The Wales Office has two non-executive directors. One of the non-executive directors (David Crawley) stood down on 31 March 2015 after serving 9 years 3 months. The Wales Office has appointed one non-executive director since May 2010; this appointment was made on 1 April 2015.<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many non-executive directors of his Department who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments he has made since May 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/175819/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The number of agencies used by year is shown below:<\/p> <\/p> 2010-11<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2011-12<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2012-13<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2013-14<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2014-15<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 1<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2015-01-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many recruitment and employment agencies his Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169908", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Wales Office"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/170018", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Wales Office"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lucy Powell"}
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The number of people so employed and their equivalent salary band and length of contract (where relevant) is shown below:<\/p> <\/td> <\/td>
<\/p>"}
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, "title" : "PQ 193975 - Table: Wales Office Working Patterns"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of employees in his Department of what (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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