Written questions
947 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average salary is of civil servants working in roles relating to diversity, equality and inclusion.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister's Chief of Staff: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 72 of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities annual report and accounts 2022-23, what is the Cash Equivalent Transfer Value of the civil service pension of the Prime Mini
9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Public Houses
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Department is responsible for Government policy on community pubs.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance the civil service issues on employing (a) staff without posts, (b) people action teams, (c) priority movers lists, (d) redeployment registers and (e) talent pools.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Equality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 936 on Civil Service: Equality, whether he plans to implement the previous Government's planned reductions on equality, diversity and inclusion spending in the
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Security
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the staff guidance on obtaining a pass to exit 70 Whitehall via the Horse Guards cyclist entrance; and whether staff not travelling by bicycle are permitted to use that entrance.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1244 on Ministers: Training, whether those induction briefings included guidance on (a) anti-bullying, (b) allyship and (c) unconscious bias.
9 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fisheries: EU Countries
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on EU fishing rights in UK waters, in the context of the Government's plans to change its relationship with the EU.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
European Court of Justice
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on the potential impact of European Court of Justice rulings on the UK, in the context of the Government's plans to change its relationship with the EU.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Directories
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish an updated version of the Directory of Civil Service Guidance, last published on 21 September 2010.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications for Recruitment Principles exceptions has the Civil Service Commission rejected since 4 July 2024; and how many breaches of the Recruitment Principles have been identified in the same perio
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Propriety and Constitution Group
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the House of Commons Library a copy of the (a) terms of reference and (b) responsibilities of the Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Ethics Team.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Young People: EU Nationals
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on youth movement of EU nationals, in the context of the Government's plans to change its relationship with the EU.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide a list of each appointment by (a) department, (b) payband, (c) job title, (d) exception used, (e) appointment length and (f) civil servant name that has been approved by the Civil Service Comm
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1261 on Senior Civil Servants, if he will provide a breakdown by (a) department and (b) job title of senior civil service jobs (i) offered and (ii) appointed si
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Government Communication Service
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1208 on Government Communication Service, if he will place a copy of the audit in the House of Commons Library that (a) redacts the names of junior civil servan
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Nick Joicey
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Commission publication entitled 2023/24 Exceptions at and above Payband 2, for what reason the Exception Used for Nick Joicey was Paragraph 100 of Recruitment Principles.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to meet the Public and Commercial Services Union pay demands for 2024-25 of a (a) 35 days annual leave minimum and (b) significant shortening of the working week with no loss of pay.
9 Sep 2024 · Treasury
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, whether the Director of Special Advisers and Chancellor Engagement role was open to external candidates.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Official Residences
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1214 on Ministers: Official Residences, what the timetable is for allocating each of the remaining official residences.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Buildings
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many work desks are available for civil servants in 70 Whitehall; and how many staff are assigned to work in 70 Whitehall.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, published in April 2018, whether his Department has published supplementary guidance on appointing civil servants under exception 1 on tempo
9 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Strike Ballots
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of ending the Trade Union Act 2016 requirement for industrial action ballot thresholds on trends in the level of industrial action.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service Governance and Accountability Review
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to respond formally to Lord Maude of Horsham's independent review of governance and accountability in the civil service.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of repealing the Trade Union Act 2016 on public sector pay discussions with trade unions.
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average length of a recruitment competition is from advertisement to recruitment of the winning candidate for a Civil Service job advertised on the (a) public and (b) civil service-only version of Civil
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Performance Appraisal
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 927 on Civil Service: Performance Related Pay, by which metrics Senior Civil Service end of year performance assessments consider delivery against the Diversity
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1261 on Senior Civil Servants, whether each of these roles were (a) externally advertised and (b) subject to open competition; and how many senior civil servant
9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Directors
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Non-Executive Directors have left all (a) Government departments and (b) arms’ length public bodies since 4 July 2024.
9 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Public Sector: Trade Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2024 to Question 902 on Public sector: trade unions, whether it is the Government's policy to (a) amend and (b) repeal the check-off provisions from the (i) Trade Unio
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