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Written Question
Farmers: Suicide
Friday 12th January 2024

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of farmers that have died by suicide in each of the last ten years.

Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon Members Parliamentary Question of 19th December is attached.


Written Question
List of Ministerial Responsibilities
Tuesday 20th December 2022

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be next updated.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The List of Ministerial Responsibilities has been published on 19 December and placed in the Libraries of both Houses. It can also be found on GOV.UK at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-ministers-and-responsibilities.


Written Question
List of Ministerial Responsibilities
Thursday 13th October 2022

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish an updated List of Ministerial Responsibilities.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

A revised List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be published in due course. In the meantime, departments are updating their ministers' pages on GOV.UK which also include portfolio information.


Written Question
Brexit: Negotiations
Thursday 4th June 2020

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants are engaged in negotiations with the EU on a post-transition period trade deal.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

Negotiations with the EU are led by Task Force Europe. This is a small central unit within the Prime Minister’s Office led by the Chief Negotiator David Frost and currently has 42 staff. These negotiations are a cross-departmental effort and accordingly involve a larger number of staff overall. For example, more than a hundred UK staff have been involved in recent negotiating rounds, supported by FCO officials and others.


Written Question
Civil Servants: Coronavirus
Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have been re-deployed to support the Government's response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The Government's number one priority is the response to the covid-19 outbreak. As such many civil servants within departments are working on different aspects of the overall response to the pandemic, and have been redeployed to do so. Comprehensive details of these internal redeloyments are not held centrally. The Government Resourcing Hub is also moving civil servants to COVID-19 roles across different departments.


Written Question
County Councils: Elections
Monday 27th April 2020

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether EU nationals will be eligible to stand as candidates in the county council elections scheduled for May 2021.

Answered by Chloe Smith

Further to the response given to PQ 1802 on 29 January 2020, there has been no change to the rights of EU citizens resident in the UK to stand and vote in local elections. The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are responsible for their own franchises.


Written Question
Ministers: Conduct
Thursday 5th March 2020

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who enforces the Ministerial Code against the Prime Minister; and what the process is of that enforcement.

Answered by Chloe Smith

Paragraph 1.6 of the Ministerial Code sets out that Ministers are personally responsible for deciding how to act and conduct themselves in the light of the Code and for justifying their actions and conduct to Parliament and the public.

The Ministerial Code should be read against the background of the overarching duty on Ministers to comply with the law and to protect the integrity of public life.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Drinking Water
Friday 16th March 2018

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much money his Department has spent on bottled water in each year since 2010.

Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

It is long standing Cabinet Office policy not to provide bottled water for meetings.

Bottled water is sold via vending machines and in the local catering outlets in 70 Whitehall.

Information on how much money the department have spent on bottled water is not held centrally and could only be produced at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Coordination Committee
Tuesday 4th July 2017

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the agendas and minutes of all future meetings of the Government's coordination committee with the Democratic Unionist party will be made public.

Answered by Damian Green

The modus operandi of the coordination committee will need to be agreed between the Conservative party and the Democratic Unionist party.


Written Question
Government Departments: Facebook
Thursday 27th April 2017

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government spent from the public purse on targeted Facebook advertising to promote the planforbritain.gov.uk website.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.