Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths in care homes relating to covid-19 were registered in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in each month since January 2020.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 7 November is attached.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled The Border Target Operating Model: Draft for Feedback, published on 5 April 2023, what steps his Department plans to take to implement the proposed changes without disrupting supply chains.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Following publication of the draft Border Target Operating Model, we have worked closely with businesses to develop our plans.
The new Border Target Operating Model sets out a new global regime of border controls that makes better use of technology and data to reduce friction and costs for businesses and consumers, while also protecting public, plant and animal health. It will create a radically simpler yet secure experience for businesses moving goods across the UK border. Businesses have indicated that they will need time to prepare for these changes, and the phased approach outlined in the draft Border Target Operating Model was designed with this in mind.
We are working to ensure that businesses throughout the supply chain are aware of and understand the new requirements. As we have done with all major border changes, we will take a pragmatic approach as controls are introduced, working with businesses to monitor trade flows and support them to be compliant.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) agriculture, (b) forestry and (c) fishing businesses were registered in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2020.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman Parliamentary Question of 20th April is attached.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the value for money of the work conducted by Sir Dave Lewis as the Prime Minister's Supply Chains Advisor
Answered by Michael Ellis
During his time as the Prime Minister's Supply Chains Advisor, Sir Dave Lewis worked across Government and with industry to help resolve a number of acute, short term issues. Sir Dave Lewis advised the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on immediate improvements and potential long term changes to UK supply chains. Work on supply chains continues to be a focus for the Government.
Sir Dave Lewis’ role was unpaid.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the outcomes have been of the work undertaken by Sir Dave Lewis as the Prime Minister's Supply Chains Advisor; what the cost was to the public purse of that work.
Answered by Michael Ellis
During his time as the Prime Minister's Supply Chains Advisor, Sir Dave Lewis worked across Government and with industry to help resolve a number of acute, short term issues. Sir Dave Lewis advised the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on immediate improvements and potential long term changes to UK supply chains. Work on supply chains continues to be a focus for the Government.
Sir Dave Lewis’ role was unpaid.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) non-UK EU and (b) Republic of Ireland nationals moved from (i) the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland and (ii) Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in the most recent period for which such data is available.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I haved therefore asked the Authority to respond.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what is the (a) total book value of the central Government estate in London and (b) rate payable on those properties.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
e-PIMS, the central database of properties and land, only holds asset values and rates payable in relation to specific programme requirements. We do not comprehensively record asset values as a matter of course and therefore are unable to provide the total book value. Rates payable information is only collected against individual properties for the benchmarked office estate. For the 149 benchmarked offices over 500m2 in the central civil estate in the London region, net rates totalling £121.3 million were payable in 2017/18.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, to ask what steps his department has taken to ensure that central government Departments take account of social economic value under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 in public procurement.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Central Government contracting authorities conducting major construction and infrastructure projects with a contract value exceeding £10 million are required to adopt the Growth Balanced Scorecard. The scorecard guides public procurers in balancing more straightforward matters such as cost, against more complex issues such as social and wider economic considerations when designing their procurement approaches.
Following on from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s speech to the Reform conference on 25 June 2018, the Cabinet Office is currently leading work with DCMS to implement a package of measures for the future of social value and procurement. This includes training for government commercial staff to ensure that all major procurements in central government explicitly evaluate and report on their social and economic value.
Further information will be published in due course.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many polling stations were operational in elections for each relevant year since 2010.
Answered by Chloe Smith
This information is not held centrally by the Government. Local authority Returning Officers hold information on the polling stations used at each election which is passed to the Electoral Commission. The Commission then collates and publishes it in its electoral data report which can found on its website at https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/our-research/electoral-data/electoral-data-files-and-reports
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many electors were registered for each year since 2010.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Official registration statistics are published each year by the Office for National Statistics and are accessible online: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration