Written Question
Thursday 3rd July 2014
Asked by:
David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what Government spending was in reform of the process of procurement and across central Government in each year since May 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Cabinet Office has been working with central Government departments to implement a demanding Commercial Reform agenda which is aimed at leveraging the Crown's buying power, deriving better value for money and savings for the taxpayer to support deficit reduction and growth. This work has been carried out across departments and costs are not held centrally.
As a result of our work to date, we have made the way we buy goods and services in central Government quicker, more competitive, more transparent, better value and far simpler than before. This has saved the taxpayer £2.9bn in 2010-11, with a further £3.0bn in 2011-12, £3.8bn in 2012-13 and £5.4bn in 2013-14. These savings are all calculated against a 2009-10 baseline and include both recurring and non-recurring items.
All of this could have been started before the 2010 General Election. However in May 2010 there was no effective central oversight of procurement, commercial skills were lacking and Government didn't even know who its strategic suppliers were, let alone how much was being spent with them.
Written Question
Thursday 19th June 2014
Asked by:
David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed on zero-hour contracts in Bolton North East constituency.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Written Question
Thursday 19th June 2014
Asked by:
David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question
to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are paid at a rate below the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation in Bolton North East constituency.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Nov 2013
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Dec 2012
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Dec 2012
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"When the great train robbers stole £2.5 million from Royal Mail, they were sentenced to as many as 30 years in prison. When our bankers get caught fraudulently taking billions of pounds from poor people throughout the world, they just pay large corporate fines and walk away with fat pensions. …..."David Crausby - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 May 2012
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 May 2012
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"The Prime Minister has already been proved right when he said that lobbying would be the “next big scandal” to happen, so why this delay? Does the Minister not agree that any failure to bring forward meaningful legislation will justifiably feed the public mistrust of politicians? Is it not time …..."David Crausby - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Jun 2010
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"Q7. The building work for the new £20 million maternity supercentre in Bolton is pretty well finished, but may I be assured that the Government’s decision to review the making it better programme in Greater Manchester will not affect the expansion, and particularly the funding, of Bolton’s Princess Anne maternity …..."David Crausby - View Speech
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