Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications posts there are in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.
Answered by Jo Stevens - Secretary of State for Wales
In the Wales Office communications team, there are a total of 8 Full Time Equivalent Government Communication Service professionals.
Of this total, 2 work in the media discipline which covers press and media responsibilities.
This is the latest available data from June 2024.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of the (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by (i) their Department or (ii) their predecessor Department has undergone a post legislative review in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Simon Hart
My Department has completed one post legislative review of its primary legislation in the last 10 years and none in the last five. Work is underway to prepare an assessment of the Wales Act 2017. No such reviews have been necessary in respect of the department’s secondary legislation.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many post legislative reviews (a) their Department or (b) their predecessor Department has undertaken on (i) primary and (ii) secondary legislation in each of the last five years.
Answered by Simon Hart
My Department has completed one post legislative review of its primary legislation in the last 10 years and none in the last five. Work is underway to prepare an assessment of the Wales Act 2017. No such reviews have been necessary in respect of the department’s secondary legislation.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many pieces of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation their Department has sponsored in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Simon Hart
This information is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structure in the last decade. The numbers for my department are as follows:
(a) 2
(b) 17
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many hours his Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Alun Cairns
The Wales Office has a shared service arrangement with the Northern Ireland Office for the provision of FOI services. There is one full time FOI manager employed by the Northern Ireland Office supported by three people from the Wales Office on a part time basis (0.4 full time equivalent staff). The FOI Team does not record the number of hours spent on processing FOI requests.