Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions her Department has had requests for appointments by exception to the Senior Civil Service turned down by the Civil Service Commission since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided today by my Rt. Hon. friend the Member for Horsham to PQs UIN 213043 and 213053.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions her Department has made appointments by exception since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The core department has made 219 appointments by exception to the Civil Service Recruitment Principles for the period 1 April 2010- 31 March 2014.
This covers 66 temporary appointments, 18 secondments, 25 transfers of staff from other public bodies, 103 transferred as a consequence of TUPE and 7 conversions to permanency.
The cost of identifying each individual appointed would be disproportionate and names cannot be provided as to do so would not be fair processing of personal data.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Instant Rewards of what value were given to her Department's officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The Department does not have or operate an Instant Rewards policy.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on iPhones in each year since 2010.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
iPhones are not approved devices for use in Core Defra. The Department has therefore incurred no spend.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on legal fees over prevention of release of information requested by Freedom of Information requests since 2010.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The Department does not hold the information requested. Legal expenditure is not broken down in this way.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Freedom of Information requests her Department has declined to answer in full since 2010.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
This information is included in Freedom of Information statistics published on the Internet:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics#2014
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on legal fees in cases relating to the release of information requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each of the last five years.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The Department does not hold the information requested.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what professional development courses are made available to staff of his Department; and what the cost to the public purse is of each such course.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
This information is not held centrally and to gather it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what occasions each Minister within his Department has taken domestic flights on official business since May 2010.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Details of all Ministerial overseas travel is published on a quarterly basis.