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date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Aberdeen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2015 to Question 3935, what factors in addition to efficiency his Department took into account in its decision to use links to Stat-Xplore to answer Parliamentary Questions.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	6257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>It is the Department’s policy to make as wide a range of detailed statistics available via on-line tools to allow everyone equality of access and support the Government’s Open Data agenda. These are designed to be comprehensive and easy to use so all users can extract the information they need. DWP staff will be holding training sessions for the House of Commons officials and MP’s in the near future.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/07/2015 16:35:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

387896

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date	06/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what bonuses were paid to (a) officials and (b) special advisers in his Department in each of the last three financial years; and for what reasons each such bonus was awarded.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	5652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>All staff in the Scotland Office are on assignment, secondment or loan from other Government bodies, in the majority of cases, the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice. Staff may be eligible for bonuses, in addition to basic salary, through their parent bodies' pay arrangements.</p><p>The Scotland Office is not responsible for payments made through end of year performance payments or allowances under staffs' parent bodies' pay arrangements and does not hold information centrally on these matters.</p><p>The Scotland Office is able to authorise directly non-consolidated and non-pensionable bonus payments in recognition of special effort, achievement and commitment, where the payment of such bonuses forms part of the individual member of staff’s terms and conditions. The current bonus arrangements do not apply to staff on assignment from the Scottish Government.</p><p>The following information shows the cost of such payments in the last three financial years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost of Payments (£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Awards</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,050</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,700</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Special Advisers are not eligible for bonuses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 13/07/2015 14:39:44 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

387897

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the (a) name, (b) responsibilities and (c) pay band is of each of the special advisers in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	5653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 13 July 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 14/07/2015 11:48:15 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day