Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Wansbeck)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what criteria he agrees voluntary exit payments for Civil Service employees with a value of more than £95,000.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Information about the number and value of payments made under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme are accounted for in Departmental annual reports. Details about the overall number of cases rejected under the scheme is not held centrally.
There are no cases that are currently outstanding that were submitted to my department before 1 October 2015.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Wansbeck)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons no consultation has taken place with members of the deaf community, service users and British Sign Language interpreters and service providers on the National Framework Agreement for interpreting and translation.
Answered by Matt Hancock
There has been extensive stakeholder engagement for a new Language Services Framework Agreement (RM1092) over the past year, following which the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has amended the specification of requirements to address the points that have been raised by stakeholders, including organisations representing deaf people, users, interpreters, suppliers and industry standards organisations.
CCS has also included the National Union of British Sign Language Interpreters (NUBSLI), and the National Union of Professional Interpreters and Translators (NUPIT) as part of the consultation process over this period.