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Written Question
Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
Wednesday 17th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the population can the gov.uk Verify identity assurance system identify in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, and (c) Linlithgow and East Falkirk.

Answered by Chloe Smith

GOV.UK Verify enables individuals to prove who they are digitally and to access online government services safely and securely. Over 6.8 million accounts have been created on GOV.UK Verify since it went live in October 2014. The breakdown for the last five years is as follows:

  • 2014 - 1706

  • 2015: 526,164

  • 2016: 447,487

  • 2017: 753,782

  • 2018: 1,628,092

  • 2019: 2,194,816

  • 2020 (until 31 May): 1,294,337

The privacy-centric design of GOV.UK Verify means that it is not possible to provide a breakdown of users by constituency or region.


Written Question
Employment: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Tuesday 16th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been employed on a full-time basis in Linlithgow and East Falkirk in each year since 2015.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Companies: European Union
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are employed by companies registered in the EU in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, and (c) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Self-employed: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are registered as self-employed in (a) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Zero Hours Contracts: Scotland
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people under the age of 25 in (a) Scotland and (b) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency are employed on zero-hours contracts.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Business: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many small and medium-sized businesses in Linlithgow and East Falkirk placed a bid for a public contract in the last five years.

Answered by Chloe Smith

This information is not held centrally.


Written Question
Zero Hours Contracts: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency are employed on zero-hours contracts; how many of those people are (a) aged between 16 and 24-years old and (b) women.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Life Expectancy: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what life expectancy is for (a) men and (b) women in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Pay
Monday 15th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average annual salary was for (a) BAME and (b) non-BAME employees in his Department in each of the last five years.

Answered by Chloe Smith

Further to the answer given to PQ 18715 on 21 February 2020, some general data on civil service pay broken down by declared ethnicity is available online at https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-business/public-sector-pay/civil-service-pay/latest.


Written Question
Self-employed: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Friday 12th June 2020

Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people declared themselves as self-employed in each of the last three years in Linlithgow and East Falkirk.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.