Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2022 to Question 132400, on civil service staff networks, what information he holds on (a) FTE staff time and (b) budgets available to recognised staff groups within his Department in each of the last three years.
Answered by Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland
The Scotland Office has a People Group, which supports the delivery of the Departmental People Strategy and the Civil Service People Survey.
(a) Information on FTE staff time is not collected;
(b) The People Group is not allocated a budget.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to the Answer of 8 March 2022 to Question 132400 on civil service staff networks, what recognised staff groups have been running in his Department over the last three years.
Answered by Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland
The Scotland Office has a People Group, which supports the delivery of the Departmental People Strategy and the Civil Service People Survey.
(a) Information on FTE staff time is not collected;
(b) The People Group is not allocated a budget.
Asked by: Gareth Bacon (Conservative - Orpington)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will provide a list of (a) professional staff networks and (b) social clubs operating within his Department; and if he will provide the (i) budgets and (ii) FTE staff time allocated to each group within each of the last three years.
Answered by Alister Jack - Secretary of State for Scotland
The Scotland Office does not operate any professional staff networks or social clubs.
The Scotland Office does not employ any staff directly. Those that join, do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government Departments, principally the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice, who remain the employers. Scotland Office colleagues have access to the staff networks and social clubs of their employing departments.