Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, if the Cabinet will visit Copeland constituency.
Answered by Baroness May of Maidenhead
There are no current plans to do so.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Prime Minister, whether Ministers have had discussions with Nigel Farage MEP on the President-elect of the US.
Answered by Baroness May of Maidenhead
I have spoken direct to President-elect Trump.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many births there were at West Cumberland Hospital in each of the last six years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many births were recorded at (a) West Cumberland Hospital and (b) Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle in 2015.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what incentives are in place to encourage major infrastructure projects to use steel manufactured in the UK.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Government is committed to addressing any barriers that prevent UK steel suppliers from competing effectively for public sector contracts.
The Government adopted new rules on public procurement last year to offer greater flexibility around social and economic considerations, alongside best value for money, in Government procurement activities.
In line with this, all departments are required to implement new guidelines, which we published on 30 October, on how government buyers should source steel for major projects so that the true value of UK steel is taken into account in major procurement decisions.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how Government targets for the proportion of business created in supply chains for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) under public procurement contracts apply to companies subject to mergers, acquisitions or other changes in status that take those companies out of the SME category.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Government has a target that 33% of central government business, by direct spend and through the supply chain, will go to small and medium businesses by 2020.
We assess progress against the overall target on a regular basis, including an assessment of those companies identified as Small or Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Where companies no longer meet the statutory definition of an SME at the time of assessment, they are no longer counted.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a reduction in the use of paper in departments.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Individual Departments are responsible for making their own reductions to their use of paper, including as part of the Greening Government Commitments. The Cabinet Office’s own use of paper in 2015/16 to date has reduced by around 60% against the 2009/10 baseline. This reduction has been achieved including through the use of more flexible laptop-based IT and electronic records systems which means that printing requirements have reduced considerably.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths have been caused by people taking legal highs in (a) Copeland constituency, (b) Cumbria and (c) England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are employed on zero hours contracts in Cumbria.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jamie Reed (Labour - Copeland)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Department spent on each method of advertising in each of the last five years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
We have substantially reformed government communications since the 2010 General Election, abolishing the Central Office of Information and ensuring that Government communications activity is better coordinated and more effective.
Information on individual Departments spend on advertising is not held centrally.