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683444

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Senior Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, (IPSA) what the (a) ethnicity, (b) gender, (c) disability status, (d) educational background and (e) socio-economic status is of the three most senior officials employed by IPSA.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	62872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>IPSA’s Chief Executive, Marcial Boo, is supported by a team of three senior directors (two male and one female).</p><p>Information relating to IPSA’s senior staff is published on IPSA’s website, available at the following address: <a href="https://www.theipsa.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/ipsas-senior-staff/" target="_blank">https://www.theipsa.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/ipsas-senior-staff/</a>. Further information is also published annually in IPSA’s annual report and accounts.</p><p>In line with statutory requirements under the Data Protection Act 1998, we do not publish sensitive personal data, which includes information relating to an individual’s ethnicity or disability status. IPSA does not hold information on employees’ educational background or socio-economic status.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 08/02/2017 14:10:22 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

685579

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many security passes into IPSA are issued to people (a) not directly employed by and (b) who are not civil servants who work in IPSA.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>13 passes granting entry to IPSA's offices have been issued to individuals who are not directly employed by IPSA.</p><p>Three of these individuals are temporary members of staff engaged through an agency, three are cleaners who have access to the office outside of working hours and the remaining seven are staff at IPSA's IT service provider.</p><p>With regards to (b), the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 states that IPSA's staff are not to be regarded as the servants or agents of the Crown. Individuals directly employed by IPSA are not considered civil servants.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 20/02/2017 15:51:15 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

685580

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what the total pay bill was for (a) male and (b) female employees in IPSA in 2015-16; and what the average per capita spend from that pay bill was for men and women in that year.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>IPSA publishes a large amount of information relating to our operations as part of our annual report and accounts, following the end of each financial year. Copies of these reports can be found on its website at the following address: https://www.theipsa.org.uk/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts/</p><p>During 2015-16, IPSA employed an average of 32 female and 27 male employees. This figure includes full and part-time staff, but excludes Board Members and temporary project staff engaged through an agency.</p><p>The total gross pay for male employees in 2015-16 was £1,091,483.80. The total gross pay for female employees was £1,201,905.81. These figures include part-time staff, whose gross pay has been pro-rated to their working hours.</p><p>Using these figures, the average per capita spend for male employees was £40,425.33, and for female employees was £37,559.56.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 20/02/2017 15:50:31 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

679671

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what the (a) level of earnings is of the (i) highest and (ii) lowest-paid employee and (b) median earnings are of employees of the Church Commissioners.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	62061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2017 answer text <p>The National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England are made up of five charities which employ staff through a common employment scheme. Information about the pay of members of the NCIs is published in the NCIs annual reports . The Church Commissioners annual report is laid before Parliament and is available in the House of Commons Library.</p><p>The NCIs have two different employment strands: the Church Commissioners Institutional Investment Specialists and the NCI Common Employment Scheme. The 33 staff of the Church Commissioners Insitutional Investment Specialists are paid benchmarked salaries against other institutional investment specialists.</p><p>i) Highest total earnings are £465,584, and include an element of long term incentive payments which pays based on consistent out-performance of the Commissioners’ target investment return over a sustained period of five years.</p><p>ii) Lowest total earnings are £29,359</p><p>iii) Median is £75,050</p><p> </p><p>The NCI Common Employment Scheme covers all other staff directly employed by the NCIs. Outside of the Church Commissioners Investments team, 449 people, have pay managed on a consistent policy, based on job bands. We assess pay levels against other public and third sector employers.</p><p>i) Highest total earnings are £170,239</p><p>ii) Lowest earnings are £17,632</p><p>iii) Median earnings are £38,386.</p><p>Those staff on apprenticeships, internships or training schemes are outside of this pay structure and paid at least national minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 03/02/2017 15:49:40 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

682244

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, which persons not employed by the Church Commissioners hold security passes entitling them to enter the Church Commissioners premises.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	62530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>The security arrangements at Church House in Westminster ensure that employees of the National Church Institutions (NCIs) have full access to those premises whilst others who may need temporary or limited access are able to enter only those parts of the building that they need to access for their work. The system has recently been upgraded to ensure that the NCIs provides a safe environment for staff and visitors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 06/02/2017 16:51:08 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman previous answer version 34109 answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

683300

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Senior Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what the (a) ethnicity, (b) gender, (c) disability status, (d) educational background and (e) socio-economic status is of the three most senior officials of the Church Commissioners.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	62877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>The three most senior office holders of the Church Commissioners are the First Church Estates Commissioner (Crown Appointment), the Second Church Estates Commissioner (Crown Appointment recommended by Government) and the Third Church Estates Commissioner (Appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury). This information is published on the website of the Church Commissioners (<a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/about-us/structure/churchcommissioners/commissioners.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.churchofengland.org/about-us/structure/churchcommissioners/commissioners.aspx</a>) and in the annual report. A copy of the annual report is placed in the House of Commons Library as a matter of public record. The holders of the positions are officeholders, not employees. The National Church Institutions do not hold other demographic data.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 06/02/2017 17:19:50 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

684014

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what the total pay bill was for (a) male and (b) female employees in the Church Commissioners in 2015-16; and what the per capita spend from that pay bill for each man and woman was in that year.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The Church Commissioners have two different employment strands: one for the investments team and one for all other Commissioners’ staff. The total and per capita pay bill spends for men and women in the 2016 calendar year were:</p><p><strong>Staff (excluding investment team):</strong></p><p>Total paybill (gross earnings): £5,873,188</p><p>Male: £3,719,955; per capita (average) £82,666</p><p>Female: £2,153,233; per capita (average): £52,518</p><p> </p><p><strong>Investments team:</strong></p><p>Total paybill (gross earnings): £3,610,872</p><p>Male: £2,387,023; per capita (average) £119,351</p><p>Female: £1,223,849; per capita (average): £94,142</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 07/02/2017 17:47:15 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

685435

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, how many security passes into the Church Commissioners are issued to people (a) not directly employed by and (b) who are not civil servants who work in the Church Commissioners.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>Most of the people who work at Church House, Westminster are not employed solely by the Church Commissioners. Staff of the National Church Institutions (NCIs) which include the Church Commissioners are mostly employed jointly by the Institutions.</p><p>In that context I refer the Hon Gentleman to my previous answer to question 62530 answered on 06 February 2017 which stated that only NCI employees enjoy full access to our premises and that other groups have limited and time-limited access. These groups include diocesan bishops, members of General Synod, contractors and tenants.</p><p>A) To date the percentage of passes issued to NCIs staff is 56.24%</p><p>B) None of the staff of the NCIs are civil servants.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/02/2017 17:59:10 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

687934

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2017 to Question 62530, what the number of security passes issued by the Church Commissioners to people not employed by the Church Commissioners is; what business needs suffice for such a security pass to be granted; and what the number of passes issued to people who work for private companies which have currently or previously been awarded government contracts or which are bidding for such contracts is.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>The number of non-staff security passes issued by the National Church Institutions, of which the Church Commissioners are a member, fall into the following categories:</p><p>1. Senior members and staff of the General Synod (Church of England’s Governing Parliament) in the following categories:</p><ul><li><p>’53 Diocesan bishops and elected suffragan bishops’ who make up the House of Bishops. These bishops are members of the General Synod and are issued passes as senior leaders of the Church of England and Chairs of National Church Boards and Councils</p></li><li><p>‘Synod members’ who are Chairs of committees or members of the Archbishops’ Council as the executive body of the General Synod</p></li><li><p>‘Non-staff with specific access’ make up a very small number of people such as the Chaplain to the General Synod</p></li></ul><p>2. 424 other non NCI staff have a specific business case which requires a security pass, these fall into the following categories:</p><ul><li><p>Hospitality Staff</p></li><li><p>Staff of the Corporation of Church House who manage the building</p></li><li><p>Tenants of the building on whose behalf the Church Commissioners are unable to answer</p></li><li><p>Contractors / maintenance staff</p></li><li>A small number of external staff who have been given specific oversight roles such as consultants engaged for specific independent pieces of work</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 20/02/2017 17:16:27 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

693158

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church Commissioners: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, how many Church Commissioners' staff oversee contracts which have been awarded to external providers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	64993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Church Commissioners external contracts are managed either in partnership with the other National Church Institutions through shared office services schemes or by the Corporation of Church House, who manage the building.</p><p>Those that fall specifically within the remit of the Church Commissioners are largely located within the Investments Department, who have five members of staff who oversee external contracts within the property investment team and seven members of staff in the investments team.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 01/03/2017 17:55:16 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett