Asked by: William Bain (Labour - Glasgow North East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of changes in real weekly earnings for (a) all workers, (b) male workers, (c) female workers, (d) part-time workers, (e) full-time workers, (f) male part-time workers, (g) male full-time workers, (h) female part-time workers and (i) female full-time workers as defined in the recent Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings in each parliamentary constituency between April 2013 and April 2014.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: William Bain (Labour - Glasgow North East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate how many (a) men and (b) women in (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employment in each parliamentary constituency earned less than the rate defined by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: William Bain (Labour - Glasgow North East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate, based on the annual survey of hours and earnings published on 19 November 2014, the number and proportion of (a) people, (b) men and (c) women in (i) work, (ii) full-time work and (iii) part-time work in each (A) local authority area and (B) parliamentary constituency earning less than the UK living wage in 2014 to date.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: William Bain (Labour - Glasgow North East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that government departments pay contractors on time and in full; and if he will take steps to ensure that all future payments to subcontractors who work on government projects are paid on time and in full.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Central Government pays over 80% of undisputed invoices within 5 days. Public Sector authorities are required to pay within 30 days upon receipt of a correct invoice and we encourage suppliers to report issues of late payment to Cabinet Office's Mystery Shopper service.
We are currently implementing Lord Young’s recommendations to ensure that contracting authorities will have a clause in all new contracts mandating payment within 30 days of an undisputed invoice all the way down the supply chain.
The Cabinet Office will be issuing guidance to contracting authorities on this new legislation, including standard contract clauses that can be used in all new contracts.
Asked by: William Bain (Labour - Glasgow North East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps he has taken to address barriers to small and medium-sized enterprises participating in government procurement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
This Government has transformed central government procurement to make it more accessible to small and medium sized businesses. We are in the process of implementing Lord Young's recommendations to create an SME-friendly ‘single market' in wider public procurement, and we will go even further through reforms in the forthcoming Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.
Asked by: William Bain (Labour - Glasgow North East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff are employed in each Government department in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland.
Answered by Nick Hurd
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation