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Written Question
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
Thursday 25th February 2021

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average number of days taken to register a death has been in each of the last 12 months.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
Thursday 25th February 2021

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average number of days taken to register a birth has been in each of the last 12 months.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Death: Coronavirus
Thursday 14th May 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people who have died from covid-19 in the UK had underlying health conditions.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Death: Coronavirus
Thursday 14th May 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the most common underlying health conditions are for people who have died from covid-19 in the UK.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Death
Thursday 14th May 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died from covid-19 in the UK, by faith group.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Civil Service: Gender
Tuesday 4th February 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what targets the Government has set for gender representation in the civil service.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

In the 2017 Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Strategy we committed to increasing transparency around our workforce composition by creating a D&I dashboard on GOV.UK, through which we publish quarterly updates on gender in the Civil Service.

The dashboard shows that overall, 53.9% of the Civil Service were women in 2019. This varies by grade from 45.0% in the Senior Civil Service (SCS), to 45.3% at G6, 47.5% at G7, 50% at HEO/SEO, 56.1% at EO and 57.2% at AA/AO level. The overall percentage of female civil servants has remained fairly stable since 2010 but for the SCS, the percentage of women has increased each year.

We currently publish individual department’s gender data on the D&I dashboard but this does not currently include a breakdown by Civil Service grade.

Our data shows that we continue to make steady and positive progress on representation of women across the grades, therefore we have not set Civil Service-wide targets on gender.


Written Question
Civil Service: Gender
Tuesday 4th February 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress each Government department has made on reaching its targets on gender split within the civil service.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

In the 2017 Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Strategy we committed to increasing transparency around our workforce composition by creating a D&I dashboard on GOV.UK, through which we publish quarterly updates on gender in the Civil Service.

The dashboard shows that overall, 53.9% of the Civil Service were women in 2019. This varies by grade from 45.0% in the Senior Civil Service (SCS), to 45.3% at G6, 47.5% at G7, 50% at HEO/SEO, 56.1% at EO and 57.2% at AA/AO level. The overall percentage of female civil servants has remained fairly stable since 2010 but for the SCS, the percentage of women has increased each year.

We currently publish individual department’s gender data on the D&I dashboard but this does not currently include a breakdown by Civil Service grade.

Our data shows that we continue to make steady and positive progress on representation of women across the grades, therefore we have not set Civil Service-wide targets on gender.


Written Question
Civil Servants: Gender
Tuesday 4th February 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gender split is at each civil service grade in each Government department.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

In the 2017 Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Strategy we committed to increasing transparency around our workforce composition by creating a D&I dashboard on GOV.UK, through which we publish quarterly updates on gender in the Civil Service.

The dashboard shows that overall, 53.9% of the Civil Service were women in 2019. This varies by grade from 45.0% in the Senior Civil Service (SCS), to 45.3% at G6, 47.5% at G7, 50% at HEO/SEO, 56.1% at EO and 57.2% at AA/AO level. The overall percentage of female civil servants has remained fairly stable since 2010 but for the SCS, the percentage of women has increased each year.

We currently publish individual department’s gender data on the D&I dashboard but this does not currently include a breakdown by Civil Service grade.

Our data shows that we continue to make steady and positive progress on representation of women across the grades, therefore we have not set Civil Service-wide targets on gender.


Written Question
Civil Service: Females
Tuesday 4th February 2020

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what targets the Government has for the number of women employed at each level in the civil service; and what the deadline is for each target.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

In the 2017 Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Strategy we committed to increasing transparency around our workforce composition by creating a D&I dashboard on GOV.UK, through which we publish quarterly updates on gender in the Civil Service.

The dashboard shows that overall, 53.9% of the Civil Service were women in 2019. This varies by grade from 45.0% in the Senior Civil Service (SCS), to 45.3% at G6, 47.5% at G7, 50% at HEO/SEO, 56.1% at EO and 57.2% at AA/AO level. The overall percentage of female civil servants has remained fairly stable since 2010 but for the SCS, the percentage of women has increased each year.

We currently publish individual department’s gender data on the D&I dashboard but this does not currently include a breakdown by Civil Service grade.

Our data shows that we continue to make steady and positive progress on representation of women across the grades, therefore we have not set Civil Service-wide targets on gender.


Written Question
Bank Services: Internet
Thursday 8th March 2018

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate access to online banking for people without internet access.

Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

The Government has ensured superfast broadband (speeds of 24 Mbps or more) is available to over 95% of UK premises and is continuing to invest to extend superfast coverage as far beyond 95% as possible. The Government is also introducing a Universal Service Obligation so that by 2020 everyone across the UK will have a clear, enforceable right to request high speed broadband (speeds of 10 Mbps or more). In the period before 2020, the Government has made a commitment to provide every home and business in the UK with access to basic broadband service (speeds of 2Mbps), which should be sufficient for online banking. A subsided broadband installation is available if the home or business cannot access an affordable broadband service with a speed of at least 2 Mbps.