Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, how much her office spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
We do not routinely publish this data, as has been the case under successive administrations. All Business Units within the Cabinet Office have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money.
Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, how much their Office has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Please find below information regarding the expenditure of the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons on air travel.
Year | Spend (£) |
|---|---|
2020 | 0 |
2021 | 0 |
2022 | 911.97 |
Expenditure in 2022 is from 1 January 2022 to 18 July 2022.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government has plans to sign up for the Trades Union Congress's charter entitled, Dying to Work; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government supports the aim of enabling employees with terminal illnesses or life-threatening conditions to continue working for as long as possible. The Equality Act 2010 already provides protection for the workplace rights of people with terminal illnesses or life-threatening conditions. Cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis are specified disabilities in the Act. This means anyone with any of the above-listed chronic and/or life-limiting conditions is considered disabled and is protected from discriminatory treatment as a result of having that condition. The Act also provides that people with progressive conditions that have effects that increase in severity over time should be regarded as meeting the criteria for having a disability before it actually has that effect.
The Act places obligations on employers regarding disabled workers to ensure that workers who have chronic diseases or conditions (whether terminal or not), or debilitating illnesses, are fully protected from any unlawful behaviour by their employers. The Government also supports the Disability Confident employer scheme. More information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, which public appointments he is responsible for.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons sits within the Cabinet Office. The public appointments that the Cabinet Office is responsible for making are set out in the Schedule to the Public Appointments Order in Council 2019. This is available at: https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-Public-Appointments-Order-In-Council.pdf
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, what estimate he has made of the total amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in his Department in the last 24 months.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons is supported by Cabinet Office staff, and I refer the Hon. member to question 272747 and the answer to be provided by the Department. Claimed overtime for staff in the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons is paid in accordance with the Department’s procedures. Information on unpaid overtime is not held.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, how many times the e-petitions website was visited between 3 May 2017 to 4 September 2017.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the period of 3 May 2017 to 4 September 2017 the e-petitions website was visited 1,000,647 times.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, for what reasons petitions on the e-petitions website were not carried over from the beginning of purdah on 3 May 2017.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The new Petitions Committee will consider petitions which reached the 100,000 threshold for debate as soon as it is set up.
As the petitions system is part of the official work of Parliament, it stops when Parliament dissolves. This applies not just to petitions but also to other kinds of business, such as parliamentary questions and early day motions.