The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent from the public purse on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months.
Mark Lancaster
The cost of Employment Tribunals can be found within the HM Courts and Tribunals Service annual accounts published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/433948/hmcts-annual-report-accounts-2014-15.pdf.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many consultants’ contracts were terminated early in each of the last six years for which figures are available; and what the cost of each such termination was in each of those years.
Mr David Lidington
This information is not held centrally and the question cannot be answered without incurring disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many civil law suits have been brought against her Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
Mr Desmond Swayne
None.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil law suits have been brought against his Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
Justin Tomlinson
The Department’s records relating to the data requested are not comprehensive. Obtaining data that does exist would take the costs of responding to the question over the disproportionate cost threshold.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of officials of his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.
Brandon Lewis
These statistics relate to absences recorded as “Mental Disorders” under the World Health Organisation categories of absence, which includes non-stress related absences such as depression. The figures therefore should not be read as being fully related to stress caused absence and it should also be noted that non-work related stress absences would also be recorded here.
Sickness absence due to mental health absences, in the Department were as follows:
|
Year |
Number of Officials Absent due to ‘Mental Disorders’ (Headcount) |
Proportion of Total Officials (Headcount) |
Absences due to ‘Mental Disorders’ as a Proportion of Total Working Days Lost |
|
2011 |
109 |
4.0% |
18.3% |
|
2012 |
92 |
4.2% |
25.0% |
|
2013 |
104 |
5.2% |
24.3% |
|
2014 |
98 |
4.8% |
20.1% |
|
2015 |
113 |
5.3% |
32.8% |
Back in the Summer of 2014 DCLG paid for two staff to become mental health first aid Instructors so that a programme of mental health first aid could be rolled out across the Department. 32 staff have since become mental health ambassadors. The increase in the level of absences due to mental disorders in 2015 is likely to reflect more honest and open reporting of absence by staff following the work done by our Mental Health First Aiders to reduce the stigma that is sometimes felt by sufferers of poor mental health.
For the 12 month period ending December 2015, the Department’s overall absence rate was 6.5 average working days lost per member of staff. This is lower than the Civil Service average of 7.4 days, the public services average of 8.4 days and private sector services average of 8.2 days (figures from the October 2015 CIPD annual absence management survey).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-04-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2016 to Question 28689, how many staff in his Department received overtime pay in each of the last 24 months.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The number of FCO staff who have received overtime payments in each of the last 24 months is:
|
2014 |
|
|
April |
326 |
|
May |
219 |
|
June |
226 |
|
July |
352 |
|
August |
363 |
|
September |
271 |
|
October |
429 |
|
November |
213 |
|
December |
191 |
|
2015 |
|
|
January |
188 |
|
February |
208 |
|
March |
278 |
|
April |
294 |
|
May |
220 |
|
June |
320 |
|
July |
200 |
|
August |
241 |
|
September |
477 |
|
October |
309 |
|
November |
247 |
|
December |
258 |
|
2016 |
|
|
January |
167 |
|
February |
255 |
|
March |
197 |
Staff can only claim overtime when required by management to work more than their conditioned hours. In the majority of cases claims are made after exceptional demands on Foreign Office staff during times of global crises.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-05-03.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the agenda for the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May 2016 will include the issue of reverse burden of proof as it applies to senior managers across the financial services industry.
Matthew Hancock
The summit will include wide-ranging discussions of ways of tackling corruption, including corporate secrecy, government transparency, the enforcement of international anti-corruption laws and the strengthening of international institutions.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-05-09.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the budget is for the Inter-Ministerial Group on Corruption.
Matthew Hancock
Budget for work to tackle corruption are held by departments. The work of the Inter-Ministerial Group is to co-ordinate and lead departmental activity.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-05-23.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what funding the Government provides its Anti-Corruption Tsar to tackle corruption.
Matthew Hancock
The Anti-Corruption Champion co-chairs the Inter Ministerial Group on Anti-Corruption, which oversees the government’s work to tackle corruption domestically and internationally
Officials from the Cabinet Office provide support to the Group and the Anti-Corruption Champion as part of wider Anti-Corruption work.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-06-14.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the terms of reference for the Inter-Ministerial Group on Anti-Corruption.
Matthew Hancock
This is available on www.gov.uk