Baroness Finn

To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the six-month extension of contract C2980 with KPMG at no additional cost (modification notice 2025/S 000-005296) and the upcoming Learning Frameworks 2.0 procurement (notice 2025/S 000-004188), whether a br...

To ask His Majesty's Government how the Office for Value for Money plans to scrutinise investment proposals to ensure they offer value for money.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessments the Office for Value for Money has made of where and how to tackle waste and inefficiency.

To ask His Majesty's Government how much has been saved by the Office for Value for Money since it was established.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Office for Value for Money has made more savings than it has spent in staffing costs.

To ask His Majesty's Government what interventions the Chair of the Office for Value for Money has made to drive better value for money.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 6 March (HL5301), why data on senior civil servants registering for One Big Thing 2023 was deleted 12 months after the initiative ended given that the...

To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the Evaluating One Big Thing 2023 report published on 30 January, whether the figures in the report were based on actual registration data or another methodology.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 6 March (HL5301), (1) on what date the data on senior civil servants who registered for One Big Thing 2023 was deleted, (2) whether any data was retai...

To ask His Majesty's Government how many policy reviews and consultations the Cabinet Office has launched since the General Election on 4 July 2024; what the subject of each review is; and what the anticipated timescales are for their completion.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Framework Agreement between the Cabinet Office and the Civil Service Commission, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments and the Commissioner for Public Appointments, published on 21 February, was signed...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 6 March (HL4299), whether the Government Art Collection has a different public interest threshold for disclosure depending on which department administers the premises ...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the House of Lords Appointments Commission guidance on political donations, dated December 2019, was signed off by a Minister; and if so, which Minister approved it.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many members of the Senior Civil Service in the Propriety and Constitution Group are based outside of London.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 19 February (HL4743), whether they continue to adhere to the guidance set out in Chapter 1 of the Public Inquiries Handbook (Guidance for Sponsor Depa...

To ask His Majesty's Government, for each of the last five years, how many individuals have been appointed to the Senior Civil Service in the Propriety and Constitution Group; and of these (1) what was their grade on appointment, (2) how many were appoint...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Civil Service is independent of His Majesty's Government; and whether the statement that civil servants are independent of Government on the Civil Service ‘About us’ page on Gov.uk is compatible with (1) the Car...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Armstrong Memorandum remains extant.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 20 February 2025 (HL4799), whether a breakdown of the proportion of senior civil servants, broken down by pay band and department, who registered for ...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Twycross on 6 January (HL3604) and the Minister of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport on 4 December 2024 (16604), what is the public interest justification for t...