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Written Question
Boston Consulting Group
Thursday 30th January 2020

Asked by: Lord Whitehead (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has employed Boston Consulting Group in relation to Government preparations for the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

Boston Consulting Group is providing pro-bono strategic project support to the COP26 Unit.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 30 October...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Oct 2019
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"I fully associate myself with the Prime Minister’s comments about your outstanding service, Mr Speaker, and wish you a long and successful life after your speakership comes to an end.

Labour will produce a strong offer at the forthcoming election on the climate emergency and net zero, including a full …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Jul 2018
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"Q9. The largest apprenticeship provider in Southampton recently reported to me that he has suffered a 70% drop in apprentices on his books since the introduction of the levy-based apprenticeship system. That accords with figures from other providers in my area and means that hundreds of young people will now …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Dec 2017
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"Q8. When the Prime Minister rings up Donald Trump to express our concern about his moves concerning Jerusalem and the US embassy, will she also inform him that we will be proceeding to recognise the state of Palestine as a central part of keeping the two-state process in play?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Oct 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q8. A major Southampton housing association tells me that 65% of its tenants who are on universal credit are now in rent arrears averaging £700, hampering the association’s ability to get on with building new houses. What message does the Prime Minister have for my local housing association? Is it …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Apr 2017
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"Q12. I invite the Prime Minister, instead of going to Milton Keynes, to visit me in Southampton and take a tour of Southampton’s schools. If she does, she will find that those schools are in despair about the cut in pupil funding of 10% in Southampton, which is £475 per …..."
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Written Question
Government Departments: Furniture
Wednesday 16th September 2015

Asked by: Lord Whitehead (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to report on the performance of each Department against the five per cent target for the purchase of remanufactured office furniture in the Government Buying Standard.

Answered by Matt Hancock

The five per cent target for the purchase of remanufactured office furniture in the Government Buying Standard has been replaced with stringent new requirements, which should deliver environmental benefits and savings expected to exceed £45m over ten years:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/341461/Furniture_GBS_1407.pdf

Under the new requirements, reuse and refurbishment should be deployed before any new furniture purchases. Any new purchase should be made from a core list of standard items with non-standard purchases a last resort.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jun 2015
G7

"The German Chancellor, Chancellor Merkel, in her statement at the end of the G7, wanted to emphasise the agreement of the G7 to phase out all fossil fuels as a means of electricity generation by the end of the century. Did the Prime Minister have a hand in securing that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Jun 2015
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"Q6. Can the Prime Minister reassure me that press reports that he is going to cut funding support to household energy efficiency programmes are wrong, and that instead he is committed to maintaining support for programmes to ensure that the most vulnerable in our society have warm homes to live …..."
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