Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on government procurement card purchases (a) above and (b) below £500 net of refunded payments in (i) 2022 and (ii) 2023.
Answered by Alex Norris - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Details of the department spend on government procurement cards can be found here.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answers of 15 March 2024 to Questions 17337 and 17338 on Freeports: Foreign Investment in UK, when his Department plans to publish the UK Freeports Programme Annual Report 2023; and if he will include the information on foreign direct investment performance (a) at the level and (b) for the dates requested in Questions 17337 and 17338.
Answered by Jacob Young
Announcements will be set out in due course.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's contract with Precise Media Monitoring Ltd of 24 January 2024, procurement reference CPD4124143, if he will publish the list of search words provided by his Department's press office to the supplier at the outset of that contract.
Answered by Simon Hoare
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2023 to Question 4980, which ministers used the vehicle provided under the terms of the Cabinet Office contract originally agreed with Ground Transport Ltd on 13 November 2020 (reference CCYZ20A06), novated to his Department from 14 January 2021 to 16 October 2022.
Answered by Simon Hoare
This service was available to departmental ministers. A more detailed breakdown could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to page 39 of his Department's annual report and accounts for 2022/23, HC 1478, published on 20 July 2023, what the distance travelled on domestic flights was that resulted in the emission totals of (a) 7 tCO2e in 2021/22 and (b) 14 tCO2e in 2022/23.
Answered by Simon Hoare
The department supports communities across the UK to thrive, making them great places to live and work. Our responsibility to maintain the strength of the Union necessitates travel to all corners of the nation as does our Levelling Up mission. The Covid-19 pandemic is responsible for the difference in miles travelled between 2021/22 and 2022/23.
The distance travelled on domestic flights that resulted in the emission totals of (a) 7 tCO2e in 2021/22 and (b) 14 tCO2e in 2022/23 were.
2021-22 Domestic flights – 53,859km travelled.
2022-23 – Domestic flights – 109,901km travelled.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4366 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, by what means the figure for non-cash vouchers requested in that question can be determined from his Department's usual publication of non-consolidated performance related pay.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Non-cash payments made during 2022-23 will be captured as part of overall spend on non-consolidated performance related payments, which is due for publication before the end of the current financial year. Once that is published, requests for further breakdowns of data can be made, in the usual way.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2023 to Question 1496 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, what the equivalent figure for the value of non-cash vouchers awarded to junior staff working for his Department was as performance related bonuses in the year 2022-23.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Updates to the publication on paybill and NCPRP will be set out in the usual way.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November to Question 114 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, where in his Department's 2021-22 publication of data on non-consolidated performance related pay is the value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff specified.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Further to the publication set out here, non-cash payments are captured as part of overall spend on non-consolidated performance related payments. The value of non-cash vouchers awarded to junior staff working for the Department as performance related bonuses in the year 2021-22 was £111,870. This was well within the Department’s approved non-consolidated performance pay pot of 0.65% and in-line with Civil Service pay remit guidance and best practice established by Cabinet Office HR.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference the 3,190 total headcount figure for permanent civil servants excluding agency workers working for his Department as of 31 March 2023, as detailed in Cabinet Office statistics entitled Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, what that figure was on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
Answered by Jacob Young
Information on the department’s workforce size is published routinely each year as part of the Civil Service Annual Workforce Statistics. Information for each of the years in question can be found at the following link.
As of 31st October 2023, 58% of this Department’s Civil Servants who are employed on temporary contracts are women.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the value was of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for his core Department as performance-related bonuses in 2022-23.
Answered by Jacob Young
Information for the year 2021-22 is available here, and data for 2022-23 will be published in due course.