Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what audience targeting filters were used for the Facebook advertisement entitled The Brexit Deal explained.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The video was targeted to all adults aged 18-65.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what other platforms the Facebook advertisement entitled The Brexit Deal explained was run.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The video also ran on Twitter.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much money from the public purse was spent (a) producing and (b) promoting the Facebook advertisement entitled The Brexit Deal explained.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The video cost £21,168.72 to produce. The Cabinet Office has spent £90,000 promoting the video on Facebook.
Total annual government communications spend is circa £300m. This activity represents 0.03% of total spend for the year.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to her oral Answer of 12 September 2018, Official Report, column 749, when she plans to write to the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith in relation to Questions 136216 and 135115 tabled in April 2018 and March 2018 on the visit of Aggregate IQ founders to Downing Street.
Answered by Theresa May
The transparency data published on a quarterly basis relates to ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals. I have not met Aggregate IQ and there was therefore nothing to publish in the transparency data.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government departments he plans will have staff at HMG New Waverley.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
We will have a range of government departments based at HMG New Waverley. HMRC has been commissioned to deliver this building, as part of Phase One of the Government Hubs Programme. HMRC has confirmed it will base its Edinburgh Regional Centre in this building. This will be the UK Government’s cross-departmental flagship Hub in Scotland, which will function as the Scottish base of several government bodies, including the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Office of the Advocate General, the Office for Statistics Regulation, the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Government Actuary’s Department and HM Treasury.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many bonuses were awarded to senior civil servants working at his Department and its agencies in each of the last six years; and what the total cost of those bonuses was.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
As part of the Transparency agenda, my Department has published information annually about bonuses (Non-Consolidated Performance Related Payments) paid to Civil Servants working in the Cabinet Office and its agencies for each financial year since 2010/11.
These are available at:
2015/16 |
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/621431/CO_NCPRP_2016.csv |
2014/15 |
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/645603/CO_NCPRP_2015_.csv |
2013/14 |
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/414856/Cabinet_Office_NCPRP_2014.csv |
2012/13 |
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/285248/CO_2013.csv |
2011/12 |
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/83748/CO_NCPRP.csv |
2010/11 |
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/62006/ncprp-data-collection.csv |
We expect figures relating to payments made in 2017-18 for performance during 2016-17 to be published during June 2018.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) external data analysts and (b) data collection companies his Department has used in each of the last five years.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The information requested is not held centrally and is only available at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons the meeting at 10 Downing Street with (a) Jeff Silvester and (b) Zack Massingham of AggregateIQ was not reported in the Cabinet Office Transparency data; and if she will publish the (a) date of the visit, (b) who issued them with the invitation to the meeting, (c) who attended that meeting and what the purpose of that meeting was.
Answered by Theresa May
The transparency data published on a quarterly basis relates to official meetings with external organisations and individuals.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) set-up and (b) running costs were for the Government's (i) twitter account @youdecide2014, (ii) website www.youdecide2014.uk, (iii) facebook page @youdecide2014 and (iv) Buzzfeed user YouDecide2014.
Answered by Chloe Smith
There were no set up or running costs for the Government's twitter account, @youdecide2014, Facebook page @youdecide2014, and Buzzfeed user YouDecide2014.
The website; www.youdecide2014.uk, was built in-house for free and set up costs (domains, security testing, load testing, hosting, security certificates) were approximately £3500.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, how many meetings with (a) staff and (b) representatives of AggregateIQ have taken place in No10 in each year since 2010; what the purpose was of those meetings; and who represented the Government at those meetings.
Answered by Theresa May
Officials and advisers have meetings with a wide range of individuals and organisations on a wide range of subjects.