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1652754

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that staff in her Department who are under investigation for alleged misconduct are not named before those allegations are proven.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	193899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department's policies follow the Civil Service Human Resources' wider model discipline policy. This makes clear that disciplinary matters are strictly confidential. This sits alongside a separate Whistleblowing/Raising a Concern Policy in line with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/07/2023 13:17:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1541869

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) non-disclosure and (b) other confidentiality agreements relating to (i) employment, (ii) bullying, (iii) misconduct and (iii) harassment cases have been agreed by their Department in each year since 1 January 2010; and how much money from the public purse has been spent on (A) legal costs and (B) financial settlements for such agreements in each year since 1 January 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	86584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Department has not used non-disclosure or other confidentiality agreements with current or former employees from 2014 onwards.</p><p>The Government is clear that confidentiality clauses should not be used to prevent staff from raising or discussing allegations of bullying, harassment, or discrimination.</p><p>The Department did enter into some such agreements between 2010 and 2013. The table below shows the number of such agreements and the financial settlements agreed in each financial year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of agreements</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost of settlements</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>Fewer than 10</p></td><td><p>£35,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>Fewer than 10</p></td><td><p>£117,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>Fewer than 10</p></td><td><p>£122,885</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Department does not hold information on the legal costs during that period.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/11/2022 15:28:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1434295

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken in the last six months to ensure statistical information scheduled to be released by the Department is published on the Department's website in a timely and effective way.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	127387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2022 answer text <p>The department is committed to the transparent release of statistics, publishing in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. Public releases by the department are made in line with its scheduled release calendar and publication dates are pre-announced via the GOV.UK portal for transparency.</p><p>Decisions on timing are made by our Chief Statistician who works closely with statistics producers, relevant parties, and the Office for Statistics Regulation to ensure the availability of our data in the public interest. The accurate publication of statistics requires appropriate preparation and quality assessment, and decisions on timescales must account for the time required for these processes to take place reliably.</p><p>To support the timely publication of statistics, the department has an ongoing programme of work to improve the efficiency of our statistics publication processes, whilst simultaneously working to enhance reliability and accessibility.</p><p>As part of this programme of work, the department have built (and continue to develop in an agile way) the ‘Explore Education Statistics’ platform. The department have worked closely with users to provide a system that meets accessibility and usability requirements as effectively as possible, whilst helping our statistics producers create publications in a more efficient and timely way. This platform can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 02/03/2022 17:03:36 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1420151

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has issued any non-disclosure agreements to third-party contractors since February 2020.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	119753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>The department has not issued any non-disclosure agreements to contractors recruited as contingent labour workers.</p><p>The contract for a ‘third-party contractor’ sits between the worker and the supplier, Public Sector Resourcing, not with the Department for Education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 15/02/2022 09:57:07 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1418220

registered interest
date	31/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish any internal guidance available on the use of non-disclosure agreements at his Department.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	114888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The department follows the Civil Service policy which states that non-disclosure clauses should only be used when necessary and should not be included in settlement agreements as a matter of course. Non-disclosure agreements should not seek to stifle or discourage staff from raising concerns about wrongdoing or poor practice in the department or to prevent the proper disclosure of matters of public interest, and do not affect the protection provided to employees under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. The department does not use non-disclosure agreements with its employees.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 08/02/2022 17:50:37 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1415784

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the prevalence of the use of non-disclosure agreements in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	110511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not use non-disclosure agreements with its employees.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 31/01/2022 16:41:15 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1415785

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many non-disclosure agreements have been issued by his Department since February 2020.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	110512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has entered into no non-disclosure agreements since February 2020. The department does not use non-disclosure agreements with its employees.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 31/01/2022 16:40:08 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1110568

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has entered into with departmental staff in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	242809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The department does not use non-disclosure agreements.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/04/2019 09:13:39 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

896442

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many leak enquiries his Department has undertaken in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	140585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The leak of any government information or material is not acceptable and the government takes such incidents very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>It has been the policy of successive governments not to comment on security matters other than in exceptional circumstances when it is in the public interest to do so.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/05/2018 16:33:14 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 56498 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

896467

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	140814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not signed any non-disclosure agreements with its employees in the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/05/2018 16:07:13 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders