Tag: Andrew Gwynne

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of his Department in each of the last three years.

Joseph Johnson

Non-consolidated performance related pay is paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable. Since 2010-11 the Government has restricted awards for senior civil servants to the top 25% of performers (from 65% in previous years), saving around £15 million overall.

An element of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills overall pay award for staff below the Senior Civil Service (SCS) is allocated to non-consolidated, non-pensionable pay related to performance. There are two types of award: in-year awards and annual performance awards.

Performance awards for the SCS are part of the pay system across the whole Senior Civil Service, and are used to reward high performance sustained throughout the year.

Information in the table shows the cost of each of these type of awards in each of the last three years.

Year	Non-SCS End year Annual Performance Awards	Non-SCS In-Year Awards	SCS Annual Performance Awards	Total
2013	£1,540,773	£332,080	£577,925	£2,450,778
2014	£990,360	£492,228	£576,000	£2,058,588
2015	£1,288,474*	£605,608	£539,500	£2,433,582

* A few end year payments still to be made so this figure is the latest and may increase

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of his Department in each of the last three years.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Since 2010-11, in line with wider Government policy, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has restricted Performance Related Pay (PRP) awards for senior civil servants within the FCO to the top 25% of performers. Since April 2015 the FCO has restricted PRP awards for UK based staff across all grades to the top 25% of performers.

In providing the below figures, we have interpreted ‘last three years’ to be the last three financial years. Amounts paid to officials working for the FCO, FCO Services and to those on interchange on FCO terms and conditions have been included within the figures provided.

The following amounts in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses were paid to FCO officials in each of the last three financial years, we also note the numbers of staff who received the bonuses during each of the financial years:

FY14-15 a) £6,274,254.70; 4160 officers received a year PRP
b) £575,894.46 ; 1714 officers received an in-year PRP

FY13-14 a) £6,654,783.10; 4271 officers received a year end PRP
b) £566,880.52; 1642 officers received an in-year PRP

FY12-13 a) £6,658,384.20; 4076 officers received a year end PRP
b) £757,403.98; 2492 officers received an in-year PRP

Non-consolidated PRP is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of his Office in each of the last three years.

Matthew Hancock

As part of this Government’s transparency agenda, all Departments are required to publish information about non-consolidated performance related payments annually. Information about non-consolidated awards paid to officials in my Department going back as far as awards paid for performance in the year 2011/12 is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data

Information about awards paid in 2015/16 for performance in the year 2014/15 is not due to be published until later this year and will be available on GOV.UK.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people requiring consular assistance in Addis Ababa and Nairobi originated in Somalia in each of the last three years.

James Duddridge

British nationals are not required to state where they come from when they request assistance, and therefore we do not maintain records of this information. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office provides consular assistance as appropriate to the individual circumstances of each case.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of his Department in each of the last three years.

Jane Ellison

Non-consolidated performance related pay is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable. Since 2010-11 the Government has restricted awards for senior civil servants to the top 25% of performers (from 65% in previous years), saving around £15 million overall.

To date in 2015-16, the Department has spent £868,410 on ‘year-end’ non- consolidated performance pay awards and £155,549 on ‘in-year ‘non-consolidated performance pay awards to its officials.

The table below shows the Department’s expenditure on non-consolidated performance related payments for the last three complete financial years.

Financial Year	In-Year Award	*End Year Award
2014-15	£254,524	£843,001
2013-14	£202,000	£796,357
2012-13	£252,115	£902,741

*End-year non-consolidated performance related payments paid in each of the financial year relates to performance in the previous year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of ambulances responding to the most serious calls failed to respond within eight minutes in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Denton and Reddish constituency in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is not available in the format requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library the minutes of each Public Health England board meeting in 2015.

Jane Ellison

Minutes of all Public Health England (PHE) Board meetings are published on PHE website’s Board pages and therefore publically available. The minutes for the Board meetings held during 2015 have been placed in the library, and can also be found on the Meetings 2015 page of the website below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-health-england-board-meetings

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulance calls were responded to by the (a) police and (b) fire service in (i) England, (ii) Greater Manchester and (iii) Denton and Reddish constituency in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is not available in the format requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions the Minister for Public Health has had with the Chief Executive of Public Health England in each month since January 2015.

Jane Ellison

I meet regularly with Duncan Selbie, the Chief Executive of Public Health England, and generally have an informal meeting with him on a monthly basis.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will take steps to terminate contracts for 0844 numbers entered into by GP surgeries.

Alistair Burt

Regulations introduced in 2010 prevented general practitioner practices from entering into, renewing or extending a contract for telephone services unless it was satisfied that, looking at the arrangements as a whole, patients would not pay more to make calls to the practice than they would to make calls to a geographical number.

The number of practices using premium rate numbers is reducing as contracts come to an end, and a large number of practices using 084 numbers also have a local alternative. NHS England continues to work with practices that have premium rate numbers and will review progress periodically.