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100805

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	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	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office provides a wide range of security courses. Most are conducted in-house. A three-day Security Awareness in Fragile Environments (SAFE) residential training course, with an additional one-day SAFE+ Close Protection module, is provided by an external contractor.</p><p>Costs for all security and hostile environment training were as follows:</p><p>2010/11 : £414,028.32<br>2011/12 : £500,164.52<br>2012/13 : £484,826.55<br>2013/14 : £535,437.82</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 29/10/2014 15:52:55 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

101392

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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	Lord Mayor of London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times the Lord Mayor of London has travelled overseas on an official visit organised and funded by his Department; for what purpose each visit was undertaken; what class of travel was used in each case; and at what cost on each occasion.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/11/2014 15:16:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176442

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	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	Communication
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	222587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office budgets are devolved to London departments and overseas posts so there is no central Departmental budget for communications and to establish this figure would incur disproportionate cost. Budget outturns for the period requested for the central Communications Directorate, and for the preceding year for comparison, are as follows:</p><p>09/10: 4,510,480<br>10/11: 2,686,945<br>11/12: 2,189,789<br>12/13: 2,131,324<br>13/14: 2,037,680<br>14/15: 1,698,461</p><p>Between 2009-10, the last year of the previous administration, and 2014-15, costs have been reduced by 62%.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/02/2015 15:26:02 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176443

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	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	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's advertising budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	222573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not have a dedicated advertising budget. Budgets are delegated to Posts across the world and departments in London and it would not be possible to aggregate any spending without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 05/02/2015 17:58:59 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

390302

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	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	Defence: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department will receive from the Joint Security Fund for each year to 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced in Budget 2015 the creation of a joint security fund of £1.5 billion by the end of the parliament.</p><p>The Strategic Defence and Security Review will decide how the fund should be best used. The Review will be published towards the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:12:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

77135

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) him and (ii) other Ministers in his Department; and what specific training was provided in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk (Mr Bellingham), on 16 July 2012, Official Report, column 569W.<br> <br>The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Mr Simmonds), attended media training in July 2013. The cost was £1,150.<br> <br>Since then we have not provided any training on media or social media for any Ministers in the Department.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 11:57:26 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

77138

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on refurbishing (a) gym and leisure facilities, (b) cafeterias and (c) interior decoration within buildings (i) used and (ii) owned by his Department in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) new gym facility within the King Charles Street office was part of a combined project which also delivered a new Diplomatic Service Language Centre. It has replaced the staff gym in the Old Admiralty Building office which has closed as part of the FCO's office relocation. Figures for the gym alone could not be extracted from these totals without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>Expenditure on refurbishing cafeterias during 2013 was nil. During 2014 to date, the total was £189,682.</p><p>Expenditure on the refurbishment of interior decoration is not specifically identified as such within the Department’s records and could not be extracted without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>Overseas, the FCO runs an estate in over 270 locations worldwide. It would not be possible to provide the information requested on overseas properties without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 11:53:33 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

77144

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Mass Media: Subscriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds; and what the annual cost is of each of those subscriptions.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>(a) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) reviews all magazine subscriptions annually. Titles are provided electronically wherever possible to ensure efficiency and best value for money.</p><p>The FCO does not hold centrally separate data on magazine subscriptions. The majority of decisions on subscriptions are made by the UK’s Embassies and diplomatic posts and are funded from within their delegated budgets, or by individual departments within the FCO on the same basis. As a result comprehensive information on individual publications is not centrally recorded and collating this information would incur disproportionate cost. The following is the list of magazines provided centrally, in the majority of cases in electronic format, as of July 2014:</p><p>American Journal of International Law, Civil Wars, Critical Studies on Terrorism, International Peacekeeping, Turkish Studies, Common Market Law Review, Current Legal Problems, Human Rights Quarterly, ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, International Community Law Review, International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, Journal of Private International Law, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, Legal Issues of Economic Integration : Academic – Government, Modern Law Review, Ocean Development and International Law, Military Balance, Global Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, Project Manager Today, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs, RUSI Journal and Whitehall Papers, Africa Confidential, Comparative Strategy, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Conflict Security and Development, Economic and Political Weekly, Eye Spy Magazine, IISS Publications Combined, Intelligence and National Security, International Affairs, International Journal of Human Rights, International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Journal of Strategic Studies, Marston World Wide, Monde Diplomatique, Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law, Prospect, Science, Terrorism and Political Violence, Washington Quarterly, Inside Us Trade and World Trade, Jane's Defence News, Jane's Security News, Science Direct.</p><p>The breadth of magazines reflects the wide range of issues, events and crises the FCO’s staff around the world need to keep track of in order to protect Britain’s interests at home and overseas.</p><p>The total cost of these magazine subscriptions was £52,964. Total FCO expenditure on publications has fallen by 16% since 2010.</p><p>(b) The FCO does not spend any money on premium satellite television channels in the UK. The Digital television system used by the FCO is provided through our support agreement with FCO Services. It has been in place for five years and all 85 channels available are free to air and are therefore subscription free.</p><p>This does not capture subscriptions sourced locally overseas as it would incur disproportionate cost to obtain this information.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 12:02:01 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

78182

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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	Social Media
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Twitter accounts are run by his Department; how much his Department spends annually on (a) Twitter accounts and (b) all social media; and how many people in his Department are employed to work on social media.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has 17 corporate twitter accounts, including a central @foreignoffice account. The other accounts are for support to British nationals overseas, work on forced marriage, communications in Arabic and Urdu, and a range of other priorities such as recruitment, ending sexual violence in conflict and our policy on Europe. Six Ministers and the Permanent Under Secretary are also on twitter in an official capacity, as well as most of our 270 posts overseas, many of our Ambassadors and some other senior officials. The FCO does not spend anything on its Twitter accounts.</p><p>The FCO runs a range of other social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Weibo, Flickr, Google+, YouTube but does not pay for any of these.</p><p>The FCO occasionally uses paid-for advertising on its social media channels to promote key content. Any such advertising is subject to Cabinet Office marketing and advertising spending controls and is cleared in line with Cabinet Office procedures. It is not possible to breakdown exact spending, although details of overall exemptions to marketing and advertising controls are available on GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/exceptions-data</p><p>One FCO official in London maintains the main Foreign Office corporate social media accounts. Staff from across the FCO contribute to other social media channels. For example, a number of staff in our Consular team contribute to the @FCOTravel twitter account as part of our customer service to British Nationals, and staff at posts contribute to overseas channels. It is not possible to give precise numbers across our network as this information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2014 15:20:30 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

106309

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in ensuring that NHS England's definitions of commissioning responsibilities have been applied consistently across the country; and what assessment he has made of whether steps to ensure the consistency of such definitions will be complete by April 2015.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	213283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that the guidance document ‘<em>Who Pays? Determining responsibility for payments to providers</em>’ defines which clinical commissioning group (CCG) is the responsible commissioner for an individual patient, or whether it is a CCG or NHS England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the case of any dispute regarding who should be the responsible commissioner, the <em>Who Pays? </em>guidance sets out that NHS England expects that all disputes will be resolved locally, ideally at CCG level, with reference to the guidance in the document and coming to pragmatic solutions where responsibility is not immediately obvious or where it may be shared. In cases that cannot be resolved at CCG level, area teams of NHS England should be consulted and arbitrate where necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England also produces the Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services. This is a technical document which describes commissioning responsibilities for prescribed specialised services. Some elements of these are to be directly commissioned by NHS England and some are to be commissioned by CCGs. It gives details of each service to be commissioned and a rationale as to why a service is to be commissioned by NHS England and not by CCGs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has undertaken an internal audit to ensure consistency of application against the Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services. An action plan is in place to resolve issues identified through the audit relating to the application of the Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services and subsequent contracting tools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy of the ‘Who Pays?’ document and a copy of the Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services 2013/14 are attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name Who Pays- Guidance.pdf title Guidance Document- "Who Pays?" 2 file name Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services 2013-14.pdf title Manual for Prescribed Specialised Services 2013-14 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:14:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones