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1714039

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Redundancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw of 23 April 2024, from which (a) Departments, (b) arms length bodies and (c) other organisations the number of civil servants will be reduced to help fund the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s announcement of longer term reductions in Civil Service numbers is a reiteration of the policy announced by the Chancellor in October 2023. The longer term reductions will build on the shorter term headcount cap put in place through to March 2025, and the detail of how individual organisations will be affected by the return to pre-pandemic numbers will form a key part of the next comprehensive spending review.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 01/05/2024 15:51:31 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1713926

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his oral answer of 25 April 2024, whether the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has recused himself from any aspects of his role.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Under the terms of the Ministerial Code, Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their ministerial position and their private interests, financial or otherwise.</p><p>There is an established regime in place for the declaration and management of interests held by ministers. This ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any potential or perceived conflicts of interest. The Foreign Secretary has declared his interests in line with this process. Those interests judged, by the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, to be relevant to his ministerial role have been published in the List of Ministers’ Interests, which is available on GOV.UK.</p><p>As set out in the Ministerial Code, it is the personal responsibility of each Minister to decide whether and what action is needed to avoid a conflict or the perception of a conflict, taking account of advice received from their Permanent Secretary and the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ interests.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 30/04/2024 16:46:21 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1713941

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) men and (b) women died from synthetic drug use in the last year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Hon Member’s Parliamentary Question of 25/04 is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 03/05/2024 13:44:50 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen attachment 1 file name PQ23764 (1).pdf title UKSA Letter
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1713609

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Trade Union Officials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news story entitled Cabinet Office Minister writes to councils over spending on Trade Union facility time, published by his Department on 10 April 2024, which local authorities were sent the letter.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office wrote to 21 local authorities that, according to their self-reported facility time data, spent over 0.2% of their paybill on facility time. This information is available on gov.uk.</p><p>The Cabinet Office already publishes the information on facility time spend each year as part of the legislative requirements within the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017. This means that other than the issuing of the relevant letters, the time taken for which was negligible, there was very little other time spent on this particular exercise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 23595 question first answered 01/05/2024 15:51:20 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1713610

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Trade Union Officials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news story entitled Cabinet Office Minister writes to councils over spending on Trade Union facility time, published by his Department on 10 April 2024, how many hours of civil servants' time were used on the formulation of the (a) research, (b) letter and (c) associated press release.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office wrote to 21 local authorities that, according to their self-reported facility time data, spent over 0.2% of their paybill on facility time. This information is available on gov.uk.</p><p>The Cabinet Office already publishes the information on facility time spend each year as part of the legislative requirements within the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017. This means that other than the issuing of the relevant letters, the time taken for which was negligible, there was very little other time spent on this particular exercise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 23594 question first answered 01/05/2024 15:51:20 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1713021

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector Fraud Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will hold discussions with the Public Sector Fraud Authority on the setting of longer term targets for savings.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Minister Neville Rolfe, who leads on the counter fraud portfolio, regularly meet with the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) CEO and Senior Leadership Team to discuss their progress - target setting forms part of those discussions.</p><p>It is the government’s stated ambition to continue to increase the impact from counter fraud activity. The PSFA exceeded its target of achieving £180 million of savings in its first 12 months by preventing and recovering £311 million of audited savings.</p><p>The PSFA CEO works with the PSFA data and analytics delivery teams and Ministers to set the PSFA delivery target on an annual basis. The PSFA’s second year target is to deliver £185m of savings and will report performance against it when the independent audit of savings is complete. The PSFA is working with Ministers to set a financial target for its third year as part of routine business planning.</p><p>As the centre of the Government Counter Fraud Function (GCFF), the PSFA also requires, and supports departments to set financial impact targets for their counter fraud work and progress against this is published in the annual Fraud landscape Reports.</p><p>Government policy is that setting targets not only improves the transparency of counter fraud spending, but also ensures that we deliver a serious message to fraudsters that the government is making a concerted effort to tackle their ever-evolving crimes.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 29/04/2024 13:55:16 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1701858

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Genomics: National Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Deputy Prime Minister's oral statement of 11 September 2023 on Security Update, Official Report, column 673, whether he has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of designating the genomics sector as Critical National Infrastructure.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	22293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The genomics sector is not currently designated as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). There is a strict framework for classification: CNI assets and systems are those that have been assessed as having a significant and catastrophic impact to the functioning of the UK – either through the loss of life or limb, on the economy, or national security, defence or the functioning of the state – should they be disrupted or compromised. The threshold is a high bar so that resources are focused on the highest priority, and most critical, assets and systems.</p><p>There are strong and sufficient provisions protecting UK genomics databases, including through the UK Data Protection Act (2018), which delivers a data protection framework tailored to the needs of our criminal justice agencies and intelligence services. The relevant genomics data is additionally held within Secure Data Environments, affording further security protections.</p><p>As with all parts of the CNI landscape, we commit to keeping this position under review.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 25/04/2024 16:32:15 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1701346

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Security Vetting Appeals Panel: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Security Vetting Appeals Panel staff have left that organisation in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	22024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>We centrally hold some of the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>In as far as data is centrally held, I refer the hon. Member to the Civil Service statistics, for the Cabinet Office, at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics</a></p><p><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>The Declaration on Government Reform (2021) stated: &quot;There is however more we must do to attract a broader range of people to the privilege of public service... It should be natural for people with careers and skills built in business to serve in government for a period, and for those in public service to spend time in organisations which are not dependent on public money... We will develop new entry routes from industry, academia, the third sector and the wider public sector, with flexibility to suit those who want to build a career in government and those who want a shorter tour of duty.&quot;</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 21685 21695 21696 21697 21698 21700 22025 22026 22027 22028 22029 22030 22031 22032 22033 22034 22036 22037 question first answered 23/04/2024 16:16:25 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1701347

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Senior Salaries Review Body: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Senior Salaries Review Body staff have left that organisation in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	22025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>We centrally hold some of the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>In as far as data is centrally held, I refer the hon. Member to the Civil Service statistics, for the Cabinet Office, at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics</a></p><p><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>The Declaration on Government Reform (2021) stated: &quot;There is however more we must do to attract a broader range of people to the privilege of public service... It should be natural for people with careers and skills built in business to serve in government for a period, and for those in public service to spend time in organisations which are not dependent on public money... We will develop new entry routes from industry, academia, the third sector and the wider public sector, with flexibility to suit those who want to build a career in government and those who want a shorter tour of duty.&quot;</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 21685 21695 21696 21697 21698 21700 22024 22026 22027 22028 22029 22030 22031 22032 22033 22034 22036 22037 question first answered 23/04/2024 16:16:25 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1701348

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Social Mobility Commission staff have left that organisation in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	22026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>We centrally hold some of the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>In as far as data is centrally held, I refer the hon. Member to the Civil Service statistics, for the Cabinet Office, at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics</a></p><p><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>The Declaration on Government Reform (2021) stated: &quot;There is however more we must do to attract a broader range of people to the privilege of public service... It should be natural for people with careers and skills built in business to serve in government for a period, and for those in public service to spend time in organisations which are not dependent on public money... We will develop new entry routes from industry, academia, the third sector and the wider public sector, with flexibility to suit those who want to build a career in government and those who want a shorter tour of duty.&quot;</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 21685 21695 21696 21697 21698 21700 22024 22025 22027 22028 22029 22030 22031 22032 22033 22034 22036 22037 question first answered 23/04/2024 16:16:25 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight