Tag: Pamela Nash

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.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, 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.

Jo Swinson

The majority of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) training budget is delegated to the individual business units. This enables them to target resources to their learning priorities. BIS does not centrally collate details of individual course attendances.

The spend on training in core BIS in the last five years is

Year	Spend £
2010/11	2,340,575
2011/12	2,662,967
2012/13	2,070,999
2013/14	1,840,850
2014/15 (figure as at end November 2014)	1,000,995

We are unable to provide details of spend in relation to parts (a) and (b). The information is not held against discrete finance headings and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-02-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been provided to the Rapid Response Service in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and what the staffing level of that service was in each of those areas in those years.

Esther McVey

The overall funding for Rapid Response by DWP in the UK was:

· 2010-11 £7.100m

· 2011-12 £3.000m

· 2012-13 £4.037m

· 2013-14 £4.000m

This spend is captured at a National level and is unable to be split into Scotland and Wales data without a disproportionate cost to disaggregate. Northern Ireland is not within the jurisdiction of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Rapid response activities are part one of an advisor’s job so it is not possible to identify specific staff time utilised on Rapid Response.

Budget data can only be provided for the 4 years from 2010/ 11 to 2013/14 as historic changes in the accounting systems mean that 2009/10 information is not available.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what timetable he has set for the closure of Child Support Agency cases which do not form part of the Agency’s current live caseload.

Steve Webb

The Department is prioritising the closure over the next three years of cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability, and taking steps to minimise disruption as far as possible for parents who wish the statutory service to continue collecting maintenance on their behalf. Plans for handling cases where there is no ongoing liability, but arrears are owed, are still under consideration. Where there is a link between one of these arrears only cases, and an application to the 2012 scheme, action will be taken to bring that arrears only case up-to-date, before moving it across to the Child Maintenance Service.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrears validation processes are carried out on Child Support Agency cases which do not form part of the caseload before those arrears are transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection.

Steve Webb

The Department is prioritising the closure over the next three years of cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability, and taking steps to minimise disruption as far as possible for parents who wish the statutory service to continue collecting maintenance on their behalf. Plans for handling cases where there is no ongoing liability, but arrears are owed, are still under consideration. Where there is a link between one of these arrears only cases, and an application to the 2012 scheme, action will be taken to bring that arrears only case up-to-date, before moving it across to the Child Maintenance Service.