Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department's public bodies spent on employees partly or wholly employed on trade union duties in each year since 2015.
The table below shows how much the Department for Communities and Local Government Arm’s Length Bodies and Non Departmental Public Bodies have spent on employees partly or wholly employed on trade union duties in each year since 2015.
| FY - 2015/16 | FY - 2016/17 | FY - 2017/18 | Accumulative total |
Planning Inspectorate (PINS) | £19,111.00 | £14,173.00 | £5948.00 | £39,232.00 |
Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) | £17,579.00 | £20,660.00 | £17,399.55 | £55,638.55 |
*Valuation Tribunal Service | £119.25 | £120.45 | £0.00 | £239.70 |
QE11 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Lease | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Ebbsfleet | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
*Individual support to Unison members has been provided via their Regional Officer, which has meant that the costs have predominately fallen on Unison not the VTS.
In addition, Housing Ombudsman has two union representatives that are released on an ad hoc basis for trade union activities. The cost is not centrally recorded.