Mr Richard Holden

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has issued guidance to (a) the civil service and (b) arm’s length bodies on paying back severance payments if civil servants made redundant rejoin the (a) civil service, (b) NHS and (c) wider public s

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Standards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question HL4631 on Cabinet Office: Standards, if he will publish that template.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Public Opinion

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance he has issued on efficiency savings through reducing spending on public opinion research.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 14354 on Civil Servants: Pay, what the budget for civil service pay is (a) including and (b) excluding National insurance employer contributions in (i) 2024

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Permanent Secretaries: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Permanent Secretaries and (b) Second Permanent Secretaries are employed on fixed term contracts.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Mariana Mazzucato

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 7760 on Marian Mazzucato, whether she is an adviser to the Government in any other capacity.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Fair Work Agency: Statistics

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to lay a new Official Statistics Order to designate the Fair Work Agency’s statistical outputs as official statistics.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether appointments to Great British Railways will be included in the Public Bodies Order in Council; and whether the Chair will be classified as a Significant Appointment.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Great British Railways

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Public Bodies Handbook – Part 2: The Approvals Process for the Creation of New Arm’s-Length Bodies, whether his Department's public bodies team assessed Great

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government People Group: Gender and Sexuality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15471 on Office for Equality and Opportunity: Gender and Sexuality, whether the Civil Service People Group formally recognises any (a) genders, (b) sexual o

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Incentives

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2024 to Question 4697 on Civil Servants: Incentives, at what point in the year Cabinet Office civil servants are typically given such incentive payments of shopping voucher

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Public Relations

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued on delivering efficiency savings through reducing spending on external public relations.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37318 on Animal Experiments: Animal Welfare, how many animals were bred for use in procedures licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Trade Union Officials

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Question 10990 on Civil Servants: Trade Union Officials, whether he plans to increase the amount of facility time to recognised trade unions in his Department followi

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the response to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 request with reference FOI2024/14571.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to undertake an audit of whether other Government departments are meeting the publication requirements outlined in the then Prime Minister's letter entitled Government transparency and open

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Great British Energy

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for what reason his Department intends to establish Great British Energy as an arm’s length body.

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pricing reviews of contracts managed by his Department the Crown Commercial Service has undertaken due to changes to employer’s National Insurance contributions in April 2025; and if he will make an est

31 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Stonewall: Subscriptions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) Office for National Statistics, (b) National Audit Office, (c) Northern Ireland Civil Service, (d) Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, (e) GCHQ, (f) MI5, (g) SIS and (h) Crown Commercial

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Local Press

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the report by the Local News Commission entitled Regenerating Local News in the UK, published in March 2025, whether the recommendations of this report will be included in the L

26 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his planned timeline is for the appointment of a new Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

26 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle regional disparities in access to community-based eating disorder treatments in (a) rural areas and (b) general.

26 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand intensive (a) community and (b) day treatments for eating disorders across NHS Integrated Care Systems.

26 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Consultants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to use recruitment consultants for staffing test-and-learn teams.

26 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Intelligence Services: Risk Assessment and Standards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Security and Intelligence Agencies Financial Statement 2023-24, published on 2 December 2024, what (a) risks and (b) performance issues were identified during the Performance and Risk Revie

25 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 13807 on Cabinet Office: Parliamentary Private Secretaries, if he will breakdown the number of staff in each ministerial private office, by named Minister.

25 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Question 10987 on Public Sector: Pay, if she will list which non-statutory office holders are paid through the Cabinet Office’s HR and payroll department.

25 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to issue new guidance on the proportion of the civil service jobs advertised to the public.

25 Mar 2025 · 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 publish a breakdown by (a) department and (b) job title of senior civil service jobs (i) offered and (ii) appointed

25 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Mission Boards: Senior Civil Servants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8637 on Cabinet Office: Vacancies, whether Mission Senior Responsible Officers have been appointed at a higher salary compared to their previous roles in the