Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) pubs and bars and (b) nightclubs that closed in each month in 2018.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the amount of sick leave taken by civil servants in 2018.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Cabinet Office collects sickness absence information from Civil Service departments and agencies on a quarterly basis. The Civil Service sickness absence data is published annually. The latest publication is for Q1 2018, published 30 May 2019 and is available online: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-sickness-absence. This data shows civil servants took an average of 6.9 sick days over the period – significantly lower than the level seen in the wider public sector.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of contractors across the public sector who do not recognise an independent trade union.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of outsourced roles relating to buildings run by the Government are employed on zero hours contracts.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally. Each government department is responsible for their outsourced roles.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what comparative assessment his Department has made of trends in the rate of death from asthma per 100,000 people in the UK and other European countries.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what enforcement and review mechanisms are in place to ensure 30-day payment clauses are in place for suppliers and subcontractors contracted to work with private sector companies on outsourced public sector contracts.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Public Procurement Regulations require public sector buyers to pay their suppliers
within 30 days and require these payment terms to be passed down the supply chain
Where this is not happening, businesses are encouraged to raise this with the Public
Procurement Review Service, who will investigate. The Public Procurement Review Service
will also proactively ensure that 30-day payment terms are being passed down the supply
chain by carrying out spot checks on contracting authorities
From September, suppliers who do not pay their subcontractors on time may face exclusion
from winning government contracts.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been directly employed by local authorities in England since 2010.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many of the total number of public contracts tendered by Government departments were awarded to UK companies in each of the last two years.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Central government does not record the value of contracts by supplier nationality.
However, in 2014, government published an analysis of contracts won by firms with UK addresses:
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many vacant posts there are across the Civil Service.
Answered by David Lidington
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of non-UK (a) EU and (b) EEA citizens leaving the UK in each of the last three years.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.