Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the press release entitled The GPA rated best UK public sector workplace experience, published by the Government Property Agency on 15 March 2023, which (a) Departments and (b) executive agencies have undertaken Leesman Office surveys since 1 January 2020 to assess the views of their staff concerning the main offices in which they work.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
GPA has launched 9 office based surveys with Leesman, starting in January 2021. The full list of departments, agencies and bodies as listed as such on the UK Government Departments, agencies and public bodies website (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations) that have taken part in Leesman surveys through GPA can be found below:
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Cabinet Office
Care Quality Commission
Companies House
Consumer Council For Water
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Crown Commercial Service
Crown Prosecution Service
Defence Equipment and Support
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Education
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Department for International Trade
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Work & Pensions
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Environment Agency
Government Internal Audit Agency
Government Legal Department
Government Property Agency
Health and Safety Executive
Health Education England
Health Research Authority
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
HM Treasury
Home Office
Homes England
Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Legal Aid Agency
Ministry of Defence (MOD)
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Natural England
NHS
NHS England
Office for National Statistics
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted)
Office of Rail and Road
Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman
Regulator of Social Housing
Serious Fraud Office
Small Business Commissioner
Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA)
Trade Remedies Authority
UK Health Security Agency
Other organisations/groups:
Asylum Protection
Border Force
Government Art collection
HM Passport Office
Immigration Enforcement (IE)
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Pubs Code Adjudicator
Single Competent Authority (SCA)
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Government Departments and Devolved Administrations submitted military aid to the civil authorities requests in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
Answered by James Heappey
Defence had Military Aid to Civilian Authorities requests submitted from the following Departments and Devolved Administrations for the years 2019-2022.
2019:
Department | Requests |
BEIS | 2 |
Cabinet Office | 7 |
DCMS | 2 |
DEFRA | 8 |
DfT | 1 |
Home Office | 33 |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 8 |
Northern Ireland Office | 2 |
2020:
Department | Requests |
BEIS | 7 |
Cabinet Office | 11 |
DEFRA | 1 |
DfE | 1 |
DfT | 1 |
Department for Health and Social Care | 136 |
FCDO | 1 |
Government of Jersey | 1 |
Home Office | 54 |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 35 |
MoJ | 4 |
Northern Ireland Office | 10 |
Scotland Office | 7 |
Scottish Government | 10 |
States of Jersey | 1 |
Wales Office | 20 |
Welsh Government | 3 |
2021:
Department | Requests |
BEIS | 9 |
Cabinet Office | 21 |
DCMS | 2 |
DfT | 6 |
Department for Health and Social Care | 106 |
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | 4 |
FCDO | 5 |
Home Office | 84 |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 22 |
MoJ | 1 |
Northern Ireland Office | 15 |
Scotland Office | 11 |
Scottish Government | 20 |
Wales Office | 2 |
Welsh Government | 11 |
2022:
Department | Requests |
Cabinet Office | 2 |
DCMS | 7 |
DEFRA | 1 |
DfT | 3 |
Department for Health and Social Care | 18 |
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | 1 |
Home Office | 42 |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 1 |
Northern Ireland Office | 10 |
Scotland Office | 5 |
Scottish Government | 5 |
Welsh Government | 3 |
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, what percentage of eligible officials in each government department have received training from the Parliamentary Capability Team.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The table below provides total numbers of attendees, by department at Parliamentary Capability Team (PCT) training events since August 2017 (when the team was created). Training is open to all civil servants, but efforts are made to focus resources on those in roles that interact directly and indirectly with Parliament - including policy officials, and those directly supporting ministers.
Data under ‘cross-government/unspecified’ relates to attendance at events not arranged by the PCT, such as the annual Civil Service Live programme, and as part of other civil service initiatives such as the Fast Stream and Policy Profession programmes.
Attorney General's Office | 84 |
Cabinet Office | 2523 |
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | 1344 |
Department for Culture, Media & Sport | 2061 |
Department for Education | 869 |
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs | 2214 |
Department for Exiting the European Union | 243 |
Department for International Development | 29 |
Department for International Trade | 819 |
Department for Transport | 5477 |
Department for Work and Pensions | 1642 |
Department of Health and Social Care | 968 |
Foreign and Commonwealth & Development Office | 279 |
Government Legal Department | 96 |
HM Revenue & Customs | 1399 |
HM Treasury | 908 |
Home Office | 1637 |
Ministry of Defence | 717 |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 621 |
Ministry of Justice | 1206 |
Northern Ireland Office | 86 |
Prime Ministers Office | 3 |
Scotland Office | 50 |
Wales Office | 16 |
Charity Commission | 6 |
Companies House | 7 |
Crown Prosecution Service | 10 |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) | 39 |
Food Standards Agency (FSA) | 285 |
Forestry Commission of England and Wales | 3 |
GCHQ | 10 |
Government Equalities Office | 114 |
Health and Safety Executive | 87 |
Infected Blood Inquiry | 5 |
Intellectual Property Office | 40 |
MHRA | 5 |
National Archives | 2 |
NHS | 2 |
Office for National Statistics (ONS) | 104 |
Ofgem | 54 |
Ofsted | 7 |
Public Health England (PHE) | 117 |
Regulator of Social Housing | 1 |
Scottish Government | 10 |
UK Statistics Authority | 1 |
Valuation Office Agency | 5 |
Cross-Govt/ Unspecified | 4332 |
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on rebranding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government since 19 September 2021.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The information requested will be published on Gov.uk in due course as part of the department’s transparency data.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250
Asked by: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May to Question 6932 on Leasehold Reform, and with reference to the statement by The Minister of State, Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government of 9 June 2021, HOL Col 281GC, whether he still intends to bring forward the remaining leasehold reforms, which were recommended by the Law Society report of July 2020, in this session of parliament.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The Government is committed to creating a fair and just housing system that works for everyone. This includes our comprehensive programme of reform to improve fairness and transparency in the leasehold market. In the next Parliamentary Session, we will legislate to reform the leasehold and commonhold systems, helping millions of households genuinely to own their own home.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish in full the Ministerial diary of the former Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government for 20 May 2020.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Ministers regularly meet with departmental officials and external stakeholders. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Caroline Lucas (Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he will publish his response to the technical consultation on changes to permitted development rights for electronic communications infrastructure, which closed on 14 June 2021.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
In April 2021, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) (formally Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) launched a joint technical consultation which sought views on the detail of proposals to amend permitted development rights to support increased mobile coverage and 5G deployment.
The technical consultation closed on 14 June 2021. The government is considering the responses and will issue its response in due course. Subject to the outcome of this consultation, we will bring forward secondary legislation to implement the proposals.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Lancashire of 17 July 2021, reference ZA57019, addressed to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and transferred to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on or before the 15 September 2021, in relation to obesity concerns.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
A response to the Hon Member's letter has been issued.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including leisure facilities run in-house by local authorities in the National Leisure Recovery Fund.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The National Leisure Recovery Fund sought to support eligible public sector leisure centres to reopen to the public, to give the sport and physical activity sector the best chance of recovery to a position of sustainable operation over the medium term.
A total of £100 million was available as a biddable fund to eligible local authorities in England, which was allocated in a single funding round covering the period 1 December 2020 to 31 March 2021. Eligible local authorities included those in England who hold responsibility for the provision of leisure services, those who have outsourced their leisure provision to an external body and those whose outsourced leisure arrangements have ended since 20 March 2020 and services are now delivered as an in-house function.
Facilities run in-house were supported through the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) Income Compensation Scheme. The MHCLG’s scheme was designed to compensate for transactional income losses that are truly irrecoverable – including transactional income from customer and client receipts generated from the delivery of goods and services and which were budgeted for in 2020/21, this includes budgeted management fee income.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to move civil servant jobs in (a) his Department and (b) non-departmental public bodies and government agencies associated with his Department to York.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
At Budget 2021, the Chancellor announced that the Government’s new economic campus will be located in Darlington. There will be at least 750 roles based there, across teams from HM Treasury, the Department for International Trade, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Office for National Statistics and the Competition and Markets Authority. Additional teams from the Department for Education are already based at the campus. The campus is now operational and we are continuing to work at pace to develop it as quickly as possible.
As part of Budget 2020, the Government committed to relocating 22,000 Civil Service roles from Greater London to locations across the UK, including York, with the Places for Growth Portfolio delivering on this commitment.
We will decide on our locations taking into account a range of factors including our operating models, workforce and location analysis. We will select places that we judge to have the skills, transport links and capacity to meet our needs and flourish in our chosen locations, as well as ensuring locations are suitable for the long term success and sustainability of the Civil Service.