Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Mike Freer
I can confirm the MoJ has no spend on recruitment consultants in the last three years.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on head-hunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Mike Freer
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.
Answered by Mike Freer
Under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, eligible Ministers who leave office are entitled to a one-off payment equivalent to one quarter of their annual salary at the point at which they leave Government.
This applies only where a Minister is under 65 and is not appointed to a ministerial office within three weeks of leaving government.
Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the reforms to criminal record rehabilitation periods introduced in Part 11 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, when he expects to implement those reforms.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 concerning criminal record rehabilitation periods will require further secondary legislation before the policy can be implemented.
The Home Office have commissioned the Disclosure and Barring Service to make required changes to its IT systems to ensure that DBS certificates fully reflect the provisions within the Act with regard to rehabilitation periods. We expect the work to be completed before the end of 2023. The Ministry of Justice and Home Office will then lay the Statutory Instrument to bring the measures into force, once a specific date of implementation can be confirmed
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, which nationalities are represented among House of Commons staff.
Answered by Pete Wishart - SNP Deputy Westminster Leader
Excluding staff in the Parliamentary Digital Service, the nationalities represented among House of Commons staff are in the Table attached.