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416834

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how IPSA measures levels of productivity of its staff.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>IPSA's Corporate Plan identifies Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and associated targets, each of which is the responsibility of a senior manager. Performance against KPIs is measured and reported monthly to IPSA’s Senior Management Team (SMT) and the Board and published on IPSA's website. Operational performance targets for the financial year are contained within IPSA's Annual Report and Accounts, which are also published on IPSA's website.</p><p>Further information on IPSA’s performance can be found in the Corporate Plan, available on IPSA’s website.</p><p>Staff capacity, performance and welfare, as well as comprehensive financial management information, are measured and reported monthly to IPSA’s SMT and the Board as part of our KPIs. From this IPSA is able to identify any issues regarding productivity, efficiency or cost and address them accordingly.</p><p>All IPSA employees have performance objectives, which are aligned with IPSA’s Corporate Plan. Employees are managed against their objectives, including through formal quarterly reviews to ensure performance and productivity are satisfactory.<strong></strong></p><p>A staff engagement survey is also undertaken each year, which identifies any issues of concern which may affect staff productivity.</p><p>To ensure IPSA continues to increase both efficiency and productivity it measures performance against our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This activity enables IPSA to identify any issues and put relevant plans in place to ensure that productivity continues to improve.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker grouped question UIN 8401 8701 question first answered 23/11/2015 17:19:47 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

416835

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what steps IPSA has taken to increase the productivity of its staff.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>IPSA's Corporate Plan identifies Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and associated targets, each of which is the responsibility of a senior manager. Performance against KPIs is measured and reported monthly to IPSA’s Senior Management Team (SMT) and the Board and published on IPSA's website. Operational performance targets for the financial year are contained within IPSA's Annual Report and Accounts, which are also published on IPSA's website.</p><p>Further information on IPSA’s performance can be found in the Corporate Plan, available on IPSA’s website.</p><p>Staff capacity, performance and welfare, as well as comprehensive financial management information, are measured and reported monthly to IPSA’s SMT and the Board as part of our KPIs. From this IPSA is able to identify any issues regarding productivity, efficiency or cost and address them accordingly.</p><p>All IPSA employees have performance objectives, which are aligned with IPSA’s Corporate Plan. Employees are managed against their objectives, including through formal quarterly reviews to ensure performance and productivity are satisfactory.<strong></strong></p><p>A staff engagement survey is also undertaken each year, which identifies any issues of concern which may affect staff productivity.</p><p>To ensure IPSA continues to increase both efficiency and productivity it measures performance against our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This activity enables IPSA to identify any issues and put relevant plans in place to ensure that productivity continues to improve.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker grouped question UIN 8401 8700 question first answered 23/11/2015 17:19:47 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

416839

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how IPSA measures how efficient its processes are for hon. Members and their staff to register expenses.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>IPSA's Corporate Plan identifies Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and associated targets, each of which is the responsibility of a senior manager. Performance against KPIs is measured and reported monthly to IPSA’s Senior Management Team (SMT) and the Board and published on IPSA's website. Operational performance targets for the financial year are contained within IPSA's Annual Report and Accounts, which are also published on IPSA's website.</p><p>Further information on IPSA’s performance can be found in the Corporate Plan, available on IPSA’s website.</p><p>Staff capacity, performance and welfare, as well as comprehensive financial management information, are measured and reported monthly to IPSA’s SMT and the Board as part of our KPIs. From this IPSA is able to identify any issues regarding productivity, efficiency or cost and address them accordingly.</p><p>All IPSA employees have performance objectives, which are aligned with IPSA’s Corporate Plan. Employees are managed against their objectives, including through formal quarterly reviews to ensure performance and productivity are satisfactory.<strong></strong></p><p>A staff engagement survey is also undertaken each year, which identifies any issues of concern which may affect staff productivity.</p><p>To ensure IPSA continues to increase both efficiency and productivity it measures performance against our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This activity enables IPSA to identify any issues and put relevant plans in place to ensure that productivity continues to improve.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker grouped question UIN 8700 8701 question first answered 23/11/2015 17:19:47 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

416840

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Members: Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what steps IPSA has taken to make its processes more efficient for hon. Members and their staff.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>IPSA provides financial support to enable MPs to perform their parliamentary and constituency work. We aim to do this as efficiently as possible and to minimise the burden on MPs, consistent with our duty to assure the public that all MPs’ business costs are legitimate, supported by evidence and subsequently published.</p><p>IPSA took a number of steps in 2014-15 to achieve this objective. This included expanding the use of the payment card, permitting MPs to use the card for any eligible cost under the <em>MPs’ Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses</em> (‘the Scheme’) and providing additional telephone support by opening our phone lines from 10am till 5pm, including over the weekend during the General Election, to ensure that MPs could get help and assistance as and when they needed it.</p><p>IPSA have also provided more training for MPs and their staff on our system and have participated in roadshows and seminars across the country to meet MPs’ staff and explain how our rules and systems operate. IPSA have also held drop-in sessions at Portcullis House for MPs and their staff.</p><p>All these measures have help to reduce the time that MPs and their staff spend making claims. IPSA are now undertaking a more wide-ranging review of both IT and business services to see where further efficiencies can be made, and to continue to improve the support that it provides to MPs and their staff.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 23/11/2015 17:14:40 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

416841

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Members: Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, if IPSA will consult the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body on making its processes more efficient.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The <em>MPs’ Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses</em> (‘the Scheme’) is reviewed on a regular basis to ensure the rules (and the supporting processes) remain fair and workable. In doing so, IPSA always consult the public, MPs, MPs’ staff and other interested parties, including the Scottish Parliament, whomthe Chief Executive of IPSA, Marcial Boo,met with most recently in August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 23/11/2015 17:16:04 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

416842

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Members: Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what plans IPSA has to measure the average number of working hours spent by hon. Members and their staff per month on registering expenses with IPSA.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>IPSA carries out an Annual User Survey which seeks to identify, amongst other measures, the hours per month that MPs and their staff spend making expenses claims. The key findings from these surveys are published on IPSA’s website.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 23/11/2015 17:16:36 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

416843

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Members: Credit Cards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, in how many instances IPSA has suspended the credit card of an hon. Member.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
	uin	8405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>IPSA’s role is to regulate MPs’ business costs and expenses and to provide assurance that public funds are properly and effectively scrutinised. As a normal part of our operations, IPSA may, on occasion, limit the use of MPs’ payment cards for a short period. This may not necessarily entail a suspension of the card.</p><p>By analysing MPs’ spending against their annual budgets, IPSA uses this routine action as one of various preventative financial controls to limit each MP’s exposure to financial liability and to assist in ensuring their compliance with the MPs’ Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses. Their card use may also be limited in the event of a delay to the monthly reconciliation process.</p><p>In addition, IPSA sometimes makes amendments to an MP’s payment card account, including by limiting the card’s use, at the request of the cardholder, such as when a card is lost or the MP leaves Parliament</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 23/11/2015 17:20:50 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell