Tag: Louise Haigh

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the scale of fraud carried out against the public sector by (a) individuals and (b) serious and organised criminals by means of (i) identity theft and (ii) creation of fake identities.

Matthew Hancock

We do not have any estimates on the scale of public fraud carried out by individuals or by serious and organised criminals in relation to identity theft or the creation of fake identities.

In the financial year 2014/15, £4.13m worth of detected external identity theft was reported to the Cabinet Office through the fraud and error MI collection. Identity theft includes: fraudulently obtained genuine documents; counterfeit documents; and, forged documents. We do not have a breakdown of whether this was committed by individuals or organised criminals.

The National Crime Agency, not the Cabinet Office, lead on matters related to serious and organised crime.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-03-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who were removed to Vietnam in the last three years were also classified as foreign national prisoners.

James Brokenshire

The Home Office does not disclose country specific information regarding deportation of foreign national offenders as its disclosure could prejudice relations between the UK and foreign governments.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-03-17.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what projection he has made of the number of civil service apprenticeships that will be created in each department in each year until 2020.

Matthew Hancock

It is the responsibility of individual Departments to project their workforce, including apprenticeships. The Civil Service implemented a single apprenticeship target of a minimum 2.3% of the workforce in England as apprenticeships starts from 1 January 2016. Departments have agreed to achieve 2.3% of their workforce in England as apprenticeship starts. This is an annual target that will be measured by financial years based on headcount at the start of that reporting period.

We estimate that there will be at least 30,000 apprenticeship starts in the Civil Service in England by the end of the Parliament.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the planned timetable is for the scoping exercise for special provisions, including fast tracking for treatment, for people with obstructive sleep apnoea who drive for a living.

George Freeman

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has been asked to develop a clinical guideline and quality standard on sleep disordered breathing (including obstructive sleep apnoea). NICE will develop the scope of the clinical guideline, including the key questions that will be addressed by the guidance, in consultation with stakeholders.

NICE has advised that there is currently no timetable for developing this guidance.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) full-time equivalent civil servants work in his Department and (b) civil servants work full-time on the Northern Powerhouse agenda.

Harriett Baldwin

Data for full-time equivalent Civil servants working in HM Treasury are published on .gov.uk and can be found using the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmt-workforce-management-information-december-2015

We are unable to supply information on employees who may work on the Northern Powerhouse agenda as our system does not give a breakdown of staff to that level. Therefore to supply this information would be at a disproportionate cost.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) the Nursing and Midwifery Council, (b) the Royal College of Midwives, (c) the Royal College of Nursing and (d) Independent Midwives UK on changes to midwifery regulation.

Ben Gummer

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and Independent Midwives UK (IMUK) have all been involved in discussions concerning the proposed changes to midwifery regulation.

On 22 January 2016 the Department, on behalf of the four United Kingdom Chief Nursing Officers and their external partners, published plans for a new non-statutory system of midwifery supervision that will meet the need for clinical supervision of midwives in clinical practice, and peer review for those not in clinical practice. The NMC, RCM and IMUK were consulted on and contributed to the published proposals.

The Royal College of Nursing has not been involved in the above discussions, as midwifery regulations do not affect nurses.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil servants in his Department are paid through limited companies.

Joseph Johnson

All employees of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are paid via the BIS payroll.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of staff in her Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Nick Gibb

The information requested is published by the Department on a monthly basis and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-monthly-workforce-management-information which also includes non-Departmental Public Bodies and non-Ministerial Departments across the time period in question.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of staff in her Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Karen Bradley

Each Home Office Annual Report and Accounts publication includes information relating to payroll (civil servants) and non-payroll (agency and contractors substituting temporarily in civil servant roles as part of our flexible resourcing strategy) staff. Table 1 includes information for each of the financial years from 2010 – 11 to 2014-15. The percentage of non-payroll staff increased in 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 as the Department operated on a lower overall level of permanent civil servants, which was then complemented by more flexible hires to meet seasonal and other temporary demands.

Information for the 2015-16 period will be published shortly.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff in his Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Justin Tomlinson

The information is provided in the following table:

Financial Year	Proportion of payroll staff (%)	Proportion of non-payroll staff (%)
2015-16	99.4	0.6
2014-15	99.7	0.3
2013-14	99.9	0.1
2012-13	99.9	0.1
2011-12	99.9	0.1
2010-11	99.9	0.1

Of the 520 non-payroll staff in the latest year the majority were employed to develop the technology for our major welfare reforms.