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Written Question
Civil Servants: Recruitment
Tuesday 10th September 2024

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

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of exceptions that were used in the recruitment of civil servants (a) at and (b) above Payband 2 level before Civil Service Commission approval, between 2010 and 2018.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Data relating to exceptions for Civil Servants between 2010 and 2018 is no longer held/available in accordance with retention schedules.


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.