Tag: Pamela Nash

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.

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 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the total Child Support Agency arrears owed to parents with care is regarded as (a) potentially collectable and (b) likely to be collected in the next three years in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland.

Steve Webb

The proportion of child maintenance arrears owed to parents with care that is potentially collectable and likely to be collected is shown in the table below, as at March 2013.

Northern Ireland does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Great Britain Child Support Agency.

Collectability analysis looks at the likelihood of arrears being collected and does not include a timeframe for collections.

	Total Potentially or Likely to be Collected	Potentially Collectable	Likely Collectable
Scotland	26%	13%	13%
England	25%	12%	13%
Wales	26%	13%	13%

Notes:

1. Geographical breakdowns are based on the location of the non resident parent in each case.

2. Collectability breakdowns as published in the Client Fund Accounts include an estimate for collections from future legal activity. As this has not yet occurred then it cannot be allocated to geographical areas so is not included in the figures above.

3. Proportions have been calculated using CS2 and CSCS cases only and excludes cases administered off system.

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.