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1506977

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2022 to Question 155783, for what reason his Department does not employ staff directly.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	51733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>As with other, comparable small Ministerial departments e.g. the Northern Ireland Office, Wales Office, the Scotland Office benefits from access to the recruitment services of larger organisations. In the case of the Scotland Office, it is the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice.</p><p>This supports our commitment to managing the public finances in a responsible way, promoting intergovernmental relations and providing easily accessible, rewarding career opportunities for civil servants.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 28/09/2022 09:32:30 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1506979

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department includes the costs of staff seconded to his Departments from elsewhere in Government in its annual departmental budget.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	51734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The costs of all staff seconded to the Department from elsewhere in Government are included within the annual departmental budget.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 28/09/2022 09:27:59 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1385823

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff were employed by his department in 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
tabling member printed	Mhairi Black
uin	88760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland is a small Ministerial Department, which does not employ staff directly. Those that join, do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government Departments, principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice who remain the employers.</p><p>Detailed staffing information is already published annually, within the Staff Report of the Scotland Office Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 - <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002998/Office_of_the_Secretary_of_State_for_Scotland_and_Office_of_the_Advocate_General_for_Scotland_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2020-2021.pdf" target="_blank">Scotland Office Annual Report 20/21</a>. Copies are also available from the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 14/12/2021 11:15:10 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4421 label Biography information for Mhairi Black

1236587

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff were employed in his Department who were based in (a) London and (b) Scotland on (i) September 2020 and (ii) 1 April in each year from 2015 to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	93613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies; principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice, who remain the employers.</p><p>Staff on assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies to the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland were based as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>London</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2019</strong></p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 March 2020</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>31 August 2020*</strong></p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> *Data provided from 31 August as nearest recorded information held to the requested dates.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/09/2020 10:52:25 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1236589

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the absence rate was for staff of his Department based in (a) Scotland and (b) London in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	93615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly, all staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies, who remain the employer. All absence is reported to and recorded by the parent employers, who retain and manage the detailed absence data relevant to their staff.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 25/09/2020 10:50:22 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1230124

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many members of staff in his Department have equality, diversity or inclusion in their job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	83941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>A number of staff undertake a wide range of functions and activities including equality, diversity or inclusion responsibilities, which are undertaken in conjunction with other duties and not specifically referenced in job titles.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 07/09/2020 13:35:54 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1052165

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251 on Government Departments: Staff, how many civil servants in his department were working (a) part and (b) full time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (i) June 2016 and (ii) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	215092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>None. The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high risk projects in which the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has a facilitating role.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 07/02/2019 14:55:08 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1029342

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff were employed in his Department on (a) 20 December 2018 and (b) 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	204540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of Scotland does not hold staffing information at mid-point monthly dates; information is recorded at month end only.</p><p>On 30 June 2016, there were 67.0 FTE staff in post, and on 31 December 2018 there were 74.4 FTE staff in post.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 10/01/2019 10:43:35 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

984951

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what change there has been in staffing levels in his Department since June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	177739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>Staffing levels at the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland have increased by seven staff members between June 2016 and June 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2016</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2018</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Difference</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>+7</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 17/10/2018 15:13:52 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

972509

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff (a) are employed directly by (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	174100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies, principally the Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Government. No staff are on contracts directly with the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland.</p><p>Specific details can be found in the staffing section of the Scotland Office Annual report 2017/18:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728570/Scottish_Office_Annual_Report_2017-18.pdf" target="_blank">Scotland Office Annual Report 2017/18</a></p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 10/10/2018 14:27:53 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West