Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each government department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) official and (b) official sensitive documents have been recorded as lost by his Office since 8 May 2015.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The Cabinet Office takes its data handling responsibilities extremely seriously and has various measures in place to identify, handle, respond and report (as and where necessary) to any losses of its documents or other information.
The information requested is not held centrally. All losses are assessed and responded to individually and on a case by case basis with all possible mitigating actions being taken and in full compliance of our legal and other responsibilities.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the hourly pay-rate is for his Department's cleaning staff.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The pay range for directly employed London cleaning staff is £20,188 - £24,430 per annum.
The rate of pay per hour for cleaning staff employed by our Facilities Management contractors ranges from £6.80 to £9.40 for those aged under 21 and from £7.20 to £9.40 for those aged 21 and over, depending on the contract of the employee.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many current Ministers have been allocated an extended ministerial office (EMO); how many staff work in each EMO; how many of those staff were civil servants prior to moving to the EMO; how many of those staff have been recruited from outside the civil service; and what the salary grade is of those EMO staff.
Answered by Ben Gummer
A revised version of the Ministerial Code was published on the 21st December 2016, which removed the provisions for setting up Extended Ministerial Offices (EMOs). My officials are working with the Civil Service Commission and relevant departments on the process of disbanding any remaining EMOs.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Government Department has paid in bonuses to civil servants in each year since 2010.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Departments publish annual information on their spend on non-consolidated performance related pay on their own websites. This information can be found on data.gov.uk. The latest set of this information was published in March 2016 and relates to the 2014/15 performance year.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on agency workers in each of the last five years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Cabinet Office has published this figure in its annual report and accounts for each of the last five years. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts. The table below shows the cost of Cabinet Office agency/temporary staff over the last five years.
Year | Agency/temporary costs |
2015-16 | £28,477,000 |
2014-15 | £32,343,000 |
2013-14 | £30,622,000 |
2012-13 | £13,815,000 |
2011-12 | £8,530,000 |
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the hospitality industry workforce in (a) Cumbria and (b) Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency was born in another EU country.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are currently registered as self-employed in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency; and what the average salary is earned by those people.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make arrangements for opposition party leaders or their nominated representatives to be granted advance sight of the conclusions of the Chilcot Report prior to that Report's publication.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Yes.
Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate the number of days of sickness absence taken for reasons of depression, anxiety or stress in each of the last three years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.