Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths from allergies there have been in each year since 2000, by type of allergy.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 28 November is attached.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Security Group conducted an investigation into release of information relating to Government plans to seek an injunction against the BBC over concerns of national security.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
It is the longstanding policy of successive governments not to comment on leak investigations.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on severance pay for Ministers who were appointed on 8 July 2022 and who left office on or shortly after 6 September 2022.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Details of the severance payments made to ministers when leaving office are published in departments’ annual reports and accounts.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications were submitted to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by civil servants on the prospective roles they intended to take after leaving positions in Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022.
Answered by Michael Ellis
22 applications were submitted to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by civil servants in Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials of which pay grade will work in the Department headed by the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; and where that Department will be based.
Answered by David Davis
The recently announced Department for exiting the European Union will be led at Permanent Secretary level by Oliver Robbins. The new Department will sit at the heart of government and be staffed by the best and brightest from across the civil service and will draw on external expertise if required. The unit will bring together officials and policy expertise from across the Cabinet Office, Treasury, Foreign Office, Business Department and the wider civil service.
The department's Ministers are based in 9 Downing Street.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for the Government's policy on the Low Commission's reports, Tackling of the findings of the Advice Deficit, published in 2014, and Getting it Right in Social Welfare Law, published in 2015.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Government is supporting, free, independent and social welfare advice, including through the Advice Services Transition Fund (ASTF).
The ASTF is supporting the sector to be able to respond with confidence to the challenges presented by the changing funding environment. The ASTF is a transformational fund and, rather than providing running costs, it is designed to support more collaborative and sustainable ways of working.
We are working with the Big Lottery Fund to ensure that learning from the fund is identified and shared across the advice services sector.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the evaluation and recommendations of the Law Commission on the Advice Services Transition Fund.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The aim of the Advice Services Transition Fund (ASTF) was to support the sector to be able to respond with confidence to the challenges presented by the changing funding environment.
The Fund was always intended to support time limited transformational activity. Cabinet Office is not in a position to commit longer-term funding to support the core-running costs of advice services. However, the fund has supported organisations to transition to more collaborative working. We will also be working with the Big Lottery Fund to ensure that learning is identified and shared across the advice services sector. This work aligns with recommendations outlined in the Low Commission report.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to introduce a pilot scheme to evaluate the potential use of social impact bonds for the provision of advice services.
Answered by Rob Wilson
As part of the spending review we committed £80m to a new social outcomes fund to support the creation of locally developed social impact bonds focused upon tackling a range of social problems. We will set out the issues that this fund will focus upon when it is launched later this year.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which contracts with his Department G4S are currently bidding for.
Answered by Matt Hancock
To ensure fair and open competition the Government does not publish the names of bidders during the tender process.
Successful bidders for all central government contracts are published on Contracts Finder:
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search
Successful bidders for all Crown Commercial Service (CCS) contracts are published on the CCS web site:
http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what Henry VIII powers were (a) enacted in legislation passed in the 2010 to 2015 Parliament and (b) since May 2015.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
Each time the Government proposes a new delegated power in a Bill, it submits a memorandum to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee setting out the case for the power. These memoranda are published on Parliament's website.