The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the annual cost per employee is of rent, rates and maintenance for his Department’s office at (a) St Paul’s Place, Sheffield and (b) 1 Victoria Street, London.
Joseph Johnson
The annual cost per employee at St Paul’s Place, Sheffield is £3,190 and at 1 Victoria Street, London is £9,750.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the annual cost is of policy staff (a) from his Department’s office at St Paul’s Place, Sheffield and (b) from his Department’s office at 1 Victoria Street, London travelling to Sheffield.
Joseph Johnson
The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael Dugher on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the high street vacancy rate was in (a) England and (b) each region of England in each of the last six years.
Mr Marcus Jones
My Department does not collect or publish data relating to high street vacancy rates. There are several commercial sources of shop vacancy rates data available, including the Local Data Company and Springboard, (http://info.localdatacompany.com/vacancy-rate-report-h1-2015-summary-download) who publish overall trends in the public domain.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Mackintosh on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that employers accord degree apprenticeships the same esteem as traditional university degrees.
Nick Boles
The Government wants young people to have the opportunity to access high quality degree level training, whether through a full-time undergraduate route or a world-class degree apprenticeship.
Both traditional degrees and new degree apprenticeships meet the high quality criteria expected of a higher education qualification. Degree Apprenticeships are designed by groups of employers working with higher education institutions, and provide a valuable route for people to obtain a degree-level qualification alongside training for a career, with the prospect of a job from day one
Degree apprenticeships will feature in the new communications campaign being launched in May, promoting the benefits of apprenticeships to employers and young people.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the annual cost is of rent, rates and maintenance for his Department’s office at (a) St Paul’s Place, Sheffield and (b) 1 Victoria Street, London.
Joseph Johnson
The annual cost of rent, rates and maintenance at St Paul’s Place, Sheffield is £891,694 and at 1 Victoria Street, London is £21,363,694.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Royston Smith on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of how many people in Southampton will benefit from the introduction of the national living wage.
Nick Boles
The Government published its Impact Assessment with a full assessment of the National Living Wage policy on 7 December 2015.
300,000 workers in the South East will directly benefit from the National Living Wage by 2020. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has made no detailed assessment of the benefits of the National Living Wage at local authority level.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what UK Trade and Investment’s annual budget is for work in Europe.
Anna Soubry
It is not possible fully to disaggregate UK Trade and Investment’s budget for all its work in each overseas market. The overall budget will be made up of costs incurred in country and funds that are not market specific.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil servants were employed at each location of the Insolvency Service in the last year for which figures are available.
Anna Soubry
As at 31 March 2016, the numbers of civil servants employed at each Insolvency Service location were as follows:
|
Location |
Civil Servants |
Location |
Civil Servants |
|
Birmingham |
389 |
Leeds |
77 |
|
Blackpool |
37 |
Liverpool |
42 |
|
Brighton |
17 |
London |
299 |
|
Bristol |
35 |
Manchester |
134 |
|
Cambridge |
21 |
Newcastle |
44 |
|
Cardiff |
46 |
Nottingham |
37 |
|
Chatham |
37 |
Plymouth |
35 |
|
Croydon |
56 |
Reading |
21 |
|
Edinburgh |
36 |
Southampton |
28 |
|
Exeter |
17 |
Southend-on-Sea |
28 |
|
Ipswich |
42 |
Grand Total |
1478 |
These figures do not include 15 civil servants who were on unpaid sickness absence, career break, special leave without pay or on loan to other government departments and, therefore, were not on the Insolvency Service’s payroll on 31 March 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil servants were employed at each location by UK Shared Business Service Ltd in the last year for which figures are available.
Joseph Johnson
UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) employees are public servants and not civil servants.
UK SBS operates from three locations and the number of people employed at each location is:
Swindon 472
Newport 45
Billingham 27
In addition, 12 employees work remotely.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil servants were employed in each location at the Skills Funding Agency in the last year for which figures are available.
Nick Boles
The number of civil servants employed by the Skills Funding Agency is shown in the attached table and represents the position as at 31 December 2015.
|
Location |
Total |
|
SFA Birmingham |
53 |
|
SFA Bristol |
18 |
|
SFA Cambridge |
24 |
|
SFA Chatham |
20 |
|
SFA Coventry |
381 |
|
SFA Fareham |
23 |
|
SFA Gateshead |
51 |
|
SFA Home |
7 |
|
SFA Leeds |
61 |
|
SFA Liverpool |
16 |
|
SFA London |
114 |
|
SFA Manchester |
50 |
|
SFA Nottingham |
17 |
|
SFA Plymouth |
16 |
|
SFA Reading |
30 |
|
SFA Sheffield |
13 |
|
Grand Total |
894 |