Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the criteria for Freedom of Information requests to be passed to the Clearing House.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.
The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.
The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information.
Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Freedom of Information requests have been dealt with by the Clearing House in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.
The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.
The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information.
Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people work for the Clearing House for Freedom of Information requests.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities. There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.
The Cabinet Office does not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’ (requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics); a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the same time period.
The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information.
Information on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will announce the recommendations of the COVID-Status Certification Review.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
As set out in the ‘COVID-19 Response - Spring 2021,’ the Government will set out its conclusions on the COVID-status Certification Review in advance of Step 4 of the Roadmap, in order to inform the safe reopening of society and the economy.
An update on the Roadmap Reviews was published on 5 March and can be found here:
We will present interim findings from the COVID-status Certification Review to Parliament today.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many jobs have been lost in each parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire in the current financial year to date.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
The Lord Scriven
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
26 February 2021
Dear Lord Scriven,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many jobs have been lost in each parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire in the current financial year to date (HL13503).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces labour market statistics for small areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS), which is a survey of people resident in households in the UK.
The APS cannot be used to measure the number of people who have lost their jobs, but instead can provide estimates of how the size of the workforce has changed over time. The survey provides level estimates for 12-month periods, based on interviews taking place throughout that time. Comparisons should only be made between non-overlapping survey periods.
Table 1 below shows the employment levels for the 12-month period ending September 2020, the latest available period, and the previous non-overlapping period for the 12-months ending September 2019, along with the net change between the two periods, for each parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire.
Estimates from the APS are from a sample survey and as such are subject to a certain level of uncertainty.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Table 1: Number of people in employment for the 12 month periods ending September 2019 and September 2020, and net change between the 2 periods, in Parliamentary Constituencies in South Yorkshire
|
| Thousands | ||
Parliamentary Constituency | Geocode | Oct 2018-Sep 2019 | Oct 2019-Sep 2020 | Net change |
Barnsley Central | E14000541 | 45 | 41 | -4 |
Barnsley East | E14000542 | 44 | 42 | -2 |
Don Valley | E14000667 | 46 | 47 | 1 |
Doncaster Central | E14000668 | 48 | 48 | 0 |
Doncaster North | E14000669 | 44 | 45 | 1 |
Penistone and Stocksbridge | E14000876 | 50 | 51 | 2 |
Rother Valley | E14000903 | 41 | 47 | 6 |
Rotherham | E14000904 | 41 | 40 | -1 |
Sheffield Central | E14000919 | 63 | 64 | 0 |
Sheffield South East | E14000920 | 41 | 45 | 4 |
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | E14000921 | 44 | 42 | -2 |
Sheffield, Hallam | E14000922 | 59 | 63 | 4 |
Sheffield, Heeley | E14000923 | 52 | 49 | -3 |
Wentworth and Dearne | E14001028 | 44 | 41 | -3 |
South Yorkshire | E11000003 | 662 | 665 | 4 |
Source: ONS
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government why there has been no British Sign Language interpreter present at the daily COVID-19 briefings broadcast from Downing Street.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
It is vital that key information is accessible to all. Since the daily press briefings began, British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation has been available on the national broadcaster. The BBC provides BSL interpretation at the daily No10 press conference via its News channel, Youtube channel and iPlayer. This is available free to air.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what role, if any, they have in removing a Lord Lieutenant or Deputy Lord Lieutenant from office.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Lord-Lieutenants (LLs) are HM The Queen’s representatives in each county and metropolitan area of the UK. Their primary role is to uphold the dignity of the Crown. They are Crown appointments, appointed by The Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.
There is an expectation that Lord-Lieutenants will always act to protect the dignity and integrity of the Office.
The usual practice is for a Lord-Lieutenant to step down from office.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what role, if any, the Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group (NSSIG) has within the Cabinet Office; and how the role and responsibilities of the NSSIG differs from those of the Integrated Delivery Board.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
National Security Strategy and Implementation Groups (NSSIGs) were established after the 2017 National Security Capability Review to support the delivery of national security priority programmes, including by better utilising the full range of national security capabilities. Each NSSIG is chaired by a Senior Responsible Official (SRO), who is accountable to the National Security Council.
The Gulf Delivery Board has not met since the establishment of the Gulf & Iran NSSIG, which subsumed its primary roles and responsibilities in April 2018. Cabinet Office officials are members of the Gulf & Iran NSSIG and attend all meetings. The Cabinet Office also provides some secretariat support to the NSSIG, alongside that provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the Written Answer by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 19 October 2016 (HC47638), which department provided the funding for the administration costs of £70,004 for the Gulf Strategy Integrated Delivery Team in the financial year 2015–16.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
Funding for the Integrated Delivery Team was allocated by the Treasury to the Cabinet Office in financial year 2015-16.
Asked by: Lord Scriven (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what IT or data services are provided to central government departments by Capita.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
Capita provides a wide range of IT and data services to central government departments. These include hosting, IT services, support and maintenance.
Details of contracts with a value over £10,000 are published on the Contracts Finder website. https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search