Asked by: Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the implementation by local authorities of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The Cabinet Office asked Lord Young of Graffham, the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Enterprise, to conduct a review of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
The report, published on 13 February, shows the Act is having a positive effect where it is taken up. It finds that a number of local authorities have taken a leading role in implementing social value and names Durham Council as an example.
The report makes a number of recommendations. The Government is considering these to ensure that the Act fulfils its full potential.
Asked by: Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has undertaken a post-legislative analysis of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The Cabinet Office asked Lord Young of Graffham, the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Enterprise, to conduct a review of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
The report, published on 13 February, shows the Act is having a positive effect where it is taken up. It finds that a number of local authorities have taken a leading role in implementing social value and names Durham Council as an example.
The report makes a number of recommendations. The Government is considering these to ensure that the Act fulfils its full potential.
Asked by: Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of commissioners from local government have attended the Commissioning Academy; and by which local authorities those commissioners are employed.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Through its programme of Civil Service Reform, the Government is taking urgent action to address long-standing skills gaps in the Civil Service. Our pioneering Commissioning Academy is building commercial capability across the public sector, and improving how public services are delivered.
To date 392 individuals have attended the central Commissioning Academy programmes, including 206 (52%) from central government. In the last year there was a 50% increase in demand for places on the programme, and it will be expanded to deliver 1,500 places by March 2016.
Commissioners have attended from the following local authorities:
Basildon Borough Council
Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council
Birmingham City Council
Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council
Bristol City Council
Canterbury and Coastal Clinical Commissioning Group
Cheltenham Borough Council
Cherwell District, South Northants and Stratford on Avon Councils
Cheshire East Council
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Cheshire West and Chester (a place-based group)
Cumbria County Council
Devon County Council
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Essex County Council
Fenland District Council
Gloucestershire County Council
Harborough District Council
Horsham District Council
Kent County Council
Knowsley Council (Health and Social Care Integration)
Lancashire County Council
Leicestershire County Council
London Borough of Barnet
London Borough of Haringey
London Borough of Lambeth
London Borough of Lewisham
London Borough of Sutton
London Borough of Waltham Forest
Lowestoft Rising (Place based group)
Manchester City Council
Milton Keynes Council
Norfolk County Council
Northamptonshire County Council
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Shropshire
Somerset County Council
Southend-on-sea Borough Council
Staffordshire County Council
Stoke-On-Trent City Council
Suffolk Coastal
Sunderland City Council
Surrey County Council
Swindon Borough Council
Tamworth Borough Council
Tri-borough councils: Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Walsall Council
Warrington Borough Council
Waverley Borough Council
West Sussex County Council
Westminster City Council
Wirral Council
Worcestershire County Council
A number of other programmes sit alongside the central programme under the Commissioning Academy umbrella. 78 officials have attended local programmes in Norfolk and Staffordshire, modelled on the central programme, with participants drawn from local authorities and other public sector bodies in the local area. In addition, 8 councillors have attended a streamlined programme for Local Authority elected members.