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582449

registered interest
date	13/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to update the guidance issued to Government departments on drafting answers to parliamentary questions.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2016 answer text <p>Ministers are responsible for the answers they give to Parliamentary questions. The practice of providing links or references to published material is long standing. There are currently no plans to update the Guidance to Departments on drafting answers to Parliamentary questions given it was previously updated in the last Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 46277 question first answered 19/09/2016 15:24:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581932

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what targets he has set for the senior talent team in his Department since taking up office.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020 was published in July this year. This sets out how the Civil Service will deliver five key priorities that will have the greatest impact on readying the workforce to respond to the challenges the UK will face. The Workforce Plan is available here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/536961/civil_service_workforce_strategy_final.pdf</p><p>The senior talent team is expected, alongside colleagues across Civil Service HR, to deliver the commitments in this Plan.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/09/2016 07:58:45 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581933

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Digital Service: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in the Government Digital Service have left his Department since 13 July 2016.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>Between 13 July 2016 and 13 September 2016, 71 staff left my Department. The majority of these departures, 50 in total, were planned exits (loans and fixed-term appointments ending, retirements, transfers out to other Departments, and voluntary exits).</p><p> </p><p>Of those staff who left the Department, six were employed in the Government Digital Service. Over the same period, 67 staff joined the Government Digital Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 46018 question first answered 16/09/2016 08:03:07 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581934

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials have left his Department since 13 July 2016.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>Between 13 July 2016 and 13 September 2016, 71 staff left my Department. The majority of these departures, 50 in total, were planned exits (loans and fixed-term appointments ending, retirements, transfers out to other Departments, and voluntary exits).</p><p> </p><p>Of those staff who left the Department, six were employed in the Government Digital Service. Over the same period, 67 staff joined the Government Digital Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 46017 question first answered 16/09/2016 08:03:07 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581935

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to Answers given on 21 July 2016 to Questions 43013 and 43014, what information his Department holds on legal advice expenditure by the (a) Economic and Domestic Affairs secretariat and (b) Propriety Ethics Unit on Freedom of Information cases in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>I would refer the Right Honourable gentleman to the answer to his previous question of 21 August 2016 (43013 and 43014).</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/09/2016 08:00:48 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581936

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Honours: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made by the Cabinet Secretary on his inquiry into the recent leak of information concerning honours and peerages.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The investigation into the leak of the Prime Minister’s Resignation Honours List is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/09/2016 06:30:24 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581937

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministerial Boxes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on ministerial red boxes in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has not spent any money on ministerial red boxes in the last 12 months.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/09/2016 07:53:38 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581938

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many ministerial visits the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has made since 14 July 2016.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>Further to the question asked by the Hon Member of 7 September 2016, Official Report, Column 321, I would add that my Rt Hon Friend, the Member for Derbyshire Dales, is a Minister of the Crown and a member of the Cabinet. He will attend a number of Cabinet Committees, which will be published in due course, and has duties directly related to the Duchy of Lancaster. The List of Ministerial Responsibilities will also be published in due course. He does not receive a Ministerial salary from public funds. Details of Private Office staff will be accounted for as part of the regular transparency data on gov.uk. The Government publishes on a quarterly basis details of Ministerial visits overseas. All Ministers have access to the Government Car Service for official travel.</p><p>My Rt Hon Friend also serves as the Party Chairman of the Conservative Party. Such arrangements are no different from the likes of Charles Clarke, Ian McCartney and Hazel Blears, all of whom held the posts of Minister Without Portfolio and Labour Party Chair under the last Labour Government.</p><p>I would also observe that under the Thatcher and Major Governments, senior figures such as Norman Tebbit, Kenneth Baker and Chris Patten served as both Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 45759 45760 45882 question first answered 15/09/2016 15:01:48 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581939

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Digital Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his plans are for the future of the Government Digital Service; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	45969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government Digital Service is responsible for the digital transformation of government and this will remain the case. GDS continue to run <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>and are responsible for the Technology Code of Practice which seeks to make government data easier to use.</p><p>GDS also lead the delivery of three programmes funded at Spending Review 2015. These programmes: Government as a Platform, <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify and Common Technology Services, make it possible to accelerate the digital transformation of government. GDS now have over 500 staff supporting the delivery of this work and it continues to grow at pace.</p><p>I have no plans to make a statement.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/09/2016 08:02:31 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

581940

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Career Breaks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in his Department have applied for career breaks in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>Records of applications for career breaks – approved and rejected – are not held centrally and would incur disproportionate costs to determine.</p><p>I can confirm, however, that at 31<sup>st</sup> August 2016, 26 officials in my Department had commenced an approved career break in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 16/09/2016 08:00:05 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest