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Written Question
Bishops: Public Appointments
Monday 18th October 2021

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister has an advisory role to the Sovereign on the appointment of Anglican bishops; and what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of reviewing the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Under reforms introduced in 2007 by the then Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister does not choose bishops or advise on the choice of bishops. His or her role is confined to putting the name of the nominated candidate to Her Majesty The Queen.

The Government does not have any current plans to review the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Brexit
Thursday 25th April 2019

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has deprioritised any Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU; and if he will publish the criteria his Department uses to deprioritise those Instruments.

Answered by Kevin Foster

Cabinet Office did not deprioritise any SIs and they were all laid in time for Exit Day.


Written Question
Electronic Government
Thursday 9th July 2015

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how members of the public can access Government-commissioned reports on the gov.uk website which have been archived.

Answered by Matt Hancock

It is our policy to keep content published on GOV.UK available as a public record. Any content which is not current, or has been superseded, is clearly marked including Government-commissioned reports.


Written Question
Civil Servants: Pensions
Monday 9th March 2015

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) occupational pensions payments and (b) lump sum pensions payments from the Civil Service Pensions Scheme have been paid after the due date since the transfer of administration of that scheme from Capita to MyCSP.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Leicester South on 8 January 2015 to UIN: 219343.


Written Question
Buildings
Tuesday 11th November 2014

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many buildings owned by his Department have been sold in each year since 2010.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

The Cabinet Office sold the Freehold of 53 Parliament Street for £5.37m in March 2010.

The Government Property Unit, based in the Cabinet Office, has helped the Government exit over 1500 buildings, including over 800 freehold properties, in this Parliament. This has generated over £1.4 billion in receipts and achieved cumulative, gross run rate savings of over £600 million per year against a 2009/10 baseline.

If a previous Government had done more to dispose of unnecessary properties, the deficit which we inherited in 2010 would have been less.


Written Question
Telephone Services
Wednesday 25th June 2014

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, (b) 0844 and (c) 0843 his Department (i) operates and (ii) sponsors; how many calls each such number has received in the last 12 months; and whether alternative numbers charged at BT local rates are available in each such case.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Cabinet Office does not operate or sponsor telephone lines with the prefix 0843, 0844 or 0845.