Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what type of heating system is the primary source of heating in each building occupied by her Department and its agencies; and what fuel is used by those heating systems.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The Government Property Agency (GPA) acts as a landlord to government department clients, including Cabinet Office, the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade, the Department for Education and others.
The majority of GPA’s properties have heating systems served by gas fired boilers. This includes the Whitehall District Heating System, which is a system owned and operated by GPA that distributes heating to premises in the Whitehall Campus from conventional fossil fuel boilers.
GPA’s newly developed assets have utilised more carbon efficient forms of heating, such as the new hub in Birmingham at 23 Stephenson Street, which has a mechanical heat recovery system with electricity as its fuel source.
GPA has started a Net Zero Offices Programme, which seeks to remove fossil fuel boilers (where they have reached end of economic life) and replace them with more environmental forms of heating such as use of air source heat pumps and, in the case of the Whitehall District Heating System, the utilisation of ground source heat pumps. The Net Zero Offices Programmes is seeking funding for its heat decarbonisation projects through applications to the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in his Department and average full-time pay in that Department.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Government departments do not publish details of the salary of their highest to lowest paid employees. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) do, however, publish the salary ratio of highest to median earners for each Civil Service organisation. These ratios are published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics and can be found on the Office for National Statistics website:
As the Department for International Trade (DIT) is newly formed, we have not had the opportunity to contribute to the ONS publication. DIT’s statistics will be included in the next release, due for publication in March 2017.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to include worker representation on its departmental board.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
I refer the Hon. Member to the oral statement on the Corporate Governance Green Paper of 29 November 2016, Official Report, Column 1408.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employee in his Department.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Government departments do not publish details of the salary of their highest to lowest paid employees. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) do, however, publish the salary ratio of highest to median earners for each Civil Service organisation. These ratios are published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics and can be found on the Office for National Statistics website:
As the Department for International Trade (DIT) is newly formed, we have not had the opportunity to contribute to the ONS publication. DIT’s statistics will be included in the next release, due for publication in March 2017.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to publish information on the gender pay gap among its employees.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Department for International Trade (DIT) has a statutory requirement to publish information on the gender pay gap amongst its employees under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties, Gender Pay Gap Information and Public Authorities) Regulations 2016, which come into force on 6 April 2017.
The information will be published no later than 4 April 2018 as required by the Regulations. DIT and UK Export Finance will publish their information separately on their respective gov.uk sites.