Mike Wood MP: written questions 2025
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Government Departments: EqualityWomen and EqualitiesTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49767More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15471 on Office for Equality and Opportunity: Gender and Sexuality, what definition of (a) gender, (b) sexual orientation and (c) gender identity are used
Answer: There is no definition of gender, sexual orientation or gender identity formally recognised and used by the diversity networks in the Cabinet Office.
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: StaffCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49766More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13820 on Government Departments: Staff, whether his Department has met the requirements listed in the Cabinet Office’s transparency publication schedule.
Answer: The Cabinet Office’s updated organogram is now available at:https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/ff76be1f-4f37-4bef-beb7-32b259413be1/organogram-cabinet-office
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: FlagsCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49765More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2024 to Question 13326 on Government Departments: Flags, which flags are owned by his Department.
Answer: For the properties operated by the Government Property Agency (GPA), where flag flying forms part of its service, all buildings with flagpoles have the Union flag. In addition, buildings across the estate will have a variety of other flags depending on th...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: BuildingsCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49764More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 8641 on Cabinet Office: Buildings, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of publishing a percentage figure on security and safety.
Answer: It has been the practice of successive governments not to comment, on grounds of both national security and staff safety, on the physical capacity or staffing numbers for individual buildings of the government estate.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament record10 Downing Street: Official HospitalityCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49763More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 15186 on 10 Downing Street: Official Hospitality, whether he plans to provide costs for individual receptions in 10 Downing Street in the Cabinet Office Ann
Answer: There are no plans to update inherited guidance in order to provide a breakdown of costs for individual receptions in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts. The cost of hospitality in 10 Downing Street is published in the Cabinet Office Annual Rep...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: Mobile PhonesCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49762More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to undertake further local or national testing of the mobile phone Emergency Alert service.
Answer: In January 2025, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, announced plans for a second national test of the Emergency Alerts system to take place in 2025. This will ensure the system’s effectiveness in providing life-saving alerts to the public during si...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants and Special Advisers: VettingCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49761More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers are asked to provide details of (i) spent and (ii) unspent criminal convictions when applying for (A) CTC and (B) SC security clearance.
Answer: All vetting applicants for Counter-Terrorist Check and Security Check clearances are asked to declare spent and unspent convictions.
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: SecondmentCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49760More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6083 on Civil Servants: Secondment, whether his Department's HR are informed when an individual is seconded to the Cabinet Office.
Answer: Secondments are arranged at a Business Unit level and must follow the processes as set out in the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. There are mechanisms in place for business units to notify the department's HR as necessary.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAdvisory Committee on Business AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49759More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to reduce delays for applicants to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.
Answer: Over the last year, the Cabinet Office, as the sponsoring department of ACoBA, has supported the Committee’s secretariat to recruit the additional staff required to ensure it is resourced to deliver its core functions to agreed timescales
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: TrainingCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49758More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Government-branded merchandise and away days banned, published on 6 April 2025, whether this ban will extend to Senior Civil Service away days.
Answer: The announcement sets out the requirements for all departments to review their policies on procuring corporate-branded and non-essential merchandise, with a view to restricting future purchases. These stricter rules will permit government merchandise only...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Bodies: ReviewsCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49757More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Hundreds of quangos to be examined for potential closure as Government takes back control, published on 7 April 2025, whether the review will include (a)
Answer: The review is being led by departments. Departments are to justify every quango otherwise they’ll be closed, merged, or have powers brought back into the department. It will be for individual departments to enact this guidance, with policy teams determini...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: LanyardsCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49756More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Government-branded merchandise and away days banned, published on 6 April 2025, whether this ban will extend to banning Progress Flag-branded lanyards.
Answer: The announcement sets out the requirements for all departments to review their policies on procuring corporate-branded and non-essential merchandise, with a view to restricting future purchases. These stricter rules will permit government merchandise only...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEquality: Impact AssessmentsWomen and EqualitiesTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49755More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what estimate she has made of the regulatory cost of producing Equality Impact Assessments; and whether the Government plans to take steps to reduce the compliance cost of producing them.
Answer: Where a public body decides to undertake an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) to fulfill its Public Sector Equality Duty obligations, this would be funded as part of the organisation’s administrative budget. EIAs are well embedded in Government policy maki...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRegistrar of Consultant LobbyistsCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49754More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 42050 on Registrar of Consultancy Lobbyists, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to allow the Registrar to regulate foreign-based consultant
Answer: The government is committed to transparency and has already taken a number of steps to restore trust in politics. There are no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals regarding the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, but this is kept under rev...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordElish AngioliniCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49753More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 42043 on Elish Angiolini, whether the Government was aware of the legal restriction before the public announcement of Lady Angiolini as the Lord High Commission
Answer: I refer the honourable member to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 42043.
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: EmailCabinet OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49752More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 41645 on Cabinet Office: Email, whether the same provisions apply to non-Ministerial inboxes in Downing Street.
Answer: Mailboxes held by 10 Downing Street are subject to the Cabinet Office departmental information management policy, as detailed in the previous response.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 32585 on NHS: Training, what assessment he has made of the (a) efficiency and (b) effectiveness of NHS spending on unconscious basis training.
Answer: There has not been a specific assessment made of spend on unconscious bias training in the National Health Service. As explained in the answer to Question 32585, there is no national NHS-wide policy on unconscious bias training in the NHS. Individual NHS ...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Boston Consulting GroupCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49391More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42462 on Cabinet Office: Boston Consulting Group, on what date the Cabinet Office Investment Committee approved the commercial arrangement with Boston Consultin
Answer: The Investment Committee approved the Business Case for CDDO Strategy, Analysis and System Reform in November 2022. Subsequently, a competitive procurement was launched and the contract was awarded to Boston Consulting Group.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArms Length BodiesCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49390More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's publication Setting Up a New Arm’s-Length Body (ALB): Guidance for Departments, published on 9 May 2024, whether he plans to revise this guidance.
Answer: As announced on 7 April, the government is conducting a review of all arm’s-length bodies to reassess when arm’s-length delivery of public services is appropriate. As part of this review, consideration will be given on whether to update existing Cabinet O...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Trade Union OfficialsCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49389More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 8814 on Cabinet Office: Trade Union Officials, and with reference to the Freedom of Information Act response with reference FOI2024/14572, if he will publish
Answer: A copy of the information released in the response to FOI2024/14572 has been deposited in the House Library.
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: Unpaid WorkCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49388More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether white British people can apply to the Civil Service Summer Diversity Internship Programme.
Answer: The Fast Stream Summer Diversity Internship Programme was replaced by the Summer Internship Programme in 2023. The Summer Internship Programme is open to any penultimate and final year undergraduates who have the right to work in the UK Civil Service.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Advisers: Redundancy PayCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49387More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish individual severance payments made to departing special advisers at pay band Level 4 since July 2024.
Answer: It is a longstanding policy not to comment on individuals. The Model Contract for Special Advisers is published online and details the circumstances in which severance is payable. Total severance costs are released in the annual report, which will be publ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: WomenCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49386More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his department is taking with the (a) Office for Equality and Opportunity, (b) Government Property Agency and (c) Government People Group to amend (i) policy or (ii) practice guidance in relation to (
Answer: The Cabinet Office, including the Office for Equality and Opportunity, the Government Property Agency and the Government People Group, has been engaging across the Civil Service, in order to review and update policy and guidance wherever necessary to ensu...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49385More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 45015 on Cabinet Office: Social Media, if he will publish (a) a list of the specific advertisements that were placed, (b) a summary of the content and (c) the
Answer: As was the case under the previous administration, this information is not routinely published.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament record9 Downing Street: MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49384More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 41297 on 9 Downing Street: Media, if he will publish the business case for the one-off refresh of the facility undertaken in December 2024.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer of 21 January 2025, Official Report, PQ 25454.
Answered 12 May 2025
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