Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 5.1 of the consultation Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS): Changes to the local valuation cycle and the management of employer risk, what information his Department holds on demographic composition of (a) teaching staff and (b) non-teaching staff in England by (i) gender and (ii) age.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
This consultation closed on 31 July and my officials are now considering the responses received. The proposal was to grant further education corporations, sixth form college corporations and higher education corporations in England the flexibility to decide whether to offer the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to all or some eligible new employees. These are independent, autonomous institutions and any alternative pension arrangements which they may offer would be determined by them through the appropriate industrial relations machinery.
The Department is considering responses to the consultation and a response will be published in due course.
My Department does not collect the demographic and income data requested. However the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) does gather data on higher education staff - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff - and data on the further education workforce is available through the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) - https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/research/workforce-data/ . Further detailed information, for further education college staff only, is available from the results of the College Staff Survey published last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 5.1 of the consultation Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS): Changes to the local valuation cycle and the management of employer risk, what the average income of people classed as (a) teaching staff and (b) non-teaching staff is.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
This consultation closed on 31 July and my officials are now considering the responses received. The proposal was to grant further education corporations, sixth form college corporations and higher education corporations in England the flexibility to decide whether to offer the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to all or some eligible new employees. These are independent, autonomous institutions and any alternative pension arrangements which they may offer would be determined by them through the appropriate industrial relations machinery.
The Department is considering responses to the consultation and a response will be published in due course.
My Department does not collect the demographic and income data requested. However the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) does gather data on higher education staff - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff - and data on the further education workforce is available through the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) - https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/research/workforce-data/ . Further detailed information, for further education college staff only, is available from the results of the College Staff Survey published last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 5.1 of the consultation Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS): Changes to the local valuation cycle and the management of employer risk, what assessment he has made of which alternative pension schemes those non-teaching staff that are not offered the LGPS would be eligible for.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
This consultation closed on 31 July and my officials are now considering the responses received. The proposal was to grant further education corporations, sixth form college corporations and higher education corporations in England the flexibility to decide whether to offer the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to all or some eligible new employees. These are independent, autonomous institutions and any alternative pension arrangements which they may offer would be determined by them through the appropriate industrial relations machinery.
The Department is considering responses to the consultation and a response will be published in due course.
My Department does not collect the demographic and income data requested. However the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) does gather data on higher education staff - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff - and data on the further education workforce is available through the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) - https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/research/workforce-data/ . Further detailed information, for further education college staff only, is available from the results of the College Staff Survey published last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 5.1 of the consultation Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS): Changes to the local valuation cycle and the management of employer risk, what assessment he has made of the potential economic effect on non-teaching staff of joining pension schemes other than the LGPS.
Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)
This consultation closed on 31 July and my officials are now considering the responses received. The proposal was to grant further education corporations, sixth form college corporations and higher education corporations in England the flexibility to decide whether to offer the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to all or some eligible new employees. These are independent, autonomous institutions and any alternative pension arrangements which they may offer would be determined by them through the appropriate industrial relations machinery.
The Department is considering responses to the consultation and a response will be published in due course.
My Department does not collect the demographic and income data requested. However the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) does gather data on higher education staff - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff - and data on the further education workforce is available through the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) - https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/research/workforce-data/ . Further detailed information, for further education college staff only, is available from the results of the College Staff Survey published last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of payment of council tax in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
In-year collection rates for council tax in England have remained consistently high and, for 2018-19, were 97.0 per cent. The Government publishes statistics on council tax collection over time at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2018-to-2019 . Local government finance is a devolved matter in Scotland and Wales.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2019 to Question 255385 on Oxford-Cambridge Arc, how many of those working within his Department on the Oxford-Cambridge Arc plans are working specifically on housing.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Of the 35 full time equivalent number of civil servants developing policy on the Oxford to Cambridge Arc, the full time equivalent working on housing at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and its non-departmental public bodies is 9.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many civil servants are working on the Oxford-Cambridge Arc plans; and in which government departments those civil servants are based.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The full time equivalent number of civil servants developing policy on the Oxford to Cambridge Arc is 35. This number including non-departmental public bodies comprises: 20 at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; 9 at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; 3 at Department for Transport; 1 at Cabinet Office; 1 at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and 1 at HM Treasury.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his department holds on the extent to which immediate care leavers are liable to pay the full rate of council tax for the property they are living in.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
Many local authorities use their discretionary powers under section 13A of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 to offer council tax discounts to care leavers. Information on such discounts is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the guidance entitled, Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, how many suppliers were allocated contracts by his Department as a result of complying with (a) one and (b) more than one of the mitigating circumstances after failing the tax compliance questions.
Answered by Jake Berry
I refer the Hon Member to my answer to Question UIN 225627 on 28 February 2019.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many suppliers have been excluded from bidding for contracts as a result of not complying with the criteria set out in the guidance entitled, Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, in each year since 2014.
Answered by Jake Berry
The Department follows the procurement policy on tax compliance for contracts over £5 million.
However, MHCLG’s procurement team are not aware of any supplier having been excluded from a procurement process for non-compliance with PPN 03/14. As the Department does not maintain a record of decisions such as this, it is not possible to state categorically that the department has or has not excluded suppliers from procurement process for contracts over £5 million since 2014.