John Glen MP: written questions
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Ministers: Official ResidencesCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5032More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the provision of accommodation at a below market rate to a Minister is a declarable interest to the (a) Cabinet Office Propriety and Ethics Team and (b) Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests under
Answer: There is an established process in place for the declaration and management of ministers’ private interests. This ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any potential or perceived conflicts of interest.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMission Boards: Senior Civil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5031More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, how many of the appointments for the Director Generals of the five Mission Delivery Boards have been internally adve
Answer: Five Directors General (DG) have been selected as Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) for each of the five Missions. All five were selected by the Cabinet Secretary and relevant Permanent Secretary, in consultation with their Secretary of State, on the bas...
Answered 23 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister's Chief of Staff: Business InterestsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5030More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the declaration of interests of the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.
Answer: As was the case under the previous Administration, interests deemed relevant for publication for special advisers in No10 and the Cabinet Office are published on an annual basis by the Cabinet Office.For special advisers in other departments, interests de...
Answered 27 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: EqualityCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5029More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on civil service diversity networks in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer: As part of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Review commissioned in 2023 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Cabinet Office collected information on spend on EDI staff networks. We are currently considering this information.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5028More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how long a civil service vacancy must be advertised for to qualify as open and fair competition.
Answer: There is no prescribed duration for the advertising of publicly advertised vacancies for them to be considered compliant with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMission Boards: Senior Civil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5027More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, how many of the appointments for the Director Generals in charge of the five Mission Delivery Boards have been exter
Answer: Five Directors General (DG) have been selected as Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) for each of the five Missions. All five were selected by the Cabinet Secretary and relevant Permanent Secretary, in consultation with their Secretary of State, on the bas...
Answered 23 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: EqualityCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5026More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 12 August 2024 to Question HL427 on Civil Servants: Equality, whether his Department has a list of each diversity network by department.
Answer: Responsibility for, and management of, departmental diversity networks is delegated to individual departments. Lists are not held centrally by the Cabinet Office.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Alcoholic DrinksCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5025More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has a policy on the (a) purchase of alcohol for workplace social events and (b) location of staff social events outside work.
Answer: Any purchases made using taxpayer money must be evidenced to be necessary to the department’s business. There is no specific policy on the location of staff social events outside work.
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLord AlliCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5024More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many days Lord Alli used his Downing Street pass since 4 July 2024.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member and Hon Member to the answer given by the then Prime Minister on 7 February 2017, Official Report, PQ 62542.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Remote WorkingCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5023More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 August 2024 to Question HL548 on Government Departments: Remote Working, if he will publish comparative data for August 2024.
Answer: The publication of this data was suspended in line with pre-election guidance for the duration of the Pre-Election Period. We will provide an update on future publication plans in due course.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordEmploymentWomen and EqualitiesTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5022More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 12 August 2024 to Question HL421 on Employment, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of the proposal to strengthen equality impact assessments on compliance costs for
Answer: This Government is committed to strengthening equality impact assessments for public authorities and we are currently considering the best way to achieve this. The Public Sector Equality Duty in the Equality Act 2010 requires public authorities, and those...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordParliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Public AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5021More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1257 on Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Public Appointments, who the decision maker is on which appointee to recommend for appointment.
Answer: The process to recruit the Ombudsman is led by the House, which convenes an independent panel to identify appointable candidates and make a recommendation to the Prime Minister. It is then for the Prime Minister to decide whether to advise His Majesty The...
Answered 30 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCommunity RelationsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5020More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1226 on Community Relations, what policies the Prime Minister plans to implement to (a) reduce divisions and (b) promote unity.
Answer: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has established an interministerial Communities & Recovery Steering Group, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister, that will oversee the ongoing response to recent violent unrest in the medium te...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordJK RowlingCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5019More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1222 on JK Rowling, whether 10 Downing Street plans to take steps to arrange a meeting.
Answer: I have nothing further to add to the answer given to the Rt Hon Member on 31 July 2024.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: WhatsAppCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5018More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2024 to Question 1216 on Prime Minister: WhatsApp, whether the Prime Minister has used Whatsapp for government business.
Answer: I have nothing further to add to the answer I gave to the Rt Hon Member on 23 July 2024.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordEmploymentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Answer of 12 August 2024, to Question HL421, on Employment, what legislative steps he plans to take to introduce statutory rights for trade union equality representatives.
Answer: The Government is committed to introducing statutory rights for trade union equality representatives to strengthen equality at work for all. Further information including impact assessments will be published in due course.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordEmily MiddletonDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will publish the submission that authorised the appointment of Ms Emily Middleton.
Answer: Yes. The department will publish the submission relating to the approval of Emily Middleton's appointment in due course on the department’s GOV.uk pages in response to a Freedom of Information request.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHaydon EtheringtonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether there are restrictions on Mr Haydon Etherington's activity as a member of the Labour Party whilst serving as Senior Policy Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister.
Answer: There are clear rules governing recruitment and appointment of civil service roles which are regulated by the Civil Service Commission. We do not comment on individual staffing matters. The approach to recruitment and staffing levels is in line with the a...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordAlan MilburnDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5014More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Mr Alan Milburn is a Ministerial or departmental adviser; and what meetings Mr Milburn has had with Ministers since the general election.
Answer: Whilst Alan Milburn is neither a Ministerial nor Departmental adviser, he is a Privy Councillor and a former Secretary of State for Health. As my rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, stated in Parliament on 9 September 2024,...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Workplace PensionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5013More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the latest estimate is of the Cash Equivalent Transfer Value of the Civil Service pension of his Department’s Second Permanent Secretary and Defra group Chief Operating Officer in
Answer: The position of Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer was appointed to in July 2023 by his party. The pension cash equivalent transfer values for this position will be published in the 2023/2024 Defra Annual Report and Accounts.
Answered 20 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTom CrickDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5012More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) pay band, (b) salary and (c) responsibilities are of Mr Tom Crick in his role as Senior Advisor to her Department's Curriculum and Assessment Review; whether that role was open to external candidat
Answer: The role of the Senior Adviser to the Curriculum and Assessment Review is to support the Review Group and its Chair, Professor Becky Francis, in their engagement with the education sector to develop proposals on how best to refresh the curriculum to ensur...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordLord AlliCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5011More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date Lord Alli was given a Downing Street pass; and on what date it was returned.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member and Hon Member to the answer given by the then Prime Minister on 7 February 2017, Official Report, PQ 62542.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Advisers: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5010More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's policy is on its special advisers (a) posting political opinions and (b) commenting on Government business on social media.
Answer: The Code of Conduct for Special Advisers sets out Special Advisers’ obligations with regards to the media, including social media.
Answered 23 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5009More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the former Prime Minister's letter entitled Government transparency and open data, published on 14 December 2017, whether the content of the letter remains Government policy; and when Governmen
Answer: Transparency reporting requirements remain in place, with data regularly being published on GOV.UK.
Answered 23 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: Sustainable DevelopmentCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5008More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Treasury's Sustainability Reporting Guidance 2024-25, published on 25 July 2024, whether 10 Downing Street plans to report using those metrics.
Answer: The Prime Minister’s Office is a business unit of the Cabinet Office. Sustainability reporting for 10 Downing Street is completed by the Cabinet Office. Cabinet Office aligns to the Treasury’s Sustainability Reporting Guidance 2024-25, published on 25 Jul...
Answered 1 Oct 2024
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