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708892

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in the Law Officers' Departments in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>GLD has offered the following number of work experience placements in each of the last five. None of them lasted for longer than one month. The placements were unpaid but assistance was provided with travel and subsistence costs. The placements were aimed either at promoting access to the legal profession, or to provide work experience to those from disadvantaged or black or minority ethnic backgrounds.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Work Placements in GLD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) does not undertake unpaid work placements.</p><p> </p><p>The SFO does enable school age students to undertake work experience varying between 1 day and a week. SFO central records indicate that 26 students have completed such a placement over the past five years, as detailed in the following table, but none was for longer than one week.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of students at SFO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are no central records held in regard to unpaid work experience at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and to collect this information would be at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Nobody has undertaken an unpaid work placement at AGO and HMCPSI within this timeframe.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 16/03/2017 14:20:10 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708893

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p> </p><p>There is no centrally held record of unpaid work placements in the Cabinet Office. Therefore, it is not possible to provide information on the number of people that undertook an unpaid work placement in the department in each of the last five years. An attempt to do so would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 66901 question first answered 24/03/2017 12:12:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708903

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>The Treasury hosts internships which are paid. There were no unpaid work placements over 2 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury participates in the formal civil service wide work experience scheme for school and college students. This is part of the government’s social mobility strategy. Work experience of 2 weeks or less is unpaid but there are costs to participating departments i.e. £1000-2000 per student. These costs support activities for the students on career choices, travel expenses and accommodation where the work-experience scheme is residential. The numbers of students hosted from the central scheme are below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Civil Service Work experience students in HM Treasury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Informal work- experience is also permitted of less than 2 weeks for young people under the age of 22. These placements are unpaid and numbers are not collated centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 15/03/2017 13:37:41 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708909

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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: Unpaid Work
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 people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>My Department has operated a small number of unpaid work placements in each of the last five years. Almost all of these placements arise from cross-Whitehall internship and Department for Work and Pensions led movement to work schemes.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total Unpaid Placements</p></td><td><p>Total placements lasting more than one month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 23/03/2017 16:04:00 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708929

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 56303 from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Louise Haigh), on 12 December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 09/03/2017 16:09:11 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton attachment 1 file name 20161216_56303_MOD_Work_Experience (1).pdf title 56303 - MOD Work Experience
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708941

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>Requests for unpaid work experience placements are handled by individual business units and no record is kept of them.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/03/2017 15:45:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708949

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Unpaid Work
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 people undertook an unpaid work placement in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>Defra does not retain details centrally on the number of work placements in the Department and to identify the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 21/03/2017 11:41:35 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708967

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Unpaid Work
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 people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>All those who undertook work experience at the FCO between 2012-2016 were paid an allowance, except:</p><ul><li>The four participants on the Movement to Work Scheme in 2016, who each continued to receive their benefits during their two-week placement</li><li>The two participants on a one-week Civil Service Work Experience (CSWE) placement in 2016. Participants received an advance payment to cover their travel and lunch costs</li><li>15 Social Mobility Interns between 2012-2015 on a two-week residential work experience programme. Participation was free and interns received an advance payment to cover meal and travel costs.</li></ul> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 15/03/2017 17:32:49 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

708984

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold central records on the number of people undertaking unpaid work placements in the Department.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 15/03/2017 13:40:27 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

709022

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people undertook an unpaid work placement in her Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many such placements lasted for longer than one month.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	66897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department offers work placements through our recently launched Return to Work Programme to provide a bridge back to work for individuals. We also take part in the Civil Service Summer Diversity Internship scheme. Individuals participating on both these schemes are paid whilst they are working in the Department.</p><p>The Department provides a work experience programme for 15 - 18 year olds from diverse backgrounds. This is a cross Civil Service scheme working with Local Education Authorities and aimed at giving individuals practical experience of life in the Civil Service for a week. This shadowing experience is unpaid. We do not centrally hold the information on the number of people who undertook this unpaid shadowing opportunity; it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 15/03/2017 17:29:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders