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Written Question
Cabinet Office: Advertising
Wednesday 20th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Expenditure on advertising across the three years requested is:

Year

Spend (£000s)

2019/20

41,342

2020/21

376,029

2021/22

168,730

Expenditure in 2021/22 is subject to the Department's audit being finalised, and is therefore provisional.


Written Question
COP26: Consultants
Monday 18th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the COP26 unit has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

For management purposes the Prime Minister’s Office and COP26 unit are an integral part of the Cabinet Office. Expenditure on consultancy is published annually in our annual report and accounts and I refer the hon Member to my answer to PQ 22549 on 23 June, where our spend is outlined.

Details of consultancy contracts, including the supplier, above £10,000, are published on Contracts Finder (https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder).


Written Question
Prime Minister: Consultants
Monday 18th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Prime Minister's office has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

For management purposes the Prime Minister’s Office and COP26 unit are an integral part of the Cabinet Office. Expenditure on consultancy is published annually in our annual report and accounts and I refer the hon Member to my answer to PQ 22549 on 23 June, where our spend is outlined.

Details of consultancy contracts, including the supplier, above £10,000, are published on Contracts Finder (https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder).


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Consultants
Monday 18th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

For management purposes the Prime Minister’s Office and COP26 unit are an integral part of the Cabinet Office. Expenditure on consultancy is published annually in our annual report and accounts and I refer the hon Member to my answer to PQ 22549 on 23 June, where our spend is outlined.

Details of consultancy contracts, including the supplier, above £10,000, are published on Contracts Finder (https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder).


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Legal Costs
Friday 15th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

The Department is unable to provide spend on legal disputes, as this is not recorded separately from wider legal expenditure.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Contracts
Thursday 14th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

All of the contracts which the Cabinet Office has held with G4S, Serco and Capita worth over £10,000 since 2020 are available on Contracts Finder.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Contracts
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on Contracts Finder.

Contracts that are due to be agreed are on the Cabinet Office Commercial Pipeline. The next version of this is due to be published at the end of July 2022.

The amount spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010 and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010 is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Prime Minister: Contracts
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million the (i) Prime Minister's Office and (ii) the Prime Minister’s Office agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much the Prime Minister's Office has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on Contracts Finder.

For management and staffing purposes the Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office. There are no contracts exclusive to No10 that are due within the next 12 months over £1m.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Pay
Friday 8th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

Answered by Heather Wheeler

Please find below information regarding the highest remuneration amounts in CO, the median remuneration amounts in CO and the remuneration ratio.

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

Highest remuneration (£000)

255-260

250-255

Not yet published

Median remuneration (£)

38,435

39,520

Not yet published

Remuneration ratio

6.70

6.40

Not yet published

The total remuneration includes salary, non-consolidated performance related pay and benefits in kind. It does not include severance payments, employer pension contributions and the cash equivalent transfer value of pensions.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Official Hospitality
Thursday 7th July 2022

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

Answered by Michael Ellis

The Department records hospitality and catering expenditure combined. Expenditure includes catering for events with external guests as well as expense claims made by staff.

Year

Spend (£)

2020

388,319.38

2021

323,462.06

2022

199,313.24

Expenditure in 2022 is from 1st January 2022 to 30 June 2022.