Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 2 August 2024, to Question 905, on Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the percentage employer contribution to the Alpha pension scheme by pay band; and what the estimated yearly monetary cost to the public purse of such employer contributions is.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This information is publicly available in the “Central Government Supply Estimates 2024-25” documents and the Civil Service Pension Scheme Valuation Results” document.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance the civil service issues on employing (a) staff without posts, (b) people action teams, (c) priority movers lists, (d) redeployment registers and (e) talent pools.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Departments are responsible for setting their redundancy procedures in line with the Cabinet Office issued 2016 Civil Service Redundancy Protocol. This document is publicly available guidance, published on gov.uk. The Civil Service does not formally use the terms, ‘redeployment registers’, ‘people action teams’, or ‘priority movers lists’, but the Redundancy Protocol does set out the expectations placed on departments when it comes to managing their employees who are without posts due to restructuring or job reduction plans.
There is no central policy relating to 'Talent pools' in the Civil Service. Departmental approaches to managing talent vary and are not governed by any central guidance or policy.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests is able to initiate an investigation into the conduct of a Minister without the consent of the Prime Minister.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This Government is committed to ensuring that the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests has the powers to start investigations into misconduct and that he or she will have access to the evidence needed. Further detail will be set out in due course.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on civil service diversity networks in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
As part of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Review commissioned in 2023 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Cabinet Office collected information on spend on EDI staff networks. We are currently considering this information.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1222 on JK Rowling, whether 10 Downing Street plans to take steps to arrange a meeting.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I have nothing further to add to the answer given to the Rt Hon Member on 31 July 2024.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 8 of the Directory of Civil Service Guidance, Volume 2, published in 2000, whether it remains convention that Ministers of a current Administration may not generally have access to policy papers of a previous Administration of a different political party.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The convention on Access to Papers of a Previous Administration is also set out in the Cabinet Manual (paragraph 11.23 to 11.24), and remains in place. The Cabinet Manual was published in 2010 and is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-manual
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 12 August 2024 to Question HL427 on Civil Servants: Equality, whether his Department has a list of each diversity network by department.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Responsibility for, and management of, departmental diversity networks is delegated to individual departments. Lists are not held centrally by the Cabinet Office.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2024 to Question 1216 on Prime Minister: WhatsApp, whether the Prime Minister has used Whatsapp for government business.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I have nothing further to add to the answer I gave to the Rt Hon Member on 23 July 2024.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Cabinet Office's annual report and accounts for 2023-24 will be published.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Rt Hon member to PQ 2307 answered on 6th September 2024.
Asked by: John Glen (Conservative - Salisbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the hon. Member for Beckenham and Penge has visited 10 Downing Street since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The member for Beckenham and Penge has not visited 10 Downing Street since 4 July 2024.