Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: Low Pay Commission remit 2024Found: The Government is also increasing each of the National Minimum Wage rates for younger workers and apprentices
Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: The National Minimum Wage Beyond 2024Found: wages' impacts, alternative models for minimum wages, and the role of lower rates for young people and apprentices
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: ESFA funding agreements and contracts 2024 to 2025Found: ........................... ................................ . 34 18 QUALITY ASSURANCE AND RAISING STANDARDS
Oral Evidence May. 21 2024
Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and trainingFound: Alongside that, the DfE launched the employer quality road map, which helped set the standards for
Estimate memoranda Mar. 05 2024
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)Found: targeted to the greatest risks to our statutory objectives, with a particular focus on threats to the standards
Asked by: George Howarth (Labour - Knowsley)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2023 to Question 6413 on Government Legal Department, what the composition is of (a) her Department's Legal Advisers and (b) the Government Legal Department Litigation Group; and what (i) their legal qualifications and (ii) the professional standards to which they are required to adhere are.
Answered by Robert Courts - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The composition of the Ministry of Justice Legal Advisers Team, a division of the Government Legal Department (GLD), is as follows:
Description | Staff numbers |
Head of Division/Director (Senior Civil Service Pay Band 2) | 1 |
Deputy Director (Senior Civil Service Pay Band 1) | 6 |
Senior Lawyer (Grade 6) | 23 |
Lawyer (Grade 7) & Junior Lawyer (Legal Officer) | 37 |
Senior Executive Officer, Higher Executive Officer | 0 |
Legal Trainee, Executive Officer, Administrative Officer | 10 |
The composition of the GLD's Litigation Group is as follows:
Description | Staff numbers |
Head of Division/Director (Senior Civil Service Pay Band 2) | 1 |
Deputy Director (Senior Civil Service Pay Band 1) | 30 |
Senior Lawyer (Grade 6) | 136 |
Lawyer (Grade 7) & Junior Lawyer (Legal Officer) | 336 |
Senior Executive Officer, Higher Executive Officer | 51 |
Legal Trainee, Executive Officer, Administrative Officer | 203 |
These civil servants act on behalf of and in the name of the Treasury Solicitor, and pursuant to section 88 of the Solicitors Act 1974 are not required to be admitted or enrolled as a legal practitioner. They predominantly comprise of solicitors and barristers, the majority of which are admitted to practice in England and Wales, although some are qualified to practice in other jurisdictions.
The Costs Litigation Team includes qualified costs lawyers, in addition to which a small number of qualified legal executives are also employed in the Litigation Group. The balance of staff comprises legal trainees, apprentices, paralegals, and business support staff.
Qualified lawyers are required to adhere to the professional standards of their respective profession (solicitor, barrister, costs lawyer, or legal executive), and all staff are required to comply with the Civil Service Code.
Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) contrast with the record of a Tory Government that has seen, and overseen, the biggest fall in living standards - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) to remain aligned, where appropriate, with developments in European Union law and EU environmental standards - Speech Link
3: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) However, there is a severe shortage of apprentices. - Speech Link
4: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) Whittle for making a suggestion that is well worth exploring, in particular in relation to funding for apprentices - Speech Link
May. 12 2011
Source Page: Wolf Review of Vocational Education – Government response. 22 p.Found: those provided by Network Rail or Rolls Royce, are highly regarded by both employers, and by potential apprentices
Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) The average college trains 950 apprentices, and 100,000 people study higher education in a college. - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Logistics apprentices from the Institute of Couriers are in Parliament today to celebrate their achievements - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) creation of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education; and, critically, employer-designed standards - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) Of course, good behaviour is the bedrock of schools and school standards. - Speech Link
2: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) The proportion of apprentices who achieve their apprenticeship standard rose to 54.3% in 2022-23, which - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) the case that apprenticeship achievements have gone up by 22% over the past year, that over 90% of apprentices - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Almost half of apprentices do not complete their courses, which is simply not good enough. - Speech Link
5: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) What steps her Department has taken to improve standards of reading in schools. - Speech Link