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Written Question
Weather: Death
Tuesday 27th February 2024

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many excess winter deaths there were in each month from November 2023 to February 2024.

Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

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

A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 19th February is attached.


Written Question
Advertising: Contracts
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that independent news publishers have fair and reasonable access to national media advertising contracts, such as the All in, all together campaign, funded by the Government.

Answered by Nigel Adams

The All in, All together campaign is a unique and unprecedented partnership with the newspaper industry. It has been deliberately structured to support smaller regional and local titles by providing an equal amount of funding to that of national titles. As part of this, we have utilised advertising and paid for editorial in over 600 national, regional, local and community titles across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

All of the titles within the partnership have been selected independently by our media planning and buying agency, OmniGOV. Individual titles are selected by OmniGOV based on their ability to communicate with key audiences in a measurable and effective way.


Written Question
Disability Unit: Coronavirus
Friday 5th March 2021

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the recent Office for National Statistics finding that nearly three in five people who have died from covid-19 were disabled, whether his Department plans to allocate additional resources to the Disability Unit to help minimise the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on disabled people.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Government is committed to supporting disabled people affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Government Departments are working to ensure that the needs of disabled people are considered in the UK Government’s response to COVID-19. The Government will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People this year taking into account the impacts of the pandemic on disabled people. The strategy will focus on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life.

The Disability Unit sits in the new Equality Hub in the Cabinet Office, alongside the Government Equalities Office, the Race Disparity Unit and, from 1 April, the sponsorship of, and secretariat to, the Social Mobility Commission. Together they will be better equipped to drive meaningful progress on equality. The Equality Hub has a particular focus on improving the quality of evidence and data about disparities and the types of barriers different people face, ensuring that fairness is at the heart of everything we do.


Written Question
Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
Wednesday 9th December 2020

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights report entitled, Black people, racism and human rights, published on 11 November 2020, what plans she has to consult on the effect of the implementation of automatic voter registration on increasing democratic participation among Black people.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to PQs 114938, 102161 and 104752.


Written Question
Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
Wednesday 9th December 2020

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of automatic voter registration on voter turnout among (a) Black people and (b) other ethnic minorities.

Answered by Chloe Smith

I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to PQs 114938, 102161 and 104752.


Written Question
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: Civil Servants
Thursday 6th December 2018

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants are working on the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund; and in which Departments those civil servants are employed.

Answered by David Lidington

The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) conducts an annual staffing audit, with the most recent in March 2018. This indicated that the CSSF employs 483 programme funded administrative staff. The largest proportion of staff (some 73%) are employed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with others employed in the Department for International Development, Ministry of Defence, Home Office, National Crime Agency, Stabilisation Unit and the Department for Transport. The next annual staffing audit will take place in early 2019.


Written Question
Development Aid: Climate Change
Friday 26th October 2018

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons sustainable development goal (SDG) 13 has not been included in the list of SDGs that the Prosperity Fund focuses on.

Answered by David Lidington

The primary purpose of the Prosperity Fund is to support inclusive economic development. Programmes contribute to a number of the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 13, for example through the development of low carbon development technologies and improving energy efficiency. This is set out in more detail in the Prosperity Fund’s forthcoming Annual Report for 2017/18.


Written Question
Civil Servants: Pay
Monday 10th September 2018

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps he has taken to hold discussions with civil service unions on the pay remit guidance.

Answered by David Lidington

The Minister for the Cabinet Office met with the General Secretaries of the FDA, Prospect and PCS trade unions on 27th June to discuss the civil service delegated pay guidance 2018, which was published on 25th June. As agreed in this meeting, officials wrote to trade unions inviting further discussions on the process of publishing the 2019 Pay Remit Guidance on 17th July. We are awaiting a response to this letter.


Written Question
Detainees: Inhuman Treatment
Thursday 12th July 2018

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, if the Government will take steps to establish an independent public inquiry into UK complicity in torture and rendition.

Answered by Theresa May

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for Europe and the Americas, my right hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Sir Alan Duncan) to my right hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Kenneth Clarke) on 2 July 2018 (Volume 644, Column 26).


Written Question
Health Services: Weather
Friday 15th June 2018

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Independent - Edmonton)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the effect of the winter crisis on the NHS.

Answered by Theresa May

I discuss a range of issues with Ministerial colleagues. It has been the practice of successive Governments not to disclose information relating to internal discussions