Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours contracts by his Department in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting the European Union does not employ any staff on zero hours contracts.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many and what percentage of employees in his Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) at any other location in the most recent 12-month period for which data is available.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department now has over 600 staff with all posts being London based, plus the expertise of over 120 officials in Brussels from the UK Permanent Representation to the EU. DExEU does not have any designated home workers but ad hoc home working arrangements, as part of the Departments approach to flexible working practices, are managed locally and are therefore not held on central records.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
Answered by Steve Baker
In this current session, the Department has answered 14 written parliamentary questions explaining that we do not hold the information requested centrally. Of those, 6 provided some or most of the information requested. This is out of a total of 574 written parliamentary questions answered in the 2017-18 session.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
Answered by Steve Baker
In the current session, the Department for Exiting the European Union has answered one written parliamentary question (UIN 3927) which stated that the information requested was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost. However, on this occasion we did provide some of the information requested.
This is out of a total of 573 written parliamentary questions that have been answered.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) physical and (b) mental wellbeing of staff employed in his Department.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Civil Service has set out five priorities for the health and wellbeing of its employees, including priorities in relation to physical and mental wellbeing. In addition, the Civil Service has also committed to being a leading employer on mental health support, in line with the recommendations set out in the recently published independent review Thriving At Work.
Health and Wellbeing forms part of the Department for Exiting the European Union commitment to making the Department a great place to work. The Department has a dedicated mental health and wellbeing group who have been leading on a number of wellbeing activities across the Department to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of staff employed in the Department. This includes:
In February 2017 the Department signed up to the Time for Change pledge to demonstrate the Departments commitment to reducing the stigma attached to mental health.
To date 32 DExEU staff have been trained by Mental Health First Aid England as mental health champions.
Marking world mental health day with a panel discussion sharing mental health and wellbeing experiences.
Running a diversity week, which included a self-defence class and a session with tips on how to look after each other.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many and what proportion of his Department's public phone-lines charge members of the public to call.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting the European Union does not have any public phone-lines which charge members of the public to call.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what meetings his Department has had with (a) farming unions and (b) devolved administrations to discuss matters relating to farming since June 2016.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting the European Union has met a number of stakeholders from the agricultural sector, including the National Farmers Union, National Pig Association, the Country Land and Business Association and the International Meat Trade Association.
The Government is also working closely with the Devolved Administrations. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is meeting his ministerial counterparts in the Welsh and Scottish Governments, along with a senior official from the Northern Ireland Executive Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, in late September for on-going discussions on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Further joint ministerial meetings will take place on a regular basis, as well as continued bilateral discussions.