Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of civil?servants' (a) parents and (b) guardians are also civil servants.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested is not routinely collected.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of interns each Government Department accepted to the (a) Summer Diversity Internship Programme and (b) Civil Service graduate fast stream in each year since 2015 were (a) female, (b) male or (c) identified as neither.
Answered by Chloe Smith
As both the Summer Diversity Internship Programme and the Civil Service graduate fast stream are cross-Civil Service programmes, the information requested is not broken down by department.
Information relating to gender for those recommended for appointment to the Summer Diversity Internship Programme and Civil Service graduate Fast Stream in each year since 2015 is available in the relevant Civil Service Fast Stream annual reports.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average hourly pay is of employees identified as (a) male, (b) female and (c) other gender identity at each grade in the Prime Minister's Office.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.
The Cabinet Office, along with other Government Departments, has published information about the gender pay gap in its workforce annually since 2017. The report for 2019 is available at https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/FukQqlAW.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many senior?civil?servants appointed to positions in his private office had previously been (a) political appointees in the Cabinet Office and (b) employed by a political party since 2015.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Information on Government Special Advisers is published regularly. Other Civil Servants are recruited in accordance with civil service recruitment principles.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what university each intern on the Summer Diversity Internship Programme attended in each year since 2015.
Answered by Chloe Smith
We do not currently cross-tabulate the information relating to university and the Summer Diversity Internship Programme. This could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average hourly pay is of (a) White or White British and (b) black, Asian or other minority ethnic group employees at each grade in the Prime Minister's Office.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Cabinet Office staff are not required to declare their ethnic origin and therefore a complete breakdown of all staff by grade; salary and ethnicity is not held.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil servants are employed on flexible working arrangements.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Civil Service supports flexible working, recognising that flexible working patterns can be mutually beneficial, helping to attract and retain workforce, increasing productivity and reducing costs.
Arrangements are made departmentally and locally. Working patterns are agreed subject to business need depending on circumstances.
We do not hold information centrally about overall numbers of civil servants across all flexible working patterns. However, some information on civil servants working part-time is reported each quarter by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of their quarterly public sector employment statistics.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the grant of £100,000 made to Hacker House in 2019; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Boris Johnson
As my Hon Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Matt Warman) told the House on 25 September 2019, Official Report, Col. 678, neither I nor my staff had any role in the award of this grant. The grant was awarded in February 2019 by officials from DCMS, the Department for Education, techUK and the National Cyber Security Centre, following an open, transparent and competitive process.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what sanctions apply to civil servants on the offence of misconduct in public office.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Misconduct in public office is an indictable offence under common law, and anyone considered to be a public officer (including civil servants) accused of such an offence could be tried before a jury in a Crown Court.
Any sanction imposed by the courts would be determined by the nature and severity of the case and subject to any minimum or maximum penalty thresholds relating to the specific offence being tried.
All civil servants are also subject to departmental conduct policies and the Civil Service Code which requires them to act with integrity, impartiality, honesty and objectivity. Breaches of the Civil Service Code will be the subject of internal disciplinary action.
Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, which (a) people and (b) businesses applying for Government funding he has provided advice to in each of the last five years; and what advice he has provided.
Answered by Boris Johnson
Decisions on funding to individual schemes are a matter for the relevant Government Department. The Cabinet Office has published grant standards to ensure best practice in the awarding of grants by departments.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/grants-standards