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Written Question
Cabinet Office: Living Wage
Tuesday 9th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

No staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work inside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage for London of £10.20 per hour.

No staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the National Real Living Wage of £8.75 per hour.

Written Question
Cabinet Office: Living Wage
Tuesday 9th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department that work (a) inside and (b) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

No staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work inside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage of £10.20 per hour.

A total of 85 staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies that work outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage of £10.20 per hour. They are all paid above the National Real Living Wage.

Written Question
Cabinet Office: Working Hours
Tuesday 9th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the weekly contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in his Department.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

The weekly contracted hours for the highest paid member of staff in Cabinet Office, No.10 and its agencies is 41. However, people in senior roles will routinely work much longer hours than this.

Written Question
Cabinet Office: Staff
Monday 8th October 2018

Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff (a) are employed directly by, (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract to his Department.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

Cabinet Office has the following numbers of staff:

a) The number of staff employed directly is published online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2018-to-2019.

b) 594 full time equivalent (FTE) people were on secondment in to Cabinet Office or on a loan from another government department. This is not published elsewhere and is dated at Quarter 1 (April – June 2018).

c) The number of contractors in Cabinet Office is published online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2018-to-2019.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Leaving the EU: Negotiations

"My hon. Friend and her whole team have done a sterling job for the Labour Front Bench. While she is clarifying Labour party policy, could she also clarify from the Dispatch Box that it is not Labour policy to support a second referendum?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Leaving the EU: Negotiations

"The hon. Gentleman is correct about food poverty, but it is wrong to suggest that it is a construct of Brexit. Will he tell us what he did in government for five years to deal with food poverty? People in my constituency have been hungry for a long time, and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Leaving the EU: Negotiations

"The hon. Gentleman talked about people turning out to vote leave. Did he experience in his constituency what happened in my constituency, where not only did people turn out to vote leave, but the highest number of people in any election in the past 20 years turned out to vote? …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Leaving the EU: Negotiations

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) because, despite being on opposite sides of politics, we share some commonality in respect of this issue, which is that we are both democrats, but thankfully not Liberal Democrats. We both understand that our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Leaving the EU: Negotiations

"I am sure that it was. Subsequent elections meant that there is no majority necessarily in the House for that matter. If we are democrats, we are also pragmatists. It is better that we have a pragmatic deal that commands the majority of this House and that is workable so …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Leaving the EU: Negotiations

"Perhaps if I were to ask the right hon. Gentleman for his diary, it would show a weekly trip to Stoke-on-Trent, so he could tell me what my electors are thinking—but I am guessing it does not. I need no lessons on what my electors think, because I speak to …..."
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