Mike Wood MP: written questions 2025
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Government Departments: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100881More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 82673 on Government Departments: Social Media, on which topics, campaigns and programmes social media influencers have been used by the two agencies since Ju
Answer: Please see below for the campaigns:Breakfast ClubsNational Minimum and Living WageWarm Home DiscountGREAT Audacious KingdomGREAT USA Some work is not included given commercial and wider sensitivities. These campaigns are used to raise awareness about gove...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Official ResidencesCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100880More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he takes steps to ascertain whether Ministers occupy official Ministerial residences as primary residences.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to PQ 95895, PQ 81873, and HL 9337.
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100341More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2025 to Question 50576, on Cabinet Office: Recruitment, what is a level move.
Answer: In the Civil Service a level move is when a civil servant moves from one role to another at the same grade as their current one. This can be from one government department to another or within the same department.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100340More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2025, to Question 50576 on Cabinet Office: Recruitment, whether members of the Senior Civil Service can be permanently promoted up a grade without open and fair competition.
Answer: Promotion on a permanent basis can only take place after fair and open competition. Senior Civil Service vacancies are advertised externally by default and exceptions must be approved by a Minister or Permanent Secretary equivalent in non-Ministerial depa...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament record9 Downing Street: Repairs and MaintenanceCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100339More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 69366 on 9 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance, what is the reason for the delay in submitting the invoice for the works in 2024.
Answer: The invoice submission was delayed by the contractor. Payment could not be made until the invoice was received.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100338More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Civil Service Recruitment Framework.
Answer: The Civil Service Recruitment Framework exists to ensure vacancies are consistently accessible to the widest possible pool of talent. There are no plans to publish this internal-facing framework to the public domain, as it constitutes HR-to-HR guidance de...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: TrainingCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100337More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether civil servants who act as coaches within the Internal Coaching Service are permitted to provide coaching sessions during their contracted working hours.
Answer: Civil servants who act as coaches within the Internal Coaching Service are permitted to provide coaching sessions during their contracted working hours. Participation in the coaching service often forms an additional work objective, and coaches are respon...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Official CarsCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100336More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department provides guidance to civil servants on personal tax implications for the use of official cars provided by the Government Car Service.
Answer: The Government Car Service (GCS) does not provide tax guidance. Tax matters are the responsibility of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and individuals are expected to refer to HMRC guidance or seek independent advice as appropriate.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPermanent Secretaries: Redundancy PayCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100335More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2025, to Question 93384 on Permanent Secretaries: Redundancy Pay, if he will publish that list.
Answer: I refer to my answer for 93384. Payments are published in departmental Annual Reports and Accounts for the financial years in which they were made. These are available on GOV.UK
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Appointments: Social ClassCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100334More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to The Public Appointments Data Report 2024-25, published on 2 December 2025, whether Ministers requested that the socio-economic background of the applicants for public appointments to be monitor
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring that public appointments are more representative of our nations and regions, including socio-economic background.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Facilities AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100333More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2025 to Question 93375 on Government Departments: Facilities Agreements, whether his department holds information on which departments have given agreement to allow paid time
Answer: The Cabinet Office does not hold any central records on which departments have given agreement to allow paid time to be used for trade union activities.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Appointments: Political ImpartialityCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100332More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Public Appointments Data Report 2024-25, published on 2 December 2025, and with reference to previous reports, for what reason the Public Appointments Data Report 2024-25 does not include i
Answer: The Public Appointments Data Report 2024-25 did not include information on the political activity of public appointees due to the transition to the public appointments digital service in 2023. This data is now being collected and will be considered for in...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Official CarsCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100331More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 90730 on Ministers: Official Cars, whether vehicles from the Government Car Service are routinely provided to any official in the Cabinet Office other than
Answer: The Government Car Service (GCS) offers vehicles to government departments as a shared resource. Each department independently determines the allocation of these vehicles in line with the Ministerial Code and the Civil Service Management Code, as appropri...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: Career Development and LeadershipCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100330More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on what leadership and promotion schemes run by the Civil Service are restricted to people (a) from ethnic minorities and (b) with other protected characteristics.
Answer: Promotion in the Civil Service is through fair and open competition and is overseen by the Civil Service Commission.The Cabinet Office is responsible for centrally managed leadership development programmes for staff at G7 to DD (the Accelerated Developmen...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Information Commissioner's OfficeCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100329More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Information Commissioner decision notice of 29 October 2025, ref IC-362303-N0J6, if he will publish his Department's submission to the ICO, with personal information redacted.
Answer: The Information Commissioner’s Office summarises the position of a public authority and the requester within its published decision notice. As has been the case under successive administrations, the Cabinet Office does not publish the submissions it makes...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: EqualityCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100328More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what is the timetable for Departments to implement the Civil Service diversity network guidance in their own departmental diversity networks; and whether the diversity policies adopted by individual departments
Answer: Responsibility for, and management of, departmental diversity networks, is delegated to individual departments as the employer. This includes the decision to adopt or align with the Staff Network Policy. The Cabinet Office has not set a timetable for depa...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Bodies: Facilities AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99839More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to his Department's publication entitled Public-sector trade union facility time data, updated on 27 November 2025, how many and what proportion of public bodies required to submit facility time data did
Answer: A list of the Public Bodies which are required to submit facility time data can be found in Schedule 1 of The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017.The public-sector trade union facility time data for the year 1 April 2024 ...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: Redundancy PayCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99838More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2025 to Question 95640 on Senior Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay, what was the legal basis for the previous Cabinet Secretary being given an exit payment.
Answer: The Employment Rights Act 1996 defines contracts and employee rights for pay, leave, dismissal and other employment rights. The model Permanent Secretary contract mentioned in the answer of 9 December 2025, states the terms and conditions and is used for ...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Public AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99837More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 9 December 2025 to Question 96208 on Public Appointments: Pay and Question 94701 on Baroness Shafik, how many direct ministerial appointments are currently in post in the Cabinet Offic
Answer: I refer the Honoural Member to the answer given to PQ UIN 98100.The responsibilities of these organisations and postholders can be found in their published terms of reference on GOV.UK
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTrade Unions: Facilities AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99836More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Public-sector trade union facility time data, updated on 27 November 2025, if he will define trade union (a) duties and (b) activities.
Answer: The Cabinet Office guidance on reporting trade union facility time data includes examples of what counts as trade union duties and activities. See, the Cabinet Office guidance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-trade-union-facility-time-data For detailed...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Facilities AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99835More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2025 to Question 91375 on Cabinet Office: Facilities Agreements, whether paid trade union activity facility time in a (a) department and (b) Arm’s Length Body must be approv
Answer: The Cabinet Office issued Facility Time Framework is intended to apply to all departments and executive agencies employing civil servants. It encourages Arms Length Bodies to adopt the Framework where possible. The Framework specifies that paid time off t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Hospitality: WinesCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99834More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2025 to Question 91376 on Government Hospitality: Wines, how much his Department spent with Berry Bros for invoices under £25,000 since 4 July 2024.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer of 25 November 2025, Official Report, PQ 91376.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDevolution: Northern IrelandCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99833More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 93002 on Devolution, and with reference to his Department's joint press release entitled UK Minister vows to work with devolved nations to deliver growth in
Answer: Reminders on terminology have been issued to relevant teams and departments.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Investment IncomeCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99832More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 132 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, published on 23 October 2025, for what reason his Department retained £90 million of dividends and returned £71 million of d
Answer: In the spending review 2021, HM Treasury agreed that dividends received from Crown Commercial Service were to be returned to HMT and would be compensated with an annual reserve claim of up to £71 million. In the Autumn Budget 2024, HMT approved that in 20...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Climate ChangeCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99831More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 33 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, published on 23 October 2025, whether his Department is currently in full compliance with the Task Force on Climate-related F
Answer: The Cabinet Office is compliant with Phase 2 TCFD requirements for the 2024-25 financial year, covering Governance, Risk Management, and Metrics and Targets (p45 of the annual report). These disclosures were reviewed by the NAO audit to ensure mandated re...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
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