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date	04/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Regulation
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 29 June 2017 to Question 861, on regulation, for what reason funds from the public purse were spent on the Red Tape Challenge in 2016-17 after the programme closed in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	2982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Red Tape Challenge was launched under the Coalition Government in 2011. The initiative ran until March 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Following the 2015 General Election, the Government continued the focus on improving regulation and established the Cutting Red Tape programme. In November 2016, policy responsibility moved from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/07/2017 12:08:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

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date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many civil servants has been employed by his Department as specialist lawyers since its creation; what the pay grades are of those officials; how many lawyers have been seconded to his Department, from which firms, since its creation; and how much has been spent on such external legal advice and services.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	2904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union receives legal services from the Government Legal Department so has not directly employed any civil servants or secondees as specialist lawyers. Currently there are approximately 40 GLD lawyers working for the benefit of DExEU and the costs of this work will be published in the Annual Report and Accounts shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 10/07/2017 16:31:21 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett