Written questions

4,009 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Hubs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to make an assessment of the effect of relocating staff to regional hubs on (a) staff turnover and (b) available expertise.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the new charging mechanism for the New Property Model.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Hubs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is for the completion of each strategic hub in the Government's estate strategy.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to publish the results of the Government Property Unit's live trials of the New Property Model.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the Government departments that participated in the live trials of the New Property Model.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has a target for the number of homes to be built on disposed of Government estate assets.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Property Unit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Property Unit has produced a full business case for the (a) Hubs programme and (b) New Property Model.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Hubs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the Government Property Unit calculated that 75 per cent of staff will relocate to a hub less than 10 miles from their current office and that 90 per cent will relocate within 25 miles, as set out in the Nat

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Ministry of Justice: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to figure 16 on page 44 of the National Audit Office's report, Progress on the government estate strategy (HC 1131), published on 25 April 2017, how the speculative figure of £62 million in saving

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to figure 16 on page 44 of the National Audit Office's report, Progress on the government estate strategy (HC 1131), published on 25 April 2017, what the evidential basis is for the £40 million in

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to figure 7 on page 24 of the National Audit Office's report, Progress on the government estate strategy (HC 1131), published on 25 April 2017, what the evidential basis is for the number of jobs

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Brexit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of new arms-length bodies his Department plans to establish once the UK has left the EU.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a fee is charged by the Government for staff seconded to foreign Governments from the Government Communication Service.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many secondments have been organised form (a) the Government Communication Service (GCS) to outside of government and (b) outside of Government to the GCS since the inception of that body.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Jordan

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many trips staff from the Government Communication Service have made to Jordan since the inception of that body; and what the costs were of each such trip.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Tunisia

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many trips staff from the Government Communication Service have made to Tunisia since the inception of that body; and what the costs were of each such trip.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what Government assistance is provided to people made financially destitute by gambling addiction.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gaming Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will introduce legislation to increase the delay between spins of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Betting Shops

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will introduce measures to prevent clustering of betting shops and reform planning guidance on the placement of betting shops.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gaming Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on whether the limit of four fixed odds betting terminals per shop is being circumvented by the clustering of betting shops.

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Assets

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which of the last 10 years his Department has submitted a strategic asset management plan to the Government Property Unit.

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Cybersecurity

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the principle set out in paragraph 5.3.6 of the Government's Cyber Security Strategy that everyone who works in government has a sound awareness of cyber risk applies to members of staff employed by contracto

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Secondment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications his Department has received for (a) internal loans and (b) secondments from civil servants in each year since 2010.

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Temporary Employment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of requests for consultancy and temporary staff for his Department were approved via a resource board.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the principle set out in paragraph 5.3.6 of the Government's Cyber Security Strategy that everyone who works in government has a sound awareness of cyber risk applies to members o

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of new arms-length bodies his Department plans to establish once the UK has left the EU.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 3360 on redundancy, how many of the 322 exits negotiated by the departmental group were for (a) men and (b) women.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 3360 on redundancy, how much of the £15,805,000 paid in redundancy payments was paid to (a) men and (b) women.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of consultancy assignments procured by his Department are paid at a daily rate.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether requests for consultancy and temporary staff for the his Department must be accompanied by a formal business case.

Source: official written-questions record.