Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department’s staff recruited through agencies are paid their full wage during covid-19 related absences.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Temporary agency workers are brought into the department through the commercial arrangements under the Crown Commercial Service, Public Sector Resourcing framework, and are supplied by Brook Street.
Agency workers recruited by Brook Street to work in the department are currently receiving 80 per cent of their wage during Covid-19 related absences. This arrangement was implemented with the agreement of HM Treasury following the end of the central Government Contingent Labour Compensation Scheme on 31 October 2020.
The 80 per cent payment mirrors both the previous scheme referred to above and the arrangements in place under the government Job Retention Scheme.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in addition to wages has been paid to Brook Street for the recruitment of staff to her Department since March 2020.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The information requested is commercially sensitive and cannot be disclosed as it will impair the commercial interests of the Department and its ability to obtain goods and services on the best possible commercial terms.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of staff recruited to her Department by Brook Street becoming (a) fixed-term appointments and (b) permanent.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Under ‘Civil Service Recruitment Principles’ for any agency workers to become either fixed term or permanent appointments there would need to be an externally advertised recruitment exercise where they could be assessed alongside other applicants.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which 100 local authority wards achieved the largest increase in data matching between the Department for Work and Pensions confirmation live run and local authority data matching live run.
Answered by Gary Streeter
The 100 wards that achieved the largest increase in data matching between the Department for Work and Pensions and the local authority data matching stage are listed below.
Local Authority | Ward | DWP match rate (%) | LDM match rate (%) | Increase (%) |
Lancaster | University | 0 | 100 | 100 |
Westminster | West End | 32 | 75 | 43 |
Westminster | Marylebone High Street | 37 | 77 | 40 |
Brighton and Hove | Brunswick and Adelaide | 33 | 72 | 39 |
Westminster | Warwick | 42 | 81 | 39 |
Camden | West Hampstead | 42 | 78 | 37 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Addison | 45 | 82 | 37 |
Camden | Swiss Cottage | 42 | 79 | 37 |
Westminster | Lancaster Gate | 37 | 74 | 36 |
Westminster | Bayswater | 44 | 80 | 36 |
Westminster | Knightsbridge and Belgravia | 28 | 64 | 36 |
Westminster | Harrow Road | 48 | 83 | 35 |
Lancaster | Dukes | 44 | 79 | 35 |
Westminster | Bryanston and Dorset Square | 42 | 76 | 35 |
Westminster | Little Venice | 50 | 85 | 35 |
Lancaster | Ellel | 58 | 92 | 34 |
Westminster | Tachbrook | 50 | 84 | 34 |
Westminster | Hyde Park | 39 | 73 | 33 |
Camden | Fortune Green | 47 | 80 | 33 |
Camden | Belsize | 48 | 80 | 33 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | North End | 45 | 77 | 32 |
Brighton and Hove | Regency | 37 | 69 | 32 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Avonmore and Brook Green | 49 | 80 | 32 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Shepherds Bush Green | 49 | 80 | 31 |
Brighton and Hove | Central Hove | 46 | 77 | 31 |
Camden | Frognal and Fitzjohns | 44 | 75 | 31 |
Westminster | St James’s | 46 | 77 | 31 |
Bath and North East Somerset | Abbey | 44 | 74 | 31 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Town | 51 | 81 | 31 |
Westminster | Abbey Road | 54 | 85 | 30 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Munster | 52 | 82 | 30 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Askew | 54 | 84 | 30 |
Camden | Hampstead Town | 51 | 81 | 30 |
Ealing | Ealing Broadway | 59 | 88 | 30 |
City of London | AL | 34 | 63 | 30 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Sands End | 55 | 84 | 29 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Fulham Broadway | 53 | 82 | 29 |
Camden | Camden Town with Primrose Hill | 53 | 82 | 29 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Redcliffe | 39 | 68 | 28 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Hammersmith Broadway | 53 | 81 | 28 |
Westminster | Queens Park | 60 | 88 | 28 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Queen’s Gate | 36 | 64 | 28 |
Camden | Kentish Town | 53 | 81 | 28 |
Ealing | South Acton | 62 | 89 | 28 |
Ealing | Acton Central | 61 | 89 | 28 |
Westminster | Vincent Square | 57 | 84 | 27 |
Kensington and Chelsea | St Helen’s | 49 | 76 | 27 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Parsons Green and Walham | 57 | 84 | 27 |
Camden | Kilburn | 53 | 80 | 27 |
Ealing | Southfield | 65 | 92 | 27 |
Westminster | Maida Vale | 56 | 83 | 27 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Earl’s Court | 41 | 67 | 27 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Courtfield | 34 | 60 | 26 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Palace Riverside | 62 | 88 | 26 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Brompton and Hans Town | 39 | 65 | 26 |
Bournemouth | Boscombe West | 55 | 81 | 26 |
Westminster | Regents Park | 60 | 85 | 26 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Colville | 47 | 72 | 26 |
Ealing | Ealing Common | 63 | 88 | 25 |
Denbighshire | Rhyl West | 64 | 89 | 25 |
Shepway | Folkestone Harvey Central | 59 | 84 | 25 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Pembridge | 39 | 64 | 25 |
Hastings | Central St Leonards | 50 | 75 | 25 |
Camden | Holborn and Covent Garden | 52 | 77 | 25 |
Camden | Cantelowes | 52 | 77 | 25 |
Bournemouth | Winton East | 61 | 86 | 25 |
Scarborough | Ramshill | 55 | 80 | 24 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Holland Park | 48 | 72 | 24 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Norland | 52 | 76 | 24 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Fulham Reach | 51 | 75 | 24 |
Wandsworth | Bedford | 53 | 77 | 24 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Royal Hospital | 45 | 69 | 24 |
Bournemouth | Westbourne and West Cliff | 60 | 84 | 24 |
Cardiff | Butetown | 57 | 81 | 24 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Abingdon | 48 | 72 | 24 |
Lambeth | Oval | 51 | 74 | 24 |
Camden | Gospel Oak | 60 | 84 | 24 |
Richmond upon Thames | South Richmond | 67 | 91 | 24 |
Westminster | Westbourne | 61 | 85 | 24 |
Camden | Kings Cross | 47 | 71 | 24 |
Richmond upon Thames | Twickenham Riverside | 68 | 91 | 24 |
Bath and North East Somerset | Kingsmead | 54 | 77 | 23 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Ravenscourt Park | 63 | 86 | 23 |
Wandsworth | Northcote | 55 | 78 | 23 |
Ealing | Walpole | 68 | 91 | 23 |
Brighton and Hove | Goldsmid | 59 | 82 | 23 |
Wandsworth | Shaftesbury | 54 | 77 | 23 |
Ribble Valley | Bowland, Newton and Slaidburn | 55 | 78 | 23 |
Manchester | City Centre | 25 | 48 | 23 |
Wandsworth | Fairfield | 55 | 78 | 23 |
Bristol | Cabot | 38 | 61 | 23 |
Portsmouth | St Jude | 56 | 79 | 23 |
Kingston upon Thames | Grove | 59 | 82 | 23 |
Lambeth | St Leonard’s | 51 | 73 | 23 |
Bristol | Cotham | 36 | 59 | 23 |
Kensington and Chelsea | Campden | 49 | 71 | 23 |
Westminster | Church Street | 65 | 87 | 23 |
Lambeth | Clapham Town | 54 | 77 | 23 |
Westminster | Churchill | 67 | 90 | 23 |
Lambeth | Ferndale | 49 | 71 | 22 |
It is important to note that due to limitations with the data (as set out in the Commission’s report on the confirmation live run) some figures for individual local authorities or electoral wards may include carried forward electors, those who did not respond to the last household canvass, even though they cannot legally be automatically confirmed.