Written questions

2,704 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Feb 2016 · Department for Transport

Transport: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the comment by Peter Wilkinson, Director of Rail Passenger Services at his Department, of 22 February 2016, about future industrial relations between his Department and transport unions is accurate.

24 Feb 2016 · Department for Transport

Transport: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that transport trade unions retain confidence in his Department's Senior Civil Servants' impartiality.

24 Feb 2016 · Department for Transport

Transport: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what he plans his Department's policy on industrial relations with transport unions to be over the next three years.

24 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Department for Transport: Senior Civil Servants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will investigate whether the reported comments of 22 February 2016 by Peter Wilkinson, director of Rail Passenger Services at the Department for Transport, are in breach of the Civil Service code.

24 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Greater London

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Senior Civil Servants were based in London in each year since 2010.

24 Feb 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average cost of each official of his Department based at (a) St Paul's Place, Sheffield and (b) 1 Victoria Street, London.

23 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues to credit reference firms on handling data on people who are on the closed electoral register.

23 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints his Department has received on the sale of electoral roll data by credit reference firms.

23 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what checks his Department has in place to ensure that credit reference firms do not sell-on electoral roll data.

23 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) guidance his Department issues and (b) regulations are in place on the provision of electoral roll data to credit reference agencies.

23 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Political Impartiality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides to senior civil servants on speaking at public events.

23 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Political Impartiality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues to senior civil servants attending events organised by hon. Members of the Government party.

19 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how long HM Revenue and Customs is required to keep records on individual tax credit cases.

10 Feb 2016 · Home Office

Children: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the correction of 9 February 2016 to Question 13206, what the cause was of the error in information on former unaccompanied minors removed between 2007 and 31 December 2015; and what steps

10 Feb 2016 · Home Office

Children: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the correction of 9 February 2016 to Question 13206, (a) for what reasons the data initially published was incorrect, and (b) what steps her Department has taken to ensure accurate collect

10 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many firms have been excluded from bidding for Government contracts since the introduction of the procurement policy note, Measures to promote tax compliance published in February 2014.

10 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the procedures set out in the procurement policy note, Measures to promote tax compliance published in February 2014.

10 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a standard disclosure clause is included in Government procurement contracts.

9 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Integrated Debt Services

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 21746, what estimate he has made of the value of Integrated Debt Services Limited; and how much the private sector partner paid to purchase their 75 per cent

8 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

G4S

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, 26 January 2016, Official Report, column 146, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary plans to write to the hon. Member

8 Feb 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 his Department plans to answer Questions 25349, 25350, 25505, 25506, 25604, tabled on 2 February 2016 and Question 24982, tabled on 1 February 2016.

5 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of hours teaching assistants spent covering classes in the absence of a teacher in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cancellations of tax credits by Concentrix have been reversed since that company's contract with his Department commenced.

5 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Agency Workers and Civil Servants: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of (a) agency workers and (b) directly employed staff in the civil service at each grade in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what cyber-security training civil servants are required to undertake (a) as part of their induction and (b) during their employment.

5 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Efficiency and Reform Group: Ipsos MORI

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's spending data for October 2014, for what reasons IPSOS Mori was engaged on the business case for Efficiency and Reform Group fraud, error and debt.

4 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Shared Services Connected: Consultants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the amount spent on consultancy support for Independent Shared Services Centres; and for what reasons the consultants were so engaged.

4 Feb 2016 · Cabinet Office

Government: Debt Collection

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on legal advice relating to the Debt Market Integrator.

3 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Redundancy

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, where the 152 staff who have been issued with compulsory redundancy notices by HM Revenue and Customs staff are based.

3 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Redundancy

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when in January 2016 the decision to issue compulsory redundancy notices to 152 HM Revenue and Customs staff was made.

Source: official written-questions record.