Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) staff, and (2) consultants, at the Department for International Trade are paid salaries in excess of £140,000; and to what posts those salaries apply.
Answered by Baroness Fairhead
Information on high earning staff (£150,000 and above) in the Civil Service is in the public domain, accessible via the transparency data reports on gov.uk. The most recent version is the senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/693864/_150k_2017_Master_for_publication_March_18_update.csv/preview
The Department for International Trade (DIT) does not have any staff paid more than £140,000 but less than £150,000.
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has one member of staff paid more than £140,000 but less than £150,000, in the post of Director of Business Group.
The Department does not hold information on the pay received by individual consultants from their employing company.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government how many civil servants at the Department for International Trade have undertaken training in negotiating skills; and how much has been budgeted in 2017–18 for further such training.
Answered by Lord Price
Training on trade policy and trade negotiations is provided predominately by the Trade Policy and Negotiations Faculty. The role of the Faculty is to build trade policy and negotiations capability in Departments across Her Majesty's Government.
To date over 200 DIT staff have undertaken trade policy training offered by the Trade Faculty or organised directly by DIT.
The Faculty has a training budget of c. £1,600,000 for 2017-18, which will cover training on a range of trade policy topics and negotiations. DIT’s Trade Policy Group has a training budget of c.£900,000 for 2017-18; this budget covers a range of learning and development, including but not limited to trade policy and negotiations.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government how much (1) has been paid since July 2016, and (2) is budgeted to be paid in 2017–18, to recruitment agents or companies for the recruitment of staff to (a) the Department of International Trade, and (b) the Department for Exiting the European Union.
Answered by Lord Price
The Department for International Trade (DIT) has paid £1.15m to organisations for services relating to the recruitment of staff since July 2016. Recruitment costs are managed locally by the functional areas of DIT; there is no central budget for recruitment.
My noble friend a copy of the figures relating to the Department for Exiting the European Union will be placed in the library of the House once they are made available.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government how much (1) has been paid since July 2016, and (2) is budgeted for 2017–18, by the Department for International Trade for external legal advice
Answered by Lord Price
(1) The total amount that the Department for International Trade has spent on external legal services since the beginning of July 2016 is £135, 974.30..
(2) Department for International Trade has budgeted 1.5 million pounds in 2017/18 for external legal services that may be required.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government how much (1) has been paid since July 2016, and (2) is budgeted to be paid in 2017–18, by the Department for International Trade for the training of staff.
Answered by Lord Price
Since July 2016 the Department for International Trade (DIT) has paid £1,723,675 on learning and development.
DIT has a training budget of £2.1m for 2017-18; this budget covers a range of learning and development opportunities for staff.
DIT staff attend training provided by the Trade Policy and Negotiations Faculty. The role of the Faculty is to build trade policy and negotiations capability in Departments across Her Majesty's Government.
In addition, as part of our on-going commitment to building capability across DIT, we have developed a DIT branded Learning Hub to utilise available technology to host and deliver learning through formal, informal and social learning methods, across the global network.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government how many qualified lawyers have been recruited by the Department for International Trade.
Answered by Lord Price
The Department for International Trade does not directly recruit in house lawyers. Currently there are approximately 20 Government Legal Department lawyers working for the benefit of the Department for International Trade.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government what is the travel budget for the Department for International Trade in 2017–18.
Answered by Lord Price
The Department for International Trade has a total travel budget of £7,607,409 for 2017-18.
The budgeting and forecast process is subject to on-going review on a quarterly process when budgets can be re-aligned to reflect changes in priorities.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government how many staff were employed by, or seconded to, the Department for International Trade on 1 July.
Answered by Lord Price
On 1 July 2017 the Department for International Trade, including UK Export Finance, employed and paid via payroll a total of 2,624 people. That total includes 1,268 people who are based overseas.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government what were the running costs for the Department for International Trade in 2016–17.
Answered by Lord Price
The Department for International Trade running costs for 2016-17 is £351m.
This figure will be included in the Department's Annual Report & Accounts which will be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
Her Majesty's Government what are the budgeted running costs of the Department for International Trade for 2017–18.
Answered by Lord Price
The Department for International Trade running costs budget for 2017–18 is £379.3m.