Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions the National Science and Technology Council has met since 25 October 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not normally shared publicly.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions the Prime Minister has had with his Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan since December 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Prime Minister and other Ministers regularly engage with a wide range of colleagues across government, including diplomatic staff.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department provided support to the Rt Hon Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip for his visit to Ukraine in January 2023.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
I refer the hon. Member to PQ 129842.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing minimum qualifying criteria for a Prime Minister's tenure in office regarding resignation honours lists.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
I refer the hon. Member to the answer of 26 October 2022, Official Report, House of Lords, HL2839.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, what recent assessment he has made for the implications of his Department's policies of the effectiveness of the (a) the protocol and (b) the precedence of resignation honours lists.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
I refer the hon. Member to the answer of 26 October 2022, Official Report, House of Lords, HL2839.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants were working on the review of the Integrated Review on 17 October 2022.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Integrated Review (IR) refresh process is being run by a joint No10-Cabinet Office team under the leadership of the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser for Foreign Affairs and the National Security Adviser. The core team comprises 18 FTE civil servants, supported by a virtual team across Cabinet Office who are assisting the IR refresh as part of their roles.
The core No10-CO team is also coordinating a wider government effort drawing on policy expertise from across key departments, meaning that a higher number of civil servants in total will have some interaction with the process.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the National Resilience Strategy.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government intends to publish a resilience strategy this Autumn.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the future of the National Security Council before it was disbanded and replaced by the Foreign Policy and Security Council.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
I can confirm that neither I, nor my immediate predecessors (including Edward Argar and Michael Ellis) have had any conversations regarding the future of the National Security Council with the Secretary of State for Defence.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was of the Prime Minister’s visit to RAF Coningsby on 14 July 2022.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Prime Minister accompanied pilots on a routine training flight and, therefore, no extra cost was incurred.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what definition his Department plans to use to define venues that will be required to make people show covid-19 vaccine certificates for entrance; when his Department plans to publish that definition; and what plans his Department has to provide financial support to those venues required (a) to implement and (b) enforce those entrance checks.
Answered by Michael Ellis
At the request of the Prime Minister, the then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, led a review into COVID-status certification, which concluded in July.
As published in the COVID-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan on 14 September, in order to help businesses prepare their own contingency plans, the Government will shortly publish more detail about the proposed certification regime that would be introduced as part of Plan B.