Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people who live in Coventry South constituency are employed on zero-hour contracts.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts the Government awarded to Carillion in Coventry South constituency between (a) 5 May 2010 and 7 May 2015, (b) 8 May 2015 and 13 July 2016, (c) 14 July 2016 and 8 June 2017, (d) 9 June 2017 and 10 July 2017, (e) 11 July 2017 and 29 September 2017 and (f) since 30 September 2017.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Information on public sector suppliers within a specific constituency is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contracts the Government holds with Carillion in (a) Coventry and (b) Coventry South constituency; and what the value is of those contracts.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Information on public sector suppliers within a specific constituency is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to record centrally the number of cyber attacks on public services.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Cabinet Office does currently not plan to record centrally the number of cyber attacks against public services as each department manages incidents which affect the services they are responsible for. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), working with law enforcement partners, strongly encourages all organisations to report cyber attacks but this is currently voluntary for all such incidents. Those reports received by the NCSC are recorded.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK voter registration system.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The most recent formal assessment of register quality, based on the 1 December 2015 registers
and published in July 2016, found that individual electoral registration boosted the accuracy of the
register by 4 per cent
Alongside individual registration, the successful introduction of online registration has transformed
the way citizens can register. It now takes just a few minutes to apply to register and nearly 30
million citizens have taken the opportunity to do so in the last three years. In large part thanks to
online registration, the parliamentary register used for the 2017 general election was the largest
ever at nearly 47 million
2.9 million applications were submitted between the calling of the election and the registration
deadline date, with 622,000 applications coming on deadline day itself
The government has continued to modernise the registration process and to make it more
accessible, as underscored, for example by recent policy commitments on making it easier for
survivors of domestic abuse to register anonymously.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for electoral registration officers.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,
Scotland and Wales. Since 2014 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to LAs to cover
the additional costs generated by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration,
including a second bidding round after the canvass if initial funding is insufficient to cover
costs incurred over the year.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the level of Government procurement from small and medium-sized enterprises.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
On 11th October 2017 we published the latest small and medium-sized enterprises’ spending performance figures:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2015-to-2016
These show that government spent £12.2 bn in 2015-16 with small and medium sized enterprises, more than we have ever before recorded.
The Government remain committed to a challenging target to ensure that a third of their procurement spending is with small businesses by 2022, and we are continuing to take action to achieve that.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Government departments meet their obligations to publish transparency data in a timely fashion.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The UK Government is among the most transparent in the world and each Department is responsible for publishing a range of data on its activities. We will be working with departments over the coming months to improve the publication process to ensure we continue to meet our obligations in this important area.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged between 18 and 25 in Coventry South constituency were recorded in the latest census estimate.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged between 18 and 25 in Coventry South constituency were on the electoral register for the 2017 General Election.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.