Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department monitors the amount of food waste generated by its offices each month.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not monitor food waste from the offices it occupies on a monthly basis. The department does not directly contract any food vendors.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on interpreters and related translation services in 2025.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The total contract costs from 1/1/25 – 1/1/26 are £12,109,032.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
In Defra there was no expenditure relating to Pride Month in 2026.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (1) 10 Downing Street and (2) Number 10 North monitor the amount of food waste generated each month.
Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
10 Downing Street monitors food waste on a monthly basis through it's services provider. Heron House already had waste collection management facilities in place, managed by the building service provider directly.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office is aware of the following Pride related spend:
£7,002.98 to fund the cross-Civil Service LGBT+ Network presence at Pride, covering up to 15 events taking place across the UK during summer 2026. This figure includes two events which took place during Pride Month (June).
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department (a) uses or (b) is taking steps to install rooftop solar panels on its premises.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport occupies premises owned, leased, and managed by the Government Property Agency (GPA) who are responsible for building assets, including the installation and use of rooftop solar panels.
Funding support for public bodies to install solar panels has been available through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) with a total of over £3 billion made available up to 2028. Great British Energy (GBE) also supports public sector decarbonisation and the GBE Solar programme is investing £255 million to fund around 250 schools, around 260 NHS sites, and around 15 military sites to install solar panels across the country.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The requested information is not centrally held, and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on interpreters and related translation services in 2025.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The total spend by the Ministry of Justice on interpreters and related translation services during the 2025 calendar year was £41,945,961.34.
This figure includes expenditure on contracted spoken language interpreting (£30,127,536.45), non-spoken language interpreting (£1,849,519.44), translation and transcription (£2,988,335.45), and quality assurance services across the Ministry of Justice estate, including commissioning bodies (£524,692.00). It also includes off-contract language services expenditure incurred by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (£6,455,878.00). During the 2025 calendar year, more than 150,000 interpreter service requests were fulfilled across the Ministry of Justice estate.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department (a) uses or (b) is taking steps to install rooftop solar panels on its premises.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A number of steps have been taken in recent years to reduce energy consumption and costs across the Departmental, including, where appropriate, the installation of solar photovoltaic systems. Information will be set out in future annual reports.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department were on permanent home working contracts in 2025.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Only 24 (0.7%) employees within the core department had a formal contractual remote-working contract as of 31 December 2025.