Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the total value of UK Government contracts awarded to (a) UK firms and (b) non-UK firms under EU procurement rules in each year from 2014-2017; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK Government contracts awarded to (i) UK firms and (ii) non-UK firms in that same period.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Central government does not record the value of contracts by supplier nationality.
However, in 2014, government published an analysis of contracts won by firms with UK addresses:
Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2016 to Question 37198, how many of the leaflets entitled Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for the UK have been returned to 10 Downing Street; and what the postage cost to the Government has been of such returns.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
I have nothing further to add.Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, how many of the leaflets entitled Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for the UK, have been returned to (a) 10 Downing Street and (b) other Government departments; and what the postage cost to the Government has been of such returns.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, if he will create a group at ministerial level of representatives from the relevant government departments to ensure that progress is made on the Government's sport strategy with cross-departmental coordination.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
I refer my hon. Friend to ‘Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation’, published in December 2015, a copy of which can be accessed on the gov.uk website.
Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in his Department are members of trades unions; how many working hours of facility time are taken by such civil servants; and what estimate he has made of the cost of that facility time to his Department.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The number of civil servants who are trade union members is a matter for individual trade unions.
The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest published data is for Quarters 1-4, 2014 and is available at:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time