Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect of civil service redundancies in the last 12 months on the effectiveness of departments' work.
Answered by Matt Hancock
To remain the best in the world, the Civil Service needs to respond to both the challenges and opportunities of our times.The Civil Service continues to require new and different skills to respond to the fiscal environment, global competition and changes in technology, whilst at the same time delivering better services more efficiently: in short, doing more for less.
The size of the Civil Service has already reduced by 20% since March 2010 and has helped save taxpayers £2.8bn over the last Parliament. Despite this reduction in numbers, employee engagement rates were higher in 2015 than in 2010 and departments have successfully maintained delivery of our public services.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions officials from his Department have held with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Office about that Department accepting placements from the Civil Service fast stream programme.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
As was the case under previous administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides to officials in the Northern Ireland Executive on personal security.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Cabinet Office provides security guidance to all departments
As was the case under successive administrations, we do not comment on the specifics of that advice.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new graduate Fast Streamers were allocated places in each department in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The pilot cohort of 100 Fast Track Apprentices began their apprenticeships in September 2013. Eight Government Departments across England participated in the pilot cohort:
· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Cabinet Office
· Crown Prosecution Service
· Department for Education
· Department for Work and Pensions
· HM Revenue & Customs
· Ministry of Defence
· Ministry of Justice
Cohort 2 will begin in September 2014 and will place 200 apprentices across Departments and Agencies across England, including:
· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Cabinet Office
· Crown Prosecution Service
· Department for Education
· Department for Work and Pensions
· HM Revenue & Customs
· Ministry of Defence
· Ministry of Justice
· Civil Service Employee Policy
· Civil Service Resourcing
· Civil Service Learning
· Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
· Department for Transport
· Department for Culture, Media and Sport
· Department for Communities and Local Government
· UK Trade & Investment, part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Treasury Solicitor's Department
· Insolvency Service
· Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
· Crown Commercial Service
The government plans to continue to grow this programme and expand it to other departments.
Annual Reports published by the Cabinet Office indicating the number of candidates recommended for appointment to the Graduate (now Generalist) Fast Stream are available at www.gov.uk.
A table showing the numbers recommended for appointment to the scheme for the period 2010-2012, distributed by department, has been placed in the library of the House. Data for 2013 is not yet available.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many places are available annually on the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The pilot cohort of 100 Fast Track Apprentices began their apprenticeships in September 2013. Eight Government Departments across England participated in the pilot cohort:
· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Cabinet Office
· Crown Prosecution Service
· Department for Education
· Department for Work and Pensions
· HM Revenue & Customs
· Ministry of Defence
· Ministry of Justice
Cohort 2 will begin in September 2014 and will place 200 apprentices across Departments and Agencies across England, including:
· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Cabinet Office
· Crown Prosecution Service
· Department for Education
· Department for Work and Pensions
· HM Revenue & Customs
· Ministry of Defence
· Ministry of Justice
· Civil Service Employee Policy
· Civil Service Resourcing
· Civil Service Learning
· Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
· Department for Transport
· Department for Culture, Media and Sport
· Department for Communities and Local Government
· UK Trade & Investment, part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Treasury Solicitor's Department
· Insolvency Service
· Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
· Crown Commercial Service
The government plans to continue to grow this programme and expand it to other departments.
Annual Reports published by the Cabinet Office indicating the number of candidates recommended for appointment to the Graduate (now Generalist) Fast Stream are available at www.gov.uk.
A table showing the numbers recommended for appointment to the scheme for the period 2010-2012, distributed by department, has been placed in the library of the House. Data for 2013 is not yet available.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government departments do not participate in the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The pilot cohort of 100 Fast Track Apprentices began their apprenticeships in September 2013. Eight Government Departments across England participated in the pilot cohort:
· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Cabinet Office
· Crown Prosecution Service
· Department for Education
· Department for Work and Pensions
· HM Revenue & Customs
· Ministry of Defence
· Ministry of Justice
Cohort 2 will begin in September 2014 and will place 200 apprentices across Departments and Agencies across England, including:
· Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Cabinet Office
· Crown Prosecution Service
· Department for Education
· Department for Work and Pensions
· HM Revenue & Customs
· Ministry of Defence
· Ministry of Justice
· Civil Service Employee Policy
· Civil Service Resourcing
· Civil Service Learning
· Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
· Department for Transport
· Department for Culture, Media and Sport
· Department for Communities and Local Government
· UK Trade & Investment, part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
· Treasury Solicitor's Department
· Insolvency Service
· Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
· Crown Commercial Service
The government plans to continue to grow this programme and expand it to other departments.
Annual Reports published by the Cabinet Office indicating the number of candidates recommended for appointment to the Graduate (now Generalist) Fast Stream are available at www.gov.uk.
A table showing the numbers recommended for appointment to the scheme for the period 2010-2012, distributed by department, has been placed in the library of the House. Data for 2013 is not yet available.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the Civil Service Fast Stream programme is promoted to students in Northern Ireland.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The Civil Service Fast Stream marketing team use the careers site, advertising campaigns, on-campus promotions and events and social media to promote the Civil Service's graduate development programme across the UK. The Northern Ireland Civil Service is a separate organisation from the Home Civil Service and therefore employs graduates separately through the Northern Ireland Fast Stream.
In 2013 the Fast Stream marketing team used the free vacancy advertising service offered by the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast to promote Fast Stream Opportunities.. The Fast Stream programmes are also advertised on graduate recruitment websites with databases of over 700,000 students across the UK. Last October, Fast Stream representatives attended the Business and Finance Fair at Queen's University Belfast to generate awareness and attract talented students to the Civil Service.
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what support the Emergency Planning College has provided to the planning and preparation for the Giro D'Italia Big Start in Northern Ireland in May 2014.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has had no requests for direct support of the planning and preparation for the Giro D'Italia Big Start in Northern Ireland in May 2014. The EPC has however delivered a variety of civil protection and resilience planning courses in Northern Ireland for various organisations, including Sports NI.
The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has provided 79 courses on emergency planning and crises management courses to 1170 attendees delivered in Northern Ireland since 2006. In addition to the training provided for customer organisations in NI, the EPC has trained 358 practitioners from NI attending residential training courses at the EPC since 2006
Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many training courses the Emergency Planning College has provided in Northern Ireland in each year since the college was established; and how many people from Northern Ireland have completed such training courses.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has had no requests for direct support of the planning and preparation for the Giro D'Italia Big Start in Northern Ireland in May 2014. The EPC has however delivered a variety of civil protection and resilience planning courses in Northern Ireland for various organisations, including Sports NI.
The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has provided 79 courses on emergency planning and crises management courses to 1170 attendees delivered in Northern Ireland since 2006. In addition to the training provided for customer organisations in NI, the EPC has trained 358 practitioners from NI attending residential training courses at the EPC since 2006