First elected: 6th May 2010
Left House: 30th March 2015 (Defeated)
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If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
These initiatives were driven by Sheila Gilmore, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
Sheila Gilmore has not been granted any Urgent Questions
Sheila Gilmore has not introduced any legislation before Parliament
Sheila Gilmore has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
The answer is in the tables.
Rt Hon Maria Miller MP
Date | Visit | Purpose |
10/5/13 | Bury | To launch pilot scheme to get more women and girls active and tackle the gender gap in sport. |
14-18/10/13 | USA | Included discussions on women and the economy. |
1-4/12/13 | China | Included equalities related activity. |
15-17/12/13 | Russia | Included discussions on LGBT rights. |
10/1/14 | Wiltshire | Included visit to Riding for the Disabled, to see how the organisation supports disabled people. |
11-14/3/14 | UN Commission on the Status of Women | To promote women’s rights and help ensure a strong set of agreed conclusions. |
Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP
Date | Visit | Purpose |
21/5/14 | Brighton | Included an interview with a local LGBT publication. |
2/6/14 | West Midlands | Visited Birmingham LGBT and interview with local online LGBT publication. |
Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP
Date | Visit | Purpose |
7/5/14 | The National Science Museum, London | To launch the ‘Your Life’ campaign to motivate more girls to continue to study maths and physics. |
13/5/14 | Google Campus for Mums, Shoreditch, London | To announce a new £1million challenge fund to help female entrepreneurs benefit from superfast broadband. |
05/06/14 | Paris | Attended a Conference to explore practical strategies and best practices in accelerating women’s economic progress worldwide |
Helen Grant MP
Date | Visit | Purpose |
19/6/13 | Pimlico Academy, London | To encourage girls in their career aspirations. |
25/6/13 | St Mary’s Primary school, Moss Side, Manchester | To encourage girls in their career aspirations. |
3/12/13 | Bury | To see the progress of Sport England pilot. |
2-3/6/14 | Malta | Undertook equalities meetings as well as tourism events. |
Jo Swinson MP
Date | Visit | Purpose |
31/1/13 | Durham | To raise SMEs awareness of the Equality Act 2010. |
7/3/13 | Epsom | To raise SMEs awareness of the Equality Act 2010. |
8/3/13 | The National Science Museum | To celebrate International Women’s Day and speak to young girls about careers in science, engineering, technology and maths. |
14/3/13 | Big Bang Fair - ExCeL centre London | To encourage interest by women in science and engineering. |
4/10/13 | Wiltshire | To visit military personnel and spouses benefiting from Rural Growth Network. |
21/11/13 | Bridge Academy London | To launch project to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying Project. |
Jenny Willott MP
Date | Visit | Purpose |
2/6/14 | Royal Free Hospital London | To launch report into body image during pregnancy and after birth. |
4/6/14 | Highams Park School, Highams Park, London | To launch the ‘Opening doors’ pilot scheme aimed at encouraging more girls to undertake A’ Levels in subjects traditionally dominated by boys. |
18/6/14 | Liverpool | To promote the role of women in the economy at the International Festival for Business. |
Previous and present Secretaries of State carry out official visits to different parts of the UK as part of their role, both for departmental business and for broader Government business such as regional Cabinet meetings. The destinations of regional visits are in the public domain at the time of the visit, but the Department does not keep a central log of such visits.
As noted in my predecessor’s answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report Col 688W, information relating to domestic visits can be provided only at disproportionate cost as it is not held centrally.
Details of Ministers' overseas visits are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:
Information for January to March 2014 will be published shortly.
Information relating to UK visits can only be provided at disproportionate cost as it is not held centrally.
Details of Ministers' visits overseas are published quarterly and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-meetings-and-hospitality-data-october-to-december-2013
The information requested is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost. The directorates of the Department of Energy and Climate Change carry out their own purchasing with professional support from a procurement team.
Contracts of the Department are published on the Cabinet Office Website which can be found at www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk.
The Department would be able to provide further information by narrowing the scope, if specific procurement projects were identified.
The following table from the Departments financial records show the total spend with 20 suppliers of the highest value. This value can be made up of one or many contracts between April 2013 and February 2014.
Total Procurement Spend from Apr 2013 to February 2014 | |
Supplier | Grand Total |
MET OFFICE | £22,454,098.25 |
Office Of Gas & Elect Markets | £10,312,175.00 |
D T Z Debenham Tie Leung | £6,223,422.17 |
FUJITSU SERVICES LTD | £5,579,513.01 |
PA Consulting Services Ltd | £4,489,654.19 |
Energy Saving Trust Ltd | £3,618,597.79 |
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION & SKILLS | £3,374,346.57 |
SNR DENTON UK LLP | £3,319,774.82 |
KPMG LLP | £2,829,292.91 |
Slaughter & May | £2,592,452.03 |
ASE CONSULTING LTD | £2,447,938.74 |
DELOITTE LLP | £2,428,812.08 |
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY | £2,259,766.63 |
SHELL UK LTD | £2,200,000.00 |
METHODS CONSULTING LTD | £2,075,259.99 |
PARITY RESOURCES LTD | £1,944,156.57 |
Ricardo-A E A Ltd | £1,926,379.88 |
ERNST & YOUNG LLP | £1,676,114.76 |
DTZ DEBENHAM TIE LEUNG | £1,627,647.37 |
Building Research Establishment Ltd | £1,559,234.87 |
Grand Total | £84,938,637.60 |
I have nothing to add to the previous answer given by my Hon. Friend, the previous Solicitor General.
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to her by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the
2nd April 2014 (Official Report, Col 721W).
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 July 2014 (Official Report) Column Ref: 360W.
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Details of all Ministerial overseas travel is published on a quarterly basis.
Information about the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister's visits within the UK are published quarterly.
Details of Ministers' visits overseas are published quarterly and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications
As was the case prior to the last General Election various officials are provided with pagers when there is a business case to do so. We do not hold details centrally of when pagers were purchased but currently spend £360 a month on the services.
The Deputy Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
In 2010 the Office for National Statistics established a Measuring National Wellbeing Programme to look at wellbeing across the UK. The Cabinet Office is supporting this with a wellbeing policy programme across Government.
The costs of the programme are met from existing departmental budgets. Details on staffing are published through my department's organogram, on gov.uk
Details of Ministers’ visits are published quarterly and can be found at:
Details of Ministers' visits overseas are published quarterly and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-meetings-and-hospitality-data-october-to-december-2013
The Department for Education does not hold a list of domestic visits in the format requested. Information about visits, meetings and events held in the diary is not set out in a way that would enable a list to be compiled without exceeding the cost threshold. Domestic visits attended by the current and former Secretary of State would include attendance at events, visits to schools and other institutions as well as external meetings held from May 2010. To compile a list of all domestic visits stating the purpose of each in an accessible format would therefore exceed the cost threshold.
The Department does not hold a list of ministerial visits and to compile a list would exceed the cost threshold.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr Maude) on 2 April 2014, Official Report, column 721W.
Information on Ministers’ meetings with external organisations is published quarterly on the Gov.uk site. This reflects the Government’s commitment to transparency. However, we cannot identify without incurring disproportionate cost every visit over the period for all Ministers.
Relevant transparency reports can be found as follows:
1 January to 31 March 2013: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/212312/defra-min-transparency-1213-q4.pdf
There has been a delay in publishing transparency data for 1 January to 31 March 2014. We expect it to be available shortly.
1 April to 30 June 2013:
1 July to 30 September 2013:
1 October to 31 December 2013:
To identify every visit made by all of our Ministers over the period would incur a disproportionate cost as the information is not collated centrally.
However, information on Ministers' meetings with external organisations and their overseas travel is published quarterly on the Gov.uk site. This reflects the Civil Service's commitment to transparency.
Please find links to the relevant reports from 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2013:
1 January to 31 March 2013:
1 April to 30 June 2013:
1 July to 30 September 2013:
1 October to 31 December 2013:
Transparency data for 1 January to 31 March 2014 is expected to be available on the webpage later this month. The data for 1 April to 30 June 2014 is due to be published in September.
The 20 highest and 20 lowest value contracts awarded by Defra for the respective financial years are set out in the table attached.
We are unable to provide data for 2009/10 as we did not have a central contracts management system in place prior to April 2010.
The lowest value for contracts shown here is £10,000. Any purchasing below that level is made under standard purchase order terms and conditions rather than through a specific contract. These are not recorded on our central system.
The data does not included contracts for research and development which are not held centrally and could only be included at disproportionate cost.
Since January 2013, DFID Ministers have made the following domestic visits on official business:
Secretary of State (Rt Hon Justine Greening MP)
17 January 2013 – Visit to the DFID office in East Kilbride
28 January 2013 – Regional Cabinet in Leeds
20 May 2013 – Regional Visit to Watford
27 June 2013 – Regional Visit to Dartford
24 October 2013 – Visit to the DFID office in East Kilbride
20 November 2013 – Regional Visit to Brighton and Hastings
11 February 2014 – Regional Visit to Pudsey
24 February 2014 – Regional Visit to Edinburgh and Regional Cabinet in Aberdeen
1 May 2014 – Regional Visit to Birmingham and Warwick
Minister of State (Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP)
6 March 2014 – Regional Visit to Aberdeen
1 May 2014 – Visit to the DFID office in East Kilbride and Glasgow
2 May 2014 – Regional visit to Edinburgh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lynne Featherstone MP)
4 February 2013 – Regional Visit to Winchester
10 June 2013 – Visit to the DFID office in East Kilbride.
2 July 2013 – Regional Visit to Milton Keynes
9 October 2013 – Regional Visit to Bristol
24 February 2014 – Regional Visit to Birmingham and Ruby
26 February 2014 – Visit to the DFID office in East Kilbride
17 March 2014 – Visit to the DFID office in East Kilbride
29 June 2014 – Regional Visit to Edinburgh
Details of all overseas visits undertaken by DFID Ministers are published under the transparency section of the DFID website and can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-secretary-of-state-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-with-external-organisations
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-minister-of-state-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-with-external-organisations
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-with-external-organisations
I refer the Hon. Member to the reply given to her by my Rt. Hon Friend, the Member for Horsham (Francis Maude) on 2 Apr 2014, Official Report (Col. 721W).
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Details of all Ministerial overseas travel are published on a quarterly basis.
The Department notes the recommendation that the relevant guidance on this subject should be updated.
The Department expects to bring the successor to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, which will include all pedestrian crossing types, into force in 2015 and once that is complete will consider the need to update existing guidance.
Details of ministerial overseas travel and meetings with external organisations are routinely published every quarter and information covering the period up to the end of March 2014 can be accessed on the Department's website via the following:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/publications/ministerial-transparency/.
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given by the Right Honourable Friend, the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude) on 2 April 2014, Official Report, Column 721W.
Officials are in discussion with all current projects about a possible extension beyond March 2014. I will make an announcement about this in the coming weeks.
One of two evaluation partners has been appointed and we are in the process of appointing the second.
Evaluation data continues to be collected by all of the live projects and this data will be analysed and interpreted by our independent evaluator throughout the duration of their contract into 2016.
Results will be published after all projects have ended delivery and the external evaluator has completed their follow up work and analysis.
The number of inbound calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service in each month from Apr-13 to March 14 is available in the table below.
Month | Number of calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service |
Apr-13 | 8,024 |
May-13 | 7,845 |
Jun-13 | 8,915 |
Jul-13 | 10,360 1 |
Aug-13 | 11,990 |
Sep-13 | 13,835 |
Oct-13 | 14,835 |
Nov-13 | 21,375 2 |
Dec-13 | 22,760 |
Jan-14 | 26,515 |
Feb-14 | 25,875 |
Mar-14 | 26,865 |
Notes:
- Data Sourced from CMO Monthly MI Service Pack
- Data rounded to nearest 5
1 Child Maintenance Options started providing a ‘soft gateway’ to the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme, offering parents applying to the 2012 Scheme the opportunity to explore the full range of options before making an application, including considering making their own arrangements.
2 Child Maintenance Options became the automatic ‘gateway’ to the statutory 2012 child maintenance scheme, ensuring all parents who wish to access the 2012 Scheme are making a fully informed decision and have considered making their own arrangements first.
Information around different arrangement types is under development and while not included in this publication, once assured, it will be included in future releases of this publication.
The report ‘Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill: Disclosure of Information to credit reference agencies - exploratory analysis’ was published by the Department in 2008 and a copy is attached.
The series of behaviour change trials are now complete, and full evaluation is on-going. Where appropriate, findings will be published once full evaluation is complete. Trials that we have found to be successful are already being considered for wider implementation and we will be incorporating the learning from all our trials into our approach to tackling compliance and arrears.
Please see the table below:
| Operational Operating Costs | Unit Cost | Total DWP Operating Costs | Unit Cost - Total Costs |
ESA Claims | £21,639,678.74 | £25.09 | £59,680,390.98 | £66.66 |
ESA Changes (Incl WCA) | £61,465,559.37 | £12.74 | £143,414,434.36 | £28.52 |
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| Number of Customers | ESA Changes Processed | Average Number of Changes |
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ESA Changes | 1,880,822 | 5,028,874 | 2.67 |
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The cost of initiating payment of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) at the assessment rate is provided in ESA Claims. We have provided the annual costs for 13/14 and the Unit Costs. The Unit Cost is the average cost of one ESA Claim through the process.
We have provided the annual cost for ESA changes 13/14 and the unit costs. The Unit Cost is the average cost of one ESA change being made.
We have calculated the average number of changes required by ESA claimants in 13/14 by dividing the number of ESA changes processed by the number of ESA customers.
Please see table below:
Unit Cost - Total Costs | |
JSA Claims (Incl LMDM) | £ 27.16 |
(WS) JSA NJI Advice | £ 46.48 |
The cost of processing a New Claim for Jobseekers’ Allowance is provided in JSA Claims. We have provided the unit costs for 13/14. The Unit Cost is the average cost of one JSA Claim through the process.
For the costs of a jobseekers' allowance interview, we have provided the New Jobseekers’ interview Unit cost for 13/14 under JSA NJI advice. The Unit Cost is the average cost of one New Jobseekers’ interview.
The average time between the recommendation made by Atos Healthcare and the decision reached by the Department’s decision maker is 14 days. This refers to all initial decisions made on new Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims started in 2013.