Tag: Louise Haigh

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what he plans his Department’s policy on industrial relations with transport unions to be over the next three years.

Claire Perry

Industrial relations within the transport industry are primarily managed by the service providers in that industry, e.g. the rail companies. The Department for Transport is committed to continuing to work constructively with the transport unions to deliver the best possible transport services. We will also develop and promote this Government’s trade union reforms as part of that relationship.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-02-23.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints his Department has received on the sale of electoral roll data by credit reference firms.

John Penrose

Available records show that in the last calendar year the Cabinet Office received one letter of complaint about access to the electoral register by credit reference agencies, and nine letters of complaint about the sale of the edited electoral register.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of his Department’s core policy civil servants are based in London.

Brandon Lewis

The Department has 91.8% of its core policy civil servants based in London.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department’s (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.

Mr Desmond Swayne

DFID has 88 Senior Civil Servants (SCS) of which 45 (51%) are based in London. DFID has 225 roles designated as having a policy element of which 139 (62%) are based in London.

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

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many permanent secretaries are from a lower socio-economic background.

Matthew Hancock

Data on the socio-economic background of Permanent Secretaries is not available. We are introducing a metric of social mobility as part of our 2016 Talent Action Plan and this is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/talent-action-plan-2016-removing-the-barriers-to-success.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what occasions officials of his Department have received hospitality from the government of China in the last three years.

Anna Soubry

BIS officials have engaged with counterparts in China over the past three years to support the growing UK-China relationship and advance UK interests. During the course of those engagements they received at different times the standard hospitality associated with Government to Government exchanges. In 2010, Cabinet Office issued guidance on Civil Servant receiving gifts and hospitality, which can be found on the GOV.UK website. The guidance states that civil servants are not required to record hospitality from other civil servants in government, the Devolved Administrations, the Palace, non-departmental public bodies or overseas government.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff at (a) St Paul’s Place, Sheffield and (b) 1 Victoria Street, London work on steel policy.

Anna Soubry

There are currently over 80 BIS members of staff working on steel policy. Around 75 are based in 1 Victoria Street, London and 3 at St Paul’s Place, Sheffield. A number of other staff are involved to a greater or lesser extent dependent on need.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil servants were employed at each location by Innovate UK in the last year for which figures are available.

Joseph Johnson

There no civil servants employed by Innovate UK.

People employed in Innovate UK are public servants and as at 31 December 2015 they were located as shown in the table below.

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

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on non-payroll staff in his Department in 2015-16.

Matthew Hancock

The published Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) contains both the proportion of staff in the Cabinet Office that are (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff and the associated spend. The ARA for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15 are available on gov.uk.

The 2015-16 will be published in due course.

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

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

Nick Gibb

The total spent on non-payroll Contingent Labour staff (ie, Agency Staff (Clerical and Admin); Interim Managers; and Specialist Contractors) in the Department for Education and its Executive Agencies is published by the Department for Education on a monthly basis at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-monthly-workforce-management-information which also includes Non Departmental Public Bodies (Equality & Human Rights Commission and Office of the Children’s Commissioner).

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