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HANSARDWireless Infrastructure Strategy: Call for EvidenceI am repeating the following written ministerial statement made on 14 October 2021 in the other place by my noble Friend, the Minister for Arts, the Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay:…18 Oct 2021HANSARD Project GigabitI appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s concern for those communities. We all appreciate the importance of broadband in those places. I think the best thing to do from this juncture is…21 Sept 2021HANSARD Project GigabitI thank the hon. Gentleman for that important intervention, because the Union is so important to all of us in the Chamber. I want to do what I can in my ministerial role to…21 Sept 2021HANSARD Project GigabitIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Angela. I thank the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) for securing this very important debate and for…21 Sept 2021HANSARDMusicians: Touring the EUI thank the hon. Lady for her question. As I mentioned, there have been intensive negotiations at a ministerial level with our EU counterparts and a lot of progress has been made.…16 Sept 2021HANSARDMusicians: Touring the EUMinisters, officials and diplomats have been speaking to EU member states to establish arrangements for touring musicians and other artists. I can confirm that at least 19 out of…16 Sept 2021HANSARDMusicians: Touring the EUI thank the hon. Lady for her passion, and we share that intensity of desire to get this issue sorted for UK musicians. The challenge is our desire to secure the same freedoms for…16 Sept 2021HANSARDMusicians: Touring the EUI thank the hon. Lady for her question; I had a wonderful break up in the north-east and enjoyed her constituency over the summer. I will be happy to ask the Secretary of State to…16 Sept 2021HANSARD Merthyr Tydfil: City StatusIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Gerald Jones) on securing this debate, and on…15 Sept 2021HANSARDDebt and Fraud Powers: Statutory ReviewMy noble Friend the Minister of State for Efficiency and Transformation (Lord Agnew of Oulton) has today made the following written statement: The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet…20 Jul 2021HANSARDCabinet OfficeYes, I believe that the Public Accounts Committee will be updated on the second Boardman report in July. With regard to the first Boardman report on communications contracts, we…12 Jul 2021HANSARDCabinet OfficeYes, I believe that the Public Accounts Committee will be updated on the second Boardman report in July. With regard to the first Boardman report on communications contracts, we…12 Jul 2021HANSARDPublic Bodies: Transparency in Service DeliveryAccounting officer system statements already set out which public bodies a Department is responsible for, and their spending is set out in each Department’s annual report and…08 Jul 2021HANSARDVerify SchemeHow we use citizens’ data is going to be absolutely critical to building trust in the new system that we are building. That new system will reuse parts of Verify, but we must have…08 Jul 2021HANSARDVerify SchemeVerify continues to work well and it supports 18 services. More than 8 million Verify accounts have been created, with over 2.6 million added since the start of the pandemic as…08 Jul 2021HANSARDCivil Service: Skills and TrainingI thank my hon. Friend for his important and incisive question. The civil service, as he acknowledges, has historically used contractors to provide specialist skills and to manage…08 Jul 2021HANSARDSmall Business: Government ContractsI agree with my hon. Friend. We want a much greater variety of companies, including those in Crawley, to deliver Government contracts from every corner of our country, not just…08 Jul 2021HANSARDPublic Bodies: Transparency in Service DeliveryI can speak for the Cabinet Office non-executive directors. We have a fantastic team that is drawn from across party political affiliations. She will be aware that we have…08 Jul 2021HANSARDSmall Business: Government ContractsThe UK spends £290 billion on public procurement each year. Now that we have left the EU transition period we want to make it simpler, quicker and cheaper for small and…08 Jul 2021HANSARDPublic Bodies: Transparency in Service DeliveryI can confirm that we treat those information requests on a case-by-case basis, and the background of who is asking is not a criterion for how we treat that request.08 Jul 2021