Found: The Chair welcomed Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent to the meeting as a new member of the Committee

Found: Rt Hon Sir Chris Bryant MP Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 9 July (HL1331), whether the Prime Minister identifies as working class.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Prime Minister is focused on delivering for working people across the country, no matter where they live or their background.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 5 February (HL13845), when they expect to publish the civil service strategic workforce plan.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Publication of the Civil Service Strategic Workforce Plan has been delayed to ensure it is fully aligned with the vision and transformation ambitions set out by the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister’s proposals to re-wire the state. This includes ambitions to establish devolution as a core principle of this Government, and to ensure the plan reflects the Cabinet Secretary’s clear ambition for an AI-enabled state.

Further details will be shared in due course.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 18 March (HL15206), what data the Government People Group is collecting to monitor whether departments and agencies have changed their recruitment practices to place greater value on frontline delivery, innovation and private-sector experience; and whether that data will be published.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Future Civil Service Group (formerly Government People Group) continues to work closely with SCS Recruitment leads nominated by each core Government department to support and enable the implementation of best practice, and making relevant changes to their hiring practices to target people with frontline delivery, innovation and private-sector skills and experience.

In July 2026, departments were surveyed to confirm their adoption of the new criteria. 80% confirmed they had fully implemented this for all relevant roles and 20% were finalising changes in practice to ensure compliance for relevant roles going forward.

There are no plans to publish this data or to gather more data centrally currently.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 20 July (HL1330), whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to publish a tax return on Gov.uk.

Answered by Lord Pitt-Watson - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

Publication of tax returns is a matter for individual Ministers. Any such publication would be made in the usual way.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 14 July (HL710), whether they will publish a copy of the internal guidance on UK Government branding that was released by the Cabinet Office in the corrected Freedom of Information Act response of 8 July 2026.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

In the response to the referenced Freedom of Information response, we confirmed that the formal branding guidance remains publicly available, and confirmed that additional internal guidance exists in the form of an internal email.

We provided the relevant extract below which addresses the brand. The remaining sections of the email discuss internal processes around managing the brand. There are no current plans to publish this information.

UK Government

All central Government communications should now carry the UK Government logo (or its international version), rather than Departmental logos, unless a specific exemption request is submitted in advance.

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