Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the civil service pay increase, announced in June 2019 is not in line with inflation.
Answered by Simon Hart
Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.
For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.
MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons hon. Members received a pay rise of 2.7 per cent which was backdated to April 2019 and civil servants received a pay increase of 1.84 per cent which was backdated to June 2019.
Answered by Simon Hart
Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.
For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.
MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to align the pay of civil servants in England, Scotland and Wales to the level of pay of civil servants employed in Scotland.
Answered by Simon Hart
Civil service pay, excluding the Senior Civil Service, is delegated to departments and to the Devolved Administrations.
For 2019/20, government departments have flexibility to make average pay settlements of up to 2%, depending on their workforce requirements and affordability. Any department wishing to pay an award above 2% is able to submit a business case to HM Treasury and Cabinet Office for ministerial approval. Departments are also able to meet the costs of increases to the National Living Wage outside of the 2%.
MPs’ pay is set by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is independent from government.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil servants entitled to shared parental leave have taken such leave since it was introduced.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
My department does not hold this data centrally.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on achieving gender balance on boards of Government departments.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Board membership is determined by the needs and policy priorities of each Department.
The Civil Service Talent Action Plan requires government departments to ensure that organisational boards are diverse and to publish data on the diversity of their Boards.