Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has plans to meet President Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe in 2021.
Answered by Boris Johnson
Details of my official meetings will be announced in the usual way.
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has plans to meet President Hichilema of Zambia.
Answered by Boris Johnson
Details of my official meetings will be announced in the usual way.
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, how many times he has discussed Afghanistan with the NATO Secretary General in 2021.
Answered by Boris Johnson
I have discussed Afghanistan in all of my conversations with the NATO Secretary General in 2021.
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, when he last spoke to Prime Minister Mottley of Barbados.
Answered by Boris Johnson
I recently wrote to Prime Minister Mottley to assure her of the UK’s commitment to tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and to thank her for her work in this area. Furthermore, my Rt Hon friend the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, and Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, UK Minister of State for the Caribbean, speak to Ministerial colleagues in Barbados regularly. The most recent such call was on 18 March this year. The UK High Commissioner to Barbados is also in close contact with the Government of Barbados including Prime Minister Mia Mottley. They last met on 24 August 2021.
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff employed in Number 10 are from a black or minority ethnic background.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Cabinet Office has a headcount of 8,889 as of 31 July 2021 (Data Source: SOP platform) of which 4,972 staff have declared their ethnic background. There are 984 ethnic minority members of staff in management grades that have declared their ethnicity; this is 19.8% of all staff that have declared their ethnic background. This is higher than the Civil Service average of 14.3% (Source: Annual Civil Service Employment Survey) and the Economic Active Population for ethnic minority people which is 13.6% (Source: ONS August 2021) The absolute number of ethnic minority staff in management positions is likely to be higher given the number of staff who have not made a declaration. The Cabinet Office has plans to increase the declaration rate in the department with a campaign during National Inclusion week in September.
Number 10 is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this figure.
Management grades are identified as grades Executive Officer (EO) and above.
For more wider information the government publishes statistics on Civil Service demographics annually on March 31st via the Office for National Statistics. This can be found on the Gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Black and ethnic minority staff hold management positions in his Department.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Cabinet Office has a headcount of 8,889 as of 31 July 2021 (Data Source: SOP platform) of which 4,972 staff have declared their ethnic background. There are 984 ethnic minority members of staff in management grades that have declared their ethnicity; this is 19.8% of all staff that have declared their ethnic background. This is higher than the Civil Service average of 14.3% (Source: Annual Civil Service Employment Survey) and the Economic Active Population for ethnic minority people which is 13.6% (Source: ONS August 2021) The absolute number of ethnic minority staff in management positions is likely to be higher given the number of staff who have not made a declaration. The Cabinet Office has plans to increase the declaration rate in the department with a campaign during National Inclusion week in September.
Number 10 is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this figure.
Management grades are identified as grades Executive Officer (EO) and above.
For more wider information the government publishes statistics on Civil Service demographics annually on March 31st via the Office for National Statistics. This can be found on the Gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2021
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of Number 10 Downing Street's energy usage in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The cost to the public purse of Cabinet Office's energy usage in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 is shown below:
2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22* |
£820,820 | £837,439 | £837,616 |
* Estimated.
This information mainly covers the buildings that are part of the Affiliates Cluster and where the Cabinet Office is the major occupier -
Dover House
Admiralty House
70 Whitehall
10 Downing Street
35 Great Smith Street
Information for buildings where the Cabinet Office is a minor occupier is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's energy usage in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The cost to the public purse of Cabinet Office's energy usage in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 is shown below:
2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22* |
£820,820 | £837,439 | £837,616 |
* Estimated.
This information mainly covers the buildings that are part of the Affiliates Cluster and where the Cabinet Office is the major occupier -
Dover House
Admiralty House
70 Whitehall
10 Downing Street
35 Great Smith Street
Information for buildings where the Cabinet Office is a minor occupier is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.