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1521322

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	61747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s policy is that staff should always seek to book standard class rail travel for Ministers and Civil Servants, and only by exception should first class rail travel be permitted. Expenditure on first class train travel was as shown in the following table. For 2022, the amounts shown are to the end of August only.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>First Class Train travel</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Ministers</p></td><td><p>£5,168</p></td><td><p>£3,923</p></td><td><p>£3,011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Civil Servants</p></td><td><p>£627</p></td><td><p>£3,452</p></td><td><p>£2,694</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell question first answered 21/10/2022 14:07:24 answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1491447

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	41935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s Agency Staff spend is published annually in BEIS Annual Report and Accounts <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a> under note 3 ‘Staff costs’. Agency spend is shown as financial years in the ‘Wages and Salaries’ line under the ‘Others’ column, representing non-permanent core BEIS staff. Annual spend on Agency spend is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally.</p><p> </p><p>Spend relating to financial year 2021-22 will be published later this year. BEIS Annual Report and Accounts are laid in Parliament once they have been certified by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG).</p><p> </p><p>We do not pay agency retainers as our policy is only to use Crown Commercial Framework contracts.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 06/09/2022 14:45:24 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488872

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Table below shows Department’s air travel spend booked through our travel provider for years 2020, 2021 and 2022. There are occasions when ministerial travel is booked outside of our provider but are not included in this response as this information can only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Department’s published ministerial overseas travel can also be found on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=BEIS+ministerial+travel&amp;order=relevance%20" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Air travel Spend via Travel Provider </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(i) </strong><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(ii) </strong><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(iii) </strong><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(a) </strong><strong>Ministers</strong></p></td><td><p>£9,076</p></td><td><p>£30,615</p></td><td><p>£36,182</p></td><td><p>£75,873</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(b) </strong><strong>Officials</strong></p></td><td><p>£265,381</p></td><td><p>£106,732</p></td><td><p>£308,566</p></td><td><p>£680,679</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p>£274,457</p></td><td><p>£137,347</p></td><td><p>£344,748</p></td><td><p>£756,552</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 21/07/2022 15:46:24 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488221

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	34808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s advertising spend is published in BEIS Annual Reporting Accounts within ‘Advertising and publicity’ costs and can be found in table 4.1 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Spend relating to financial year 2021-22 will be published later this year. BEIS Annual Report &amp; Accounts are laid in Parliament once they have been certified by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG).</p><p> </p><p>All advertising costs with details of the provider are published on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-spending-over-25000" target="_blank">here</a>. Further transactions will be published during 2022.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 20/07/2022 17:00:29 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1487822

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	33692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s consultancy spend is published in BEIS Annual Reporting Accounts within ‘Legal, professional and consultancy’ costs and can be found in table 4.1 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a>. A more detailed breakdown of consultancy costs can be found in the Accountability Report on page 82.</p><p> </p><p>Spend relating to financial year 2021-22 will be published later this year. BEIS Annual Report &amp; Accounts are laid in Parliament once they have been certified by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG).</p><p> </p><p>All consultancy costs with details of the provider are published on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-spending-over-25000" target="_blank">here</a>. Further transactions will be published during 2022.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 18/07/2022 08:20:32 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486908

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	31724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy does not hold centrally the breakdown between advice on legal disputes and other forms of advice and this can only be obtained disproportionally.</p><p> </p><p>Legal, professional and consultancy costs are included within note 4.1 of the BEIS Annual Report and Consolidated Accounts <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 16:12:32 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486553

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	31003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The total value of contracts held by BEIS with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020 is detailed in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023 (committed)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Capita</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,176,448</p></td><td><p>£1,662,948</p></td><td><p>£1,606,198</p></td><td><p>£264,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Serco</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,525,500</p></td><td><p>£2,510,000</p></td><td><p>£1,986,131</p></td><td><p>£6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>G4S</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£4,308</p></td><td><p>£26,880</p></td><td><p>£26,880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,701,948</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,177,256</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£3,619,209</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£297,715</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 13/07/2022 09:00:39 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486081

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	29879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 11:01:42 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1485120

registered interest
date	30/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	28385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The information required to calculate the Annual wage ratio is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally. However, financial year data is held centrally. The table below shows Department’s wage ratio in financial years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Between the highest paid member of staff and the lowest</p></td><td><p>Pay Ratio</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) 2019/20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) 2020/21</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) 2021/22</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 11:26:34 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1484750

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	27519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>Annual spend on hospitality is not held centrally and can only be obtained disproportionally. However, the table below shows Department’s hospitality spend in financial years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Category (</strong>£)</p></td><td><p>(a) 2019/20</p></td><td><p>(b) 2020/21</p></td><td><p>(c) 2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hospitality</p></td><td><p>54,816</p></td><td><p>4,182</p></td><td><p>21,303</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 14/07/2022 11:27:33 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett