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Written Question
England Infected Blood Support Scheme: East Midlands
Wednesday 6th November 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many registrations have been made with the Infected Blood Interim Compensation Payment Scheme in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

As of July 2024, 3,698 interim compensation payments have been paid to living infected persons and bereaved partners. This information is not made available on a regional basis. The process under which estates can apply for interim compensation payments opened on 24th October. We will provide an update on the number of applications in due course.


Written Question
Hereditary Peers
Wednesday 30th October 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the projected cost to the public purse is of removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill is not about financial savings but is concerned with removing the outdated and indefensible right of the remaining hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.


Written Question
Arden Strategies
Monday 28th October 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Ministers in his Department have met representatives of Arden Strategies since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Details of ministers’ meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.


Written Question
Debts: Lincolnshire
Tuesday 22nd October 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of household debt in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Rt. Hon. Gentleman’s Question of 14 October is attached.


Written Question
Civil Servants: Foreign Nationals
Wednesday 16th October 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants working in Whitehall are not UK nationals.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Data regarding the nationality of candidates working in Whitehall is not held centrally by the Cabinet Office.


Written Question
Departmental Coordination
Wednesday 18th September 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Mission Delivery Boards have met since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

All Mission Boards have met since 5 July 2024.


Written Question
Departmental Coordination: Disclosure of Information
Tuesday 17th September 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether minutes from mission delivery boards will be made publicly available.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its committees - including mission boards - is not normally shared publicly.


Written Question
Civil Service: Trade Unions
Wednesday 11th September 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his oral contribution of 25 July 2024 in response to the question from the hon. Member for Islington North, if he will publish a summary of his meeting with civil service unions.

Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. The most recent publication of transparency data took place on 29th August 2024.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Wednesday 11th September 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Ministers in his Department have met the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change since 5 July 2024.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Details of ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. The most recent publication of transparency data took place on 29th August 2024.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Motor Vehicles
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of (a) cars and (b) other vehicles used by his Department were made in Britain.

Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.