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43535

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of workplace nurseries available to staff in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies in (i) 2010, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	192443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>Since its establishment in 2008, neither the Department for Energy and Climate Change nor its non-departmental public bodies have had workplace nurseries available to staff.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

45248

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of employees in his Department of each (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	193962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has a Flexible Working policy which allows its staff to apply to work through a range of flexible working options. These include part time working, job sharing, compressed hours, as well as working from home on an occasional or more regular basis or as part of a formal arrangements where staff are officially based at home. DECC does not hold central records of those staff who have made a statutory application for flexible working.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to staff who work part time is recorded centrally and the proportion of those by (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender is set out in the tables below.</p><p> </p><p><em>Civil Service pay grade</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Full Time</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Part Time</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AO</p></td><td><p>89%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>93%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>96%</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FASTSTREAM</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7</p></td><td><p>91%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G6</p></td><td><p>86%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SCS</p></td><td><p>91%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>92%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Gender</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Full Time</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Part Time</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>86%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>98%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>92%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

47228

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by his Department since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	195509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Energy and Climate Change has not transferred any jobs to the private sector as a result of privatisation or outsourcing since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

91430

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 15 August 2011 calling for a family test to be applied to all domestic policy, which policies of his Department have been so assessed to date.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	208850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given today by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Work and Pensions to Question Number 208864:</p><p><em><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons&amp;uin=208864" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons&amp;uin=208864</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 13/10/2014 13:14:21 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168915

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	217775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Energy &amp; Climate Change regularly publishes, as part of the Coalition Governments Transparency Agenda, details of the size and cost of its entire workforce on its website. The full details can be found at:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-workforce-management-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-workforce-management-information</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-annual-reports-and-accounts</a></li></ul><p>Contract details and the equivalent civil service salary bands for each individual are not held centrally and to gather this information would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 15/12/2014 17:53:01 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169814

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	218473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The expenditure is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong><em>2010-11</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2011-12</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2012-13</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2013-14</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2014-15 </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>(first 6 months)</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td><td><p>£(k)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Taxis</em></strong></p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>First class train tickets</em></strong></p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Business class air travel</em></strong></p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>149</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/12/2014 16:02:16 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169962

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	218503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Before 2012/13 fraud data was published within the HM Treasury Fraud Report or estimated in the National Fraud Authority Annual Fraud Indicators. From 2012/13 figures on fraud and financial error have been provided to the Cabinet Office as part of the Quarterly Data Summary returns, for Central Departments, and all Arms Length Bodies who receive over £100m public funding per annum.</p><p>The reported cost of fraud and error for the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p><p><strong>£(k)</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p><p><strong>£(k)</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2014-15 (6 months)</strong></p><p><strong>£(k)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>DECC</p></td><td><p>NDA</p></td><td><p>DECC</p></td><td><p>NDA</p></td><td><p>DECC</p></td><td><p>NDA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud &amp; Error</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/12/2014 15:55:27 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

175698

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Employment Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many recruitment and employment agencies his Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	222083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>Until July 2012, DECC utilised the non-permanent framework for interim workers which had 21 suppliers. For agency workers DECC utilised the non-medical non-clinical framework which has 143 suppliers. DECC calls off these but does not hold central records of how many individual agencies on these frameworks have been used.</p><p>From August 2012, interim workers have been procured through the Contingent Labour 1 framework, which is a neutral vendor framework managed by Capita Business Services.</p><p>Since April 2012, from which date central records were kept, nine recruitment agencies have been used for recruitment services for DECC employees.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 29/01/2015 17:03:54 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell