Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 18 September 2024 to Question HL835 on Government Departments: Remote Working, whether the Civil Service meets the requirement to attend the office or work face-to-face with colleagues at least 60% of the time.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Civil Service Headquarters (HQ) Occupancy statistics are published quarterly on GOV.UK.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, in what circumstances people in receipt of a civil service pension who re-join the civil service are subject to abatement.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The circumstances have not changed since the Rt Hon Gentleman was a Minister in the department, and can be found at https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance on non-contingent labour contracts.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Departments are directed that Contingent labour contracts should only be used in government where better value alternatives are not available and that a justifiable need to use contingent labour has been identified as part of their workforce plans. Cabinet Office manages a spend control for contingent labour for which guidance is set out at gov.uk.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there is a Framework Agreement between his Department and the Senior Salaries Review Body.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

A Framework Agreement between the Cabinet Office and the Senior Salaries Review Body will be finalised in due course.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether members of the Senior Salaries Review Body have made declarations of political activity.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Political party activity is declared by all members of the Senior Salaries Review Body and is publicly available in the Pay Review Body members’ register of interests: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ome-review-body-members-register-of-interests

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that the Civil Service Commission should be informed of recent political donations from people appointed to the Civil Service by exception.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Civil Service Commission’s prior approval is required for appointments by exception at SCS PB2 or above. Individual Civil Service departments and organisations have delegated authority to appoint by exception at grades below SCS PB2.

For appointments by exception delegated to departments, the department is responsible for both carrying out background checks on individuals who may be appointed, and addressing any potential propriety matters.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to issue Outcome Delivery Plans.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The Government has published its Plan for Change, which sets out clear and ambitious milestones to reach over this Parliament from each of the Government’s national missions. Detail on wider government commitments will continue to be provided by relevant departments.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar dated 29 November 2024.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

A response will be sent in due course.

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar dated 5 December 2024.

Answered by Hilary Benn - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

I replied to the Honourable Members letter on the 23rd December by email.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish the civil service EDI dataset.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

We are considering the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Review commissioned by the previous Government.

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20241 on Electronic Government, what his planned timetable is for onboarding HMRC to One Login.

Answered by Feryal Clark - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

GDS and HMRC continue to collaborate on delivering the technical requirements necessary to go-live and conducting end-to-end testing within GOV.UK One Login as part of its ongoing internal private beta phase to support users accessing HMRC services. The aim is to launch an external private beta in Spring 2025, followed by a rollout to all new users over the remainder of the year, with existing HMRC users included in subsequent phases.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status rescinded in each year for which data is available.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

The information requested is not centrally held in an easily accessible from, and could only be collated for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which teams in her Department can revoke a person's Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

Indefinite Leave to Remain can be revoked by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), Special Cases Unit (SCU) and Foreign National Offender Returns Command (FNORC).

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