Written questions
3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.
25 Mar 2025 · Home Office
National Security Technology and Innovation Exchange
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the National Security Technology and Innovation Exchange has been closed.
25 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Expenditure Controls
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether information about each Department's (a) spending control data and (b) exemptions is held centrally.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: OCS Group
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the contract between OCS and his Department.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Statistics
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to lay a new Official Statistics Order to designate the National Data Library’s statistical outputs as official statistics.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25456 on Senior Civil Servants: Training, how many people attended each conference.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25851 on Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for the 2025 M15 and SIS internship sche
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Trade Union Officials: Facilities Agreements
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 29026 on Trade Union Officials: Facilities Agreements, what his planned timetable is for publishing facility time data for 2024-25; and what month will be u
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21403 on Cabinet Office: Pay, what the monetary gross paybill is, excluding pension contributions and National Insurance in aggregate for staff in the (a) Wom
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Foreign Investment in UK: National Security
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps has his Department taken to improve the speed of reviews conducted under the powers of the National Security and Investment Act since 5 July 2024.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Delivery Unit
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2025 to Question 25671 on Delivery Unit, on what dates each of the stocktakes have taken place.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Official Gifts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide details of (a) gifts, (b) donations, (c) donations in kind and (d) hospitality that Ministers in the Department including Downing Street, have accepted that have since been paid back to the or
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Industrial Disputes: National Security
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2025 to Question 29005 on Risk Assessment, whether the National Security Risk Assessment on industrial action has changed in light of the expected (a) repeal of the Trade Un
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Security
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether staff are permitted to hold more than one government pass with different (a) names, (b) photographs and (c) genders.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Alex Chisholm
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date Sir Alex Chisholm was given permission by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments to take up a role with Boston Consulting Group.
24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
HMS Achilles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2025 to Question 28586 on HMS Achilles, for what reason the Committee chose to recommend to the Sovereign the name of HMS Achilles.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
10 Downing Street: Shops
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 27913 on 10 Downing Street: Shops, whether the goods manufactured in China and sold in the Downing Street Gift Shop are produced in Xinjiang.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Aviation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) Cabinet Office Commercial team and (b) any other public body holds information on which Ministers and officials have used the Commercial Air Transport Contract to have helicopter travel provided;
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Social Services: Arms Length Bodies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the document entitled The Approvals Process for the Creation of New Arm’s-Length Bodies, published on 15 March 2018, and in the context of the proposed abolition of NHS England, whether his Dep
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Correspondence
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister has responded to correspondence from Baroness Carr following Prime Minister’s Questions on 12 February 2025.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Public Expenditure
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportionate reduction in spending will be required in each (a) Department and (b) arm’s length bodies in (i) 2024-25, (ii) 2025-26, and (iii) 2026-27.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Crown Commercial Service and Government Property Agency: Equality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) Government Property Agency and (b) Crown Commercial Service plan to recognise any diversity and inclusion (a) days and (b) weeks in 2025.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Migration
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 19065 on Migration, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of levels of net migration in each year between 2024-25 and 2029-30; and how t
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Staff
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the change in headcount of the public sector since June 2024.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Permanent Secretaries: Dismissal and Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2024 to Question 14099 on Permanent Secretaries: Recruitment, what his planned timetable is for the implementation of those recommendations.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards and Propriety and Constitution Group: Staff
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2025 to Question 24882 on Tulip Siddiq, how many staff work in the (a) Independent Adviser’s secretariat and (b) Propriety and Ethics directorate excluding that secretariat.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21391 on Cabinet Office: Christmas, if he will publish the guidance on away days, staff days and celebrations.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Staff
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21066, how many full time equivalent staff work in each of those established business units.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average salary cost of a civil servant was in each year between 2009 and 2024.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 7344 on Civil Servants: Pay, what the estimated salary cost for 2025 was projected to be in (a) March 2025 and (b) June 2024.
19 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Appointments
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 24247 on Public Appointments, on how many occasions Ministers have rejected Advisory Assessment Panel advice and asked that a competition is re-run since 5 J
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