Mike Wood MP: written questions 2025
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Civil ServiceCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45008More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Q45 of the oral evidence given by his Department's Permanent Secretary to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on 4 December 2024, HC 463, if he will list the employer
Answer: The UK civil service is made up of civil servants employed at over 100 Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Executive Agencies and Crown NDPBs. These are listed and published each quarter by Office for National Statistics at Table 9 of their quart...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Codes of PracticeCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45007More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister must approve updates to guidance referenced within the Ministerial Code.
Answer: The Ministerial Code refers to a range of duties, obligations and guidance. The Code is the Prime Minister’s document and he is responsible for deciding which duties, obligations and guidance it refers to.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Public and Commercial Services UnionCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45006More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Public and Commercial Services Union's press notice entitled PCS demands Cabinet Office meeting over Gaza, published on 26 July 2024, what discussions his Department has had with PCS.
Answer: The Cabinet Office regularly holds discussions with trade unions including the Public and Commercial Services Union. These discussions relate to Civil Service workforce matters. Information about Cabinet Office ministers' meetings are released quarterly o...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial AdvisersCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45005More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 5306 on Special Advisers, if he will set out the (a) Minister and (b) senior civil servant in (i) Downing Street and (ii) each department that determines whe
Answer: I refer the Hon. member to the answer to PQ 5306.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Freedom of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45004More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Freedom of Information - FOI clearing house review, updated on 14 December 2023, when he plans to publish the guidance on cross-cutting themes that are specif
Answer: The Cabinet Office has published guidance on ‘Freedom of Information and the Role of Special Advisers’ and on ‘Communication by Spreadsheet’ on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVetting: FinanceCabinet OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45003More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to increase funding for security vetting.
Answer: United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) is funded by its customers (government departments, the police, industry) through a burden-sharing model. Funding is agreed with customers on an annual basis, and in parallel with Cabinet Office business planning. In...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGender: Public ConsultationWomen and EqualitiesTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44478More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to her Departments document entitled Response to call for input on single-sex spaces guidance, published on 17 December 2024, when she will publish new guidance; and whether (a) her Department a
Answer: The Government is sharing with the EHRC all the submissions that met the criteria of the previous Government’s call for input on single-sex spaces guidance. It is vitally important that service providers understand the single-sex service exceptions in t...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGender: Public ConsultationWomen and EqualitiesTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44477More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the guidance entitled Response to call for input on single-sex spaces guidance, published on 17 December 2024, if she will publish each of the non-confidential responses.
Answer: The Government is sharing with the EHRC all the submissions that met the criteria of the previous Government’s call for input on single-sex spaces guidance. It is vitally important that service providers understand the single-sex service exceptions in t...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: Senior Civil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44476More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25674 on Prime Minister: Senior Civil Servants, if he will publish the Principal Private Secretary candidate pack.
Answer: Between 13 November and 1 December 2024 the candidate pack for the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister was published and available to download via the Civil Service Jobs website.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Civil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44475More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps (a) his Department, (b) the Office for Equality and Opportunity and (c) diversity networks linked to his Department are taking to support (i) asexual and (ii) aromantic civil servants.
Answer: There are no policies that exist in respect of asexual and/or aromantic staff specifically.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44474More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the written statement of 3 February 2025, HCWS408, on transparency data, if he will ensure that the gov.uk transparency data is published in accessible open data formats, including via public APIs.
Answer: Transparency data is published according to the standard and best practice guidance from the Government Digital Service and Central Digital and Data Office. Accessible open data formats are already used.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: PhotographsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44473More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Departments hire official photographers as staff members.
Answer: Information on how many departments hire official photographers as staff members is not held centrally by the Cabinet Office. The Cabinet Office Communications team employs two Digital Media Officers who support government work in Departments and undertak...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Disciplinary ProceedingsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44472More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 24 December 2024 to Question 19479 on Civil Servants: Disciplinary Proceedings, how many civil servants working in his Department have been suspended due to allegations of misconduct si
Answer: Suspensions are used to safeguard the organisation and are not an assumption of guilt. Suspension can be used for a range of reasons; including during security investigations, fraud investigations or misconduct. The table below shows the number of suspens...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: SurveysCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44471More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department holds Civil Service People Survey 2024 data for 10 Downing Street staff.
Answer: Yes.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Expenditure ControlsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44470More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued to other departments on spending controls overseen by Ministers.
Answer: The Cabinet Office has published guidance on spend controls here and will share updated guidance and information with departments if we make any changes to these controls. The most recent guidance issued to departments on spending controls was in relation...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Conduct Authority: EqualityTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44469More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Financial Conduct Authority's press release entitled Update on the FCA’s enforcement transparency proposals, published on 12 March 2025, whether she has had discussions with the (a) FCA and (b)
Answer: Treasury Ministers and officials regularly meet with both the FCA and the PRA to discuss their work. As set out in the King’s Speech last July, the government is committed to making the right to equal pay effective for ethnic minority and disabled people ...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial AdvisersCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44468More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the monetary levels of the each of the special adviser pay bands.
Answer: Special adviser pay bands are published in the Annual Report on Special Advisers.The most recent publication which includes the payband for the previous administration is availbale at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/674844e62ac8a6da3072393...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44467More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40911 on Government Departments: Social Media, if he will update the guidance to require Ministers to declare (a) hospitality and (b) other meetings with senio
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my previous answers [41868 and 40911]. Details of ministers’ official meetings with all external individuals and organisations are published on a quarterly basis.The Cabinet Office also publishes a monthly register of all gifts a...
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordData, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender Independent ReviewDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what his timetable is for publishing the second part of the Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender.
Answer: The government has now published the independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender commissioned by the previous Government.Professor Sullivan is entitled to publish further research in this area in her capacity as an academic and m...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArden StrategiesTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44465More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16606 on Arden Strategies, if she will list each of the businesses that (a) attended the roundabout on 17 September 2024 and (b) have not been listed as attendin
Answer: A meeting was organised by the Chancellor’s International Investment Summit (IIS) Adviser on 17 September to gather business views on the Summit. Arden Strategies was one of several firms to attend. The Government engaged with a number of different busine...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43965More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on recruitment consultants for public appointments regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments since 4 July 2024; and on which firms.
Answer: Since 4 July 2024, the Cabinet Office has spent £17,600 on recruitment consultants for public appointments regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. This was paid to Hays Recruitment Agency to retain their services for the recruitment of a Ju...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: StressCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43964More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff were signed off absent due to stress in his Department in the most recent week for which data is available.
Answer: Information about sickness absence in the Cabinet Office is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-sickness-absence-2024/civil-service-sickness-absence-2024-report#by-organisation
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation AuthorityCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43963More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there is a framework agreement in place for the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.
Answer: The Cabinet Office published the Infected Blood Compensation Authority Framework Document on 10 March 2025. The document is publicly available on gov.uk, and can be found here:https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67cecb66df94702964916071/IBCA_Fr...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Statistics AuthorityCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43962More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) framework agreements and (b) memorandums of understanding between his Department and (i) the UK Statistics Authority and (ii) Office for National Statistics on (A) how Parliamentary Qu
Answer: The 2020 MoU between Cabinet Office and the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) is published on gov.uk (here). The Office for National Statistics is part of UKSA and does not have its own MoU. There is no separate Framework Agreement. A revised MoU is due to b...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: LeadershipCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43959More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance to other Departments on reducing spending on leadership training.
Answer: The Cabinet Office has not issued any guidance to departments about reducing spending on leadership training. Good leadership and management skills will be needed to deliver the Plan for Change and realise the government’s ambition to reshape the state. A...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
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