response has now been issued, on 13 May.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/05/2024 14:42:36 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1669965

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to section 1.3 of the report entitled Strengthening Ethics and Integrity in Central Government, published in July 2023, whether Ministers appointed in the reshuffle on 13 November 2023 were asked to sign a deed to abide by Advisory Committee on Business Appointment decisions.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	1852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government expects all former Ministers to abide by their obligations with regard to the Business Appointment Rules, as set out in the Ministerial Code. The work to develop a ministerial deed is ongoing and, as such, it has not yet been introduced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 22/11/2023 12:44:48 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1650289

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Committee on Standards in Public Life and Development and Use of Supply Chain Finance (and associated schemes) in Government Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what dates his Department plans to publish a response to (a) Sir Nigel Boardman's Review into the Development and Use of Supply Chain Finance in Government, published in August 2021 and (b) the Committee on Standards in Public Life's report entitled Upholding Standards in Public Life, published in November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	192497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government's response to Sir Nigel Boardman's Review into the Development and Use of Supply Chain Finance in Government; the Committee on Standards in Public Life's report 'Upholding Standards in Public Life', and the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee's report 'Propriety of Governance in Light of Greensill' will be published before the summer recess.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 14/07/2023 13:17:31 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1641274

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to reply to the letters of 21 March and 24 April 2023 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare about Chinese surveillance technology on behalf of his constituent Andy Clark.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	187118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>A response to the Honourable Member’s constituent, Andy Clark, has been issued and a copy will be deposited in the House of Commons Library.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/06/2023 16:49:34 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1599848

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Honours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendation of Boardman review on strengthening the oversight of the honours process within government departments.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	155069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government will be responding to the Boardman review in due course.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 08/03/2023 17:24:12 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1599849

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
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 Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendation in the Boardman review on restricting the use of employer salary advance schemes for civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	155070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the Written Ministerial Statement <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-07-15/hcws208" target="_blank">Government Transparency and Accountability</a>, put before the House by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 15 July 2022. The statement sets out action already taken in relation to reports by the Committee on Standards in Public Life and Nigel Boardman and that further work continues.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 155071 question first answered 08/03/2023 17:57:55 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1599850

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendation of the Boardman review on prohibiting suppliers from referring to government contracts in marketing material without government consent.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	155071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the Written Ministerial Statement <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-07-15/hcws208" target="_blank">Government Transparency and Accountability</a>, put before the House by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 15 July 2022. The statement sets out action already taken in relation to reports by the Committee on Standards in Public Life and Nigel Boardman and that further work continues.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 155070 question first answered 08/03/2023 17:57:55 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1541128

registered interest
date	09/11/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of spending on Government programmes will be covered by the work of the Evaluation Task Force this year; and what plans he has to increase this figure to assess the effectiveness of all or most of those programmes in future.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	83593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Evaluation Task Force (ETF) was set up to improve the way government programmes are evaluated to improve our assessment of whether programmes should be continued, expanded, modified or stopped. The ETF provides all government Departments with reactive evaluation advice and support on request, as well as a proactive scrutiny and challenge function, which is responsive to requests from Treasury and Cabinet Office ministerial priorities. Departments, however, are responsible for evaluating their own programmes.</p><p>HM Government spends about £1 trillion each year, including £400 billion on public services. Since the establishment of the ETF 18 months ago, the team has advised on how to best evaluate 169 programmes worth £81.7bn. This includes the ETF’s recently published top 10 priority areas where they will provide more significant evaluation support and challenge to ensure that evaluation is used to understand the effectiveness of the most important policies and programmes across government. In addition, through the £15m Evaluation Accelerator Fund, the ETF has awarded 16 programmes funding to support actionable evaluations in priority areas.</p><p>The ETF advises on programmes covering single-year and multi-year expenditure and therefore cannot accurately determine the proportion of spending on government programmes that will be covered by the ETF this year.</p><p>The ETF will be updating the government major projects conducted by the Prime Minister’s Implementation Unit in 2019. The findings will be used to identify projects where the ETF can make a significant difference by providing evaluation support. The ambition is, by 2025, all new major programmes in government will have a robust evaluation in place, delivering value for money for the public, and ensuring the impact of taxpayer money is maximised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 14/11/2022 16:32:17 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1345204

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Senior Civil Servants and Special Advisers: Meetings
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of reporting external meetings of (a) special advisers and (b) senior officials below Permanent Secretary level, on a similar basis to that which applies to Ministers and Permanent Secretaries.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	29755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government publishes a comprehensive set of transparency publications and we keep this under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 16/07/2021 13:23:54 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1302452

registered interest
date	15/03/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Census: Telephone 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 information his Department holds on the average waiting times for calls to the Census support phone helpline; and what proportion of the calls to that helpline have been dropped or terminated.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	168858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 168859 question first answered 23/03/2021 17:46:03 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name UKSA's final response to PQ168858_168859.pdf title UKSAs response to 168858, 168859
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose