Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Home Office is performing well in reducing spending while protecting and improving our services. Against an 09/10 baseline, Government has saved £1.4billion through centralising arrangements for common goods and services.
Since 2009/10 we hve reduced the use of taxis by over 30% and we have cut spending on first class rail travel by 92% since 2010/11. Between 2006-2010 and 2010-2014, we have cut spending on taxis by £1.4m, on first-class rail by £3m, and all air travel by £4m.
The spend for taxis, first class train tickets and business class air travel in the last five years are as follows.
Taxis*
2009-2010 £768,623.66
2010-2011 £531,192.09
2011-2012 £318,944.83
2012-2013 £534,167.57
2013-2014 £529,919.39
First Class Train Tickets**
2010-2011 £203,884.12
2011-2012 £26,051.22
2012-2013 £23,232.63
2013-2014 £22,934.14
Business Class Air Travel***
2010-2011 £678,187.04
2011-2012 £861,537.43
2012-2013 £667,298.69
2013-2014 £1,010,037.59
It is not possible to separately identify the cost of first class train tickets and business class air travel in 2009/2010.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recruitment and employment agencies her Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Home Department does not centrally hold details of recruitment and employment agencies who are engaged to source staff so this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Expenditure incurred by the Home Department and its agencies on consultants,
temporary staff and contingent labour in the last five years is published
annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which are
held in the House Library and available from these links.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ho-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247694/0193.pdf
The Department did not separately account for Agency Staff (Temporary Workers)
in these years as the costs associated with this category are included in the
overall Contingent Labour figures.
Spend on contingent and consultancy labour has decreased significantly overall
since 09/10.
FY09/10 | FY10/11 | FY11/12 | FY12/13 | FY13/14 | |
£m | £m | £m | £m | £m | |
Consultancy | £227.470 | £64.194 | £33.301 | £14.762 | £18.014 |
Contingent Labour | £134.000 | £51.472 | £37.772 | £50.672 | £72.430 |
The Department engages Temporary Staff at AA, AO, EO, HEO and SEO equivalent
Grades, the vast majority at the AA to EO grades. Contractors are engaged in
grade equivalents EO to SCS PB1 with the vast majority at SEO and G6/7.
The Department buys consultancy as a service and therefore does not engage
consultants individually.
To provide details of contract durations and equivalent grades would require
analysis of individual contracts and disparate datasets, the time taken to
undertake this task would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) her Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Previously reported fraud data was collected on behalf of HM Treasury. Archived reports can be found at:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110402/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_managing_risk_of_fraud.htm
Currently the Home Office collects data for inclusion in the Quarterly Data Survey, as part of a Cabinet Office initiative, and shows combined totals of reported fraud and error for the Home Office and its executive agencies.
The Home Office has collected data for financial error since 2012/13, and is also published as part of a broader Cabinet Office initiative within the Quarterly Data Summary. Prior to 2012-13, the Home Office did not report the
value of financial error data. The Home Office does not collect data on financial error for Non-Departmental Public Bodies.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 15 August 2011 calling for a family test to be applied to all domestic policy, which policies of her Department have been so assessed to date.
Answered by James Brokenshire
On 18 August 2014 the Prime Minister announced that the family test was being formalised as part of the impact assessment for all domestic policies. From October 2014, every new domestic policy will be examined for its impact on the family.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by her Department since May 2010.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Since May 2010, 77 posts have transferred from the Home Department to the private sector as a result of outsourcing.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of employees in her Department of what (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The proportion of Home Office employees with each working pattern by (a) Civil
Service pay grade is shown in Table 1.
The proportion of Home Office employees with each working pattern by (b) gender
is shown in Table 2.