Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, how many times she has discussed the issue of US steel tariffs with President Trump.
Answered by Theresa May
I refer the hon. Member to the Oral Statement I gave to the House on the 11 June 2018, Official Report, Column 604. This information is also in the public domain and can be found on the gov.uk website
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) British subjects and (b) British protected persons are currently resident in the UK.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of ministerial travel by (a) commercial flights, (b) RAF flights, (c) Eurostar, (d) ferry, (e) road, (f) commercial helicopter in each of the last three years.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Details of ministerial travel overseas, including costs, are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, when she became aware of the Secretary of State for International Development's discussions with Israeli Government Ministers and Officials on potential Government aid to the Israeli Defence Force.
Answered by Theresa May
My right hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Ms Patel) resigned as Secretary of State for International Development on 8 November. I refer the hon. Member to the exchange of letters between my right hon. Friend and me on her resignation; and to the statement issued by my right hon. Friend on 6 November, a copy of which is available on the gov.uk website.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and which meetings of the Joint Ministerial Committee and its sub-committees at both (a) Ministerial and (b) official level have been convened to discuss the UK leaving the EU in which the Welsh Government has been involved since the referendum on the UK leaving the EU, in June 2016.
Answered by Damian Green
Meetings of the Joint Ministerial Committee and its sub-committees have taken place on the following dates since June 2016:
(a) JMC(EU Negotiations) met 9 November 2016, 7 December 2016, 19 January 2017 and 8 February 2017. We anticipate the next meeting of JMC(EN) will take place in the autumn. The UK’s exit from the EU was also discussed at sessions of JMC (Plenary) on 24 October 2016 and 30 January 2017.
(b) JMC(EU Negotiations) Officials meetings took place on 16 September 2016, 25 October 2016, 7 November 2016, 17 November 2016, 28 November 2016, 12 December 2016 and 21 December 2016 and on 10 January 2017, 17 January 2017, 31 January 2017, 6 February 2017 and 15 February 2017. Meetings of JMC Officials took place on 27 September 2016, 10 October 2016, 17 October 2016, 21 October 2016 and 25 November 2016 and on 6 January 2017 and 23 January 2017. The next meeting of JMC Officials is scheduled for 8 September 2017.
JMC(Europe) and JMC (Europe) Officials have continued to meet during this period to discuss business as usual.
In addition, officials from all administrations meet regularly in a variety of other formats.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, on what date she issued a formal invitation to the President of the US to make a state visit to the UK.
Answered by Theresa May
I refer the hon. Member to the joint press conference following my meeting with President Trump, a transcript of which can be found on gov.uk website.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on advertising in (a) The Times, (b) The Sunday Times, (c) The Mail on Sunday, (d) The Sun, (e) The Sun on Sunday, (f) The Huffington Post, (g) Mail Online, (h) Daily Mail, (i) The Guardian and (j) Trinity Mirror newspapers in each Department in the last six years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Government advertising is purchased by our media buying partner, Carat.
Carat has held the contract for UK Government media buying since January 2015. The figures that are supplied below show spend by departmental groups for the financial year 2015/16. HM Government does not hold figures for previous financial years.
In the last Parliament, the Government saved £18.6 billion through efficiencies and reform - and we are aiming to make another £15-20 billion in efficiency savings by 2019-20.
Since 2010, we have already reduced Government spending on communications by £1 billion.
Government advertising supports the government’s priorities and helps deliver its programmes. Government communications helps improve the lives of people and communities in the UK, assists with the effective operation of our public services and delivers responsive and informative communications 24 hours a day.
The advertising expenditure figures below are provided by Departmental Group, and include for each Department expenditure by Arms Length Bodies reporting to the respective Secretary of State.
Daily Mail/Weekend Magazine
DEFRA £12,160
DCLG £74,100
DWP £79,888
HMT £569,594
Home Office £18,816
DCMS £64,600
DH £74,240
Total £893,398
Trinity Mirror – Daily Mirror/Daily Record/Sunday Mirror/The People/We Love Telly
BIS £8,100
DCLG £16,200
DWP £64,613
HMT £104,669
DH £134,943
DCMS £6,400
MOD £4,200
Total £339,125
Guardian/The Guide/Weekend
DEFRA £2,420
DFE £10,956
DCLG £4,840
DWP £4,180
HMT £69,575
DFT £1,210
Home Office £2,640
UKTI £4,840
DCMS £5,808
Total £106,469
Mail on Sunday/Event Magazine/You Magazine
DEFRA £36,922
DWP £65,268
HMT £363,836
Home Office £16,023
BIS £8,000
DH £41,610
DCMS £32,900
Total £564,559
Sun on Sunday/Fabulous
DWP £76,853
HMT £236,859
DH £75,298
DCMS £10,763
Total £399,773
The Sun/TV Magazine
MOD £12,000
BIS £41,370
DCLG £105,887
DWP £109,603
HMT £301,713
DCMS £42,000
DH £231,631
Total £844,204
The Sunday Times
DEFRA £33,380
DFE £122,904
DWP £31,864
HMT £493,084
Home Office £55,307
BIS £11,370
DCMS £11,380
Total £759,289
Times/Times Magazine
DEFRA £14,400
DFE £36,941
DWP £10,151
HMT £337,019
Home Office £347,341
DCMS £5,970
UKTI £11,488
DCMS £34,498
Total £797,808
Mail on Line
HMT £149,500
MOD £154,442
BIS £37,802
DH £162,614
Total £504,358
Huffington Post
We only use one supplier for AOL owned properties (that includes Huffington Post) so it is impossible to distinguish from other AOL bookings that run across the portfolio.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on each young person taking part in the National Citizens Service (NCS) in each of the last three financial years; how much is received by a regional provider to deliver the NCS programme to each young person; how much is spent by the NCS Trust on all activity other than that given to a regional provider to deliver the NCS programme; how much is given to the NCS Trust for each young person to undertake the entirety of NCS-related activity; and how much is spent annually by the NCS Trust on marketing and recruitment.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The Cabinet Office funds NCS through an annual grant agreement with NCS Trust. Each year, an independent evaluation of NCS is published, including information on the total cost of the programme and cost per participant. These evaluations can be found at: http://www.ncsyes.co.uk/our-impact and the 2015 evaluation is due to be published later this year.
NCS Trust publishes its accounts each year, and information for 2015/16 will be released in due course. As an independent organisation, NCS Trust makes decisions about the breakdown of its annual budget, including on marketing and recruitment.
Payments to individual regional providers cannot be released for commercial reasons.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential merits of using the electoral registration data relating to the recent EU referendum as baseline data for the boundary review of parliamentary constituencies.
Answered by John Penrose
The Electoral Commission does not have responsibility for this issue and the Government is not aware of any recent assessment made by them on this matter. The Government remains committed to addressing the unfairness of current Parliamentary boundaries by making votes of more equal value. Changing the base data for the review now would risk the work of the Boundary Commissions not being implemented for the next election, meaning that the next general election would be fought on the basis of registers that are up to 20 years old.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, what value and proportion of cross-departmental spending on official development assistance overseen by the National Security Council was subject to the Independent Development Act 2002 in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
Individual NSC departments are responsible and accountable for their own spending on Official Development Assistance through cross-Government funds. The National Security Council provides strategic oversight and direction.