Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are in the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
I refer the noble Lady to the answer given to PQs HL8861 and HL8862 as below -
Cross civil service information can be found at the Diversity and Inclusion dashboard at: https://public.tableau.com/profile/cabinet.office.diversity.and.inclusion#!/vizhome/CivilServiceDiversityandInclusiondashboard/Introduction?publish=yes
As the dashboard’s data tables show 7% of Cabinet Office Senior Civil Servants declared that they were from an ethinic minority.
18% of Cabinet Office overall civil servants declare that they are from an ethnic minority. Details of individual grades will not be disclosed to avoid identifying individuals.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are in the Prime Minister's Office at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
Cross civil service information can be found at the Diversity and Inclusion dashboard at: https://public.tableau.com/profile/cabinet.office.diversity.and.inclusion#!/vizhome/CivilServiceDiversityandInclusiondashboard/Introduction?publish=yes
As the dashboard’s data tables show 7% of Cabinet Office Senior Civil Servants declared that they were from an ethinic minority.
18% of Cabinet Office overall civil servants declare that they are from an ethnic minority. Details of individual grades will not be disclosed to avoid identifying individuals.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Cabinet Office at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
Cross civil service information can be found at the Diversity and Inclusion dashboard at: https://public.tableau.com/profile/cabinet.office.diversity.and.inclusion#!/vizhome/CivilServiceDiversityandInclusiondashboard/Introduction?publish=yes
As the dashboard’s data tables show 7% of Cabinet Office Senior Civil Servants declared that they were from an ethinic minority.
18% of Cabinet Office overall civil servants declare that they are from an ethnic minority. Details of individual grades will not be disclosed to avoid identifying individuals.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many licences for Microsoft Office have been held by each government department in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what is the total cost of those licences by department.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
The following table sets out departmental spend on new Microsoft Office licences:
Department | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 (to date) | Total |
Cabinet Office | £0 | £48,815.02 | £138,647.17 | £187,462.19 |
DBEIS | £339,553.68 | £488,004.20 | £377,843.23 | £1,205,401.11 |
DCLG | £650.16 | £21,457.26 | £0 | £22,107.42 |
DCMS | £0 | £58,385.22 | £0 | £58,385.22 |
Defra | £1,056,578.18 | £517,819.56 | £489,118.51 | £2,063,516.25 |
DfID | £0 | £6,931.75 | £0 | £6,931.75 |
DfT | £188,703.66 | £393,645.55 | £384,243.74 | £966,592.95 |
DWP | £3,880,932.44 | £5,025,522.79 | £4,525,591.34 | £13,432,046.57 |
DoH | £702,942.90 | £528,051.90 | £133,152.74 | £1,364,147.54 |
FCO | £64,282.38 | £586,512.28 | £575,664.47 | £1,226,459.13 |
HM Treasury | £95,598.92 | £322,993.02 | £333,636.00 | £752,227.94 |
Home Office | £341,555.06 | £567,879.52 | £1,930,110.02 | £2,839,544.60 |
MoD | £1,759,378.42 | £1,673,981.45 | £4,370,288.88 | £7,803,648.75 |
MoJ | £1,764,374.57 | £2,175,918.38 | £2,114,130.28 | £6,054,423.23 |
Total | £10,194,550.37 | £12,415,917.90 | £15,372,426.38 | £37,982,894.65 |
Information on the exact number of licences held is not recorded centrally.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much each government department has spent on subscriptions for IT software used by office-based departmental staff in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many claims for compensation under section 5A of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 were made against (1) local authorities, (2) NHS providers, including Clinical Commissioning Groups, (3) non-departmental public bodies and (4) government departments, in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Bridges of Headley
The requested information is not held centrally.
As part of the Budget Statement on 18 March 2015, the Government announced that from April 2016 all central government departments and their arm's length bodies will be required to publish, on a quarterly basis, all interest liable under the late payment legislation.
The 2015 Public Contracts Regulations introduced a reporting requirement so that from 2016 contracting authorities will have to publish details of the amount of interest paid due to late payment and from 2017 they will have to publish their liability to interest whether or not paid.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many compensation awards were given under section 5A of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Bridges of Headley
The requested information is not held centrally.
As part of the Budget Statement on 18 March 2015, the Government announced that from April 2016 all central government departments and their arm's length bodies will be required to publish, on a quarterly basis, all interest liable under the late payment legislation.
The 2015 Public Contracts Regulations introduced a reporting requirement so that from 2016 contracting authorities will have to publish details of the amount of interest paid due to late payment and from 2017 they will have to publish their liability to interest whether or not paid.