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Written Question
Department for Education: Civil Servants
Wednesday 20th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of her Department's offices; and how many desks are available in each office.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The table below uses September’s HR workforce data, and includes all staff.

Site Name

Location

Capacity (desk only)

September HR Staff Data

3 Glass Wharf (Bristol)

Bristol

122

351

Eastbrook House (Cambridge)

Cambridge

40

49

Cheylesmore House (Coventry)

Coventry

694

1089

Trafalgar House (Croydon)

Croydon

40

53

Bishopsgate House (Darlington)

Darlington

323

674

7/8 Wellington Place (Leeds)

Leeds

48

130

Sanctuary Buildings (London)

London - Sanctuary Buildings

940

2080

Piccadilly Gate (Manchester)

Manchester

480

1136

Newcastle Civic Centre (Newcastle)

Newcastle

51

142

Unity Square (Nottingham)

Nottingham

120

365

St Paul's Place (Sheffield)

Sheffield

767

1447

Clarendon Road (Watford)

Watford

24

44

Total

14

3649

7560


Written Question
Parole Board: Buildings
Wednesday 20th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individual desks were occupied in each of the Parole Board’s headquarter offices in the most recent four weeks for which figures are available; and how many staff assigned to each of those offices attended the office in person on average in the same period.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Parole Board is a nationally dispersed organisation with its headquarters located at 10 South Colonnade. As public servants, the Parole Board is responsible for determining the level of monitoring required on office attendance in accordance with its own HR policies and is not required to report on this to the Ministry of Justice.


Written Question
Parole Board: Remote Working
Wednesday 20th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 18 September 2024 to Question HL835 on Government Departments: Remote Working, what the requirement is for Parole Board staff to physically attend the office, in terms of average days attending across the working week.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

Parole Board staff are not civil servants. As public servants, the Parole Board is independent and sets its own policies on office attendance.


Written Question
Parole Board: Civil Servants
Wednesday 20th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil servants are assigned to work in the Parole Board headquarter office; and how many individual desks are available in that office.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

Parole Board staff are public servants, not civil servants. The Parole Board has 54 desks allocated to it at 10 South Colonnade, London, part of the core Ministry of Justice estate.


Written Question
Department for Education: Buildings
Wednesday 20th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2024 to Question 9068 on Department for Education: Buildings, how many civil servants are assigned to work in her Department's headquarters in London; and how many individual desks are available in that office.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

I refer the hon. Member for Bridgewater to the answer of 20 November 2024 to Question 9067.


Written Question
Department for Transport: Buildings
Wednesday 20th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2024 to Question 9280 on Department for Transport: Buildings, how many desks were occupied in her Department’s headquarter office in the most recent four weeks for which figures are available; and how many staff assigned to that workplace attended the office in person on average in the same period.

Answered by Mike Kane - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

For the 4-week period from 7 October 2024 to 1 November 2024 a total of 21,710 desks were occupied in our London office against a maximum available desk capacity of 25,220.

In that same 4-week period 3,201 different Department for Transport staff attended our London office. It is not possible to determine how many staff assigned to our London building attended.


Written Question
Wales Office: Buildings
Tuesday 19th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 9283 on Wales Office: Buildings, what the average number of staff was that attended her Department's headquarters in the most recent working period for which figures are available.

Answered by Nia Griffith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office)

The average number of staff attending the Department's HQ building in the most recent working period for which figures are available is 62%.


Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Civil Servants
Monday 18th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of his Department's offices; and how many desks are available in each office.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The following table shows the number civil servants assigned to work in each of the Department's offices, as well as how many desks are available in each office:

Location

Staff assigned to office

Desks available to the Department in each office

London

2,302

858

Leeds

840

500

Bristol

44

34

Birmingham

38

24

Liverpool

37

23

Cambridge

33

68

Burnley

25

32

Nottingham

21

24

Manchester

18

10

Newcastle

14

19

Reading

5

8

Edinburgh

4

4


Written Question
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Friday 15th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9826 on Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Buildings, how many civil servants are assigned to work in his Department's headquarters in London; and how many individual desks are available in the headquarters office.

Answered by Feryal Clark - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 5 November to Question 9825.


Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Buildings
Friday 15th November 2024

Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Question 9617 on DEFRA: Buildings, how many civil servants are assigned to work in his Department's headquarters in London; and how many individual desks are available in that office.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 15 November to Question 9616.