Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has plans to increase the average civil servant pay offer to above the rate of inflation.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Pay for Civil Servants outside of the Senior Civil Service is a matter delegated to departments. Pay awards are informed by a range of factors including recruitment, retention, affordability and the scope for productivity gains.
Departments set pay within the Civil Service pay remit guidance which is published on gov.uk annually. The remit guidance for 2019/20 will be agreed in 2019 and it will then be for departments to determine their pay levels within that framework.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of deaths caused by the drugs (a) GHB and (b) GHL in each of the last three years.
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: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the contractors hired to deliver Conflict, Stability and Security Fund projects in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 and; and what the value was of those contracts.
Answered by David Lidington
The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) uses both Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA resources. The value of CSSF’s budget allocation from ODA resources was £498.3m in Financial Year (FY) 2016/17, £549.5m in FY 2017/18 and £597.2m in FY 2018/19.
Details of where the Fund's money is spent can be found in the Fund's two annual reports which are on GOV.UK.
Information on the implementing organisations contracted by the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund is included in programme summaries which are on GOV.UK. Where there might be a risk to staff safety or security, the names of implementers are not published.
116.2, 227.3 and 287 FTE civil servants worked on the CSSF respectively in 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18. Staff were sourced principally from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DFID), Ministry of Defence (MOD), Home Office (HO), National Crime Agency (NCA) and Stabilisation Unit (SU). Staff from the following departments and agencies also worked on the CSSF: Government Legal Department; Department for Culture, Media and Sports; Department for Education; HM Treasury; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Transport; Department for Energy and Climate Change; Department for Work and Pensions; Ministry of Justice; HM Revenue and Customs; Metropolitan Police; Cabinet Office; National Offender Management Service; Police Scotland; Thames Valley Police; HM Prison & Probation Service; Police Sussex; Treasury Solicitor’s Department; Public Health England; Competition and Markets Authority; Maritime and Coastguard Agency; and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which countries were allocated funding from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018; and what the value was of those allocations.
Answered by David Lidington
The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) uses both Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA resources. The value of CSSF’s budget allocation from ODA resources was £498.3m in Financial Year (FY) 2016/17, £549.5m in FY 2017/18 and £597.2m in FY 2018/19.
Details of where the Fund's money is spent can be found in the Fund's two annual reports which are on GOV.UK.
Information on the implementing organisations contracted by the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund is included in programme summaries which are on GOV.UK. Where there might be a risk to staff safety or security, the names of implementers are not published.
116.2, 227.3 and 287 FTE civil servants worked on the CSSF respectively in 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18. Staff were sourced principally from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DFID), Ministry of Defence (MOD), Home Office (HO), National Crime Agency (NCA) and Stabilisation Unit (SU). Staff from the following departments and agencies also worked on the CSSF: Government Legal Department; Department for Culture, Media and Sports; Department for Education; HM Treasury; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Transport; Department for Energy and Climate Change; Department for Work and Pensions; Ministry of Justice; HM Revenue and Customs; Metropolitan Police; Cabinet Office; National Offender Management Service; Police Scotland; Thames Valley Police; HM Prison & Probation Service; Police Sussex; Treasury Solicitor’s Department; Public Health England; Competition and Markets Authority; Maritime and Coastguard Agency; and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much Overseas Development Assistance was allocated to the Conflict, Stabilisation and Security Fund in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 to date.
Answered by David Lidington
The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) uses both Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA resources. The value of CSSF’s budget allocation from ODA resources was £498.3m in Financial Year (FY) 2016/17, £549.5m in FY 2017/18 and £597.2m in FY 2018/19.
Details of where the Fund's money is spent can be found in the Fund's two annual reports which are on GOV.UK.
Information on the implementing organisations contracted by the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund is included in programme summaries which are on GOV.UK. Where there might be a risk to staff safety or security, the names of implementers are not published.
116.2, 227.3 and 287 FTE civil servants worked on the CSSF respectively in 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18. Staff were sourced principally from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DFID), Ministry of Defence (MOD), Home Office (HO), National Crime Agency (NCA) and Stabilisation Unit (SU). Staff from the following departments and agencies also worked on the CSSF: Government Legal Department; Department for Culture, Media and Sports; Department for Education; HM Treasury; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Transport; Department for Energy and Climate Change; Department for Work and Pensions; Ministry of Justice; HM Revenue and Customs; Metropolitan Police; Cabinet Office; National Offender Management Service; Police Scotland; Thames Valley Police; HM Prison & Probation Service; Police Sussex; Treasury Solicitor’s Department; Public Health England; Competition and Markets Authority; Maritime and Coastguard Agency; and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many FTE civil servants worked on the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017; and from which Government department those officials were sourced.
Answered by David Lidington
The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) uses both Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA resources. The value of CSSF’s budget allocation from ODA resources was £498.3m in Financial Year (FY) 2016/17, £549.5m in FY 2017/18 and £597.2m in FY 2018/19.
Details of where the Fund's money is spent can be found in the Fund's two annual reports which are on GOV.UK.
Information on the implementing organisations contracted by the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund is included in programme summaries which are on GOV.UK. Where there might be a risk to staff safety or security, the names of implementers are not published.
116.2, 227.3 and 287 FTE civil servants worked on the CSSF respectively in 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18. Staff were sourced principally from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DFID), Ministry of Defence (MOD), Home Office (HO), National Crime Agency (NCA) and Stabilisation Unit (SU). Staff from the following departments and agencies also worked on the CSSF: Government Legal Department; Department for Culture, Media and Sports; Department for Education; HM Treasury; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Transport; Department for Energy and Climate Change; Department for Work and Pensions; Ministry of Justice; HM Revenue and Customs; Metropolitan Police; Cabinet Office; National Offender Management Service; Police Scotland; Thames Valley Police; HM Prison & Probation Service; Police Sussex; Treasury Solicitor’s Department; Public Health England; Competition and Markets Authority; Maritime and Coastguard Agency; and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total project cost paid from the Conflict, Security and Stability Fund (CSSF) for the M&C Saachi PR campaign in Tunisia was; and what the role of that project is in fulfilling the aims of the CSSF to reduce conflict and promote security.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) is a cross government fund, which delivers and supports security, defence, peacekeeping, peace-building and stability activity around the world.
This CSSF project provides technical assistance to support the Tunisian civil service to transparently communicate with citizens in order to support the development of effective, accountable institutions that promote good governance. Cabinet Office civil servants undertake implementation of this project. M&C Saatchi were competitively appointed to offer creative services to the Cabinet Office and do not work directly with the Tunisian government. The value of this sub-contract is up to £275,000.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the last review was made of the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel on the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees Overseas, and on the Passing and Receipt of Intelligence Relating to Detainees.
Answered by David Lidington
I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the Prime Minister’s Written Ministerial Statement of 28 June (HCWS808).
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to paragraphs 4.77- 4.79 of the report entitled The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund's aid spending: A performance review, published by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact in March 2018, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund increases global security.
Answered by David Lidington
The Government is taking a series of measures to further increase the effectiveness of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) following the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s (ICAI) review. The reviewers praised the fund for being flexible and responsive to UK national security priorities, for demonstrating excellent conflict analysis and for mainstreaming gender equality and conflict sensitivity across programmes. Details are set out in the Government’s response to the Commission’s review, published on 10 May and available on GOV.UK. More detail about the CSSF’s wider work to improve global security will be in the Fund’s 2017-18 Annual Report, to be published this month.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that there is public consultation on future changes to the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel on the Detention and Interviewing of Detainees Overseas, and on the Passing and Receipt of Intelligence Relating to Detainees.
Answered by David Lidington
I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the Prime Minister’s Written Ministerial Statement of 28 June 2018 (HCWS808).