Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many former prisoners have been employed by 10 Downing Street in each of the last five years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.
Information about the number of former prisoners employed by my Department in each of the last five years is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many former prisoners have been employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.
Information about the number of former prisoners employed by my Department in each of the last five years is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) mean and (b) median gender pay gap is for (i) part-time and (ii) full-time staff at the Office for National Statistics.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints relating to equal pay were made by (a) male and (b) female employees of government departments in each of the last three years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 26811, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of subsidised health insurance.
Answered by Matt Hancock
There are fewer than 5 staff in receipt of subsidised health insurance and disclosing the job titles of those in receipt of subsidised health insurance may lead to the identification of the individuals.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in 10 Downing Street receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Prime Minister’s office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
No staff receive a home to work travel allowance or a car allowance. Health insurance is not a benefit offered to staff however, due to a TUPE transfer where Cabinet Office brought staff in from the private sector there a smaller number of staff able to claim subsidised health insurance.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Prime Minister’s office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
No staff receive a home to work travel allowance or a car allowance. Health insurance is not a benefit offered to staff however, due to a TUPE transfer where Cabinet Office brought staff in from the private sector there a smaller number of staff able to claim subsidised health insurance.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which regulations his Office introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Office expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.
Answered by Matt Hancock
No regulations were introduced by the Cabinet Office as a result of EU legislation in 2013 and 2014.
So far in 2015 the Cabinet Office has introduced the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 which have estimated net annual savings of £3.6 Billion. No further regulations arising from EU legislation are planned for introduction in 2015.
Looking ahead to 2016 two regulations are expected to be implemented by the Cabinet Office as a result of EU legislation. These are the Utilities Contract Regulations and Concessions Contract Regulations.
Details of all the estimated costs to the Public Purse and Private Sector are provided in the table below:
Year | Title of Regulation | Cost to Business | Cost to Public Purse |
2013 | None | ||
2014 | None | ||
2015 | Public Contracts Regulations 2015 | £3.6Billion saving | |
2016 | Utilities Contract Regulations | £0.14M | £0.09M |
Concessions Contract Regulations | £0.3M | £0.85 | |
2017 | None | ||
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments in respect of carbon offsetting were made in each such year.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Cabinet Office’s expenditure to date in respect of carbon offsetting arising from Official and Ministerial air travel was as follows;
2014-15 £717.34p payment was made to Carbon Footprint Ltd
2013-14 £1572.78p payment was made to Carbon Footprint Ltd
2012-13 £782.00p payment was made to South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
We provide apps on request for Cabinet Office. News apps currently available to our users are:
BBC News
Sky News
The Daily Mail
The Financial Times
The Guardian
The Independent
The Mirror
The Spectator
The Sun
The Telegraph
The Times
We will add new applications as they are requested by our users. I missed some off the list previously but can confirm they are all now available.