Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2021 to Question 65471 on the Health Transformation Programme, how many assessors are on secondment to her Department from Advanced Personnel Management Group (UK) Ltd; and how many (a) work capability assessments and (b) personal independence payment assessments they have undertaken since May 2021.
Answered by Chloe Smith
There are currently 28 Healthcare Professionals employed by Advanced Personnel Management Group (UK) Ltd working in the Health Transformation Area (HTA). There were 13 Healthcare Professionals in the HTA when it first began operating.
In the HTA, we have completed just over 500 PIP and close to 1500 WCA assessments.
Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 July 2020 to Question 76783 on Child Maintenance Service: Secondment, how many of the 10,000 staff redeployed for the provision of frontline services are (a) still redeployed, (b) redeployed on a temporary basis and (c) redeployed on a permanent basis.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Of the total staff redeployed, there were around 1800 Child Maintenance people who were redeployed. This included 141 former CSA colleagues who were due (plans pre Covid19) to be permanently redeployed to other areas of DWP. Of the 1645 were due to return, subsequently 322 were retained on a permanent basis in legacy benefits. Recruitment is currently ongoing to back fill these staff into CMG.
1127 have returned to CMG and there are currently 196 FTE still redeployed however they are due to return later this month.
Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of her Department's staff have been seconded to other Government departments during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
As the Department for Work and Pensions is a critical department during the COVID-19 outbreak, and has experienced a significant increase in demand for our services, it has undertaken a small number of secondments and loans of members of staff to other Government departments.
As at April 2020, the Department had 78,138 staff and we have seconded or loaned out only a very low number of individuals.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in her Department have been seconded away from their normal duties to work on the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what effect that secondment of staff has had on the effectiveness of her Department.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department for Work and Pensions have transferred/assigned 127 volunteers to other departments to support EU Exit related work, to date 125 have returned. The remaining 2 volunteers will continue to support another department with EU Policy related activity until June/July 2019.
All assignments are carefully planned and as such there has been no impact on the Department’s effectiveness.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in her Department have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.
Answered by Will Quince
This information can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The Department for Work and Pension has worked closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union and other Government Departments as part of the UK’s preparations to exit the EU. The Department has prepared for all eventualities including no deal. Preparations have been undertaken by staff as part of their regular duties.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside the Government and (b) in from outside the Government in each year since 2012.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
DWP participates in the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) scheme.
32 Civil Servants have transferred to the GCO from DWP. No one that has transferred onto the GCO has been seconded outside the Government, or have come in on a secondment.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications his Department has received for (a) internal loans and (b) secondments from civil servants in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Department does not hold a central register of staff seconded into the Department, nor internal loans. Individuals seconded from an external organisation in to the Department do not have a Civil Service Contract and are not paid through the Departments payroll.
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff are seconded to his Department; and how many such staff are seconded from which companies and organisations.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Department does not hold a central register of staff seconded into the Department. The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have been seconded to his Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Accenture, (d) McKinsey & Co, (f) Ernst and Young and (g) Bain & Company since July 2016.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The interchange of ideas and the critical challenge that those with external perspectives, including consultancies and consultants, can bring to policy and delivery of Government priorities is a critical element for good government.
We do not record centrally the organisations from which people are seconded into the department. This information, therefore, could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2017 to Question 62723, on government secondments, what positions the staff from KPMG were seconded to; what the purpose of those secondments was; what the equivalent payscales were of the positions to which those staff were seconded; and how long each of those secondments lasted.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Details of the KPMG staff who have been seconded into government since July 2016 through the Civil Service central secondment programme are:
Secondments into government departments can be arranged centrally or arranged by individuals within their departments. The details of staff on secondments which are not centrally arranged are not centrally held.