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1486922

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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	31738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information in a form that can readily be interrogated to provide a response. The accompanying physical invoice for each recorded financial transaction related to legal expenditure would have to be examined to determine the nature of the expense and whether it relates to legal disputes.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, the information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 12/07/2022 14:01:34 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486568

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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	31018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) makes use of collaborative contract frameworks where possible for its procurements. These contracts are held collaboratively with the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS), with the NIO one of several parties.</p><p>The NIO was part of a NICS collaborative contract with G4S for security services until March 2022. The value held by the NIO was £317,619 in 2020, £284,047 in 2021, and £71,012 in 2022.</p><p>The NIO has not held contracts with Serco or Capita for this period.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 12/07/2022 13:34:41 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486095

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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	29893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. As Contracts Finder was implemented in 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally.</p><p>With regards to contracts due to be agreed within the next 12 months, the information requested is not held centrally for the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Of the NIO’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies, the Crown Solicitor’s Office is due to agree two contracts with a value of between £1 million and £3 million in the next 12 months.</p><p>The NIO does not hold records on expenditure on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010, or on how many officials have been working on monitoring contracts in each year since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 12/07/2022 13:42:23 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1485136

registered interest
date	30/06/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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	28400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>The wage ratio between the highest paid member of staff and the lowest in the Northern Ireland Office was:</p><p>(a) 9.8:1 in 2020</p><p>(b) 8.0:1 in 2021; and</p><p>(c) 7.6:1 in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 07/07/2022 13:53:17 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1484764

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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	27533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>The amount spent on hospitality by the Northern Ireland Office is as follows:</p><p> </p><p><strong>2019-20</strong> - £258,327</p><p> </p><p><strong>2020-21</strong> - £33,458</p><p> </p><p><strong>2021-22</strong> - £62,872</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 07/07/2022 13:50:48 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1150881

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which public appointments his Department is responsible for.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	2672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Public Appointments Order in Council 2019, Northern Ireland Office ministers are responsible for the following appointments:</p><p> </p><p>Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland</p><p>Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland</p><p>Equality Commission for Northern Ireland</p><p>Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission</p><p>Parades Commission for Northern Ireland</p><p> </p><p>In addition, under the terms of the Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions Act 2018, and in the absence of Northern Ireland Ministers, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is temporarily responsible for approving a number of critical Northern Ireland appointments as and when they arise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 28/10/2019 11:48:04 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1139762

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much time off in lieu has been taken by staff in her Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	278382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Office is committed to ensuring the wellbeing of their staff in support of a healthy work/life balance. The Department has an active Wellbeing Network and line managers are aware of their responsibilities for ensuring that their team members do not work excessive hours.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/07/2019 10:11:16 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1136731

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Overtime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the total amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in her Department in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	272764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office offers a flexible working scheme to all staff, including time off in lieu and paid overtime is available if operationally required. No estimate of the total amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in the last 24 months has been made.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 10/07/2019 10:57:27 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1046943

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251, how many civil servants in his Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	211660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>No civil servants in my Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 28/01/2019 15:49:40 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1003749

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of contracts issued by her Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	189577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office includes, as standard, a payment clause in all contracts involving subcontractors, requiring payment to be made to contractors within 30 days and that these terms apply to any subcontractors they may have.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/11/2018 16:04:42 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett