Tag: Louise Haigh

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much was spent on non-payroll staff in his Department in 2015-16.

Guto Bebb

The Wales Office spent £56,561 on non-payroll staff in 2015-16.

In 2015-16, the Department used non-payroll (agency) staff to cover for staff on maternity leave and for vacant posts.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-09-02.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many performance failures have been incurred by contractors under the HM Revenue and Customs Benefits and Credits, Error and Fraud Adding Capacity 444 contract between SYNNEX-Concentrix UK Limited and HM Revenue and Customs.

Mr David Gauke

Since mid-October 2015 there has been 120 instances where Concentrix has not fully met the performance standards set out in the contract out of a total of 1625.

The estimate of commission paid for the HM Revenue and Customs’ contract with SYNNEX-Concentrix relating to error and fraud is £15.8m since the start of the contract to date.

SYNNEX-Concentrix under its contract with HM Revenue and Customs have completed around 308,718 undeclared partner cases, 198,422 work and hours cases and 152,771 child care cases.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-09-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44656, how many (a) amber, (b) amber green, (c) red and (d) black performance failures there were between May 2014 and October 2015 in respect of benefits and credits error and fraud.

Jane Ellison

The process to measure performance as described in the question was introduced as part of the contract variation signed on 13 October 2015. The information is therefore not available for the period requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-29.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what attacks have been made against the Government Gateway system to date.

Matthew Hancock

For security reasons we do not comment on specific details of unsuccessful cyber security attacks.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to amend the Investment Regulations for Occupational Pensions Funds to require them to set out within their Statement of Investment Principles their approach to considering environmental, social and governance risks and to stewardship.

Justin Tomlinson

Earlier this year the Government consulted on whether to amend the reference to social, environmental, or ethical considerations ,in the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2005, and whether to require trustees to state their approach to the Stewardship Code. The Government plans to respond to this consultation shortly.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what average time his Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.

Mr David Lidington

The Government publishes statistics on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 within central government, including on timeliness. These can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Jane Ellison

The Department uses external recruitment agencies to support appointments to the Senior Civil Service (SCS). The table below shows the costs of SCS appointments that have been made where a recruitment agency was involved, for each financial year since 2010/11.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

George Eustice

In financial years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 this data was not held centrally. Providing an estimate would be at a disproportionate cost. In 2013-14 Defra and its Executive Agencies spent £199,639 and in 2014-15 £103,977 on external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants in each Department are in the redeployment pool.

Matthew Hancock

Workforce planning and redeployment pools are the responsibility of each individual Department to determine and manage. The numbers in redeployment pools is under constant change and therefore this information is not held centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants in his Department are in the redeployment pool.

Mr Robert Goodwill

There are currently 14 people in the Departmental redeployment pool.