Tag: Pamela Nash

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time and part-time staff were employed to work in the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which records are available.

Jenny Willott

The numbers of full-time and part-time staff that have been employed by the Illegal Money Lending Units in Scotland, England and Wales over the last four years are as follows:

	Full-Time		Part-Time (full time equivalents)
Financial Years	England	Wales	Scotland		Wales
2014/15	58	7	8		1.9
2013/14	63	7	8		1.9
2012/13	63	7	8		1.6
2011/12	50	6	8		0.8
2010/11	Unavailable	9	8		0.8

Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time was taken between an application being made and benefit paid for (a) attendance allowance, (b) bereavement benefits, (c) carer’s allowance, (d) disability living allowance, (e) employment and support allowance, (f) jobseeker’s allowance, (g) maternity benefits, (h) housing benefit, (i) council tax benefit and (j) pension credit in (i) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (ii) England, (iii) Scotland, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years including the most recent period for which figures are available.

Mike Penning

The information regarding when a benefit is paid is not available as this can vary from each claim depending on circumstances, payment type and frequency of payment.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was raised from taxes on dividend income in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each year from 2010.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes statistics on income tax liabilities on dividend income in Table 2.6 of the HMRC National Statistics series.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306833/Table_2.6.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many enforcement actions in respect of IR35 legislation there have been in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) carries out IR35 status enquiries by way of compliance interventions. The table below shows the number of interventions up to 2013/14. Regional data is not produced by HMRC.

Year	Compliance interventions
2009/10	12
2010/11	23
2011/12	59
2012/13	256
2013/14	192

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the tax yield was from IR35 legislation in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr David Gauke

Yield from IR35 compliance interventions up to 2013/14 for the UK is shown in the table below. Regional data is not produced by HM Revenue and Customs.

Year Yield

2009/10 £155K

2010/11 £219K

2011/12 £1.2M

2012/13 £1.1M

2013/14 £430K

In addition to the tax voluntarily paid through IR35, and the compliance revenue the cost to the Exchequer of not having the IR35 legislation would be around £520 million a year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many IR35 status enquiries HM Revenue and Customs has made in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) carries out IR35 status enquiries by way of compliance interventions. The table below shows the number of interventions up to 2013/14. Regional data is not produced by HMRC.

Year	Compliance interventions
2009/10	12
2010/11	23
2011/12	59
2012/13	256
2013/14	192

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Andrea Leadsom

The department’s accounting system does not separately identify the recruitment agency fee element of an invoice, and this information could not be extracted within the disproportionate cost threshold.

Total agency fees for displaced or redundant staff for the past five years are as follows:

Financial Year	£
2009/10	15,500
2010/11	9,100
2011/12	6,810
2012/13	4,883
2013/14	5,984
2014/15 (Apr to Dec)	2,800

Total spend on learning and development in the department has reduced over the last six financial years as follows:

Financial Year	Total staff training costs (£)
2009-10	2,252,064
2010-11	1,157,750
2011-12	801,541
2012-13	646,470
2013-14	771,359
2014-15 (Apr to Dec)	620,966

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises contracting with, or providing consultancy services to, Government departments have been paid daily fees greater than £100 in the last five years.

Mr Francis Maude

The information is not held centrally.

As a result of this Government’s commercial reforms, by limiting expenditure on marketing and advertising, consultants and temporary agency staff, we have saved the taxpayer £870m in 2010-11; £1bn in 2011-12; £1.9bn in 2012-13; and £2bn in 2013-14 – all against a 2009-10 baseline.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Esther McVey

Information requested is as follows:

a) Recruitment agency fees

£	Spend on recruitment agency fees
2009/10	457,498
2010/11	3,944
2011/12	0
2012/13 ¹	394,511
2013/14 ¹	362,616

¹ Includes Child Maintenance Group expenditure which joined DWP in August 2012.

Data excludes NDPBs

b) Outplacement agency fees

£	Spend on outplacement agency fees	Outplacement support provided (heads)
2009/10	-¹
2010/11	-¹
2011/12	32,100	1275
2012/13 ²	16,950	813
2013/14 ²	2,235	4397

Outplacement agency fees are for displaced or redundant staff for all grades. This includes:

i) outreach services procured directly by the department; and

ii) outplacement services procured via Civil Service Resourcing’s Outplacement Services Framework contract, which has been in place since January 2014.

It does not include Department’s in house outplacement activity or the outplacement services delivered by Civil Service Resourcing’s Career Transition Service (CTS).

¹ The spend on outplacement agency fees is not available for 2009/10 and 2010/11.

² Includes Child Maintenance Group expenditure which joined DWP in August 2012.

Data excludes NDPBs

c) Staff training costs

£	Spend on staff training costs	Average headcount	£ per head
2009/10	19,920,326	117,425	169.64
2010/11	10,219,848	114,449	89.30
2011/12	6,599,138	103,094	64.01
2012/13 ¹	8,613,543	98,295	87.63
2013/14 ¹	9,421,756	95,287	98.88

¹ Includes Child Maintenance Group expenditure which joined DWP in August 2012.

Data excludes NDPBs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Amber Rudd

The majority of expenditure with recruitment agencies represents payment to the individuals employed. We are unable to separately identify the element retained by the recruitment agency as fees. This varies from case to case and the Department contracts on the basis of a total hourly or daily fee. The recruitment principles published by the Civil Service Commission specify the circumstances when appointments may be made otherwise. Further information about the work of the Civil Service Commissioners can be found at www.civilservicecommissioners.org

The Department made payment to an outplacement agency in 2014-15 only. Prior to using the outplacement agency, the Department used the Civil Service Transition Service to provide career counselling redeployment support with no associated costs to the Department.

Figures for 2009 -10 to 2013-14 for staff training are published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.