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1123910

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many companies based in (a) Wales, (b) the UK, (c) the EU and (d) the rest of the world had contracts or grants awarded by his Department in each of the last three years; and what the value of those contracts or grants was.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	249229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales does not issue contracts directly. The Office buys goods and services under Government frameworks agreements and receives procurement services from the Ministry of Justice. The Office has not awarded any grants.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/05/2019 10:49:06 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1124383

registered interest
date	01/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many civil servants in his Department have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	249915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/05/2019 10:50:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126751

registered interest
date	15/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Tourism and Foreign Investment in UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent steps the Government has taken to promote (a) inward tourism and (b) foreign direct investment in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	910826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Last year, over 3000 jobs came to Wales through Foreign Direct Investment, through 57 projects of which 93% were supported by both my department and the Department for International Trade.</p><p>Between 2015 and 2018, the UK attracted more foreign direct investment in capital investment than France and Germany combined.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/05/2019 12:38:15 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1110564

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has entered into with departmental staff in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	242805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 16/04/2019 09:38:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1125292

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of bullying and harassment that have been recorded against managers in his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	252031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (OSSW) has recorded no cases of bullying or harassment in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The Office is committed to ensuring staff are treated with dignity and respect, and that any concerns raised by staff are listened to and dealt with appropriately. We have a zero tolerance approach to bullying and harassment.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/05/2019 08:40:20 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1136930

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Overtime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in his Department in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	273327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State encourages flexible working and uses flexible working policies to enable staff to have working patterns that suit both individuals’ and the Department’s needs. The Department has arrangements in place for monitoring hours worked and line managers are responsible for ensuring that employees are not working excessive hours and are compliant with the Working Time Regulations.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to the wellbeing of staff and regularly informs them about wellbeing-related topics, including maintaining good physical and mental health.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/07/2019 10:54:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1126048

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Former Ministers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has paid to hon. Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	253617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State role is unpaid. No Ministers paid by the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales have left under severance terms since 13 July 2016 and no payments have therefore been made. This is confirmed in the Department’s annual reports and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/05/2019 11:40:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1123174

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	247556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Work on no-deal exit preparations cannot be readily separated from other EU exit and devolution work. EU exit work is funded from the Office’s £5.1 million budget for 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 02/05/2019 10:14:24 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1126135

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff in his Department who were transferred or seconded to work (a) in other departments or (b) on other departmental briefs on preparations for the UK to leave the EU, have since returned to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	253464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>No staff from the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales have been transferred or seconded to work (a) in other departments or (b) on other departmental briefs on preparations for the UK to leave the EU.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/05/2019 09:22:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1126568

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last 12 months; what proportion that leave was of total sick leave taken in his Department; and what the cost was to his Department of officials taking sick leave over that period.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	254077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales is unable to disclose the number or proportion of officials in the Department citing stress as a reason for sick absence in the last twelve months as the data relates to fewer than five staff, and releasing the data would risk the identification of individuals.</p><p>Sick leave for reasons relating to stress amounted to 33% of total sick leave days in the Department in the 12 months to 31 March. The cost of officials taking sick leave was £14,117.</p><p>The physical and mental wellbeing of our staff is crucially important to the department and staff have access to all employee services that help to sustain physical and mental wellbeing, including Occupational Health and a 24-hour employee assistance helpline.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/05/2019 09:24:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake