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1491465

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	41943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>A - Agency workers:</p><p> </p><p>Agency workers (more commonly referred to as “Contingent Labour” or “Temporary Workers”) are subject to a Cabinet Office controls framework to ensure robust governance of spending in this area. This framework can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control</a></p><p> </p><p>Commentary on Contingent Labour usage, if applicable, is available in departmental annual reports: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments</a></p><p> </p><p>The Crown Commercial Service provides two frameworks specifically for the supply of Contingent Labour which are used by central government departments. These are:</p><p> </p><p>RM3749 - Public Sector Resourcing <a href="https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/rm3749" target="_blank">https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/rm3749</a>, which provides a managed service for departmental use including low supplier margins, regular pay rate benchmarking, comprehensive tracking and reporting of contingent labour assignments, full time sheeting and approvals technology and onboarding, contracting and payroll services.</p><p> </p><p>RM6160 - Non Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff <a href="https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6160" target="_blank">https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6160</a>, which provides access to a range of generalist, specialist and niche contingent labour agencies offering a wide range of suppliers, maximum margins, free transfer to permanent after 12 weeks and onboarding, contracting and payroll services.</p><p> </p><p>Use of these frameworks provides robust governance, visibility, value for money and flexibility in meeting departmental contingent labour needs.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has spent the following on agency workers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Value (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>783,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1,029,471</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 (up to June)</p></td><td><p>289,177</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>B - Agency retainer fees:</p><p> </p><p>We have interpreted your reference to agency retainer fees as the fees charged at the commencement of the provision of a search recruitment service, this is only applicable when recruiting for a permanent or fixed term post.</p><p> </p><p>Agency retainer fees are not applicable to the contingent labour market.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has spent the following on agency retainer fees:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Value (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>6,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>117,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>165,851</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The vast majority of HM Treasury’s agency retainer fees relate to the setup of the UK Infrastructure Bank.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 05/09/2022 07:24:53 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488872

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Table below shows Department’s air travel spend booked through our travel provider for years 2020, 2021 and 2022. There are occasions when ministerial travel is booked outside of our provider but are not included in this response as this information can only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Department’s published ministerial overseas travel can also be found on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=BEIS+ministerial+travel&amp;order=relevance%20" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Air travel Spend via Travel Provider </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(i) </strong><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(ii) </strong><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(iii) </strong><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(a) </strong><strong>Ministers</strong></p></td><td><p>£9,076</p></td><td><p>£30,615</p></td><td><p>£36,182</p></td><td><p>£75,873</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(b) </strong><strong>Officials</strong></p></td><td><p>£265,381</p></td><td><p>£106,732</p></td><td><p>£308,566</p></td><td><p>£680,679</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p>£274,457</p></td><td><p>£137,347</p></td><td><p>£344,748</p></td><td><p>£756,552</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 21/07/2022 15:46:24 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488873

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>For Ministers, DCMS spent £1,064.99 in 2020, £12,117.80 in 2021 and £6,450.40 in 2022 (flights booked up to 24 July 2022).</p><p>For Officials, DCMS spent £57,597.22 in 2020, £34,302.00 in 2021 and £94,579.80 in 2022 (flights booked up to 24 July 2022).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/07/2022 09:16:37 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488874

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The amounts spent by the department on air travel in total for the requested financial years are shown below. The department does not have the split for ministers and officials readily available. These are the full amounts for both ministers and officials:</p><ul><li>2019/20: £296,227</li><li>2020/21: £40,166</li><li>2021/22: £38,294</li></ul><p>The department always strives to keep costs as low as possible and to get the best out of available funds.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/07/2022 16:37:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488875

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
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: Aviation
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 much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>The table below shows the amount spent on commercial air travel for Ministers and officials for calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022, based on booking date.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ministers</p></td><td><p>£508.55</p></td><td><p>£1,354.13</p></td><td><p>£34,889.88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Officials</p></td><td><p>£95,931.59</p></td><td><p>£35,470.98</p></td><td><p>£286,116.75</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 22/07/2022 10:48:22 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488880

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade spent the following on air travel for the years ending 31 March 2020, 2021 and 2022 for both Ministers and officials.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2019-2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£2,826,000</p></td><td><p>£148,000</p></td><td><p>£1,510,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p><p>DIT Ministerial travel, gifts, hospitality and meetings are published on <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cfunmi.ajediti%40trade.gov.uk%7Cfd6e3395d79c427190c208da6642e390%7C8fa217ec33aa46fbad96dfe68006bb86%7C0%7C0%7C637934734723671097%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GlE1MB9XxNAmq9Af6nhPDORXjgBHtldZXhw7ikZtM3E%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> -<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdit-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cfunmi.ajediti%40trade.gov.uk%7Cfd6e3395d79c427190c208da6642e390%7C8fa217ec33aa46fbad96dfe68006bb86%7C0%7C0%7C637934734723671097%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=hC0bJkgZMQy44zlivuH0pDW%2BOhKqiCxsa7zzUxQ7Hww%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dit-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/07/2022 15:33:08 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488882

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Commercial ministerial air travel is captured in the department’s quarterly returns and published on: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fdluhc-departmental-spending-over-250&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C6d46328c4c214504811608da6b0471ad%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637939964064921430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=QSI7Liw3iDlHWD88uZ3v%2Bh%2Blfrna3jJCHDVtS%2BfDb%2FI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250</a>.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/07/2022 15:35:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488884

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The following table provides the total spend on air travel for the core Department, covering financial years 2019-20 to 2021-22:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Expenditure (£’000)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1,478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>356</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The department is unable to break down travel expense costs for officials and Ministers by mode of transport.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/07/2022 09:36:30 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488885

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The data provided is for all staff including the ministerial team.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental Air Travel costs:</p><p> </p><p>2020 – £90,408.81</p><p>2021 – £34,738.46</p><p>2022 – £94,349.12*</p><p> </p><p>*January – June</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/07/2022 13:39:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488886

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/08/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The total cost of commercial flights taken by DHSC Officials are shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>DHSC Officials (staff)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Value </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>£13,391</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>£14,826</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 up to the 31<sup>st</sup> May</p></td><td><p>£49,061</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Spend on Ministerial commercial travel is published quarterly on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 16/08/2022 11:11:51 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett