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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how much his Department has spent to date on legal advice from (a) the Government Legal Department and (b) external legal firms; and how much he plans to spend on such advice in the next 12 mon
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how much his Department has spent to date on consultants; and how much he plans to spend on consultants in the next 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff are on secondment to his Department from the private sector; from which companies such staff have been seconded; what roles they perform; and what the cost to the public purse wi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many additional employees he plans to hire from outside the Civil Service; what roles such employees will perform; over what timescale such employees will be employed; and what the cost to
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff vacancies remain to be filled in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many members of staff his Department has recruited since it was established.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many officials of his Department are (a) on secondment from external companies and (b) engaged as external contractors or consultants; and what the cost is of engaging those staff.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what budget his Department has set for paying staff (a) on secondment from external companies and (b) engaged as external contractors or consultants for each year from 2016 to 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The UK had been scheduled to host the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2017. On Tuesday 19 July the Prime Minister confirmed to President of the European Council Donald Tusk that the UK would be relinquishing ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
The UK had been scheduled to host the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2017. On Tuesday 19 July the Prime Minister confirmed to President of the European Council Donald Tusk that the UK would be relinquishing ...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he plans to employ any national security experts in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many trade negotiators are employed by his Department; how many such negotiators his Department plans to recruit; and what estimate his Department has made of the cost of those negotiations
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what his policy is on recruiting non-UK nationals as trade negotiators; in which countries his Department has advertised the recruitment of such negotiators; and how many such negotiators have
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to transfer operational command and control of the EU units from all other departments to the Department for Exiting the European Union.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what plans he has to recruit external experts to facilitate negotiations with the EU on the UK exit from the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) the Norwegian, (b) the Swiss, (c) the Canadian and (d) other models for a new form of economic relationship with the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff will be employed by his Department with the remit of renegotiating trading agreements with the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what budget has been allocated to his Department for all future years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how much his Department has spent on consultancy and legal fees since it was established.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how much his Department has spent to date on legal advice; and how much he estimates will be so spent during 2016-17.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the recruitment process is for employing an official from another government department in a new role in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many officials from (a) the Foreign Office and (b) HM Treasury have (i) moved and (ii) are planning to move to work in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many new civil servants he plans to employ in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff are currently employed by his Department; and what steps he is taking to recruit staff with the required expertise.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff of his Department will be based in (a) Brussels and (b) Strasbourg; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the total budget for his Department in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many officials his Department will have once it is fully staffed; and by what date he expects his Department to be fully staffed.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the number of officials that will be employed by his Department in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the (a) budget and (b) staffing level will be for his Department in 2016-17.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whom he has appointed as his new special advisers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2016
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials of which pay grade will work in the Department headed by the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; and where that Department will be based.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 July 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when and how local authority chief executives have been informed about their statutory duty to notify information about suspected victims of slavery or human trafficking under section 52 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what legal resources are being provided to refugees in the camps in Calais and Dunkirk to make asylum applications to the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many midwives have been trained in identifying female genital mutilation (FGM) and in the new mandatory FGM reporting duties, and what percentage of midwives that represents.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to support Gaza and Gazan refugees in the light of warnings from the UN that Gaza will be uninhabitable by 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they will hold with the Competition and Markets Authority and the National Trading Standards Board in the light of the recommendations of the Waterson Review on secondary ticketing published on 26 May.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the fact that the Eastern Europe region remains the only region in the UN system yet to produce a Secretary-General, and the fact that seven of the declared candidates for the position are from Eastern Euro
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the proposals in the European Commission press release, A European Border and Coast Guard to protect Europe's External Borders, IP/15/6327; and if she will estimate the potential
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 11 May (HL8207), what representations they have made about the conditions under which political prisoners are held in Azerbaijan, particularly in the light of
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2016
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the cost of the contract awarded to Sport and Entertainment Ltd for organising the Queen's Patron Lunch on Sunday 12 June; and why this contract did not go out to tender.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2016
A Bill to make provision for information to be available in various public places relating to the activities and organisation of the European Union; to make provision for the flying of the flag of the European Union on various government and public buildings; to provide information to further the establishment of twinning arrangements between towns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the European Union in accordance with the European Union’s town twinning support scheme; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 May 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects negotiations on the new EU treaty to incorporate the new settlement for the UK in the EU to begin in the event of the UK voting to stay in the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 May 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the Government's policy that the UK is part of the European Project, as that term is used by the EU Commission and the European Council; and if the Prime Minister will make
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 May 2016
A Bill to establish an independent commission of inquiry to examine ways of improving parliamentary and other public scrutiny of ministerial mandates and outcomes in relation to European Union institutions, policies and legislation; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 April 2016
I have today laid before both Houses a paper on the rights and obligations arising under EU law as a result of UK membership of the EU. This paper represents the second and final part of the report that the Government has published to meet the requirement...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 April 2016
My right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Philip Hammond), has made the following written Ministerial statement:I have today laid before both Houses a paper on the rights and obligations arising under EU law...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 April 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which EU schemes her Department administers; if she will estimate the annual cost of administering each such scheme in each of the (a) last and (b) next five years; if she will estimat
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 April 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to schools on the (a) teaching of the EU and (b) referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 April 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information she holds on the number of schools that have received teaching materials on the EU provided by the EU Commission and the Information Office in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 March 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which academic and research bodies, which receive funding from the EU, are routinely used for research on the EU in departmental and ministerial briefings.