Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the risk posed by climate change to highly interconnected nationally significant infrastructure.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lead Government Departments keep the risk to the critical national infrastructure in their sector(s) under continual review, and report to the Cabinet Office on their plans to manage these risks through annual Sector Security and Resilience Plans. Climate change is a driver for a number of the risks considered by Lead Government Departments. More detail on these risks can be found in the 2017 Climate Change Risk Assessment and the 2017 National Risk Register for Civil Emergencies.
The 2017 Climate Change Risk Assessment is publicly available at: https://www.theccc.org.uk/tackling-climate-change/preparing-for-climate-change/uk-climate-change-risk-assessment-2017/. The 2017 National Risk Register for Civil Emergencies is published on gov.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-of-civil-emergencies-2017-edition. A summary of the 2017 Sector Security and Resilience Plans is published on gov.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sector-security-and-resilience-plans-2017-summary
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many disposable coffee cups were purchased by his Department in each of the last five years.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
No cups were purchased directly by the Cabinet Office.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many vehicles in his Department's fleet are (a) electric and (b) ultra-low emission.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Cabinet Office uses the Government Car Service for vehicle provision. A list of cars provided to Departments by the Government Car Service was included in the return for the Department for Transport. I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer given to PQ122480 on 22nd January.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his oral contribution of 26 June 2017, Official Report, column 348, if he will list the public sector buildings which are now undergoing checks.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Our priority has been to identify and test buildings clad in Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) and which, are either social or private rented housing, or public sector buildings meeting certain height thresholds.
We are continuing to receive and analyse data on the wider public sector estate. There are range of public sector buildings currently being checked including hospitals, schools, prisons and probation facilities, care homes, military accommodation and other buildings used for overnight accommodation.
Where screening tests indicate that ACM samples would not meet the limited combustibility requirements of the current Building Regulations guidance, the Government will inform the building owner and notify the fire and rescue service and local authority of the test result. Clear guidance has been issued to ensure the safety of buildings and occupants. Where appropriate, organisations are working with the fire and rescue service to put in place precautionary safety checks and measures.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on 26 June 2017, column 348, if he will list the public sector buildings which are now undergoing checks.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
We are not providing a running commentary on individual buildings being tested. We have a process underway to collect information and undertake testing on priority buildings across the public sector estate. Where appropriate, organisations are working with the fire and rescue service locally to put in place precautionary safety checks and measures.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when each department plans to publish updated Single Departmental Plans.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Updated Single Departmental Plans will be published on gov.uk by the end of May 2017, once the formal business planning process across government has concluded.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings officials of his Department have had with employees of Macquarie Group or its subsidiaries in each month since March 2016.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Government officials routinely meet with a wide range of parties in the normal course of business. The detailed information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Details of meetings held by the most senior officials are published on Gov.uk on a quarterly basis.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the contribution of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to the Environmental Audit Committee on 25 October 2016, Question 332, what proportion of existing EU legislation within the policy remit of his Department cannot immediately be brought into UK law upon the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Government will bring forward legislation in the next session that, when enacted, will repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and ensure a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU. This ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will end the authority of EU law and return power to the UK. The Bill will convert existing European Union law into domestic law, wherever practical.
The Government will set out the content of the Bill and its implications in due course.