John Glen MP: written questions
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Public Sector: PayCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4666More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to meet the Public and Commercial Services Union pay demands for 2024-25 of a (a) 35 days annual leave minimum and (b) significant shortening of the working week with no loss of pay.
Answer: Departments are responsible for setting the terms and conditions of employment for their civil servants, in accordance with the rules of the Civil Service Management Code. The Civil Service already provides a competitive leave offer that supports building...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4665More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1260 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, whether the Director of Special Advisers and Chancellor Engagement role was open to external candidates.
Answer: The grade of the Director of Special Advisers and Chancellor Engagement post is SCS pay band 2. The appointment of the Director of Special Advisers and Chancellor Engagement followed the correct processes. The postholder has been a civil servant for 7 yea...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Official ResidencesCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4664More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1214 on Ministers: Official Residences, what the timetable is for allocating each of the remaining official residences.
Answer: As has been the case under successive administrations, the Prime Minister allocates official residences to ministers, either on the grounds of security or to allow them to better perform their official duties.There is no set timeline for the Prime Ministe...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: BuildingsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4663More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many work desks are available for civil servants in 70 Whitehall; and how many staff are assigned to work in 70 Whitehall.
Answer: It has been the practice of successive governments not to comment, on grounds of both national security and staff safety, on the physical capacity or staffing numbers for individual buildings of the government estate.
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4662More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, published in April 2018, whether his Department has published supplementary guidance on appointing civil servants under exception 1 on tempo
Answer: There is no additional guidance specific to exception one of the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordStrike BallotsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of ending the Trade Union Act 2016 requirement for industrial action ballot thresholds on trends in the level of industrial action.
Answer: The Government is committed to repealing the Trade Union Act 2016. Further information on implementing this will be outlined in due course.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Service Governance and Accountability ReviewCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4660More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to respond formally to Lord Maude of Horsham's independent review of governance and accountability in the civil service.
Answer: The Department will consider Lord Maude's recommendations as this government develops its strategic plan for a more efficient and effective civil service.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: PayCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4659More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of repealing the Trade Union Act 2016 on public sector pay discussions with trade unions.
Answer: The Government is committed to repealing the Trade Union Act 2016. Further information on implementing this will be outlined in due course.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4658More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average length of a recruitment competition is from advertisement to recruitment of the winning candidate for a Civil Service job advertised on the (a) public and (b) civil service-only version of Civil
Answer: In April 2024, Civil Service departments were commissioned to report on a common definition of Time To Hire. Civil Service Time To Hire measures the duration from the closing date of an advert, to the date a provisional offer is made. The first Civil Serv...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: Performance AppraisalCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4657More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 927 on Civil Service: Performance Related Pay, by which metrics Senior Civil Service end of year performance assessments consider delivery against the Diversity
Answer: All objectives set by Senior Civil Servants should be specific, measurable and timed so they can be assessed at the end of the performance year by considering what the individual delivered.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4656More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1261 on Senior Civil Servants, whether each of these roles were (a) externally advertised and (b) subject to open competition; and how many senior civil servant
Answer: The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 requires that selection to the Civil Service must be on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition. Information on all Senior Civil Service appointments is not collated centrally. Departments can run...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: DirectorsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4655More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Non-Executive Directors have left all (a) Government departments and (b) arms’ length public bodies since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Since 4 July 2024, 20 Non-Executive Board Members have left government departments. Data on Non-Executive Directors leaving arms length public bodies is not held centrally.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: Trade UnionsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2024 to Question 902 on Public sector: trade unions, whether it is the Government's policy to (a) amend and (b) repeal the check-off provisions from the (i) Trade Unio
Answer: The Government is committed to repealing the Trade Union Act 2016. Further information on implementing this will be outlined in due course.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4653More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024, to Question 1260, on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, for how many days a job must be advertised publicly to be considered as open to external candidates.
Answer: There is no mandated period for a vacancy to be advertised, either externally or internally.The Civil Service Recruitment Principles state that ‘The media chosen to publicise appointment opportunities and the time allowed for advertising must be suitable ...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office Audit and Risk CommitteeCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4652More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members sit on his Department's Audit and Risk Committee.
Answer: A list of members can be found on the department’s governance page on gov.uk.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordLord AlliCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4651More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Prime Minister, (b) the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, (c) a civil servant, (d) a special adviser (i) requested and (ii) authorised the allocation of a Downing Street pass to Lord Alli.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member and Hon Member to the answer given by the then Prime Minister on 7 February 2017, Official Report, PQ 62542.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4650More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will hold discussions with the Cabinet Secretary on when he plans to reply to the correspondence of 25 July 2024 from the Rt Hon Member for Salisbury on the Casement Stadium.
Answer: A response has been issued.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4649More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Cabinet Secretary will reply to the letter from the Rt Hon Member for Salisbury of 25 July 2024 on special adviser appointments.
Answer: A response has been issued.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Senior Civil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4648More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1261 on Senior Civil Servants, for what reason the appointment of HM Treasury's Director of Special Advisers and Chancellor Engagement was not included in that
Answer: As the previous PQ answer made clear, the response was based on the latest information held centrally by the Cabinet Office at the time of drafting.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Public ConsultationCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4647More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 907 on Government Departments: Public Consultation, whether his Department has issued guidance on whether (a) communications should be sent to participants in c
Answer: The Cabinet Office advises departments who contact us that a new administration may respond to a consultation that was initiated under a previous administration if they choose to do so. Departments are legally responsible for the consultations that they r...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Remote WorkingCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4646More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 919 on Civil Service, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of working from home on Civil Service productivity.
Answer: We have reviewed the wide range of studies available on the benefits of hybrid working, which has been used to inform the expectation for 60% office attendance for Civil Servants.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4645More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will instruct the (a) Cabinet Secretary and Head of Civil Service and (b) Civil Service Commission to make an assessment of the probity of appointments as civil servants without open and fair competition o
Answer: The Cabinet Secretary wrote to the Leader of the Opposition on 30th August 2024 addressing this issue and the use of Exceptions to the Recruitment Principles.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPropriety and Constitution GroupCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4644More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what role Ms Jessica Sargeant will play in developing public policy on (a) the proposed Ethics and Integrity Commission, (b) reform of the Business Appointment Rules, (c) lobbying regulation, (d) political donat
Answer: It is a longstanding policy not to comment on individuals.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil ServantsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4643More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 939 on Civil Service, whether he has a target size for the Civil Service in headcount or full-time equivalent terms relative to the planned reductions of the pr
Answer: Decisions on the future size of the Civil Service will form a key part of the comprehensive Spending Review.
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4642More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance the Civil Service Commission has provided on whether a decision to appoint a civil servant under one of the Recruitment Principles exceptions can be taken by a Minister.
Answer: Ministers cannot appoint civil servants.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
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