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45918

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how many police officers have been employed in office-based roles in SO17 Palace of Westminster in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	194360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>The number of police officers employed in office-based roles in SO17 Palace of Westminster since the start of the current contract in April 2010 is as follows:<br> <br> April 2010 to March 2011: 7<br> April 2011 to March 2012: 7<br> April 2012 to March 2013: 8<br> April 2013 to March 2014: 9<br> <br> At the start of 2013/14 there were 164 police officers and 356 security officers in SO17. These figures are provided by SO17. I understand that data for previous years could only be derived from manual records and are not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 5287 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

45919

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how many police officer managers have been deployed at SO17 Palace of Westminster in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	194361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>The average number of police officer managers, defined as Chief Superintendent, Superintendent, Chief Inspector, Inspector and Sergeant, deployed at SO17 Palace of Westminster since the start of the current contract in April 2010 is as follows:<br><br>April 2010 to March 2011: 20<br>April 2011 to March 2012: 21<br>April 2012 to March 2013: 19<br>April 2013 to March 2014: 21<br><br>The numbers vary from month to month so the figures above are rounded averages for the 12 month periods shown. At the start of 2013/14 there were 164 police officers and 356 security officers in SO17.<br><br>These figures are provided by SO17. Data for previous years could only be derived from manual records and are not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 5286 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

45920

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the police staff turnover rates have been at SO17 Palace of Westminster over the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	194359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>The turnover for police staff (security officers) at SO17 Palace of Westminster since the start of the current contract in April 2010 is as follows:<br> <br> April 2010 to March 2011: 5.1%<br> April 2011 to March 2012: 3.2%<br> April 2012 to March 2013: 7.6%<br> April 2013 to March 2014: 7.6%<br> <br> These figures are provided by SO17 and were calculated by dividing the number of leavers every year by the total number of staff. I understand that data for previous years could only be derived from manual records and are not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 5288 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

90519

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how many (a) direct, (b) outsourced and (c) agency employees on the Parliamentary estate are (i) paid less than the London living wage and (ii) employed on a zero-hours contract.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	208038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>The House of Commons is an accredited London Living Wage Employer. In order to obtain our licence the House had to satisfy the Living Wage Foundation that no directly employed or contracted workers engaged to work on the Parliamentary estate are paid less than the London Living Wage (LLW). The House of Commons has gone further than its obligations under this licence by adopting a policy of assuring that all contractors supplying a service to the House, regardless of whether they work on the Estate, are paid at least a living wage.</p><p>The House is committed to offering guaranteed minimum hours contracts to all directly-employed staff on call-off (zero hours) contracts and has recently completed a process of offering guaranteed minimum hours contracts to all affected staff. The only call-off contracts that remain relate to two employees who have yet to accept or who preferred not to accept our offer.</p><p>We do not have information on whether or how many contracted workers are employed on zero hours contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 09/09/2014 15:09:47 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 18918 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

90344

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Carol Mills
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, whether (a) Mr Speaker and (b) other members of the panel were informed by the headhunters, Saxton Bampfylde, of the potential problem surrounding Ms Mills in the Australian Parliament before the decision was taken to recommend Ms Mills' appointment as the next Clerk of the House and Chief Executive.
	tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
	tabling member printed	Mr Simon Burns
	uin	207886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Saxton Bampfylde provided written notes on each candidate interviewed on 30 July, and a representative of the company was available to talk to the panel if required. The notes on Ms Mills did not refer to an investigation into the use of closed circuit television footage by officers of the Parliament of Australia’s Department of Parliamentary Services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 08/09/2014 11:46:36 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 18270 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

90742

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what (a) expenses and (b) salary is paid to members of the Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy.
	tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
	tabling member printed	Mr Simon Burns
	uin	208180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p>No salary is paid to members of the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy for carrying out their responsibilities on the Commission; to date a total of £3,819.03 in travel expenses has been incurred.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 10/09/2014 10:11:11 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 19203 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

90867

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Clerk of the House
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014 to Question 207883, if the Commission will make available to the right hon. Member for Chelmsford all the records of all the discussions of the panel considering the appointment of the new Clerk of the House and Chief Executive with the personal data of the applicants redacted.
	tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
	tabling member printed	Mr Simon Burns
	uin	208377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p>Applicants for the role of Clerk of the House and Chief Executive applied in confidence. Records relating to the recruitment process constitute the personal data of the applicants. It would still be possible to identify personal information about individuals following the redaction of names and other personal data from records of the panel discussion. It is not the Commission’s practice to disclose confidential personal information of this nature.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 11/09/2014 09:23:00 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 19393 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

77189

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how much and what proportion of the House of Commons Commission's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of the House of Commons Commission's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	205219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>There are around 800 third party suppliers of services to the House of Commons and given system changes in recent years it would involve disproportionate cost to derive precise figures of contract expenditure by financial year. It is estimated that expenditure has broadly been equivalent to:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Amount (£m)</p></td><td><p>Proportion of spend (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>92.7</p></td><td><p>32.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>87.4</p></td><td><p>47.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>90.7</p></td><td><p>43.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>89.0</p></td><td><p>40.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>83.7</p></td><td><p>37.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For 2014/15 the planned amount is around £100 million which represents 40.8% of the combined capital and resource budget.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 22/07/2014 15:55:12 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 11070 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

79253

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Clerk of the House
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the arrangements were for the selection of the recommended candidate to be Clerk of the House and Chief Executive on each of the last three occasions; and who was on the interviewing board in what capacity on each such occasion.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	206827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p>The composition of the panel for the recruitment of Sir Robert Rogers in 2011 was Mr Speaker, the then Leader of the House (Rt Hon Sir George Young), the then Shadow Leader (Rt Hon Hilary Benn), John Thurso MP, the Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith, the Rt Hon Lindsay Hoyle and Sheila Drew Smith. This was – on Mr Speaker’s initiative – the first time that a formal recruitment panel and process was followed.</p><p>Selection panels were not held for appointing the Clerk of the House and Chief Executive in 2006 and 2003. On both occasions the retiring Clerk of the House recommended two names as potential successors and the then Mr Speaker decided which candidate to recommend.</p><p>The changes in approach to recruitment in 2011, and subsequently in 2014, when the opportunity was opened up to both internal and external applicants, is in line with the House’s policy for fair and open competition in all House of Commons recruitment.</p><p>The selection panel decided on the successful candidate by reaching a consensus. The Speaker was Chair of the panel, but did not have a casting vote.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso grouped question UIN 206828 206829 question first answered 02/09/2014 09:26:52 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 17689 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

79254

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Clerk of the House
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Chelmsford of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 725-6W, on Clerk of the House, who initiated the changes to the previous arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	206828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p>The composition of the panel for the recruitment of Sir Robert Rogers in 2011 was Mr Speaker, the then Leader of the House (Rt Hon Sir George Young), the then Shadow Leader (Rt Hon Hilary Benn), John Thurso MP, the Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith, the Rt Hon Lindsay Hoyle and Sheila Drew Smith. This was – on Mr Speaker’s initiative – the first time that a formal recruitment panel and process was followed.</p><p>Selection panels were not held for appointing the Clerk of the House and Chief Executive in 2006 and 2003. On both occasions the retiring Clerk of the House recommended two names as potential successors and the then Mr Speaker decided which candidate to recommend.</p><p>The changes in approach to recruitment in 2011, and subsequently in 2014, when the opportunity was opened up to both internal and external applicants, is in line with the House’s policy for fair and open competition in all House of Commons recruitment.</p><p>The selection panel decided on the successful candidate by reaching a consensus. The Speaker was Chair of the panel, but did not have a casting vote.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso grouped question UIN 206827 206829 question first answered 02/09/2014 09:26:52 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso previous answer version 17690 answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley