Tag: Louise Haigh

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, 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.

Joseph Johnson

The proportion of people working in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills HQ who were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff are shown in the table below.

Year ending 31 March	Payroll	Non payroll
2012	90%	10%
2013	89%	11%
2014	90%	10%
2015	97%	3%
2016	98%	2%

The data for 2012, 2013 and 2014 also includes people working in UKTI.

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.

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

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the contractors commission to date arising from HM Revenue and Customs’ contract with SYNNEX-Concentrix relating to error and fraud.

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, with reference to section A8.1 of the Benefits and Credits, Error and Fraud Adding Capacity 444 contract between SYNNEX-Concentrix UK Limited and HM Revenue and Customs, what the profiling techniques are that are used to identify non-compliance.

Jane Ellison

Information about the use of profiling techniques can be found within the Concentrix contract at Annex A10.2 and A22.1: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/85d1b730-5e4e-4be8-ae4c-3ac1f359afc7

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason people with indefinite leave to remain have been granted certificates of travel with validity of less than five years.

James Brokenshire

Certificates of travel (COT) are normally issued for 5 years to individuals with indefinite leave to remain. COTs may be issued for a shorter duration where

• There are Security or criminality reasons to do so

• The applicant has lost or abused previous documents

• The COT is being issued solely to facilitate the applicant travelling to their country of nationality to obtain a national passport.

• There is an urgent short term need to travel, and the applicant’s embassy cannot process a passport application fast enough.

The table below shows the number of COT valid for 12 months or less where the applicant has ILR for each year since 2010.

This data only counts people who have submitted applications for ILR in country. It excludes people who have ILR on Asylum grounds. The data also excludes any people with an ILR grant which pre dates the Case Information Database.

Year Number of Cases

2010 50

2011 50

2012 15

2013 15

2014 35

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

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the potential sale of information stolen during the cyber-security breach of the Government Gateway system.

Matthew Hancock

To date the security reports on the Government Gateway system do not show a cyber-security breach.

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

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

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Government publishes statistics on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 within central government, including on timeliness. Information on the Department for Culture Media & Sport statistics and can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics

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