Asked by: Jonathan Reynolds (Labour (Co-op) - Stalybridge and Hyde)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the details of all meetings held by special advisors in her Department since her appointment as Secretary of State.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The information requested is not centrally collated.
The Government publishes an unprecedented amount of transparency data; departments publish quarterly details of Ministers and Permanent Secretaries meetings' with external organisations, and Special Advisers' meetings with senior media executives.
Published transparency returns can be found here
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-special-advisers-hospitality-and-gifts#2020
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many working days have been lost to staff sickness in his Department in each month of the last five years, by directorate.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
We do not report on sick days monthly, we do however have a return that we do annually. The number of sick days by directorate in each of the last 5 years can be found in the following tables:
2015/16
Directorate | Sick Days |
Business and International Tax | 135 |
Corporate Centre | 657 |
Economics | 107 |
Enterprise & Growth | 61 |
Financial Services | 270 |
Financial Stability | 71 |
Fiscal | 103 |
International | 428 |
IUK | 127 |
Ministerial & Communications | 148 |
National Infrastructure Commission | Fewer than 5 |
Personal Tax, Welfare & Pensions | 207 |
Public Services | 345 |
Public Spending | 227 |
Strategy, Planning & Budget | 68 |
Treasury Legal Advisors | Fewer than 5 |
Department | 2954 |
2016/17
Directorate | Sick Days |
Business and International Tax | 172.5 |
Corporate Centre | 668.5 |
Economics | 102 |
Enterprise & Growth | 76 |
Financial Services | 291 |
Financial Stability | 131.5 |
Fiscal | 68.5 |
International | 318.5 |
IUK | Fewer than 5 |
Ministerial & Communications | 211 |
National Infrastructure Commission | 27 |
Personal Tax, Welfare & Pensions | 504.5 |
Public Services | 272 |
Public Spending | 190.5 |
Strategy, Planning & Budget | 99 |
Treasury Legal Advisors | Fewer than 5 |
Department | 3132.5 |
2017/18
Directorate | Sick Days |
Business and International Tax | 103 |
Corporate Centre | 595 |
Economics | 119 |
Enterprise & Growth | 133 |
Financial Services | 400 |
Financial Stability | 213.5 |
Fiscal | 250 |
International | 425.5 |
Ministerial & Communications | 347.5 |
Personal Tax, Welfare & Pensions | 178.5 |
Public Services | 190 |
Public Spending | 180.5 |
Strategy, Planning & Budget | 71.5 |
Treasury Legal Advisors | Fewer than 5 |
Department | 3207 |
2018/19
Directorate | Sick Days |
Business and International Tax | 170.5 |
Corporate Centre | 850 |
Economics | 108.5 |
Enterprise & Growth | 116.5 |
Financial Services | 578.5 |
Financial Stability | 135 |
Fiscal | 174.5 |
International | 437.5 |
Ministerial & Communications | 148 |
Personal Tax, Welfare & Pensions | 259 |
Public Services | 268.5 |
Public Spending | 342.5 |
Strategy, Planning & Budget | 50 |
Department | 3639 |
2019/20
Directorate | Sick Days |
Business and International Tax | 245 |
Corporate Centre | 906.5 |
Economics | 366 |
Enterprise & Growth | 176.5 |
Financial Services | 490.5 |
Financial Stability | 132.5 |
Fiscal | 241 |
International | 607 |
Ministerial & Communications | 326.5 |
Personal Tax, Welfare & Pensions | 176 |
Public Services | 366 |
Public Spending | 602 |
Strategy, Planning & Budget | 71 |
Department | 4706.5 |
HM Treasury takes the wellness of its staff seriously. Wellness is incorporated within the Treasury’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing policy. Every quarter, staff complete pulse surveys to assess progress against wellbeing criteria from the annual People Survey. Directors and Deputy Directors take action relating to these results to improve their staff’s wellbeing and stress levels.
HM Treasury has the following support in place for those that are suffering due to stress:
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2019 to Question 260085 on Department for Work and Pensions: Ministerial Policy Advisers, for what reason her Department does not routinely publish the number of alleged breaches of the Special Advisers’ Code of Conduct by her Department's Special Advisers.
Answered by Will Quince
In line with standard departmental practice, we are mindful of our data protection obligations when considering what information should be part of our publication scheme.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 237786 on Department for Work and Pensions: Ministerial Policy Advisers, for what reason her Department has no plans to publish the number of alleged breaches of the Special Advisers’ Code of Conduct by her Department's Special Advisers in the last 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department does not routinely publish this information.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2019 to Question 235371, if she will publish the number of alleged breaches of the Special Advisers Code of Conduct by her Department's Special Advisers in the last 12 months.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department has no plans to publish this information.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many alleged breaches of the Special Advisers’ Code of Conduct by his Department's Special Advisers have been investigated by the Minister responsible for the appointment in the last 12 months.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The conduct of all civil servants, including special advisers, is taken very seriously. Special advisers act in accordance with the Special Adviser Code of Conduct, which includes clear guidance on appropriate conduct in public life. The Code can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/special-advisers-code-of-conduct
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) policy and (b) other responsibilities are of each special adviser in his Department.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer the hon.Member to the answer given by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my Rt.Hon. Friend Matthew Hancock, Question UIN 27946.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions a special adviser in his Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
There have been 4 occasions since May 2015, where a DWP Special Adviser has accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip.
Asked by: Stuart Blair Donaldson (Scottish National Party - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the name, responsibilities and pay band are of each special adviser in his Department.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 13 July 2015 to Question No. 5983