Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister plans to respond to the letter of 13 February 2025 from the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
A response was issued on 19 March 2025.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many UK nationals emigrated from the UK for long-term purposes in the (a) third and (b) fourth quarter of 2024.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 4th March is attached.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of procurement training for staff in his Department since 5 July 2024 has been delivered by organisations affiliated with trade unions.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Information on supplier organisations’ affiliation with trade unions is not held.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public contracts awarded by the Crown Commercial Service since 5 July 2024 have included mandatory commitments to publish suppliers’ (a) gender and (b) ethnicity pay gaps.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Contracts are established between the supplier and the individual contracting authority.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
To be eligible for statutory paternity leave, Cabinet Office policy currently requires employees to meet a series of qualifying conditions, including the requirement to have worked continuously for the Civil Service for at least 26 weeks by the 15th week before the date the baby is due.
As with any changes to employment legislation, internal policies and processes will be updated as appropriate in line with the Government’s legislation on employment rights. .
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23923 on Nissan, if he will provide the schedule for the publication of ministerial transparency data on meetings.
Answered by Abena Oppong-Asare - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published shortly.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department’s Corporate report entitled Public Bodies 2020, published on 15 July 2021, if he will update the data on non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies and non-ministerial departments.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The last public bodies landscape, a publication showing spend and headcount data of arms length bodies, was last published for 2019/20. An updated version of this publication, covering data from 2022-23, will be published on gov.uk in due course.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will set out the (a) terms of reference and (b) duration of the appointment of Crawford Falconer KCMG to his Department as Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
In accordance with the Civil Service policy for Permanent Secretary roles, the DBT Second Permanent Secretary was appointed for a period of five years (August 2017 - August 2022). The period of appointment was subsequently extended to December 2024.
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance he issues to the Civil Service Commission on considering the Northcote-Trevelyan principles when assessing applications for appointment made by exception.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The statutory basis for the management of the Civil Service is set out in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010. The Act requires the Civil Service Commission, which is independent of Government, to publish a set of principles to be applied for the purposes of appointing civil servants on merit on the basis of fair and open competition. The recruitment principles are published here:
https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/publications/recruitment-guidance/
Asked by: Andrew Griffith (Conservative - Arundel and South Downs)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the terms were for the secondment of Kate Owen as Interim Chief Executive of the Civil Service Commission; and when the secondment will end.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The published Civil Service Commission 2022/2023 Annual Report shows the current Interim Chief Executive began the role on 15 May 2023. An external recruitment process to appoint a permanent Chief Executive was launched in May 2024 and is expected to conclude in September 2024.