Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pieces of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation their Department has sponsored in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Michael Ellis
Cabinet Office has sponsored nineteen pieces of primary legislation in Parliament from the 2010-2012 Parliamentary session to the current Parliamentary session.
The number of pieces of secondary legislation is not held by the Department.
These figures may not be not exhaustive as a result of machinery of government changes and departmental structures over the past decade.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, published in April 2018, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
HM Treasury has already allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19.
A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March
(https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/). This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the median income of non-retired households was in 2016-17.
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: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the change in the median income of non-retired households since 2007-08.
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: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of staff across central government departments have their pay capped at one per cent; and what proportion of such staff that figure represents.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
At the Summer Budget 2015, it was announced that the Government will fund public sector workforces for a pay award of 1% for 4 years from 2016-17 onwards. This policy applies to the Civil Service.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure regular publication of departmental transparency data.
Answered by Matt Hancock
We are committed to publishing data in a timely fashion, and further transparency data will be published in due course.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many hours his Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
The estimated cost of the central processing of FoI requests at the Cabinet Office is £381,760.89. This includes the costs associated with the central operational and legal teams coordinating and advising on FOI requests across the department. It does not include litigation costs or the costs outside the central team as handling FoI requests is part of other civil servants’ wider duties and the detailed information requested is not separately identifiable.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff of each civil service grade are employed in the private office of each Minister of his Department; and what the pay band of each such member of staff is.
Answered by Matt Hancock
This answer covers the private offices of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Parliamentary Under Secretary (Minister for Civil Society), Parliamentary Under Secretary (Minister for Constitutional Reform) and the Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Cabinet Office.
The total number of staff employed in these offices is SCS1 x 1, Band A x 4, Band B2 x 5, Band B1 x 8, Band C x 3.
The Cabinet Office pay bands for each grade are as follows:
SCS1 £62,000 - £117,800
Band A £46,000 - £60,484
B2 £30,117 - £38,484
B1 £23,793 - £30,093
C £19,790 - £24,430