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91882

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date	26/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to the Law Officers' Departments are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The CPS currently employs one member of staff whose salary is below the rate defined by the Living Wage Foundation. As a result of proposed changes to pay ranges, this employee will be paid a salary in excess of the living wage once the associated collective bargaining process has concluded. This will be backdated to 1 April 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No direct employees of the Treasury Solicitor’s Office are paid less than the living wage. However, at 30 September 2014 The Treasury Solicitor’s Office had eleven temporary workers in London receiving less than the living wage although this position will change after 12 weeks of engagement in line with the Agency Workers legislation. At that point, their salary will increase to a higher rate of pay comparable to the rate of a direct employee. All other temporary workers are paid more than the living wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No direct employees or temporary workers employed by the remaining Law Officers' Departments are paid less than the living wage.</p><p>A complete record on the pay arrangements for staff employed by companies contracted to provide services to the Law Officers' Departments is not held and could not be provided without incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 14/10/2014 13:58:44 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91901

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>No staff directly employed in the Cabinet Office or directly employed in its agencies are paid less than the living wage. Further to my answer of 28 January 2014 (Official Report) Column Ref: 515W to the hon. Member for Rhonda to Question , in line with the practice of previous Administrations, we do not require our contractors to pay the living wage to their staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/10/2014 08:13:11 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91904

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants of (a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit reported a change of circumstances in 2013-14; in how many such cases payments were suspended while the change of circumstances was processed; and what the average amount per claimant was of such suspended payments.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>HMRC do not hold the requested data and there would be a disproportionate cost attached to obtaining it.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/10/2014 14:51:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91905

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>HM Treasury and staff working in its agencies do not have any employees earning less than the living wage.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information on wages paid by our suppliers.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/10/2014 14:55:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91921

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>My Department and its agencies have no direct employees, outsourced workers or workers in agencies earning less than the hourly living wage rate as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/10/2014 16:21:59 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91936

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The table shows the number of civilian staff employed by the Ministry of Defence and its Agencies who are paid less than the rate defined by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF) as a living wage.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Department/Agency</p></td><td><p>Numbers working in London paid less than LWF London Rate of £8.80 per hour</p></td><td><p>Numbers paid less than LWF National Rate of £7.65 per hour</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ministry of Defence</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom Hydrographic Office</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Support Group</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Science &amp; Technology Laboratory</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>Figures are as at 3 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Contracted workers’ rates of pay, where paid by their parent company or recruitment agency, are not visible to the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/10/2014 16:06:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91949

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to her Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education and its executive agencies have no directly employed staff or agency workers paid below the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>External contractors who provide facilities management services to the Department have confirmed that they have 146 staff paid under this rate. This includes 48 staff paid under the London Living Wage and 98 staff paid under the UK Living Wage. All contracted staff are paid above the minimum wage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 15/10/2014 08:25:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91963

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>I can confirm that from April 2014 there were no Civil Servants or contractors employed on DECC premises who were paid less the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation in either London or Scotland.</p><p>DECC has no executive agencies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 14/10/2014 11:44:20 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91965

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to her Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>There are no direct employees paid less than the Living Wage in core Defra, AHVLA, VMD and RPA.</p><p> </p><p>In FERA there are 11 and in CEFAS 7 directly employed members of staff on apprenticeship schemes who are paid below the Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p>207 people are known to be employed on contracts in Defra and the executive agencies where the contractors pay less than the Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 16/10/2014 14:38:08 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91986

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>None of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's, or its agencies, direct employees or agency staff are paid below the living wage. We do not hold information on the earnings of outsourced workers.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 16/10/2014 14:03:09 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead