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answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to building back better and investing in the green infrastructure that will help us to achieve our climate change objectives and level up the country. At the Plan for Jobs 2020, the Government announced an ambitious £3.05 billion package including the Green Homes Grant, designed to aid homeowners and landlords retrofit to upgrade the energy and cost efficiency of their homes. At Spring Budget 2020 the Government announced at least £800 million to support Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in two initial industrial clusters, the first by the mid-2020s and the second by 2030. CCS has the potential to reduce carbon emissions from power plants and factories. And on Tuesday (22 September), Dogger Bank Wind Farm announced the creation of almost 250 jobs in the North East on a project that will be capable of powering up to 4.5m homes when complete.</p><p> </p><p>Our upcoming National Infrastructure Strategy will set out our long-term economic infrastructure ambitions, focusing on decarbonisation and levelling up the nation.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is a global centre for sustainable finance with an established reputation in green finance and a frontrunner in the structuring, underwriting, and listing of green bonds, with more than 100 bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange, raising over $26 billion across eight currencies</p><p> </p><p>The government has been carefully considering the potential issuance of a UK sovereign green bond and will keep this under review. The government remains open to the introduction of new debt instruments, but would need to be satisfied that any new instrument would meet value-for-money criteria, enjoy strong and sustained demand in the long term and be consistent with wider fiscal objectives.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 91742 question first answered 24/09/2020 09:16:48 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1668346

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference his Department's statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, how many permanent civil servants excluding agencies worked for his Department on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>On 2 October 2023, the Chancellor announced an immediate cap on civil servant headcount across Whitehall to stop any further expansion, increase efficiencies and boost productivity.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service grew in size to manage the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the illegal war in the Ukraine but it is right that we reduce the size of the Civil Service over time as we drive up productivity and deliver efficiencies.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this Government’s commitment to transparency, my Department publishes workforce statistics each month. Information about staffing levels since 2006 are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data</a></p><p> </p><p>The data requested can be found at the following links</p><p> </p><p>(a) <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable/march2020/datasets.xlsx" target="_blank">March 2020, table 8</a></p><p>(b) <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable/march2016/psereferencetablesmarch2016.xls" target="_blank">March 2016, table 8</a></p><p>(c) <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20150905000144mp_/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pse/public-sector-employment/q1-2011/stb-q1-2011.pdf" target="_blank">March 2011, table 8</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/11/2023 11:55:23 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1669510

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Secretary of State who has resigned in the last three years received as severance pay.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	1536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>Details of the severance payments made to ministers when leaving office are published in departments’ annual reports and accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 21/11/2023 17:15:05 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1669914

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	Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has a timeline for people who receive a Civil Service Pension to receive their remediable service statement.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	1863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>We will start issuing Remedial Service Statements (RSS) from Spring 2024 and this will be completed in line with the legislative deadline of April 2025. This has been broken into cohorts starting with Ill Health Retirements and concluding with Deceased.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 1864 question first answered 22/11/2023 16:03:16 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1669915

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	Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of when people who receive a Civil Service Pension will begin to receive their remediable service statement.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	1864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>We will start issuing Remedial Service Statements (RSS) from Spring 2024 and this will be completed in line with the legislative deadline of April 2025. This has been broken into cohorts starting with Ill Health Retirements and concluding with Deceased.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 1863 question first answered 22/11/2023 16:03:16 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1670290

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Neurodiversity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the tracking of people with neurodiverse conditions on his Department's diversity monitoring forms.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	2202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2023 answer text <p>Diversity monitoring forms, which include the Enterprise Resource Planning system used in the Cabinet Office, use question sets in line with the Office for National Statistics harmonised standards. This is considered best practice across government.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As set out in the Autumn statement, the audit of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) spending is coming to its conclusion and, subject to further work, the Government is streamlining EDI training and HR processes with a view to getting value for the taxpayer. As the Minister for the Cabinet Office, I will be outlining the final proposals in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 24/11/2023 09:45:35 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1670604

registered interest
date	16/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Infected Blood Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department will implement Recommendation 12 of the Second Interim Report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, published 5 April 2023.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	2289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>Work is currently underway across Government to give thorough consideration to each of the recommendations that Sir Brian made in his second interim report. The Government is committed to acting swiftly in response to the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, and is awaiting its publication by the Inquiry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 22/11/2023 15:53:59 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1670605

registered interest
date	16/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings (a) he and (b) his Department has had with individuals infected and affected by contaminated blood in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	2290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>It is a measure of the scale of the infected blood scandal that the statutory Inquiry has over 2,000 infected and affected core participants. My predecessors as Ministers responsible for the Infected Blood Inquiry held formal roundtable meetings with groups of infected and affected people and representatives of campaign groups in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023, at which my predecessors were able to hear directly from infected and affected people. Further meetings took place with individuals and their Members of Parliament once each in 2021 and 2022.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In addition to this, my predecessors have had informal meetings with groups of individuals while attending hearings of the Inquiry and in the margins of a Westminster Hall debate. My officials often correspond with and speak to individuals and campaigners in the course of their work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 22/11/2023 15:58:57 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1671317

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) Directors and (b) Director Generals there are in his Department as of 20 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	2437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>As at 31 October 2023, the Cabinet Office employs 74 people at Director level and 21 people at Director General level.</p><p> </p><p>The number of Senior Civil Servants (SCS) stems from our coordinating role at the heart of Government. First, the professional experts who lead functional services across the whole of the Civil Service sit in Cabinet Office (the level of professional expertise required, often recruited from the private sector, means a high number of SCS roles). Second, the Cabinet Office also delivers secretariat functions which need to be led at a senior level given their national significance, including the National Security Secretariat and Joint Intelligence Organisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/11/2023 17:16:00 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	14 label Biography information for John Redwood

1671318

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants are employed at each grade above SCS1.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	2438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The number of Senior Civil Servants by Director, Director General and Permanent Secretary paybands are shown in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This information is published each year by payband through the Government evidence to the Senior Salaries Review Board.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Table 1: Number of Senior Civil Servants by Director, Director General and Permanent Secretary paybands, as at 1 April 2023</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Payband</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Director (Payband 2)</p></td><td><p>1140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Director General (Payband 3)</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Permanent Secretary</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>Source: SCS Database, Cabinet Office</p><p>Notes: Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.</p><p>Numbers are provisional and subject to revision over time.</p><p>Numbers refer to the centrally managed 'Senior Civil Service' that does not include the Diplomatic Service and a number of civil servants that work at a senior level, for example some senior military officials and health professionals, and who are not part of the 'Senior Civil Service'.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/11/2023 17:06:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	14 label Biography information for John Redwood