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77720

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many officials employed by her Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>37 Officials in my department have remained at the same grade since 2010, broken down by grade as follows:</p><p> </p><p>SCS = 2, A = 4, B = 3, C = 7, D = 10, E = 8, F = 3.</p><p> </p><p>Home Civil Servants in Bands A-F in my department follow MOJ terms and conditions, including pay. Accordingly NIO staff at these grades were subject to a 3 year pay freeze until August 2013 when a 1% pay rise was awarded in line with the Government’s directive on public sector pay.</p><p> </p><p>Staff at grades A-F who were rated as outstanding in their annual performance report for 2013 received a 2% pay rise. Given the small numbers who received an outstanding marking, it would not be appropriate to provide any further breakdown as to do so could risk the identification of the individuals concerned.</p><p> </p><p>Pay for SCS members of staff is regulated by the Senior Salaries Review Board. Neither of the two SCS in my department, who have been here since 2010, has had a pay rise.</p><p> </p><p>This response does not cover Northern Ireland Civil Servants seconded to the NIO from NI departments as they remain on terms and conditions of their home department, including pay.</p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 21/07/2014 16:55:38 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77723

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Belfast Harbour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in what ways she is supporting the Northern Ireland Executive in maximising the potential of Belfast port.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	205504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Earlier in the year I met with the Government Shipping and Ports Minister to discuss how best to support work on maximising the potential of Belfast Port. I recently visited the Port and discussed this work with the Northern Ireland Executive Minister for Regional Development and the Chairman of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners.</p><p>As set out in <em>Building</em> a <em>Prosperous and United Community: One Year On</em>, the Government will continue to support the Executive in its work on maximising the potential of Belfast Port. This will include sharing further information about the announced reforms at the Port of Dover and their implementation.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 22/07/2014 14:38:22 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

77725

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects to hold the 2014 Big Society Awards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	205556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>All Big Society Award winners are listed on <a href="http://www.bigsocietyawards.org/" target="_blank">www.bigsocietyawards.org</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 205555 question first answered 17/07/2014 15:00:17 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

77726

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many officials employed by his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Scotland Office does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other Public Sector bodies, principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice, who remain the employers. Staff terms and conditions of service, including pay awards and payroll administration is a matter for the parent employers. The office does not hold information in the form requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 21/07/2014 13:13:47 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77730

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many officials employed by his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>11,449 officials employed by the Department remained at the same grade and received a pay rise since 2010. The average pay rise over the period for these staff was 6.6%.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/07/2014 16:12:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77743

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many officials employed by his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This information could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Preseli Pembrokeshire answering member printed Stephen Crabb question first answered 21/07/2014 09:12:37 answering member 1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77744

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many officials employed by the Government Equalities Office, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office joined DCMS in September 2012. The Department’s database management system does not record this information in a way that can extract the information asked for. To identify this information for each employee would incur disproportionate cost. Pay awards for civil service departments are limited to an average of up to one percent of overall paybill costs.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 21/07/2014 09:50:50 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77749

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials employed by his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	205469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>To provide this information would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>For 2012 and 2013, because of the nature of the awards applied to delegated grades, staff would have received a 1% increase on base pay whether they remained in grade or were promoted during the year subject to standard eligibility criteria.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not have contractual progression. All our employees are subject to the pay freeze and pay caps in place since 2010. In May 2010 the Government announced a two year pay freeze for civil servants earning over £21,000. The pay freeze applied to this Department in 2010 and 2011.</p><p> </p><p>For staff earning under £21,000, for both 2010 and 2011 DWP awarded staff a flat rate increase by grade of between £400 and £540. Additionally during 2010 the AA band minimum was increased by between £890 and £1060 (depending on location) which lead to a slightly higher increase for some staff. Following Cabinet Office rules, a small number who earned just over £21,000 received smaller payments, using a taper system, to ensure that they were not ‘leapfrogged’ by peers slightly lower down the pay scale.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012 and 2013 DWP awarded a 1% increase to the vast majority of our staff across all delegated grades. DWP will again be paying the majority of our employees a 1% increase in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>For SCS in DWP the pay freeze was in place for three years from 2010 to 2012. In 2013 DWP paid around 22% of its SCS cadre increases within an overall 1% cap and with a Cabinet Office limit on individual awards of 9%. The majority of our SCS will not have received a pay award between 2010 and 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the 2014 SCS and delegated pay awards will not be available until they have been processed at the end of this month.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Below the line comments</p><p> </p><p>1. Because of the numbers involved we are unable to provide information tracking every individual’s pay rise over the period within time and cost perimeters.<br> <br></p><p>2. DWP currently employs 92,510 people and we are not able to provide details for each of these individuals. However, as DWP has applied a simple pay award over each of the years required I am able to summarise our position.<br> <br></p><p>3. The PQ asks for information on pay rises exclusive of changes in grade (most usually promotion). By providing information on pay awards, we will be excluding a small number of pay rises which are due to other factors such as a move to a location which attracts a higher salary (DWP has 4 locational pay zones). It also excludes salary increases as a result of a change in contractual hours.<br> <br></p><p>4. The 2014 pay award will be paid in July salaries. We will not have details of final figures until this has been processed.<br> <br></p><p>5. A small number of individuals are not eligible to receive the pay award e.g. because they are undergoing formal poor performance action in a particular year or are on a salary above the appropriate pay scale maximum.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/07/2014 12:11:49 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

77755

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of personal independence payments have received payments in arrears following a suspension totalling (a) £0-1,000, (b) £1,000-£2,000, (c) £2,000-£3,000, (d) £3,000-£4,000 and (e) more than £4,000 in each month since October 2013.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	205674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information you have requested is not held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 21/07/2014 15:21:33 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

77757

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming universal credit since April 2013 have been referred to the Work Programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	205696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not currently available.</p><p>The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013 which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p>As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for UC therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future. These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p>The latest official experimental statistics on UC can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a>&quot;</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 21/07/2014 14:24:18 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 11109 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms