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1017210

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date	29/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has in place for his work stream on electoral reform in preparation for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	197377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will continue to keep the electoral system under review and where appropriate will consider what changes, if any, may be necessary in preparation for and as a consequence of the UK leaving the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>As the UK will cease to be a member of the European Union on 29th March 2019, we will not be taking part in future European Parliamentary elections, including those which are currently scheduled to be held from 23rd to 26th May 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 repeals the underlying pieces of legislation providing for the holding of European Parliamentary elections in the UK, and we have made a Statutory Instrument under powers in the Act that repeals all associated legislation.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/12/2018 15:28:36 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1017211

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Edinburgh
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much money has been spent from the public purse on office accommodation for staff that will be relocated to HMG New Waverley in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	197378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The amount spent by HMRC in each of the last five years on office accommodation for staff who will be relocating to its Edinburgh Regional Centre, which is currently being constructed at 1 Sibbald Walk, Edinburgh is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2018-19, £13 million</p><p>2017-18, £12 million</p><p>2016-17, £13 million</p><p>2015-16, £13 million</p><p>2014-15, £14 million</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has signed an agreement for lease for 1 Sibbald Walk, Edinburgh, which will become its Edinburgh Regional Centre and it has so far spent around £0.5 million from HMRC’s budget.</p><p>Construction is under way and it is the responsibility of the developer to deliver the building to an agreed specification, which HMRC will then lease. HMRC will occupy 90 per cent of the building and will commence payments during 2019-20 in accordance with the terms of the lease.</p><p>HMRC’s move to regional centres will save around £300 million up to 2025. It will deliver annual cash savings of £74 million in 2025-26, rising to around £90 million from 2028, while modernising how HMRC work and helping to improve customer service.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 197379 question first answered 04/12/2018 14:58:16 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1017212

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Edinburgh
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, from which departmental budgets the cost of constructing UK Government offices at New Waverley is being allocated; and how much money has been allocated to that project in each month since its commencement.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	197379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The amount spent by HMRC in each of the last five years on office accommodation for staff who will be relocating to its Edinburgh Regional Centre, which is currently being constructed at 1 Sibbald Walk, Edinburgh is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2018-19, £13 million</p><p>2017-18, £12 million</p><p>2016-17, £13 million</p><p>2015-16, £13 million</p><p>2014-15, £14 million</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has signed an agreement for lease for 1 Sibbald Walk, Edinburgh, which will become its Edinburgh Regional Centre and it has so far spent around £0.5 million from HMRC’s budget.</p><p>Construction is under way and it is the responsibility of the developer to deliver the building to an agreed specification, which HMRC will then lease. HMRC will occupy 90 per cent of the building and will commence payments during 2019-20 in accordance with the terms of the lease.</p><p>HMRC’s move to regional centres will save around £300 million up to 2025. It will deliver annual cash savings of £74 million in 2025-26, rising to around £90 million from 2028, while modernising how HMRC work and helping to improve customer service.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 197378 question first answered 04/12/2018 14:58:16 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1017213

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff from each Government Department are employed in Scotland; and what the office locations are for those staff.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	197380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2018 there were 43,120 Civil Servants employed in locations in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown by Government department is available in Table 12 ‘Civil Service employment; regional distribution by government department’ as part of the annual National Statistics publication ’Civil Service Statistics’, at the following link: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on the location of Civil Servants is also available through the ONS query tool, nomis, available at this link: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a>. Using nomis we have produced a table of Civil Service Headcount by Department at NUTS3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics Level 3 i.e. council areas) for the above staff. A copy of this table has been placed in the Library.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 18/12/2018 16:04:54 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1017214

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) location and (b) lease expiry dates of Government offices in Scotland that are used by Departmental staff.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	197381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The location information for all the Civil Estate, including Scotland, is published online at <a href="https://data.gov.uk/dataset/c186e17f-654d-4134-aed7-b3f13469546a/central-government-welsh-ministers-and-local-government-including-property-and-land" target="_blank">data.gov.uk</a> as part of Government transparency commitments. Details of Government property to let or for sale can be found via the<a href="https://e-pims.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government-property-finder/Home.aspx" target="_blank"> Government Property Finder </a>website.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not publish lease expiry dates for Government offices used by Departmental staff due to the commercially sensitive nature of this information.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 04/12/2018 13:15:52 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard