Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much (a) his Department and (b) the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister spent on a wellbeing strategy in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The Deputy Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
In 2010 the Office for National Statistics established a Measuring National Wellbeing Programme to look at wellbeing across the UK. The Cabinet Office is supporting this with a wellbeing policy programme across Government.
The costs of the programme are met from existing departmental budgets. Details on staffing are published through my department's organogram, on gov.uk
Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) 20 highest and (b) 20 lowest value contracts awarded by his Department were in each financial year since 2009-10.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Under this Government's transparency programme, contracts are published on Contracts Finder which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pagers have been provided to staff by his Department since May 2010; and what the cost to the Department was of providing those pagers.
Answered by Nick Hurd
As was the case prior to the last General Election various officials are provided with pagers when there is a business case to do so. We do not hold details centrally of when pagers were purchased but currently spend £360 a month on the services.