Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department reported experiencing bullying or harassment at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Bullying and harassment has no place in any workplace, including the Civil Service.
In the most recent People Survey, 11% of respondents, on average across the Civil Service, told us that they'd experienced bullying or harassment at work in the 12 months preceding the survey.
Whilst this figure has remained stable since 2016, we recognise that certain groups of staff are more like to say they have experienced this type of unacceptable behaviour than others. This includes staff members with long-term limiting conditions who, in the vast majority of departments and agencies, were more likely to say they'd been bullied or harassed in the last 12 months than staff members with no long-term limiting conditions.
We are strengthening the routes for staff to report bullying and harassment to ensure that all staff are fully supported throughout the process, and to ensure cultures are positive and inclusive. HM Treasury has just published new Dispute Resolution and Discipline policies. The products have been designed to be more supportive and to promote a culture where people feel able to raise a concern, confident that they will be listened to and that their concerns will be taken seriously.
The high level People Survey results for each organisation, including reported rates of bullying and harassment, were published last December on gov.uk.
Each spring the Cabinet Office conducts and publishes a range of further analysis on the People Survey responses, including the results by gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and health status. Similar analysis will be conducted again this year and made available on gov.uk.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.16 of Budget 2018, what proportion of the £410 million for adult and children social care is for children's social care.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Where necessary, local authorities should use the funding to ensure adult social care pressures don’t create additional pressure on the NHS, and councils can also use it to improve their offer for older people, people with disabilities, and children.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.16 of Budget 2018, how the £410 million for adult and children social care will be distributed among local councils.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Details of the distributional allocation of the funding will be provided by the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.17 of Budget 2018, what proportion of the £55 million of the Disabled Facilities Grant will be allocated to programmes targeted at children.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Disabled Facilities Grant funds individual aids and adaptations to a person’s home and is available to all disabled children, and disabled adults subject to a means test. Local authority decisions on grant awards will determine how the Grant is allocated between children and adults.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on NHS funding.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
I refer the hon. Member to the Answer I gave earlier to Question no. 3 – PQ UIN 906780
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish the data on exceptions to the two-child tax credit limit.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The policy has only been operation since April 2017. The data will be published once there are sufficient cases to enable robust analysis and the statistics have been quality assured.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many care leavers are in receipt of working tax credit.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The information requested is not held by HMRC
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department reported experiencing bullying or harassment at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
8% of Treasury respondents declared that during the past 12 months they had personally experienced bullying or harassment at work.
The rules on confidentiality relating to the Civil Service People Survey (CSPS) do not allow for the breakdown of the results to the extent where the anonymity may be compromised. Therefore the Treasury does not hold information on the proportion of disabled staff who reported bullying or harassment at work in the 2014 Civil Service People Survey.
6% of Treasury respondents declaring that they did not have a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability reported that they had personally experienced bullying or harassment at work in the past 12 months.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department responded that they were treated fairly at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the 2014 People Survey, 81% of Treasury respondents declaring a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability responded that they were treated fairly at work.
89% of Treasury respondents declaring that they did not have a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability responded that they were treated fairly at work.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The 2013-14 appraisal data is not available yet.