Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.
Answered by Matt Hancock
In September 2012, the UK volunteered to be peer-reviewed on our policies and mechanisms to build national and community resilience to natural disasters. The review was carried out by the UN Office for Disaster Relief Reduction, the European Commission and the OECD, and funding was provided by the EU. Their report, Peer Review Report: United Kingdom, 2013: Building Resilience to Disasters, Assessing the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2010) is available on the UNISDR website at http://www.unisdr.org/files/32996_32996hfaukpeerreview20131.pdf
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which premises are occupied by each of the seven What Works Centres; what the location is of each such centre; how many staff are employed at each such centre; and what key performance indicators or delivery metrics have been set for the What Works Network.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The What Works Network is currently made up of seven Centres, which are independent of government. The Centres aim to empower policy makers, commissioners and practitioners at both the local and national level, to make decisions based upon robust evidence of what works, and deliver cost efficient, impactful services.
Information requested about the location of the Centres is set out in Table A. The number of staff in each Centre is a matter for the individual organisations and is not collated centrally.
Centres sign up to a set of What Works Network requirements (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/451328/What_Works_Network_-_Membership_requirements.pdf), and each Centre has an evaluation plan in place. The Cabinet Office is working with Centres to assess their impact and inform the future infrastructure to support evidenced based decision making
Table A – What Works Centres and addresses
Centre | Policy Area | City |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence | Health and Social Care | Manchester |
Education Endowment Foundation | Educational Attainment | London |
Early Intervention Foundation | Early Intervention | London |
What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth | Local Growth | London
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What Works Centre for Crime Reduction | Crime Reduction | London |
Centre for Ageing Better – in development | Ageing | London |
What Works Centre for Wellbeing – in development | Wellbeing | London |
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people with learning difficulties who wished to work but were unemployed there were in (a) Streatham constituency, (b) Lambeth local authority area and (c) the UK in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what amount his Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Complete information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of suppliers to his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid subcontractors within 30 days in the last period for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Cabinet Office uses standard government Terms and Conditions that places an obligation on Suppliers to pay subcontractors within a timescale that does not exceed 30 days from receipt of a valid invoice. The Cabinet Office does not make payments direct to sub-contractors. A list of Prompt Payment Code signatories is available here: http://ppc.promptpaymentcode.org.uk/ppc/signatory_paged.a4d
Prompt Payment Statistics can be found in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14.