Tag: Louise Haigh

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June 2016 to Question 39850, what proportion of the senior civil servants in the Cities and Local Growth Unit of his Department are working on devolution issues are based in London.

Mr Mark Francois

The Cities and Local Growth Unit is a joint BIS-DCLG team that supports places in developing and agreeing devolution deals with the Government. Six Senior Civil Servants out of ten in the Unit are based in London.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-09-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from Concentrix on the non-renewal of its contract with HM Revenue and Customs.

Jane Ellison

HM Revenue and Customs, in line with procurement and contract management best practice and protocol, have appropriate dialogue with all its suppliers in relation to potential contract extension. Such discussions are of course commercially sensitive and cannot, in this instance, be disclosed.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2015 to Question 13086, whether the Special Advisers Remuneration Committee still exists.

Matthew Hancock

The arrangements for the determination of special advisers’ pay are set out in the Model Contract for Special Advisers.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-04.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which suppliers have provided Certificates of Performance under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for each Department in 2015.

Matthew Hancock

The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not require the submission of Certificates of Performance.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what average time his Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.

Brandon Lewis

The Government publishes statistics on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 within central government, including on timeliness. These can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions the Reducing Regulation Sub-Committee has met.

Mr Oliver Letwin

We do not generally disclose information about proceedings of Cabinet Committees.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 10866, when she next plans to publish the job titles and pay grades of appointments to extended ministerial offices.

Nick Gibb

Twice a year, the Department for Education publishes the job titles and pay grade information of its senior civil servants (the Permanent Secretary, Directors General, Directors and Deputy Directors). The next publication, based on data as at 30 September 2015, will be published in the first week of December 2015.

The previous published data from 31 March 2015 can be found here: http://reference.data.gov.uk/gov-structure/organogram/?pubbod=department-for-education

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-26.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he made the decision to close 170 local tax offices and replace them with 13 regional centres.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) first shared its transformation plans with its employees 18 months ago. Since then, it has held more than 2,000 events across the UK, talking to its employees about how and why it is changing. HMRC will be holding one-to-one discussions with each of its people to discuss next steps.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many civil servants in her Department are in the redeployment pool.

Mr Desmond Swayne

DFID has 10 staff at present in its redeployment pool of staff who have become surplus due to the role they were filling either having been discontinued, or it having been confirmed to them that their role will be discontinued.

For those whose roles have already been discontinued (5 staff), temporary work has been found whilst we continue to look for more appropriate longer term positions for them.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cyber attacks have been prevented on government systems in each year from 2010 to date.

Matthew Hancock

For security reasons we do not comment on specific details of cyber security attacks but we are continuously monitoring and managing the security risks to all HMG systems.

We take cyber security very seriously; since 2011 we have invested £860 million in a National Cyber Security Programme to protect the UK from cyber attack.We will invest £1.9b in cyber security over the next five years to protect the UK from cyber attacks. This ambitious level of investment will include: a programme of active cyber defence; creation of a National Cyber Centre and an ambitious skills programme.