Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in his Department and its agencies.

The following organisations collect subscriptions through the Department's payroll service:

Civil Service Club, SPARTA (Civil Service Sports and Recreation Association), Civil Service Retirement Fellowship, Civil Service Benevolent Fund, Civil Service Sports Council, Minerva Sport & Social, PCS Union, First Division Association, Prospect.

Additionally, the following organisations collect subscriptions through The Planning Inspectorate and QEII's payroll service.

QEII: Charity for Civil Servants, PCS Union.

The Planning Inspectorate: SPARTA, NAW Welfare Fund, Civil Service Benevolent Fund, Civil Service Sports Council, PCS Union, Prospect.

Currently, the Department offers a check off system where union subscriptions can be deducted from an individual's pay and transferred to the appropriate trade union. The Department believes it is no longer appropriate for public funds or resources to be used in this way. We will therefore seek to end these arrangements and have strongly encouraged Executive Agencies to also pursue this objective.