Asked by: Sam Tarry (Labour - Ilford South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil service staff working are paid a rate equivalent to the real living wage, broken down by Government Department.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
In the majority of Government departments, at least 98% of staff earn a rate equivalent or greater than the 2021/22 Voluntary Living Wage (£11.05 if based in London, or £9.90 if based outside of London), as at 31 March 2022. In all departments the proportion is over 90%.
Table 1: Percentage of civil servants earning at or above the Voluntary Living Wage in March 2022 by Department
Departments (including agencies) | % at or above the VLW |
Attorney General’s Departments | 98.8% |
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 99.6% |
Cabinet Office | 99.7% |
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 100.0% |
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 99.9% |
Education | ≥99.9%¹ |
Transport | 92.5% |
Health and Social Care | 99.5% |
International Trade | ≥99.9%¹ |
Work and Pensions | 100.0% |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 99.5% |
HM Revenue and Customs | 100.0% |
HM Treasury | 99.5% |
Home Office | 98.6% |
Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | 99.4% |
Defence | 96.3% |
Justice | 98.5% |
Other² | 99.1% |
Scottish Government | 100.0% |
Welsh Government | 100.0% |
¹ Exact figure suppressed due to low numbers
² Other includes staff in Government organisations not listed separately (CC, CMA, COD, ESTYN, FSA, HMLR, NCA, NIO, OFGEM, OFQUAL, OFSTED, OFWAT, ORR, SO, TNA, UKEF, UKSA, UKSC, WO)
Figures are based on the centrally held numbers and salaries of civil servants collected in the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey as at March 2022, and may differ from those provided by individual departments. Civil servants located outside the UK or with an unreported location (6,995) or without a reported hourly rate (an additional 150) have been excluded. Percentages are calculated on a headcount basis and rounded to the nearest percentage point, due to the rounding a very small number of employees in departments listed as 100% may earn below the Voluntary Living Wage.
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: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 36000 on Ukraine: Military Aid, from which Departments has the additional £1 billion of support to Ukraine been drawn from.
Answered by Simon Clarke
All ministerial departments contributed from their 2022-23 capital budgets towards military aid for Ukraine. See full list below:
Attorney General’s Office; Cabinet Office; Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy; Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport; Department for Education; Department for Environment Food, & Rural Affairs; Department for International Trade; Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Department for Transport; Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health and Social Care; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; HM Treasury; Home Office; and Ministry of Justice;
We also received contributions from the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Territorial Offices (the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Office).
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many job vacancies there are in each Government (a) department and (b) agency.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
As at 8am on 19 July, there are 3,349 adverts for 10,409 total postings advertised on the Civil Service Jobs website. The below table shows vacancies and posts by department.
Department | Agency (if applicable) | Adverts Live | Total Posts Live |
Ministry of Defence | Ministry of Defence | 597 | 1,199 |
HM Prison & Probation Service | HM Prison & Probation Service | 519 | 3,480 |
HM Revenue and Customs | HM Revenue and Customs | 243 | 504 |
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (Internal) | Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (Internal) | 230 | 262 |
UK Health Security Agency | UK Health Security Agency | 112 | 175 |
Home Office | Home Office | 107 | 990 |
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | 86 | 164 |
Ministry of Justice | Ministry of Justice | 82 | 206 |
Department for Work and Pensions | Department for Work and Pensions | 76 | 396 |
Cabinet Office | Cabinet Office | 50 | 60 |
Department for International Trade | Department for International Trade | 50 | 61 |
Department of Health and Social Care | Department of Health and Social Care | 48 | 54 |
Office for National Statistics | Office for National Statistics | 47 | 149 |
Department for Education | Department for Education | 45 | 71 |
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory | Defence Science and Technology Laboratory | 43 | 203 |
Crown Prosecution Service | Crown Prosecution Service | 39 | 82 |
Health and Safety Executive | Health and Safety Executive | 38 | 63 |
HM Courts and Tribunals Service | HM Courts and Tribunals Service | 38 | 297 |
OFGEM | OFGEM | 37 | 57 |
Natural England | Natural England | 36 | 82 |
Scottish Government | Scottish Government | 34 | 43 |
Department for Transport | Department for Transport | 30 | 32 |
Forestry Commission | Forestry Commission | 26 | 28 |
HM Treasury | HM Treasury | 26 | 31 |
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency | Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency | 24 | 36 |
House of Commons | House of Commons | 23 | 32 |
Social Security Scotland | Social Security Scotland | 22 | 70 |
Government Digital Service | Government Digital Service | 20 | 30 |
Insolvency Service | Insolvency Service | 20 | 34 |
Homes England | Homes England | 19 | 28 |
Government Legal Department | Government Legal Department | 17 | 146 |
DEFRA | Food Standards Agency | 16 | 20 |
Government Commercial Function | Government Commercial Function | 16 | 29 |
Care Quality Commission | Care Quality Commission | 16 | 65 |
Forestry Commission - Forest Research | Forestry Commission - Forest Research | 16 | 16 |
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | 15 | 25 |
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 15 | 16 |
College of Policing | College of Policing | 15 | 44 |
UK Hydrographic Office | UK Hydrographic Office | 15 | 49 |
Valuation Office Agency | Valuation Office Agency | 14 | 130 |
Pensions Regulator | Pensions Regulator | 13 | 16 |
Met Office | Met Office | 13 | 23 |
Welsh Government | Welsh Government | 13 | 56 |
National Crime Agency | National Crime Agency | 13 | 144 |
The Money and Pensions Service | The Money and Pensions Service | 13 | 18 |
Government Property Agency | Government Property Agency | 12 | 29 |
DEFRA | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 12 | 13 |
Legal Aid Agency | Legal Aid Agency | 11 | 29 |
Historic Environment Scotland | Historic Environment Scotland | 10 | 10 |
HM Land Registry | HM Land Registry | 10 | 18 |
Information Commissioner's Office | Information Commissioner's Office | 10 | 19 |
FCDO Services | FCDO Services | 10 | 10 |
Crown Commercial Service | Crown Commercial Service | 9 | 14 |
Office for Students | Office for Students | 9 | 20 |
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills | Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills | 9 | 12 |
Disclosure & Barring Service | Disclosure & Barring Service | 8 | 16 |
UK Export Finance | UK Export Finance | 8 | 11 |
Department for Transport | Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 8 | 20 |
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew | 8 | 9 |
House of Lords | House of Lords | 8 | 9 |
Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation | Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation | 7 | 7 |
Companies House | Companies House | 7 | 7 |
Marine Management Organisation | Marine Management Organisation | 7 | 9 |
Government Office for Science | Government Office for Science | 7 | 28 |
GCHQ | GCHQ | 7 | 22 |
UK Space Agency | UK Space Agency | 7 | 7 |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee | Joint Nature Conservation Committee | 6 | 6 |
Student Loans Company | Student Loans Company | 6 | 14 |
Department for Transport | Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | 6 | 92 |
Department for Transport | Maritime and Coastguard Agency | 6 | 10 |
Serious Fraud Office | Serious Fraud Office | 5 | 9 |
Office of the Public Guardian | Office of the Public Guardian | 5 | 12 |
Trade Remedies Authority | Trade Remedies Authority | 5 | 5 |
Planning Inspectorate | Planning Inspectorate | 5 | 7 |
Cross Departmental Opportunities | Cross Departmental Opportunities | 5 | 9 |
UK Statistics Authority | UK Statistics Authority | 4 | 4 |
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service | 4 | 5 |
DEFRA | Rural Payments Agency | 4 | 5 |
Northern Ireland Office | Northern Ireland Office | 4 | 6 |
Forestry and Land Scotland | Forestry and Land Scotland | 4 | 4 |
Intellectual Property Office | Intellectual Property Office | 4 | 4 |
Consumer Scotland | Consumer Scotland | 4 | 5 |
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education | Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education | 4 | 4 |
Office of Rail and Road | Office of Rail and Road | 4 | 5 |
Government Statistical Service | Government Statistical Service | 4 | 40 |
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre | Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre | 4 | 10 |
Charity Commission | Charity Commission | 4 | 7 |
Independent Office for Police Conduct | Independent Office for Police Conduct | 4 | 5 |
Independent Monitoring Authority | Independent Monitoring Authority | 3 | 3 |
UK Research and Innovation | UK Research and Innovation | 3 | 3 |
Government Internal Audit Agency | Government Internal Audit Agency | 3 | 4 |
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office | Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office | 3 | 7 |
Medical Research Council | Medical Research Council | 3 | 3 |
Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | 3 | 3 |
The National Lottery Community Fund | The National Lottery Community Fund | 3 | 3 |
DEFRA | Animal and Plant Health Agency | 3 | 3 |
Defence Electronics & Components Agency | Defence Electronics & Components Agency | 3 | 3 |
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service | Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service | 3 | 3 |
Gambling Commission | Gambling Commission | 3 | 3 |
Registers of Scotland | Registers of Scotland | 3 | 4 |
Competition & Markets Authority | Competition & Markets Authority | 2 | 3 |
Innovate UK | Innovate UK | 2 | 3 |
National Savings and Investments | National Savings and Investments | 2 | 2 |
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman | Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman | 2 | 2 |
Housing Ombudsman Service | Housing Ombudsman Service | 2 | 2 |
MI5 | MI5 | 2 | 2 |
DEFRA | Veterinary Medicines Directorate | 2 | 2 |
Office for Nuclear Regulation | Office for Nuclear Regulation | 2 | 2 |
Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority) | Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority) | 2 | 3 |
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | 2 | 2 |
Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council | Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council | 2 | 10 |
Security Industry Authority | Security Industry Authority | 2 | 3 |
Office for Environmental Protection | Office for Environmental Protection | 1 | 2 |
Equality and Human Rights Commission | Equality and Human Rights Commission | 1 | 1 |
Home Office | Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services | 1 | 1 |
The National Archives | The National Archives | 1 | 1 |
Valuation Tribunal Service | Valuation Tribunal Service | 1 | 1 |
DEFRA | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science | 1 | 2 |
MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service | MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service | 1 | 1 |
Government Actuary's Department | Government Actuary's Department | 1 | 5 |
Environmental Standards Scotland | Environmental Standards Scotland | 1 | 1 |
Scottish Forestry | Scottish Forestry | 1 | 1 |
Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority | Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority | 1 | 1 |
UK Debt Management Office | UK Debt Management Office | 1 | 1 |
Parole Board | Parole Board | 1 | 1 |
Criminal Cases Review Commission | Criminal Cases Review Commission | 1 | 1 |
Youth Justice Board | Youth Justice Board | 1 | 6 |
Building Digital UK (BDUK) | Building Digital UK (BDUK) | 1 | 1 |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence | 1 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 3,349 | 10,409 |
Asked by: Drew Hendry (Scottish National Party - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events to include a broader range of Scottish football tournament finals.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Government has no intention of further amending the list of events of national interest which are included in the Listed Events Regime.
Although the listed events regime exists to ensure that events of national significance are available to as wide an audience as possible, this must be balanced with the ability of sporting organisations to generate revenues to invest in their sports at all levels. Broadcasting rights provide essential income, which enables sports national governing bodies to invest in better facilities for spectators, improve elite performance, hire the best coaches, and keep-up with mounting competition from rival sports and tournaments.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Matt Warman
The 21-22 Annual Report & Accounts figures are subject to audit and expected to be published in early November. We are unable to provide data on consultancy spend prior to the conclusion of the audit.
The 20-21 consultancy spend as per DCMS 20-21 published accounts (page 135) was £16.6m. The listing for the £16.6m is set out below and is net of a credit of £1.914m on reversed expenditure.
The 19-20 consultancy spend as per DCMS 19-20 published accounts (page 135) was £3.9m. The listing for the £3.9m is set out below including £0.164m relating to corrections to the data.
Details of all third-party government contracts, including the Supplier, are published on Contracts Finder above £10,000, for the core Department, and above £25,000, for the wider public sector.
20-21 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Amount |
346 Consultancy Limited | 10,080.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 1,000.00 |
ANUBHAV JAIN | 5,000.00 |
Astarte Limited | 1,800.00 |
Bain & Company Inc UK | 906,100.00 |
BBC Accounts Receivable | 13,000.00 |
BDO LLP | 523,076.40 |
Beckford Executives | 500.00 |
Behavioural Insights Ltd | 9,570.00 |
Brick Court Chambers | 5,250.00 |
Cabinet Office (Citi Tr) | 126,718.18 |
Climate Associates | 11,444.00 |
Contemporary Visual Arts Network | 300.00 |
Cornerstone Barristers | - 270.00 |
Corporate Blue Consulting Ltd | 5,700.00 |
David Fogel | 1,500.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 6,600.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 2,512,566.80 |
Dentons UKMEA LLP | 660,208.30 |
Department of Education | 50,400.00 |
Digirep Nigeria Ltd | 12,384.25 |
DLA Piper (Liverpool) | 330,557.49 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | 201,473.12 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (London Office Only) | 32,153.03 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Sheffield Office Only) | 146,966.20 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 8,000.00 |
Economic Insight Limited | 42,000.00 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 19,999.00 |
Ernst & Young (EY) | 2,499,356.70 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 123,880.66 |
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP | 111,293.03 |
Faculty Science Limited | 294,500.00 |
Faizal Asher Ismail | 2,500.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 10,212.50 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 5,443.09 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 221,719.00 |
Fujitsu Services Ltd | 133,440.00 |
Georgina Ella Harding Limited | 2,500.00 |
Government Actuary Department | 41,451.17 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 23,851.78 |
Government Legal Department | 17,673.00 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Historic England | - 2,058.34 |
Home Office | 166,725.19 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 13,880.00 |
Intelligent Risks Limited | 6,000.00 |
International Association | 5,628.93 |
Kantar UK Ltd | 23,902.20 |
Knight Frank LLP | 45,000.00 |
KPMG LLP | 159,285.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 16,200.00 |
Linklaters LLP | 136,000.00 |
lnclusion in Arts UK Ltd | 150.00 |
Local Partnerships LLP | 505,031.88 |
Mace Ltd | 47,030.00 |
Modern Art Oxford | 300.00 |
Mr Christopher Knight - 11KBW | 4,301.67 |
Mr George Peretz | 738.00 |
Mr K Latham | 4,999.00 |
NESTA | 26,000.00 |
Oliver Wyman Ltd | 181,500.00 |
ON PURPOSE CAREERS LTD | 30,768.62 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 35,700.00 |
Pentara Consulting Services Ltd | 30,000.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 613,539.58 |
Plum Consulting | 43,250.00 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 3,327,797.80 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | 2,619,488.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 40,800.00 |
Ryan Turner | - 733.50 |
Sarah McFadden | 2,305.20 |
Savills | 4,677.00 |
Scottish Contemporary Art Network - SCAN | 300.00 |
Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service | 10,000.00 |
Slaughter and May | 628,149.24 |
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLECTIVE LTD | 5,999.99 |
Softcat Plc | 15,245.52 |
Spark Ninety Limited | 45,330.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 35,412.00 |
Tech Grow Limited | 2,500.00 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 324.08 |
The Royal Academy of Engineering | 3,100.00 |
THEM Design Ltd | 4,800.00 |
TLT LLP | 153,119.12 |
University of Cambridge | 4,800.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 1,000.00 |
VAGW (Visual Arts Group Wales) | 300.00 |
Veran Performance Ltd | 339,540.00 |
Visual Arts South West | 150.00 |
Webb Search Limited | 17,360.00 |
West Midlands Combined Authority | 36,000.00 |
Wysing Arts Charity | 300.00 |
Yorkshire & Humber Visual Arts | 300.00 |
Young Samuel Chambers (YSC) Ltd | 14,560.00 |
YunoJuno Ltd | 8,736.00 |
| - 1,941,548.06 |
Grand Total | 16,609,721.82 |
19-20 Consultancy Supplier Listings
Supplier | Sum of Amount (Posted) |
2T Security Ltd | 72,300.00 |
3 Reasons Ltd | 12,000.00 |
Alistair Lindsay | 16,350.00 |
Annell Howard / Monckton Chambers | - 20.00 |
Anthony William Catt | 8,800.00 |
Birmingham Organising Committee for the | 21,600.00 |
Blackstone Chambers | 1,610.00 |
Bloom Procurement Services Ltd | 75,455.00 |
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | 14,252.80 |
Classical Numismatic Group LLC | 50.00 |
Climate Associates | 10,760.00 |
Curvestone Ltd | 2,796.00 |
David Fogel | 2,392.25 |
David Miller | 150.00 |
DB Consulting Group Pty Ltd | 11,000.00 |
Deloitte LLP | 667,438.40 |
Digital Radio UK (DRUK) | 1,200.00 |
DLA Piper UK LLP (Leeds Office Only) | - 570.32 |
Dona Haj Ltd | 12,682.50 |
Enterprise Academy International Limited | 5,000.00 |
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standa | 127,406.10 |
Faculty Science Limited | 281,400.00 |
Farrer & Co LLP | 3,882.00 |
FarrPoint Ltd | 5,700.00 |
Film London | 19,900.00 |
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Off | 73,783.14 |
Frontier Economics Ltd | 99,325.00 |
Global Partners Digital Ltd | 4,000.00 |
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HQ (GCHQ) | 100,000.00 |
Government Legal Department | 3,347.50 |
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP | 10,628.18 |
Hazel Bees Consulting Ltd | 26,880.00 |
Historic England | 4,935.47 |
HM Courts & Tribunals Service | 113,850.00 |
HMRC (VAT payments) | 9,200.00 |
Hogan Lovells International LLP | 99,725.00 |
Home Office (Citi Trf) | 50,000.00 |
ICF CONSULTING SERVICES | 11,268.00 |
Infrastructure & Projects Authority | 24,000.00 |
Ion Industries Ltd | 900.00 |
Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd | 94,898.53 |
Joanna van der Lande | 273.10 |
KPMG LLP | 198,000.00 |
Lakesmith Consulting Ltd | 65,233.35 |
Martin Beisly Fine Art Ltd | 791.44 |
Mass Inspire Limited | 5,180.49 |
Matassa Toffolo Ltd | - 926.50 |
MHR International UK Ltd | 2,595.04 |
Ministry of Defence | 1,153.12 |
Miss Laura Smith | 50.00 |
MKF Holdings Ltd t/a China Policy | 62,750.00 |
Moorhouse Consulting Ltd | 25,000.00 |
Morton & Eden Ltd | 50.00 |
Mott MacDonald Ltd | - 0.50 |
Mr George Peretz | 720.00 |
My CSP LTD | 12,464.40 |
Ovum t/a Informa Telecoms & Media Ltd | 21,060.00 |
PA CONSULTING GROUP | 135,600.00 |
Pinsent Masons LLP | 680,143.56 |
PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP | 119,232.00 |
QinetiQ Limited | - 16,632.00 |
Quo Imus Ltd T/a QI Consulting | 19,200.00 |
Rochelais Limited T/a True & North | 1,080.00 |
Ryan Turner | 5,262.50 |
SALESFORCE COM EMEA LTD | 2,311.51 |
Sally Osman | 10,000.00 |
Savills | 187,698.00 |
Social Innovation Camp Ltd | 3,840.00 |
Sotheby's | 150.00 |
Stance | 5,184.00 |
Stance Global Ltd | 27,648.00 |
Sundry Supplier - Non Staff Expenses | 832.73 |
The Indus Entrepreneurs Bangalore | 2,370.63 |
Thomas Upchurch | 4,999.00 |
University of Cambridge | 4,500.00 |
Up Spring Ltd | 5,000.00 |
Venia Consulting Limited | - 1,281.60 |
Who Targets Me Ltd | 1,500.00 |
Xansium Consulting Ltd | 5,998.80 |
| 164,624.96 |
Grand Total | 3,863,931.58 |
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has requested that the Natural History Museum to collect from specific incidences of algal blooms in the North Sea as part of its AlgaeVision database in (a) September 2021,(b) October 2021, (c) February 2022 and (d) April 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
DCMS-sponsored museums operate at arm’s length from the Government. The specifics of projects are therefore operational matters for museums to decide independently.
The Natural History Museum has not been asked by the Government to collect any samples of algal blooms in the North Sea, nor would they have the required equipment to do so.
DCMS understands that the Algaevision project is a database and virtual collection of images of freshwater and terrestrial algae collected in Britain and Ireland. The project’s aim is to digitise the current algae species already in the Natural History Museum’s algae collection. Identifying the cause of crustacean deaths is outside the scope of the museum’s work and would be better directed to one of the marine monitoring research groups within the UK, such as the Scottish Association for Marine Science.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with her Scottish counterpart on the Licensing Order and Control Area Amendment Regulations relating to short-term holiday lets that came into force in Scotland on 1 March 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The sharing economy has brought many benefits to the tourism sector and wider economy, as well as creating an additional income stream for homeowners. However, we recognise that the increase in short-term letting has also prompted some concerns. These include the impact on the housing market and local communities, and a sense that new entrants in the market are not being held to the same health and safety standards as, for example, hotels and B&Bs.
The Government committed in the Tourism Recovery Plan published in June last year to consult on a possible Short Term Accommodation Registration Scheme in England. A call for evidence as the first stage of that consultation process was published on 29 June and runs until 21 September.
We want to hear from a wide range of stakeholders, including local authorities, in order to build a much-needed evidence base on these issues and enable us to develop proportionate policy responses. We ideally want to strike a balance between the benefits of the sharing economy and the concerns of the impacts on some communities, alongside ensuring consistency in quality among the range of different tourism accommodation providers.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what further steps she plans to take to strengthen the regulation of alcohol marketing and alcohol advertising in relation to sports promotion.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Secretary of State has received no recent representations, including from the Scottish Government, about widening the scope of the Communications Act 2003 to include alcohol advertising, its statutory regulation or making it a devolved matter. The Secretary of State has also had no recent discussions with Ofcom regarding alcohol advertising.
There are already very stringent regulations in place for the marketing of alcohol in traditional forms of media, including radio, TV, and cinema, and online, as well as in relation to sports promotion, through the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) codes of practice for advertising. If new evidence emerges that clearly highlights major problems with the existing codes of practice, then the ASA has a duty to revisit the codes and take appropriate action.
As part of the Online Advertising Programme the government is currently reviewing how online advertising is regulated in the UK, including legal but harmful content, such as alcohol advertising. The consultation closed on 8 June and will help us determine how to tackle such harms. We hope to publish a Government response in due course.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has received any representations from the Scottish Government requesting that powers over the regulation of alcohol marketing and alcohol advertising be devolved.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Secretary of State has received no recent representations, including from the Scottish Government, about widening the scope of the Communications Act 2003 to include alcohol advertising, its statutory regulation or making it a devolved matter. The Secretary of State has also had no recent discussions with Ofcom regarding alcohol advertising.
There are already very stringent regulations in place for the marketing of alcohol in traditional forms of media, including radio, TV, and cinema, and online, as well as in relation to sports promotion, through the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) codes of practice for advertising. If new evidence emerges that clearly highlights major problems with the existing codes of practice, then the ASA has a duty to revisit the codes and take appropriate action.
As part of the Online Advertising Programme the government is currently reviewing how online advertising is regulated in the UK, including legal but harmful content, such as alcohol advertising. The consultation closed on 8 June and will help us determine how to tackle such harms. We hope to publish a Government response in due course.