Georgia Gould

66900 • Civil Service: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his oral contribution on 10 July 2025 in response to a Question from the hon. Member for Tatton, Official Report, column 1112, how much money has been saved as a result of the implementation of the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure guidance, published on 14 May 2024.

68459 • Business: Closures

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an estimate of the average number of businesses that have ceased trading on each day since July 2024.

65569 • Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the removal of potential bias relating to (a) class, (b) race and (c) disability in civil service recruitment.

65707 • UK Statistics Authority: Remote Working

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the UK Statistics Authority has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

65708 • Crown Commercial Service: Remote Working

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Crown Commercial Service has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

65709 • Government Property Agency: Remote Working

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government Property Agency has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

66559 • Admiralty House: Council Tax

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question HL8019 on Admiralty House: Council tax, what the cash terms monetary value of the council tax bill issued on each of the three residences was in 2025-26.

66662 • MyCSP: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help resolve the industrial dispute at pension administrator MyCSP.

66784 • Boston Consulting Group: Civil Servants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to review (a) government contracts with and (b) the Business Appointments Rules for Former Crown Servants in relation to the Boston Consulting Group.

66753 • Understanding Animal Research

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many arm’s-length bodies provided funding to Understanding Animal Research in the 2024–25 financial year, broken down by the amount of funding provided by each body.

65563 • Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the progress of the civil service in increasing the proportion of recruits from (a) lower socio-economic backgrounds, (b) with disabilities and (c) from ethnic minority backgrounds.

65570 • Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to (a) monitor and (b) help tackle potential civil service recruitment barriers for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

66293 • Data, Statistics and Research On Sex and Gender Independent Review

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) UK Statistics Authority and (b) Office for National Statistics plan to respond to the second part of the Professor Sullivan report entitled Barriers to research on sex and gender, published on 2 July 2025.

67351 • Retail Trade: Redundancy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many jobs have been lost due to high street shop closures in the last 12 months for which data is available.

67633 • Cabinet Office: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of departmental procurement contracts were awarded to British companies in the 2024-25 financial year.

67480 • Fujitsu: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to review Government contracts with Fujitsu.

67921 • Council of the Nations and Regions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 64772 on Public Appointments: Council of the Nations and Regions, who is now undertaking the responsibilities that were previously assigned to the Envoy for the Nations and Regions.

67923 • Cabinet Office: London Allowance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60496 on Civil Servants: London Allowance, what is the policy Cabinet Office policy on whether junior civil servants in his Department receiving London weighting have to attend and work in an office within Greater London.

68141 • Palantir: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the compliance of Palantir Technologies Ltd with transparency obligations under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 prior to 2021.

68832 • Universal Credit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants who have (a) no qualifications, (b) Level 2 qualifications, (c) Level 3 qualifications, (d) Level 4 qualifications, (e) Level 5 qualifications and (f) Level 6 qualifications or above.