Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what support his Department provides to staff in his Department (a) in their transition to retirement and (b) to (i) maintain and (ii) increase the physical and mental wellbeing staff planning for retirement.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Cabinet Office has a retirement policy on how employees should prepare for
retirement. It also provides pensions awareness sessions, supported by a member help
centre which is run by MyCSP, and plans to run financial education sessions in November
2019
The Cabinet Office wellbeing action plan enables support for all staff, including those near
retirement. A number of key initiatives which support people transitioning to retirement
include: running leadership wellbeing training for all Senior Civil Servants, updating line
manager training to ensure wellbeing is included in all conversations, embedding wellbeing
into the Senior Civil Service leadership objective and including wellbeing in performance
management monthly conversation tools
There are a number of support services available in Cabinet Office that provide support or
advice to all employees, and would be of benefit to those nearing retirement. These
include the Cabinet Office alumni network, the Cabinet Office listening service and the
employee assistance programme
Civil Service Learning also offers learning opportunities for all Civil Servants planning for
retirement, including a day-long workshop on this subject.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, when she plans to appoint a new Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa.
Answered by Theresa May
My Honourable Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Andrew Murrison MP) has been appointed as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many death certificates contained references to opioids in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the percentage of employed individuals with long-term disablities who are employed in (a) higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations and (b) routine occupations.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the number of childcare workers in receipt of (a) tax credits and (b) universal credit.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department have been seconded to a) DexEU, and b) DiT in each of the last 3 years
Answered by David Lidington
The number of civil servants seconded/loaned to a) the Department for Exiting the European Union from my Department in each of the last three years is shown in the table below:
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 to date |
51 | 34 | 43 | 27 |
No civil servants were seconded/loaned to b) the Department for International Trade from my Department in any of the last three years.
EU Exit is an all-of-government operation. DExEU, who share the Cabinet Office HR system, do not employ permanent staff. All civil service staff are loaned from other Government Departments or on fixed-term contracts. The Department for Exiting the European Union is responsible for overseeing negotiations to leave the EU and establishing the future relationship between the UK and EU. The Department for International trade works to secure UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment, and championing free trade.
Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the child infant mortality rate in each National Statistics socio-economic classification category in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to
reply and a table has been placed in the Library.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of work days lost due to absence and absenteeism as a result of (a) stress, (b) anxiety and (c) depression in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made on increasing levels of voter registration for (a) young people, (b) home movers, (c) BME individuals, (d) people with long-standing conditions or disability, (e) victims of domestic abuse and (f) homeless individuals in the last 12 months.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Some headline registration statistics are collated and published annually by the Office for
National Statistics, including the numbers of people registering to vote anonymously. The
latest bulletin is available at:
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration
The Government is committed to protecting, promoting and respecting our democracy. We
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want to build upon recent record levels of electors registering to vote and participating in
elections. One year on from the Democratic Engagement Plan the Government published
its follow up report, Democratic Engagement: Respecting, Protecting and Promoting Our
Democracy, setting out progress in 2018 and priorities for 2019 and beyond
The UK Government will help equip councils and civil society groups to improve
democratic engagement by sharing our knowledge and products, including our Suffrage
Centenary 'Educate' projects for young people; insight and solutions to tackle barriers to
electoral registration for ethnic minorities and those who are homeless or move frequently;
and by evaluating progress on student registration. We have introduced an ‘Easy Read’
guide on the Register to Vote website homepage, produced in partnership with the Royal
Mencap Society, to enable people with learning difficulties to apply online without difficulty.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which civil society organisations his Department has worked with on increasing levels of voter registration in each of the last three years.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Cabinet Office works with a wide range of civil society organisations to increase voter
registration and promote democratic participation. Over the last three years we have
funded activity by groups including Bite the Ballot, Operation Black Vote, Uprising, and
Mencap
The Government launched National Democracy Week (NDW) in July 2018, in partnership
with the electoral community. Civil society organisations worked with others on the NDW
Council to deliver more than 50 democratic engagement events. Details of participants are included in the report Respecting, Protecting and Promoting Our Democracy published in
January 2019.