Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2023 to Question 181520 on King Charles III: Art Works, which company will (a) take and (b) distribute the portrait to schools.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Further details on the producers and/or suppliers associated with the official portrait will be confirmed in due course in coordination with the Royal Household.
Those public authorities who are eligible will be offered the opportunity to request one free framed portrait once the scheme is opened later this year, following the taking and release of the official photographic portraits of His Majesty The King.
The Government considers it is right that public authorities as part of the fabric of our nation, have the opportunity to commemorate this moment and reflect the new era in our history.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the announcement made on 1 April 2023 on Portraits of His Majesty The King for UK public authorities, whether his Department holds information on who will take the portrait of King Charles III; and whether a contract has been awarded to produce and frame the copies which will be available for public authorities.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
On 1 April we announced that public authorities throughout the United Kingdom will, in due course, be able to apply for a free portrait of His Majesty The King as part of a scheme to celebrate the new reign. The Government considers it is right that public authorities as part of the fabric of our nation, have the opportunity to commemorate this moment and reflect the new era in our history.
The scheme will be opened later this year following the taking and release of the official photographic portraits of His Majesty by the Royal Household. Further details on the official portrait will be confirmed in due course in coordination with the Royal Household.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who will have access to the details of gender recognition certificates that trans individuals provide as part of the UK Civil Service People Survey 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The UK Civil Service People Survey 2022 did not ask trans individuals to provide details of their gender recognition certificate, and so those details are not recorded and nobody has access to them.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the UK Civil Service People Survey 2022 requires trans individuals to provide details of their gender recognition certificate.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The UK Civil Service People Survey 2022 did not ask trans individuals to provide details of their gender recognition certificate, and so those details are not recorded and nobody has access to them.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2020 to Question 32254, how many working CoVent ventilation devices have been provided by Dyson to the NHS; how much has been spent from the public purse on the production of those devices; and what proportion of that spending has been returned to the Government by Dyson.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Ventilator Challenge has manufactured safe, easy-to-use and effective devices to meet the UK’s need for mechanical ventilators to fight COVID-19. The Challenge is a key part of the UK’s overall strategy to rapidly increase the number of mechanical ventilators for the NHS. This includes buying more ventilators from abroad, stepping up UK production and calling on the best of British manufacturing to build new devices. We have exceeded our target of building up ventilator stocks to 18,000 and everyone who has needed a ventilator has been able to access one.
Dyson were the manufacturing partner for The Technology Partnership (TTP), a specialist medical consultancy, who were funded to develop a new ventilator design. As we announced on 8 May, the Government ceased support for the product. No monies have been paid to Dyson.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to answer Questions (a) 62329, (b) 62330, (c) 62331, (d) 62332 and (e) 62333 tabled on 22 June 2020 by the hon. Member for Brent Central.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to PQs 62329, 62330, 62331, 62332, 62333, 69482, 69483 on 16 July 2020.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news release entitled, Authored article, Prime Minister's article in the Telegraph: 15 June 2020, what the territorial scope of the commission is planned to be; and what discussions he has had with Ministers in the Devolved Administrations on the remit of the commission in relation to (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the Hon. Member to the written ministerial statement made by the Prime Minister on 16 July 2020, which outlines the plans for a new cross-government Commission to review inequality in the UK. This Commission has superseded the proposals from the last Administration to create an Office for Tackling Injustice.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2020 to Question 1870 on Office for Tackling Injustices and with reference to the Prime Minister’s statement of 15 June 2020, how the cross-governmental commission to look at all aspects of inequality will contribute to the work of the Office for Tackling Injustices.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the Hon. Member to the written ministerial statement made by the Prime Minister on 16 July 2020, which outlines the plans for a new cross-government Commission to review inequality in the UK. This Commission has superseded the proposals from the last Administration to create an Office for Tackling Injustice.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 8 June 2020 to Questions 55892, 55893 and 55894 on Office for Tackling Injustices, what the process is for the announcements referred to in the answer; and if he will make it his policy to make a statement to the House in respect of each decision made by Ministers relating to the establishment of the Office for Tackling Injustices.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the Hon. Member to the written ministerial statement made by the Prime Minister on 16 July 2020, which outlines the plans for a new cross-government Commission to review inequality in the UK. This Commission has superseded the proposals from the last Administration to create an Office for Tackling Injustice.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been asked by his Department to serve in the Office for Tackling Injustices; what the outcome of each such request has been; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Chloe Smith
I refer the Hon. Member to the written ministerial statement made by the Prime Minister on 16 July 2020, which outlines the plans for a new cross-government Commission to review inequality in the UK. This Commission has superseded the proposals from the last Administration to create an Office for Tackling Injustice.