Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues to Heads of Departments on meeting with the Civil Service Sex Equality and Equity Networks; and if if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Civil Service has not developed or issued any specific guidance to Heads of Departments on their engagement with the Civil Service networks, including the Sex Equality and Equity Network.
The Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2022 outlines a focus on the delivery of inclusion, to support our key priorities as outlined in the Declaration on Government Reform.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date following the publication in September 2015 of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation briefing entitled Search for a Central London site did their Department become aware of the plan to site the memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
Responsibility for delivering the Government’s manifesto commitment to construct the UK Holocaust Memorial rests with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department's departmental and public agency spending on (a) services provided by and (b) contracts with Stonewall reconcile with the figures given in that charity's accounts.
Answered by Michael Ellis
There are currently no publicly available accounts from Stonewall for 2020/21 which we can compare with the Cabinet Office published accounts.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a person with a birthday between the date they completed the census form and the census date can confirm an age that will not be correct.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, which tenure type a residential commonholder or leaseholder should select in a census return.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to update Government procurement guidelines to ensure that only vehicles procured by (a) Government Departments, (b) public agencies and (c) public sector contractors are fitted with the latest sensing Autonomous Emergency Braking.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
It is for individual Contracting Authorities to determine their specifications for new vehicles according to their requirements.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the (a) public appointments and (b) periods of service of Deep Sagar.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Individual departments are responsible for making public appointments to the boards of their arms length bodies.
There is no central list of public appointees, however all appointments made by Ministers are made public on gov.uk.
Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the Office of National Statistics (ONS) can best estimate the number and trends of the stock in the leasehold domestic premises in (a) Worthing West constituency, (b) Worthing borough, (c) Arun district, (d) West Sussex county, (e) South East England region, (f) England and (g) England and Wales; what data collection the ONS makes on housing tenure types; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.