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1679064

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date	19/12/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the public bodies reform programme 2020 to 2025; and if he will make an estimate of the impact of that reform programme on costs to the public purse (i) so far and (ii) in each of the next three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	7559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>To date the Public Bodies Reform Programme 2020 to 2025 and wider Public Bodies Team has provided value for money for the taxpayer through:</p><ul><li><p>conducting a prototype of corporate service benchmarking across 90 arm’s length bodies (ALBs), uncovering spend discrepancies and identifying scope for savings if ALB spending is brought in-line with the median spend;</p></li><li><p>the Public Bodies Review Programme, which commits departments to review 125 ALBs, covering 90% of ALB expenditure. Departments are expected to identify 5% operating expenditure savings in each full-scale review. So far, 60% of the 125 planned reviews have been initiated and £35 million in efficiency savings identified;</p></li><li><p>tightening approval processes for new ALBs, diverting almost 70% of proposed ALBs to less expensive delivery options;</p></li><li><p>publishing codes of practice for ALBs to improve financial oversight and risk management between department and ALBs; and</p></li><li><p>introducing quarterly non-executive (NED) board member inductions.</p></li></ul><p>The Public Bodies Reform Programme runs until 31 March 2025. The Government will take a decision about the priorities for future public bodies reform in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 12/01/2024 14:07:41 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

756448

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Crown Commercial Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Crown commerical function members of staff are at each pay grade within the Civil Service.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government Commercial Function is staffed by employees working across many Civil Service Departments. Records containing the detail requested in these questions are not held centrally and replies to these questions would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government Commercial Function (GCF) is a cross-government network of around 4,000 civil servants procuring (or supporting the procurement of) goods and services for the government. It also consists of commercial experts who support departments in managing key commercial contracts, and planning for future commercial needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 7556 7557 7558 question first answered 12/09/2017 10:36:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

390789

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the budget was of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15; and what budget has been allocated for the PSVI in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	7559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>Since 2012/13 the FCO has allocated at least £29 million to PSVI-related work overseas. This includes funding to support work with survivors, contributions to international organisations, training on the International Protocol and deployments of members of the PSVI Team of Experts. We spent approximately £1.3 million in 2012-13, approximately £5 million in 2013-14, and approximately £15 million in 2014-15. So far this financial year we have allocated over £8.2 million to PSVI-related work.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 21/07/2015 12:56:45 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy