Tag: Pamela Nash

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 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average time period between application and issuing of passports for residents of (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (b) Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each year since 2009.

James Brokenshire

Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not store information at constituency level
and the cost of extracting the information requested would be disproportionate.
Information on passport processing performance can be found in HMPO’s annual
report and accounts, which can be accessed via the links below.

2009-2010:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118758
/annual-report-accounts-200910.pdf

2010-2011:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/identity-and-passport-service-annual-
report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011

2011-2012:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118751
/ips-annual-report-2012.pdf

2012-2013:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210619
/IPS_annual_report_and_accounts_2012-13.pdf

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport renewals for residents in (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (b) Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK have been completed within a three week turnaround time from receipt in each year since 2009.

James Brokenshire

Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) does not store information at constituency level and
the cost of extracting the information requested would be disproportionate.
Information on passport processing performance can be found in HMPO’s annual
report and accounts, via the links below.

2009-2010:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118758
/annual-report-accounts-200910.pdf

2010-2011:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/identity-and-passport-service-annual-
report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011

2011-2012:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118751
/ips-annual-report-2012.pdf

2012-2013:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210619
/IPS_annual_report_and_accounts_2012-13.pdf

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.