Tag: Jonathan Ashworth

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.

George Eustice

The table below shows the amount of overtime paid to staff in core-Defra in each of the last 24 months.

Month	Amount	Month	Amount
January 2016	£33,554	January 2015	£35,948
December 2015	£27,057	December 2014	£28,661
November 2015	£22,909	November 2014	£16,501
October 2015	£16,567	October 2014	£13,301
September 2015	£15,046	September 2014	£17,162
August 2015	£24,904	August 2014	£36,683
July 2015	£20,092	July 2014	£22,531
June 2015	£14,361	June 2014	£10,520
May 2015	£7,956	May 2014	£18,307
April 2015	£25,870	April 2014	£29,799
March 2015	£18,566	March 2014	£45,721
February 2015	£23,534	February 2014	£34,667

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars her Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.

Karen Bradley

The Home Office has issued 3,218 publications, 93 consultations and 79 circulars since August 2012. All are published on Gov.UK.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent from the public purse on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The cost of Employment Tribunals can be found within the HMCTS annual accounts published at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/433948/hmcts-annual-report-accounts-2014-15.pdf.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials of his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of (a) his Department’s staff and (b) total sick leave the sick leave of such officials represented in each such year.

Justin Tomlinson

DWP has succeeded in reducing sickness absence from an annual average of 11.1 days per employee in 2007 to 6.18 days per employee currently. This is one of the lowest rates across the public sector.

Our Attendance Management policy is supportive and we are committed to helping our people maintain good health. DWP is committed to improving mental ill health, including stress.

We support employees through access to comprehensive stress risk assessments, Occupational Health services, and our Employee Assistance Programme. DWP is currently introducing Mental Health First Aid to further add to the support available.

The number of employees with a sickness absence reason of ‘stress’ over the last 5 years is shown below:

Year	Number of employees with sickness absence recorded as ‘Stress’	Number of employees with sickness absence reason recorded as ‘stress’ as % of end of year headcount*	Number of working days lost recorded as ‘stress’ as % of all working days lost due to sickness absence
Jan-Dec 15	2,581	3.01%	10.57%
Jan-Dec 14	2,886	3.15%	11.06%
Jan-Dec 13	3,401	3.38%	11.15%
Jan-Dec 12	3,313	3.07%	9.63%
Jan-Dec 11	3,288	3.20%	9.26%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-04-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.

Mr Edward Vaizey

	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Resignations (FTE)	10	30	18	15	21
Payroll Employees (FTE)	457	376	381	461	517
Proportion	2%	8%	5%	3%	4%

The data for resignations has been sourced from the HR Management System Leavers Reports for each financial year. Data is recorded from 2011 onwards and records prior to this data cannot be provided.

The Total headcount figures have been sourced from the DCMS Annual Accounts and only employees who were on DCMS payroll at the point they left the department are included in the data above.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on making it mandatory for British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies to provide a central, public register of beneficial ownership.

Matthew Hancock

Our priority for the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies has been for them to establish a central register of beneficial ownership information (or a similarly effective system) where they do not already have one, and for UK law enforcement and tax authorities to have full and automatic access to that information. As has repeatedly been set out the registers will not be public, these measures will place our Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories well ahead of many other similar jurisdictions and represent a significant step forward in our ability to counter criminal activity.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-05-03.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a discussion about public registers of beneficial ownership is on the agenda for the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May 2016.

Matthew Hancock

The Summit attendees will discuss a number of important issues, including beneficial ownership.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-05-20.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which countries attended the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May 2016.

Matthew Hancock

44 countries (including the UK) attended the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May. A attach a list.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-06-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether the National Crime Agency plans to investigate the UK office of the law firm Mossack Fonesca.

Mr John Hayes

On 10 April 2016 the Prime Minister announced a new cross-agency taskforce to obtain, analyse and take action on the information that has been made available from Mossack Fonseca and to take rapid action on any form of illegality that emerges.A number of investigations are underway, and the taskforce, which is led by the National Crime Agency and HM Revenue & Customs, and which is accountable to the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will report on its progress later this year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister is responsible for the constitutional relationship with the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

Ben Gummer

Departments are working to progress the anti-corruption agenda, including work that was set out at the London Anti-Corruption Summit on May 12. However, the new government will wish to consider its approach to specific anti corruption policies, and the governance structures that will oversee this work.