The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many civil servants in his Department are paid through limited companies.
Mr Mark Francois
No civil servants in my Department are paid through limited companies.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent on non-payroll staff in her Department in 2015-16.
George Eustice
Core Defra publishes Workforce Management Information on a monthly basis. This sets out the number of staff who are a) on payroll and b) off payroll and the published data covers financial years 2010-11 to 2015-16. It can be found at the following link: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/workforce-management-information-defra.
No civil servants within Core Defra are paid through limited companies.
The figure for spend on non-payroll staff in 2015-16 will be published in the 2015-16 Annual Report and Accounts.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was spent on non-payroll staff in her Department in 2015-16.
Mrs Theresa Villiers
My Department has not incurred any expenditure on non-payroll staff during this period.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-09.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2016 to Question 39272, what proportion of the cohort of Civil Service Fast Streamers who joined in April 2013 have already undertaken a regional placement.
Matthew Hancock
The 2013 cohort for the Fast Stream joined over the course of 6 months between May and October with a final single joiner in December. At April 2016 there were 185 fast streamers on the first cohort of the Corporate Fast Stream Programme, 120 (65% of total) have completed a posting outside of London to date. The Corporate Fast Stream programme lasts 4 years so full data for this cohort will not be available until the end of 2017 when all participants have completed the programme.
The Fast Stream aspiration is to have 100% of corporately managed Fast Streamers experience at least one posting outside of London during the 4 year scheme.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-09-15.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Urgent Question of 14 September 2016, on Concentrix, what processes and procedures he plans to put in place to learn lessons from that contract; and if he will make a statement.
Jane Ellison
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) critically reviews the performance of all contracts, appropriately evaluating the quality of performance, business benefits and value for money derived in order to inform HMRC strategy and procurement requirements going forward. As such, an appropriate evaluation of the contract with Concentrix will be conducted to inform HMRC strategic thinking for the future. In addition, such consideration will be informed by Parliamentary scrutiny resulting from select committee hearings.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-28.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of government IT spending was spent with small and medium sized (SME) enterprises in 2014-15; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of that spending that will be with SMEs in 2015-16.
Matthew Hancock
We are finalising the data for government spend with small business during 2014-15 and will publish this information before the end of the year.
Data for 2015-16 will be published in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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.
Mark Lancaster
Where external recruitment to Senior Civil Service (SCS) posts is required, recruitment agencies and head-hunters may be engaged to assist with campaigns. The costs of agency services include search, advertisement, response handling, assessment and support to selection panels.
Details of spend on SCS recruitment with external agencies and head-hunters, by calendar year, are as follows:
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Calendar Year |
Spend |
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2010 |
£121,000 |
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2011 |
£144,000 |
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2012 |
£284,000 |
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2013 |
£373,000 |
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2014 |
£583,000 |
|
2015 (to 31 March) |
£33,000 |
Note: information held by the Ministry of Defence extends to 31 March 2015 only; from 1 April 2015 recruitment for SCS posts has been managed centrally by Civil Service Resourcing.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what average time his Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.
Mr Robert Goodwill
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 2015-11-09.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has received from the Government on providing the latest electoral registration statistics in response to Freedom of Information requests.
Mr Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission has received no specific guidance from the Government in relation to the Freedom of Information Act, although it is aware of the general guidance produced by both Government and the Information Commissioner’s Office regarding the Act and the handling of requests.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to extend the entitlement to their late spouse’s teacher’s pension to the surviving spouses of teachers who retired or died prior to January 2007 and lost their entitlement to their late spouse’s pension on remarrying.
Nick Gibb
It has been the policy of successive governments that changes or improvements to all public service pension schemes should not normally be applied retrospectively. This policy protects the current membership from having to meet the cost of potentially very expensive improvements. There are therefore no plans to extend the entitlement for those whose spouse was a member of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and who died or retired before January 2007.