Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) employees and (b) self-employed workers were classified as working on offshore wind projects on the UK Continental Shelf in each year between 2008-09 and 2016-17.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) employees and (b) self-employed workers were classified as working on oil and gas installations on the UK Continental Shelf in each year between 2008-09 and 2016-17.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2016 to Question 49829, what the timetable is for the data to become available on the number of apprentices given permanent positions in the Civil Service.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Minister for the Cabinet Office will publish apprenticeship data in line with the requirements set out in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 and relevant regulations, which are intended to come into force in April 2017.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprenticeships have been created in his Department in each region in each of the last five years; and how many participants in those apprenticeships subsequently secured a job within the Civil Service.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Since 2011, Cabinet Office has created 208 apprenticeships. Information on subsequently permanent employment in the Civil Service is not centrally held.
The table below provides a breakdown of the number of apprenticeships created in each financial year since 2011. The locations reflect the fact the Cabinet Office is primarily based in London.
Year | Number of apprenticeships created | Location |
2011/12 | 8 | London |
2012/13 | 25 | London |
2013/14 | 33 | London (32) Liverpool (1) |
2014/15 | 38 | London |
2015/16 | 48 | London (45) Norwich (1) Bristol (1) Liverpool (1) |
2016/17 | 56* | London (54) Norwich (1) Liverpool (1) |
*Figure at end of October 2016
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprenticeships have been created in each Government department in each region in each of the last five years; and how many of those apprentices subsequently secured a job within the Civil Service.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Workforce planning, including apprenticeships, is the responsibility of individual departments.
However, in light of the Government’s manifesto commitment to achieve three million new apprenticeship starts in England by the end of the Parliament, the Cabinet Office will be collecting data on apprenticeships to allow the Civil Service to report on our contribution towards the national target. From 2016/17 onwards, apprenticeship data will be collected on a quarterly basis.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the responses to his Department's National Flood Resilience Review.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
The report of the National Flooding Resilience Review is due to be published in the summer of 2016.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The total expenditure of the Commission will be published in due course.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2016 to Question 23778, on civil servants: pensions, and with reference to his letter to the hon. Member for Stockton North of 7 January 2016, for what reason a deduction was made from the refund on the Principal Civil Service Pension of the constituent referred to in that letter.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Like other occupational pension schemes, the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (PCSPS) is required by law to provide a widow’s pension, in respect of service from 6 April 1978, whenever a member dies and leaves an eligible widow – irrespective of when that marriage took place. To cover the risk of the scheme having to pay a widow’s pension in respect of a marriage that took place after a member leaves service, a non-refundable insurance-type premium is deducted from the refund of members of the classic section of the PCSPS who remain single throughout service. This premium is a type of group insurance against the specific risk of a member dying and leaving an eligible widow/widower.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many unmarried civil servants had a deduction made from their civil service pensions in each of the last 10 years under the scheme to meet the costs of widow and widowers' pensions in the event of some scheme members marrying; and what the total value of those deductions was.
Answered by Matt Hancock
No deduction has been made from Civil Service Pensionsof unmarried civil servants to meet the costs of widow and widowers' pensions in the event of some scheme members marrying.
Information on the date of marriage is not held.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many unmarried civil servants married after retirement from the civil service resulting in a subsequent claim for a widow or widower's pension from the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
No deduction has been made from Civil Service Pensionsof unmarried civil servants to meet the costs of widow and widowers' pensions in the event of some scheme members marrying.
Information on the date of marriage is not held.