Tag: Louise Haigh

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of disallowance penalties relating to the Common Agricultural Policy as a result of the return to paper-assisted digital applications in 2015.

George Eustice

The new Common Agricultural Policy has been widely recognised as being more complex for farmers to understand and harder for Member States to administer. The new schemes have not yet been audited by the European Commission so it is too early to say what the level of any disallowance will be, but complexity tends to increase disallowance risk.

For the Basic Payment Scheme 2015 the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) sent pre-populated claim forms to farmers and land owners to allow them to submit their applications before the deadline. The RPA provided an unprecedented level of support to farmers and land owners through the Rural Payments Helpline and 50 Drop In Centres that allowed some 88,000 applications to be received within the deadline. ‘Paper-assisted’ means that forms were completed on paper but then entered on to a digital system by RPA staff.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost to the public purse was of the internal review commissioned by his Department from McKinsey.

Joseph Johnson

The cost of the review conducted by McKinsey was disclosed on 9 November 2015 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-contract-with-mckinsey.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason Cabinet Office spend over £25,000 has not been updated beyond December 2014.

Matthew Hancock

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 17 December 2015 to UIN: 20015.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 21746, what estimate has been made of the value of the contract to provide Debt Market Integrator services; and what fee was paid by the TDX/Equifax partner for its contract in March 2015.

Matthew Hancock

The DMI establishment fee is commercially sensitive information. The expected value of the contract published in the DMI award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union was GBP £500,000,000.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many employees are employed at the Sheffield office of the (a) Skills Funding Agency and (b) the Insolvency Service.

Joseph Johnson

As at 31^st January 2016, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills have a) 13 employees in the Skills Funding Agency and b) Nil employees in the Insolvency Service based in its office in Sheffield.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-04.

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

Matthew Hancock

The total spend on legal fees, including external legal advice, relating to the Debt Market Integrator for 2014/15 and 2015/16 is £3,123,332.

DMI has collected in excess of £22m up to end December 2015.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-23.

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.

John Penrose

Under the Regulation 115 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2002, anyone who is supplied with the full register is not permitted to sell a copy to any person, disclose any information contained in it, or use it for anything apart from the specified purpose for which the full register has been supplied. In contravening this provision, a person would be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, which currently stands at £5000.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-24.

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

Matthew Hancock

The proportion of Senior Civil Servants based in London from 2010 to 2015 is set out below:

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-03-08.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of his Department’s (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.

Harriett Baldwin

100% of HM Treasury Senior Civil Servants and 99.9% core policy civil servants are based in London.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-03-16.

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.

John Penrose

Copies of the electoral register have been made available for sale in one form or another since at least 1832. Credit reference agencies purchase the electoral register because it provides proof to lenders that applicants for credit do in fact live at the address given and that they are not attempting to obtain credit fraudulently using a false name and address. Given the importance of credit in a modern economy, the then Government concluded in 2002 that this was in the public interest. The credit reference agencies are precluded by law from doing anything else with the electoral data, unless the data is also included in the edited register, from which individuals can opt out.