Written questions
2,704 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Summer Diversity Internship Programme weekly training allowance is taxed.
21 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the eligibility criteria are for the Summer Diversity Internship Programme for socially or economically disadvantaged groups.
21 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have participated in the Summer Diversity Internship Programme since its inception; and how many of those participants have subsequently been accepted onto the Civil Service Fast Stream.
21 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress his Department has made on allowing interns who successfully complete the Summer Diversity Internship Programme to pass straight to the Fast Stream assessment centre on the basis of having s
18 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 5 of the publication, Socio-Economic Diversity in the Fast Stream, published in February 2016, what progress his Department has made on (a) targeting universities and academic departments,
17 Mar 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 1.287 of Budget 2016, what estimate he has made of how many civil servants will be relocated in his Department as a result of the programme to create centres of expertise outside the c
17 Mar 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the publication Decentralisation: An account of progress, published in December 2012, what progress his Department has made on proposals to deliver on annual decentralis
17 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Permanent Secretaries: Social Class
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many permanent secretaries are from a lower socio-economic background.
17 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Apprentices
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what wage the Government plans to pay civil servant apprentices.
17 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Apprentices
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what projection he has made of the number of civil service apprenticeships that will be created in each department in each year until 2020.
17 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service Board
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of diversity of membership of the Civil Service Board; and if he will make a statement.
17 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Publications
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of producing single departmental plans for each central government department.
17 Mar 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to answer Written Questions 29167 and 29238, tabled on 1 March 2016 and Written Question 29372, tabled on 2 March 2016.
16 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Apprentices
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil service apprentices who have been appointed to date is (a) over the age of 25 and (b) paid at the rate of the national living wage.
16 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the effect on electoral registration rates of introduction of a requirement to pass on electoral roll data to credit reference firms.
16 Mar 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the status is of the McKinsey report which informed the BIS 2020 departmental restructuring strategy.
15 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the report on electoral fraud by the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion to be published.
15 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Anti-corruption Champion
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what costs the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion has incurred to date.
15 Mar 2016 · Cabinet Office
Anti-corruption Champion
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what work the Anti-Corruption Champion has undertaken for his Department.
14 Mar 2016 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Education Funding Agency determines whether related party transactions by Academy Trusts are made at cost.
14 Mar 2016 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many related party transactions by Academy Trusts were classified as irregular or improper by the Education Funding Agency in each of the last two financial years; and how many such cases resulted in re-pay
14 Mar 2016 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Education Funding Agency determines whether related party transactions by Academy Trusts are made at cost in the case of payments to consultants with variable rates.
14 Mar 2016 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of monitoring related party transactions in Academy Trusts in the (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 financial years; and what the projected cost of such transactions is in 2015-1
14 Mar 2016 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Education Funding Agency takes to discover related party transactions which are not disclosed Academy Trust financial statements.
8 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of his Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.
8 Mar 2016 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of his Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.
8 Mar 2016 · Scotland Office
Scotland Office: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what proportion of his Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.
8 Mar 2016 · Department for International Development
Department for International Development: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.
8 Mar 2016 · Home Office
Deportation: Vietnam
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were removed to Vietnam in each year between 2007 and 2015.
8 Mar 2016 · Home Office
Deportation: Vietnam
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who were removed to Vietnam in the last three years were also classified as foreign national prisoners.
Source: official written-questions record.