Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2019 to Question 228168 on Brexit, when his Department will publish the full recent costs of physical advertising in relation to the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Answered by David Lidington
I refer the Honourable Member to my answer given to Question 228168 provided on 7 March 2019.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2019 to Question 227162 on Brexit, when his Department will disclose full recent costs of TV advertising related to the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Answered by David Lidington
I refer the Honourable Member to my answer given to Question 227162 provided on 5 March 2019.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the Government has made of the cost to the public purse of advertising the EU Withdrawal Agreement on social media (a) up to the present day and (b) until 29 March 2019.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Spend will be published in due course as part of our normal data release.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the Government has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) billboards and (b) other physical advertisements on how the public should prepare for the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by David Lidington
The Cabinet Office is leading and coordinating the cross-departmental Prepare for EU Exit public information campaign to help fulfil the Government’s duty to inform citizens and businesses about how leaving the EU might affect them, and to advise them on the steps they may need to take to prepare. In the coming weeks and months, we plan to use a range of paid-for and no-cost channels to direct citizens and businesses to a dedicated area on GOV.UK at Gov.uk/euexit.
The Cabinet Office has undertaken to publish information relating to ongoing expenditure on the public information campaign as part of the department’s regular data transparency releases. The latest release (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-spend-data) showed that as of 31 December 2018, expenditure relating to this campaign totalled £300,000. In conjunction, Cabinet Office will disclose full costs regarding the Out of Home advertising strand as part of these data sets in due course.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the Government has made of the cost to the public purse of the planned television advertisements outlining how the UK's exit from the EU will affect the public.
Answered by David Lidington
The Cabinet Office is leading and coordinating the cross-departmental Prepare for EU Exit public information campaign to help fulfil the Government’s duty to inform citizens and businesses about how leaving the EU might affect them, and to advise them on the steps they may need to take to prepare. In the coming weeks and months, we plan to use a range of paid-for and no-cost channels to direct citizens and businesses to a dedicated area on GOV.UK at Gov.uk/euexit.
The Cabinet Office has undertaken to publish information relating to ongoing expenditure on the public information campaign as part of the department’s monthly data transparency releases. The latest release (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-spend-data) showed that as of 31 December 2018, expenditure relating to this campaign totalled £300,000. In conjunction, Cabinet Office has committed to disclose full costs regarding the TV advertising as part of these data releases in due course.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of ministerial visits by his Department to discuss the withdrawal agreement from 3 to 10 December; and if he will place the itineraries of those visits in the Library before the Christmas recess.
Answered by David Lidington
The Ministerial Code is clear that Ministers must always make efficient and cost-effective travel arrangements.
Details of Ministers’ travel overseas are published quarterly and are made available on GOV.UK. The details include the purpose of the trip and the total cost for the Minister.
While destinations and costs for travel internal to the UK are not part of the quarterly transparency returns, details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations and the purpose of the meeting are published quarterly and are made available on GOV.UK. This naturally includes all meetings with external organisations that take place while a Minister is travelling within the UK.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 16 January 2019, Official Report, column 1269, if she will meet with (a) leaders (b) senior members and (c) Members of the Legislative Assembly from political parties represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly that are not represented in the House of Commons.
Answered by David Lidington
There are no meetings currently planned. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland meets with Northern Ireland political parties on a regular basis.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2018 to Questions 202895 and 202896, whether she has held discussions with former Prime Minister, David Cameron via (a) written communication and (b) telephone.
Answered by Baroness May of Maidenhead
As I said in my answer to the Hon Member during my statement on December European Council (Column 552, 17 December 2018), the former Prime Minister is not giving advice. The last time I spoke to him was when we agreed the withdrawal agreement. It was when I spoke to two former Prime Ministers, as a matter of courtesy, to inform them what had been negotiated with the European Union.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2018 to Questions 202895 and 202896, for what reasons she did not specify in that answer whether any of her staff have (a) met or (b) held discussions with former Prime Minister, David Cameron in the last two months.
Answered by Baroness May of Maidenhead
As I said in my answer to the Hon Member during my statement on December European Council (Column 552, 17 December 2018), the former Prime Minister is not giving advice. The last time I spoke to him was when we agreed the withdrawal agreement. It was when I spoke to two former Prime Ministers, as a matter of courtesy, to inform them what had been negotiated with the European Union.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December to Question 201271 on Prime Minister: Brexit, for what reason the answer did not include an estimate of the carbon footprint of her visits to (a) her counterparts in other EU member states and (b) representatives of the EU Council and the Commission between 10 December 2018 and 13 December 2018.
Answered by Baroness May of Maidenhead
I travel making the most efficient and cost-effective arrangements. My travel arrangements are in accordance with the arrangements for official travel set out in the Ministerial code