Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish recruitment 2022 data for the civil service fast stream.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The data will be published later this year.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many suppliers their Department excluded from procurement on the grounds of (a) fraud, (b) corruption and (c) other grounds under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 from 2015 to 2022.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. To obtain the information a manual search through individual records would be required as this is not recorded centrally on departmental systems.
The grounds for the exclusion of bidders from public procurement procedures are set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. These rules set out the circumstances in which bidders must, or may, be excluded from a public procurement process.
The Procurement Bill brought forward by this Conservative Government, currently being considered by Parliament, expands the scope of misconduct which can lead to exclusion. We are also increasing the time period within which misconduct can lead to exclusion from 3 years to 5; bringing subsidiary companies into scope of exclusion; and making the rules clearer so that contracting authorities can undertake exclusions with more confidence
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of The Garden of GREAT at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar as part of the GREAT Britain and Northern Ireland Campaign.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
Cabinet Office publishes expenditure, including on the GREAT campaign, on a rolling monthly basis on gov.uk as part of routine government transparency arrangements. This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-spend-data.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the value of the contract with reference number YPO001-DN387210-63601854 was awarded to Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The contract in question is not a Cabinet Office contract. The contracting authority is YPO (formerly Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation), which is a publicly owned organisation formed by Local Authorities to aggregate procurement spend. The Cabinet Office has no visibility or control over the YPO.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2022 to Question 95851, how many civil servants were assigned to work on the investigation into the conduct of the Deputy Prime Minister on 30 November 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
I refer the Hon Member to my previous answer to question 95851 of 29 November 2022.
The number of officials assigned to the investigation at any one time will vary. The investigation will be provided with the necessary resources to be carried out in line with the Terms of Reference. The Government does not comment on the specifics or resourcing of an ongoing process.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister in his Department are responsible for the GREAT campaign.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is responsible for the GREAT campaign with support provided by other Cabinet Office Ministers as required.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister in his Department is responsible for the Geospatial Commission.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Minister of State for the Cabinet Office Baroness Neville Rolfe is responsible for the Geospatial Commission.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether they (a) have or (b) are planning a voluntary exit programme for civil servants serving in their Department.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Cabinet Office is currently running a targeted voluntary exit scheme. There are no confirmed plans to run further voluntary exit schemes in the Cabinet Office.
Cabinet Office currently has one launched voluntary exit scheme aimed at reducing workforce numbers in the UK security and vetting department. Voluntary exit schemes are a commonly used workforce management process available to departments based on their specific workforce needs.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the responsibilities of the Cabinet Office Minister of State (Minister without Portfolio).
Answered by Jeremy Quin
A revised List of Ministerial Responsibilities reflecting current Ministerial appointments will be published in due course. In the meantime, departments are updating their ministers' pages on GOV.UK which also include portfolio information.
Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in 2021.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
In the 2021 calendar year, Cabinet Office spent £7.587 million on external recruitment services (consultancy). Included within this total figure is expenditure totalling £7.254m, attributed to the Government Recruitment Service for external recruitment services (consultancy) which was incurred by the Cabinet Office and recharged to other Government Departments.