Richard Holden MP: written questions 2025
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Honours: Public AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23477More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 14712 on Honours: Public Appointments, if he will list the assessment panel members for each of those competitions (a) before they closed and (b) after they
Answer: Pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 14712 on Honours: Public Appointments, the assessment panel members for each of the competitions mentioned (a) before they closed and (b) after they re-opened are as follows: (i) Community and Volunta...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23476More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish Lord Mandelson's declaration of interests as the new Ambassador to the United States.
Answer: There is an established mechanism in place for the management of interests held by all Senior Civil Servants. This ensures that steps are taken to avoid or mitigate any potential or perceived conflicts of interest. In line with guidance, the FCDO does not...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament record10 Downing Street: ShopsCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23475More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any products originating from China are stocked by the 10 Downing Street gift shop.
Answer: Most suppliers of the 10 Downing Street gift shop are British companies, and many of the items are made in the UK. A very small number of items are manufactured overseas, including China. This was the case under the previous government.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInternational Criminal CourtForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he considers the International Criminal Court to be a foreign court.
Answer: The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an international court based in the Netherlands. The UK is a State Party to the Rome Statute, the international treaty which established the ICC, and is one of the founding members. The ICC Act 2001 gives effect t...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: EqualityTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23473More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Financial Conduct Authority’s consultation entitled Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change, which closed on 18 December 2023, if she will recommend t
Answer: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is a non-governmental body which is independent from the Treasury. Parliament has given it broad powers to make rules for the purpose of advancing its statutory objectives. It is for the FCA to determine the next step...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEquality: Impact AssessmentsTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23472More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish all internal equality impact assessments produced for measures included in the Autumn Budget 2024 and lay copies of them in the House of Commons library.
Answer: HM Treasury carefully considers the impact of its decisions on those sharing protected characteristics in line with both our legal obligations and our strong commitment to breaking down barriers to opportunity.In the interests of transparency, HM Treasury...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: BangladeshTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23471More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HMRC has made of levels of money laundering from Bangladesh into the UK property market.
Answer: HM Revenue and Customs continually reviews and monitors international risks and threats on an ongoing basis, deploying the full range of investigative tools and capabilities to address such issues as they arise. HMRC cannot provide information requested i...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Advisers: TrainingCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23470More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10436 on Special Advisers: Training and with reference to the Freedom of Information Act request with reference FOI2024/14571, for what reason the requested
Answer: All Freedom of Information requests are considered on their individual merits in accordance with the relevant legislation. A copy of the information released in the response will be deposited in the House Library.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: PublicityCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23469More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 21256 on Film: Marketing, where on gov.uk her Department plans to publish departmental spending on (a) branding and (b) official events.
Answer: Departmental spending that meets the criteria are published in gov.uk transparency data publications, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-spend-data
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRecruitment and Unpaid Work: EqualityCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23468More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will issue new guidance to (a) the civil service and (b) public bodies to prevent practices which limit (i) recruitment and (ii) internships on the basis of protected characteristics.
Answer: Individual departments are responsible for recruitment decisions and they are required to meet all obligations of relevant legislation, including the Equality Act 2010. If a department wants to restrict an internship programme to a specific group or group...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: British Society for Genetic MedicineDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had meetings with representatives of the British Society for Genetic Medicine in the last 30 years.
Answer: In the last 30 years, officials in the Department of Health and, later, the Department of Health and Social Care, have had meetings with representatives of the British Society for Genetic Medicine. As far as can be determined, ministers have also had meet...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: Unpaid WorkCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23179More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question HL2771 on Civil Servants: Recruitment, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of crown servant internships not being open those of white Briti
Answer: Individual departments are responsible for recruitment decisions and they are required to meet all obligations of relevant legislation, including the Equality Act 2010. If a department wants to restrict an internship programme to a specific group or group...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22999More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department’s definition of a tax break is.
Answer: ‘Tax breaks’ are commonly understood to be policies that mean taxpayers either pay less tax through exemptions or deductions, or get tax back through credits or repaid in another way.
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRachel Reeves: Self-assessmentTreasuryTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22998More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21387 on Rachel Reeves: Self-assessment, for what reason she does not plan to publish her tax return.
Answer: I refer the hon member to the answer given on the 7 January 2025 to UIN 21387.
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEd MilibandCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22997More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 19415 on Ed Miliband, whether the Rt Hon Member for Islington North (a) made an application for and (b) received a severance payment.
Answer: Ministers and certain office-holders are entitled to a severance payment when they leave office under the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991. As set out in the Act, to be eligible to receive the payment ministers and office-holders must ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMinisters: QuestionnairesCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22996More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish of the questionnaire form that incoming Ministers are asked to provide to the Propriety and Ethics Team.
Answer: The established process for the declaration and management of ministers’ private interests is set out in Part B Chapter 3 of the Ministerial Code. Details of the categories ministers are asked to declare their interests in can be found in the List of Mini...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament record9 Downing Street: MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22995More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 13808 on 9 Downing Street: Media, whether refurbishment works had been commissioned when this Answer was given.
Answer: No refurbishment works had been commissioned.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Advisers: PayCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22994More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 27 December 2024 to Question 20832 on Special Advisers: Pay, if he will ensure that the list of special advisers is published by 31 March 2025.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member to my response to PQ 20832 and PQ 22188.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: DirectorsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22993More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Baroness Casey made a declaration of political activity following her appointment as Lead Non-Executive Director.
Answer: Baroness Casey followed the published process for declaring any interests.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-executive-board-member-declaration-of-interests-process/non-executive-board-member-declaration-of-interests-process#contextInterests w...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: PayCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22992More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21403 on Cabinet Office: Pay, whether the mean salary of civil servants in the (a) Women's Equality Unit, (b) Race Disparity Unit and (c) Disability Unit will
Answer: Details of Cabinet Office structure and salaries are due to be published by the end of January 2025 as part of regular transparency reporting. This will include the Office for Equality and Opportunities and within it the sub units of: Women’s Equality Uni...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-departmental Public BodiesCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22991More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 19414 on Non-departmental Public Bodies, how many non-departmental public bodies the Government plans to (a) open and (b) close.
Answer: As said in my previous answer of 8 January 2025, Cabinet Office maintains records and oversight of formally established Arm’s Length Bodies, including NDPBs. Individual departments are responsible for any proposals to open or close NDPBs.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 16332 on Undocumented Migrants, whether she plans to make an estimate of the number of people in the UK illegally.
Answer: By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact size of the illegal migrant population, and so the Home Office under successive governments has not published any official estimates of the illegal migrant population. In June 2019, the Office for N...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUnpaid Work: Ethnic GroupsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22989More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 6 January 2025 to Question 21057 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Unpaid Work and (b) 20 November 2024 to Question 14502 on Gender: Equality, whether guidance
Answer: Individual departments are responsible for recruitment decisions and they are required to meet all obligations of relevant legislation, including the Equality Act 2010. If a department wants to restrict an internship programme to a specific group or group...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been (a) released in error and (b) released in error and not re-apprehended under the Early Release scheme as of 8 January 2025.
Answer: On 10 September 2024, the Government took the necessary and unavoidable step to move certain release points from 50% to 40%, with an initial tranche of eligible offenders released on this date, and a second tranche released on 22 October 2024.There was an...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGonorrhoea: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21699 on Gonorrhoea: Health Services, what data his Department holds on the cost of treating gonorrhoea to the NHS; and if he will publish that
Answer: The data on the cost of treating gonorrhoea to the National Health Service is not held centrally. This is because most gonorrhoea infections are treated with antibiotics in sexual health services using funding from the Local Authority Public Health Grant....
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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