Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many impact assessments Government Departments have conducted since 2015.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to PQ122152 on 6th March.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which external recruitment agencies are used by his Department's non-departmental public bodies.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Cabinet Office has a framework of 6 executive agencies is available for senior recruitment across all Government departments and Arms Length Bodies. The agencies are Russell Reynolds, Odgers Berndtson, Gatenby Sanderson, Veredus, Carbon and Moloney Search. Arms Length Bodies are also able to contract external recruitment agencies through the Dynamic Purchasing System.
The information is available here: http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/contracts/ps-2016-ps-services
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place place in the Library a list of impact assessments carried out by Government departments in on each policy area or sector in the last 12 months.
Answered by David Lidington
Individual Impact Assessments are published by regularly by Government departments. The Cabinet Office's assessments are regularly published on gov.uk. Guidance for government departments is published online: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/impact-assessments-guidance-for-government-departments
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, what form of technical capacity the Government plans to provide to each relevant department to enable it to implement Sustainable Development Goal 5.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Government is committed to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals including Goal 5.
The Cabinet Office's role is primarily to co-ordinate the departmental planning process to ensure all of our obligations are adequately reflected. My department also provides support to DfID as the lead department, however, all departments are responsible for their respective contributions to the delivery of the Goals by 2030.
The departmental planning process is an effective tool in ensuring the Government is making progress in meeting our obligations, including on gender equality.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many successful cyber attacks on public services took place in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Government does not hold centrally the number of cyber attacks against public services. Each department manages incidents which affect the services they are responsible for. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has investigated 590 significant incidents, defined as events which may impact the UK’s national security or economic wellbeing, across the public and private sectors in its first year. The NCSC provides a unified source of advice and support to the public sector making it more resilient to the ever present cyber threat.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of electors who were eligible to vote in the 2017 General Election but who did not register to do so.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
I refer you to my recent answer to the member for Oldham West and Royton, PQ109192: Information regarding the total number of unregistered people of voting age is not held by the Government. Only totals for the number of registered electors are held, and these can be accessed through the Office for National Statistics website.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government's race audit findings will be published.
Answered by Damian Green
I refer the Hon. member to my answer given on 7th September 2017 to PQ7523.
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 constituents in Cardiff Central constituency worked in the public sector in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
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 18 to 25-year olds in Cardiff Central constituency were recorded (a) in the latest census estimate and (b) on the electoral register.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
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 lessons the Government has learned about voter registration from the EU referendum campaign.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The EU Referendum campaign was the largest democratic exercise the United Kingdom has ever witnessed. Indeed, there were 46.5 million people on the electoral register for the EU Referendum, the largest UK Parliamentary register ever seen. Building on this success, the Government is currently undertaking a programme of work looking at how the electoral registration can be made more efficient and boost the levels of registration further. This includes piloting changes to the annual canvass to test new approaches which have been identified through working closely with Electoral Registration Officers.