Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence, and so does Parliament. Ministers and officials remain committed to providing timely and detailed replies. As part of its ongoing commitment to transparency, the Cabinet Office has published data related to letters from MPs and Peers answered by Government in 2021. This was done via a Written...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The urgent health and safety works comprised: surveys for the extent of structural damage of the building and assessment of repairs required to windows, brickwork and facades. Early risk mitigation works were undertaken. The external facades are Grade I listed and cannot be allowed to deteriorate. The majority of the works were completed between February 2022 and April 2022 by Mitie. No...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: 55 Whitehall and 3-8 Whitehall Place will be refurbished in advance of BEIS relocation from London, 1 Victoria St.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The GPA exceeded the target of 10 Buildings. The following 12 buildings (or leased parts thereof) were vacated and handed back to Landlords in the financial year 21/22: Building/Occupation Exit 151 Buckingham Palace Road Apr-21 The Sanctuary (SW1P 3JS) Jun-21 Plough Place Jun-21 Bush House Jun-21 Millbank Tower (part 1st Floor) Oct-21 Roxburghe House Sep-21 ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: This is not information that is centrally held. Civil servants played a vital role in supporting the Government’s response to the pandemic, alongside delivering essential public services. Following the removal of all pandemic restrictions, I have written to departments to underline the importance of workplace attendance. Civil servants, who had necessarily been working from home during the...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Department records information about Research and Development on its accounting system. In 2021, based on the value of invoices recorded, the Department spent £16.539m. This category covers a broad range of services including qualitative and quantitative analysis, early discovery projects, reports on a range of policy and delivery issues and insight. It is not possible to split out...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Government Departments draw on the advice of external specialists for a range of services. Consultancy includes staff who provide objective advice relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of an organisation and may include the identification of options with recommendations. The Consultancy Playbook was published in May 2021 alongside the Sourcing Playbook, to provide...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall District Heating has been renamed and is now called the Whitehall Boiler System. A number of departmental buildings have transferred ownership to the Government Property Agency and the details of buildings served by the Whitehall Boiler System are provided in the table below. Building Department MOD Main Building Ministry of Defence Government Office Great George Street...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: HM Government is committed to preventing modern slavery occurring in public sector supply chains. The Cabinet Office has published commercial policy and guidance setting out the steps that all Government departments must take to identify and mitigate modern slavery and labour abuse risks throughout the commercial life cycle - focusing on the areas of highest risk. This policy is mandatory for...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Data on public sector fraud prior to 2016 is unavailable.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: There is full agreement across government on the clear benefits from face-to-face, collaborative working. I also wrote to departments earlier this year to underline the importance of workplace attendance and to ensure we are making efficient use of the government estate. Departments’ progress is being monitored and we are seeing civil servants have been increasingly returning to the office.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The GPA has developed detailed designs for the building to be refurbished for use by Civil Servants. Records indicate the building was vacated in 2012. As at 31 March 2021:Rates: £0 per annumMaintenance and security costs: £3.5k per annum From 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022:Rates: £0Maintenance - principally for one-off urgent Health and Safety works: £724k I visited 36 Whitehall on 4 May...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline reports on forecast and projected infrastructure investment across the public and private sectors, and includes projections regarding skills demand. The Pipeline does not include targets for any sector, including UK steel. This government is committed to creating the right conditions in the UK for a competitive and sustainable steel...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Government remains committed to engaging with devolved governments on the reviews into retained EU law, including engaging at Ministerial level. To date, there have been regular official level discussions with the devolved administrations. We will continue to engage at an official level in areas of interest.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Since being appointed, the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency has visited Glass Wharf, Bristol, on Friday 22 April. Travel was provided by the Government Car Service. No accommodation costs were incurred. Costs for printing in support of the visit were not outside that usually provided. The Minister also regularly attends government offices within London for meetings...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Domestic & Economic (Efficiency and Value for Money) Committee is a Cabinet Committee. Membership of Cabinet Committees is decided by the Prime Minister. GOV.UK is updated regularly with the list of Cabinet Committees, their terms of reference, and membership.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Domestic & Economic (Efficiency and Value for Money) Committee is a Cabinet Committee. It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not normally shared publicly.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: No formal assessment has been made but I have received correspondence on this matter from members of the public in response to my requests to readers of the Sun and the Sunday Express. It is for the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to consider any changes to the policy. As set out in the ‘Benefits of Brexit’ paper, published on 31 January, DHSC will...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: G-GBNI was painted with the ‘Global UK’ livery and G-XATW had this livery removed during the visits to Southend Airport as part of a planned exchange of two identical airframes in line with contractual agreements/obligations. HM Government has only leased one airframe and I can confirm that there was no extra cost to the taxpayer.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Government Agencies, statutory bodies, non-departmental public bodies and central functions of Government departments are located across the United Kingdom, including in South Yorkshire. The Cabinet Office has published as Open Data on data.gov.uk basic information on the location of Government Departments, agencies, public bodies and functions...