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1005763

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the contract given to Willis Towers Watson to calculate the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees was funded from the total amount allocated for pay increases in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	190409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Willis Towers Watson do not calculate the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 189642 189643 question first answered 15/11/2018 15:38:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1005765

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of pay and working conditions of Defence Equipment and Support employees since that organisation became a bespoke trading entity.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	190410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Trends in the level of pay and working conditions of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) employees are subject to regular monitoring through organisational governance processes.</p><p>The DE&amp;S Annual Report and Accounts contains comparative information on these subjects and can be found on gov.uk at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/defence-equipment-support-annual-report-and-accounts-index.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 15/11/2018 15:36:55 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1005768

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of Defence Equipment and Support employees received pay increases at each performance rating relative to the benchmarks set out in their 2018 pay deal.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	190411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) staff are rewarded individually, with salary increases being based on how staff have performed throughout the year relative to their peers, and their salary in comparison to the market benchmark for their role.</p><p> </p><p>The distribution of civilian employees below the Senior Civil Service who were eligible for the 2018 pay award against each of DE&amp;S’ five performance ratings is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Performance Rating</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of DE&amp;S Staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exceptional</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Very Good</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Good</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moderate</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Performance Improvement Required</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Staff rated ‘Performance Improvement Required’ did not receive an increase in pay and those with a rating of ‘Moderate’ received a flat 1%. Larger awards were given to those staff with the highest performance ratings, and dependent upon the relative position of their salary to the benchmark for their role.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 15/11/2018 15:43:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1003875

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department paid Willis Towers Watson to calculate the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	189642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Willis Towers Watson do not calculate the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 189643 190409 question first answered 15/11/2018 15:38:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1003876

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the methodology used by Willis Towers Watson to determine the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	189643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Willis Towers Watson do not calculate the pay benchmarks for Defence Equipment and Support employees.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 189642 190409 question first answered 15/11/2018 15:38:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1003877

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the proportion of Defence Equipment and Support employees at each pay grade before that organisation became a Bespoke Trading Entity in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	189644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Defence Equipment and Support employees remained on the previous Ministry of Defence pay grade structure until April 2017.</p><p>Details of this are published on gov.uk at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-organisation-charts</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/11/2018 16:48:25 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1003878

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the proportion of Defence Equipment and Support employees at each new pay grade after it became a Bespoke Trading Entity in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	189645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) became a Bespoke Trading Entity in April 2014, however employees remained on the previous Ministry of Defence pay grade structure until April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2017, DE&amp;S introduced a new pay, grading and reward structure, which has five broad salary bands. Details of the proportion of employees at each level, as at 1 April 2017, can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>DE&amp;S Level</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of Employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Administrator/Specialist</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Senior Administrator</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional II</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional I</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Senior Professional</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This does not include Senior Civil Service and Military personnel employed in DE&amp;S, which are not part of the new grading structure.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 15/11/2018 15:45:06 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1003879

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the equity of pay increases awarded to civil servants working in Defence Equipment and Support.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	189646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) is fully committed to ensuring fairness; all performance and reward processes are properly governed, transparent and applied consistently. DE&amp;S assesses and monitors the impact of annual salary increases across all protected characteristic groups and will continue to do this.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 15/11/2018 15:44:11 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

999215

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments, which closed on 15 June 2018, when his Department plans to respond to that consultation.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	186273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>We are working closely with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice in considering the responses to the consultation, and we will announce a way forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2018 15:48:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

993573

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180674 on Home Office: staff, how many units within UK Visas and Immigration process post-decision casework; and what category of application each unit processes.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	182725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>There are 6 units (this is based on a unit as a whole not individual teams) within UK Visa and Immigration that complete post decision casework. List below –</p><p><br>• Asylum<br>• Administrative Review<br>• Refused Case Management<br>• Family Human Rights Unit<br>• European &amp; Settlement Casework<br>• International</p><p>Each unit is responsible for processing all categories of post decision casework relevant to their business areas, these include the following –</p><p><br>• Administrative reviews<br>• Appeals implementation<br>• Appeals review<br>• Varying conditions of leave<br>• Further submissions<br>• Reconsideration of decisions<br>• Supplementary decisions<br>• Curtailment<br>• Family reunion<br>• Further representations</p><p>These units are located in the following locations –</p><p><br>• Liverpool<br>• Newcastle<br>• Manchester<br>• Sheffield<br>• Croydon<br>• Beijing<br>• Bogota<br>• Manila<br>• Riyadh<br>• Warsaw<br>• Istanbul<br>• Pretoria<br>• Chennai<br>• Abu Dhabi<br>• Amman<br>• New Delhi</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 182726 question first answered 26/10/2018 12:40:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden