Mr Richard Holden

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

National Security Adviser

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 64065 on National Security Adviser, for what reason the role of secretary to the National Security Council is fulfilled by the Deputy National Security Advisers;

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Disaster Relief and Emergencies: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 63336 on Disaster Relief and Emergencies: Equality, whether there is any other documentation with the Risk Vulnerability Tool.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish Freedom of Information Act response FOI2025/09675, dated 11 July 2025, on the number of undeployed staff in the Skills Hub.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65153 on Government Communications Service: Reviews, whether the Director of Government Communications is being recruited externally through open and fair compe

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments: Political Impartiality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Public Appointments Commission has issued guidance on the declaration of significant political activity for regulated appointments.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65874 on Prime Minister: Staff, how many staff work in the Mission Delivery Unit; whether that unit is part of the Prime Minister’s Office business unit; and in

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Defence: Statistics

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) UK Statistics Authority and (b) Office for National Statistics has a remit over the Government’s statistical (i) classification and (ii) reporting of (A) defence spending and (B) security and res

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the Civil Service Jobs website advertises job vacancies which allow employees to work from home permanently.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 66650 on Industrial Disputes, what guidance his Department provides on undertaking Ministerial duties in 70 Whitehall during periods of strike action by (a) sta

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Intelligence and Security Committee: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the press release of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament of 1 May 2025, and pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2025 to Question 54011 on Intelligence and Security Committee, wha

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Lobbying: Official Hospitality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides on holding departmental receptions at the offices of consultant lobbying firms.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Keir Starmer: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 47344 on Workplace Pensions: Inheritance Tax, whether MyCSP administers the Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC; and whether there is an annual (a) set of account

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Performance Related Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question HL8406 on Civil Servants: Performance Related Pay, what is his Department's policy on performance-related pay for the Junior Civil Service; and what is the maxi

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Lanyards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 58669 on Cabinet Office: Lanyards, what was the (a) artwork and (b) branding on the 6,376 lanyards purchased for £5,069.99.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

College for National Security: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the College for National Security Privacy Notice published on 19 June 2025, what steps he has taken to ensure that diversity data collected by the College for National Security is not used to i

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Permanent Secretaries: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2025 to Question 65151 on Permanent Secretaries: Pay, which two Permanent Secretary roles were approved; and what the salaries were.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications were made to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury under the approval of senior pay process for salaries above (a) £150,000 and (b) £174,000 since 4 July 2024; how many of those applications were

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Inflation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Spring Statement 2025: Policy Costings, updated on 2 April 2025, for what reason that document uses both (a) RPI and (b) CPI inflation.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Payment Systems Regulator

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the merger of the Payment Services Regulator in the Financial Conduct Authority will require (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation; and what her planned timetable is for completion of that merger.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Treasury: Government Art Collection

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which Government Art Collection works have been (a) installed and (b) deinstalled from HM Treasury main offices since 4 July 2024 by (i) title, (ii) artist and (iii) reference number.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.91 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the treatment of double cab pick-up vehicles on (a) SMEs,

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Insurance Premium Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of insurance premium tax on the cost of car insurance; and whether she plans to increase insurance premium tax.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

National Security: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62994 on Defence: Expenditure, whether expenditure on (a) transport and (b) broadband networks are within the scope of spending on critical infrastructure.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 53201 on Cabinet Office: Building, what major repairs are required to bring the building back into use.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Official Residences: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there is an annual allowance for (a) works, (b) fittings and (c) fixtures for Ministerial residences in (i) Downing Street, (ii) Carlton Gardens and (iii) Admiralty House.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Civil Service: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the cost to the civil service of the requirement in the Employment Rights Bill to provide (a) additional facility time to trade unions and (b) facility time for equality re

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 63329 on Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, what the (a) title and (b) purpose of that training was.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Freedom of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the judgement in George Greenwood v The Information Commissioner & Anor, [2025] UKFTT 391 (GRC), whether his Department has issued guidance to government bodies on whether staff who have left a

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

House of Lords Appointments Commission

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2025 to Question 62083 on House of Lords Appointments Commission, on what date the public appointments process opened; whether it has been extended; and whether any people who a

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) the Government Communications Service has made of the effectiveness of government press offices with large numbers of staff.