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227248

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in the Law Officers' Departments and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is contained in the following tables.</p><p>The table below shows the average number of staff engaged off-payroll over the past five years by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), and the Treasury Solicitor’s Department (TSol).</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Tsol, AGO and HMCPSI - Average number of staff engaged off-payroll<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014 – February 2015</p></td><td><p>263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – March 2014</p></td><td><p>197</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010 – March 2011</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>1 </em><em>Off payroll staff includes temporary (agency) and contract staff, including lawyers, other professionals and administrators. None of the above mentioned staff members are civil servants. The majority are temporary staff engaged through employment agencies to cover short term vacancies and to secure specific specialist legal and support skills.</em></p><p> </p><p>Prior to April 2014 the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) did not maintain a centralised record of staff employed off-payroll and it is not possible to provide information at the level of detail requested. The SFO can, however, provide an average number of temporary staff employed since April 2010. These figures are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>SFO - Average number of temporary staff engaged off-payroll</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – March 2014</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010 – March 2011</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of December January 2015 there were 86 temporary staff working at the SFO.</p><p> </p><p>The average number of staff in the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) who were engaged off-payroll during each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>CPS - Average number of temporary staff engaged off-payroll<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014 – January 2015</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – March 2014</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010 – March 2011</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>1 </sup></em><em>The figures in the table have been calculated by taking relevant workforce statistics published each month and deriving an average for each financial year. It is possible, therefore, that the number of unique individuals employed during any financial year was higher than that indicated.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 26/03/2015 14:59:23 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227265

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>As part of HM Treasury’s transparency agenda figures for non-payroll staff are published on a monthly basis and can be found using the following link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workforce-management--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workforce-management--2</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To go back further than the published 4 years would be at a disproportionate cost.<br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 23/03/2015 16:50:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227274

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Off-payroll Working
	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 staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes monthly workforce management information on the Department, its executive agencies and its associated bodies. This information includes the number and cost of both payroll and non payroll staff. The monthly returns from March 2011 can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workforce-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workforce-management</a><br><br>As far as I am aware, there is no suggestion that there are any inappropriate tax avoidance arrangements by our specialist contractors who are off-payroll.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/03/2015 12:18:50 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227275

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Culture Media and Sport: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>New tighter rules governing ‘off-payroll’ appointments in central government were established in May 2012 when the Chief Secretary to the Treasury published the Review of the Tax Arrangements of Public Sector Appointees.</p><p> </p><p>The recommendations of the Review mean that the most senior staff must go on the payroll, and departments are now able to seek assurance in relation to the tax arrangements of their long-term, high paid contractors.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury has carried out two evaluations of compliance with the rules which were published on 11 March 2014 and 5 March 2015. The most recent review revealed that the large majority of central government departments are operating the rules effectively.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Off-payroll engagements for more than £220 per day and that last for longer than six months:</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department /ALB</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>DCMS</strong></p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ofcom</strong></p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Olympic Delivery Authority</strong></p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>British Library</strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Equality &amp; Human Rights Commission</strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Visit Britain</strong></p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>British Museum</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>British Film Institute</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Tate</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>UK Sport</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>V&amp;A</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Arts Council England</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>National Gallery</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Natural History Museum</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sport England</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data Source: DCMS Annual Reports 2012-13 and 2013-14</p><p> </p><p>The following Arm’s Length bodies have not used off-payroll engagements for more than £220 per day and that last for longer than six months:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>· Churches Conservation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· English Heritage</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Gambling Commission</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Geffrye Museum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Horniman</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Horse race Betting Levy Board</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Imperial War Museum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· National Heritage Memorial Fund /Heritage Lottery Fund</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· National Museums Liverpool</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· National Portrait Gallery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Royal Armouries</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Royal Museums Greenwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Science Museum Group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Sir John Soane’s Museum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Sports Ground Safety Authority</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· The Royal Parks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>· Wallace</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>For appointments prior to this and below this threshold, the cost to provide the numbers would be disproportionate.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 20/03/2015 15:58:01 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227280

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of off-payroll appointments made by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and its Arms Length Bodies in each of the past five Financial Years (FY) has been as follows:</p><p> </p><p>FY 2009-10 - 1,815</p><p>FY 2010-11 - 1,175</p><p>FY 2011-12 - 3,171</p><p>FY 2012-13 - 4,021</p><p>FY 2013-14 - 5,632</p><p> </p><p>These figures represent off-payroll appointments (headcount) made centrally under the Contingent Labour arrangements. The number of off-payroll appointees engaged through other arrangements (ie, as fee earners, consultancy or locally by exception) could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Contingent Labour is generally engaged on a temporary basis to fill vacant, funded posts until recruitment action is taken to appoint a salaried permanent member of staff. Included in this category are temporary admin and clerical workers, interim managers, and specialist contractors (in finance, HR, IT and other functions).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information about the MOD’s senior payroll appointees (ie, those engaged for over £220 a day for more than six months) and those of its Arm’s Length Bodies has been published in the MOD's Annual Reports and Accounts since the 2012-13 Financial Year.</p><p> </p><p>Access to certain forms of private-sector expertise is of enduring value to us as it does not make economic sense to maintain all the specialist skills we need permanently in-house. However we are seeking to ensure that we benefit from external expertise through skills transfer to our own staff wherever possible to help make us more self-reliant and resilient in the longer term. The current number of off-payroll appointments reflects the need to bring in, for the short term, specialist skills which cannot be found among the permanent workforce to help us implement the Levene reforms across Defence.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/03/2015 16:00:19 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 52153 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227308

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of people engaged off payroll by the Home Office and the Non Departmental Public Bodies, for which it is responsible, are published each year in its Annual report and Accounts. These are available on our website and can be found by following the links set out below:<br><br>2013-14 (Average number of persons employed) (Page 39)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446<br>/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf<br><br>2012-13 (Average number of persons employed) (Page 45)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210660<br>/Annual_Report_and_Accounts_FINAL_updated_logo.pdf<br><br>2011-12 (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 46)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619<br>/annual-report-2011-12.pdf<br><br>2010-11 (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 45)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048<br>/annual-report-201011.pdf</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/03/2015 16:26:55 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227332

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve funding and support for child social care.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education recognises the need to continue to improve funding and support for children’s social care, supporting local authorities to improve the provision of their services and get better value for money. Although local authorities are responsible for the vast majority of the expenditure in children’s social services, the Department’s investment and support has been focused across four key areas: innovation; direct support to underperforming authorities; improvements to the social work force; and leadership. There are also a number of areas of specific support, such as the Department’s response to adoption, child sexual exploitation, and children in care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme has allocated an additional £100 million funding for 2014-15 and 2015-16, targeted at supporting vulnerable children and those on the edge of care. The programme was launched in order to enable local authorities, charities, social enterprises and private organisations to test new methods of delivery in order to achieve higher quality and better value for money. The programme covers 50 projects and involves 72 local authorities. The Department will be working closely with all projects to support implementation and build a strong evidence base. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-services-innovation-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-services-innovation-programme</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department regularly intervenes to provide effective support to local authorities which are failing to provide safe children’s social care services. We have recently strengthened underperforming authorities by appointing six experts in children’s social care to support them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With regard to strengthening the social work workforce, by the end of the current Parliament, the Department will have invested more than £680 million in social work training and improvement, mostly in bursaries to social work students. We are also committed to improving the quality of social worker recruitment through the Frontline and Step Up to Social Work entry training programmes for high calibre recruits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>With regard to leadership, the Department is committed to strengthening the quality of those in positions of leadership. The Department has funded the Virtual Staff College with over £8.4 million since 2012-13 in order to provide leadership development for Directors of Children’s Services and Assistant Directors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are taking action to build capacity and expertise in local areas in order to respond to recent reports exposing the level of child sexual abuse and exploitation. The Government responded to the Rotherham reports by announcing a range of action to improve accountability and target prevention. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-child-sexual-exploitation--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-child-sexual-exploitation--2</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 25/03/2015 16:45:21 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

227338

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 12 March (HL5472), how many cases made on the basis of sexuality have been recorded on the Case Information Database; over what period of time; and how many were (1) granted, and (2) refused asylum.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL5725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The process of recording this data on the Home Office's Case Information Database requires significant further development. As such, the Home Office has not yet reached a point where it can provide an accurate picture of the number of asylum claims based on sexuality.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/03/2015 13:24:45 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

227339

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	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	NATO
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which of the 28 member states of the European Union are not members of NATO; and whether they intend to encourage those member states to join NATO.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
	uin	HL5726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>There are 6 Member States of the European Union who are not members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO): Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden. Of these, all except Cyprus are official NATO Partners, cooperating both through NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Partnership for Peace programme.</p><p>The UK is committed to NATO’s Open Door policy, as enshrined in Article 10 of the Washington Treaty, which provides that any European state in a position to further the principles of the treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area may apply to join NATO. It is for individual States to consider whether they wish to apply for NATO membership, taking into account their own defence and security considerations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 24/03/2015 13:50:22 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

227340

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Iceland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the United Kingdom has (1) separate trade agreements with Iceland, or (2) trade agreements with Iceland negotiated by the European Union.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
	uin	HL5727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom does not have its own separate trade agreements with Iceland. UK trade relations with Iceland are governed mainly by the 1972 bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Iceland and the EEC, and the agreement on the European Economic Area which entered into force in January 1994.</p><p> </p><p>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Livingston of Parkhead question first answered 24/03/2015 14:57:23 answering member 4278 label Biography information for Lord Livingston of Parkhead
	tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney