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1166609

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to staff the Departmental Operations Centre in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	6517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>A dedicated Departmental Operations Centre (DOC) will manage and lead preparations in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The DOC has been designed to operate on a two shift system if required and we anticipate this mode of operation would be sufficient to effectively manage a no deal exit in the majority of circumstances. In the event a no-deal exit occurs and has a highly disruptive impact we would introduce three shift working to effectively manage a reasonable worst case scenario. The current estimates are that two shift working arrangement in our DOC would require 389 people and a three shift working arrangement would require 621 people. The DOC would be resourced through a combination of MHCLG staff and staff provided by other government departments.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 05/11/2019 14:51:06 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1156365

registered interest
date	25/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has for (a) two and (b) three shift patterns of working for staff in his Department in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	5479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s Operations Centre (DOC) which will manage and lead the preparations and response to a no deal exit was formally activated in the period 21-28 October 2019 and two shift working was in operation during that period. <br> <br> We consider this shift pattern will be sufficient to effectively manage a no deal exit in the majority of circumstances. In the event a no deal exit occurs with multiple event occurring at the same time, we would introduce three shift working to effectively manage a reasonable worst case scenario.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 04/11/2019 17:48:26 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1156367

registered interest
date	25/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of staff his Department will need to work on a (a) two and (b) three shift pattern to staff the Departmental Operations Centre in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	5481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The current estimates are that a two shift working arrangement in our Departmental Operations Centre would require 389 people and a three shift working arrangement would require 621 people in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 30/10/2019 14:00:24 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1156369

registered interest
date	25/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Departmental workstreams have ceased or are planned to cease as a result of Departmental staff being allocated to work on preparations for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	5483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>As we stepped up work on our no deal preparations we had to pause some of our other work. In doing this we ensured that we had protected our most vital work on: promoting home ownership, levelling up opportunities across the country, putting local government finance on a sustainable footing, tackling rough sleeping, promoting integration and improving the provision of English Language and addressing the issues exposed by the Grenfell Tower tragedy, in particular on Building Safety.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 04/11/2019 17:50:21 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1156396

registered interest
date	25/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department have been internally reassigned to preparations for the UK leaving the EU from oversight of local plans (a) in the last month, (b) in the last six months, (c) in the last 12 months and (d) since the 2016 EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	5474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>We do not have a record of the number of staff who have been internally reassigned to preparations for the UK leaving the EU against a definition of ‘oversight of local plans’ or for the specific time periods specified. <br> <br> We can confirm that throughout the time periods specified the highest number of staff redeployed from other duties was in week commencing 21 October 2019 when a total of 219 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) staff were working within our Departmental Operations Centre (DOC), approximately 9.5 per cent of all MHCLG staff. <br> <br> We did not separately record the number of staff working in the DOC prior to the government’s decision to increase no deal preparations in December 2018 and at that time the number of people working in the DOC was approximately 40, approximately 2 per cent of all MHCLG staff.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 30/10/2019 15:53:00 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1156270

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff, by grade, have volunteered for shift working in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	5023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>A total of 178 MHCLG staff have currently volunteered for shift working in the DOC. The grade breakdown is as follows: 20 Senior Civil Servants, 16 Grade 6, 67 Grade 7, 19 Senior Executive Officer, 38 Higher Executive Officers and 18 Executive Officers.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 29/10/2019 16:22:14 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1156274

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many of his staff, by grade, who volunteered for shift working at the Departmental Operations Centre have been rejected because the Department needs to retain them in their current roles.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	5024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>No member of staff who has volunteered to work shifts has been rejected because the Department needs to retain them in their current role. Volunteers for shift working were sought from those individuals either already working in the DOC or already assigned to a DOC team and therefore the possibility of rejecting volunteers because they need to be retained in their current role did not arise.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 29/10/2019 16:21:51 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1156277

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many of his staff, by grade, that have not volunteered for shift working in the Departmental Operations Centre in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal have (a) been transferred and (b) informed that they may be transferred to normal, daytime hours roles working on preparations in that centre.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	5025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Staff working in our Departmental Operations Centre (DOC) include a combination of staff who have been recruited through open and fair competition, volunteers who have come forward as our preparations for a no deal exit scenario have increased and other staff who have been asked to work in the DOC as part of those preparations. We have not maintained a central breakdown of those working in the DOC against these different circumstances. Shift working is voluntary and if an individual does not wish to work shifts they will be deployed within their normal working pattern.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 29/10/2019 16:23:38 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1156278

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance the Department has issued to managers to ensure that selection of staff for normal hours day time working in the Departmental Operations Centre is conducted fairly and without discriminating against staff with protected characteristics.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	5026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Our existing policies for the recruitment, selection or deployment of staff within the Department ensure that we act fairly and without discriminating against staff with protected characteristics and we have continued to apply those policies.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 29/10/2019 16:23:07 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1156279

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what equality impact assessment his Department has undertaken on the selection of staff for normal hours day time working in the Departmental Operations Centre on the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	5027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>Working in our DOC under a normal hours day time arrangement is no different to other such arrangements for roles elsewhere in the Department and does not require a specific or separate equality impact assessment. All staff deployed in our DOC will be assigned to roles commensurate with their grade and will be provided with appropriate training and support. Our existing policies and proactive diversity and inclusion agenda ensures all staff are treated fairly including those with protected characteristics.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 30/10/2019 13:59:18 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon