Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) How much is coming from cutting how many civil servants, and in which Departments? - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I know the Labour party does not like the idea, but we will remove 72,000 civil servants from the system - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) servants from the system so that we get back to where we were before covid. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It is necessary to bring expertise into the system through recruitment or training”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) challenges and attempt together to find ways forward.The Secretary of State arrived at our meeting with 13 civil - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Fookes (Con - Life peer) of the Government to all these recommendations was variable; the main point is that we had a lot of Civil - Speech Link
2: Lord Carter of Coles (Lab - Life peer) this, but with a light touch: we do not want another bureaucracy, and we do not want another load of civil - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) More recently we discussed recruitment practices, which my noble friend described as the biggest issue - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lisvane (XB - Life peer) welcome the Government’s readiness to make defence AI a more attractive profession, including by making recruitment - Speech Link
2: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The MoD regularly engages with a wide range of experts and civil society representatives to understand - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) This Chamber owes her and her civil servants a real debt of gratitude. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) the Government acknowledge that a conversion practices Bill would have a detrimental effect on the recruitment - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) Bills currently in play, and Cass has said that such a Bill would have a detrimental effect on the recruitment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) forces are much better placed for the balance of their lives in civilian life than their equivalents in civil - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) report just referenced identified problems with recruitment as one issue that impedes our ability to - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Gentleman to direct questions about recruitment to the Minister for Defence People and Families. - Speech Link
4: James Heappey (Con - Wells) my gratitude to the armed forces, which I have mentioned, that tens of thousands of hard-working MOD civil - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) The impacts are simple: recruitment and retention that is not up to the task; a hollowing out of munition - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) We need to reward people who stay in those jobs, rather than expecting civil servants or military attachés - Speech Link
3: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) It has totally messed up the recruitment system for the British Army. - Speech Link
4: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) We have to improve recruitment. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Government currently have no plans to change the pensionable age of prison officers, which is set under the Civil - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) the first question, the Treasury has overall responsibility for setting pension arrangements for the Civil - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) if necessary, increased contributions—should be revived in the interests of these most hard-working servants - Speech Link
4: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) He described prison officers as the finest public servants, and of course, we agree, but does he not - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) the Government currently have no evidence that the pension arrangements as such are affecting initial recruitment - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) rightly says, this work should be based on due diligence; and it is not right that each stage of the recruitment - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) Impartial civil servants with training in this area will be supplemented in their work by studies by - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) servants and Ministers, can the Secretary of State explain what evidential threshold will be applied - Speech Link
4: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) As to impartial civil servants deciding these things, I am afraid I do not think that is always the case - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) written on behalf of our Committee to raise concerns about the pace of progress, and in a debate on the civil - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) to kickstart growth in rural areas.On health, one of the biggest issues in Shropshire is the lack of recruitment - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) The amazing Darlington Economic Campus is now home to more than 750 civil servants, thanks to the decision - Speech Link
4: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) one in five teaching assistant posts is unfilled and the Government have missed their overall teacher recruitment - Speech Link