Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2023 to Question 4366 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, by what means the figure for non-cash vouchers requested in that question can be determined from his Department's usual publication of non-consolidated performance related pay.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Non-cash payments made during 2022-23 will be captured as part of overall spend on non-consolidated performance related payments, which is due for publication before the end of the current financial year. Once that is published, requests for further breakdowns of data can be made, in the usual way.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2023 to Question 1496 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, what the equivalent figure for the value of non-cash vouchers awarded to junior staff working for his Department was as performance related bonuses in the year 2022-23.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Updates to the publication on paybill and NCPRP will be set out in the usual way.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November to Question 114 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, where in his Department's 2021-22 publication of data on non-consolidated performance related pay is the value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff specified.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Further to the publication set out here, non-cash payments are captured as part of overall spend on non-consolidated performance related payments. The value of non-cash vouchers awarded to junior staff working for the Department as performance related bonuses in the year 2021-22 was £111,870. This was well within the Department’s approved non-consolidated performance pay pot of 0.65% and in-line with Civil Service pay remit guidance and best practice established by Cabinet Office HR.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference the 3,190 total headcount figure for permanent civil servants excluding agency workers working for his Department as of 31 March 2023, as detailed in Cabinet Office statistics entitled Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023, what that figure was on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
Answered by Jacob Young
Information on the department’s workforce size is published routinely each year as part of the Civil Service Annual Workforce Statistics. Information for each of the years in question can be found at the following link.
As of 31st October 2023, 58% of this Department’s Civil Servants who are employed on temporary contracts are women.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the value was of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for his core Department as performance-related bonuses in 2022-23.
Answered by Jacob Young
Information for the year 2021-22 is available here, and data for 2022-23 will be published in due course.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 97590 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Incentives, what the value was of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for his core Department as performance-related bonuses in 2022-23.
Answered by Jacob Young
It has not proved possible to respond to the Rt hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many ministerial red boxes belonging to his Department have (a) been reported missing or lost or (b) had their security features removed in order that they can be purchased for personal use by former ministers from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2023.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
None.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2023 to Question 166164 on Government Departments: Staff, how many and what proportion of respondents to the most recent Leesman office survey undertaken by his Department (a) agreed and (b) disagreed with the statements about their main workplace that (i) it enables me to work productively, (ii) it supports me sharing ideas and knowledge amongst colleagues, (iii) it creates an enjoyable environment to work in, (iv) it contributes to a sense of community at work, and (v) it's a place I'm proud to bring visitors to.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The department does not currently hold this data for its Wolverhampton or London offices, at which a significant majority of its employees are based
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in relation to the contract agreed with Ove Arup & Partners Ltd. on 14 January 2022 (procurement reference CPD4122058), if he will provide a list of the (a) dates and (b) subjects of all evaluation reports provided to his Department under the terms of that contract as of 20 March 2023.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Freeports Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) strategy was published 6th May 2023. A subsequent update was published in the Freeports annual report, including an executive summary of the Framework at Annex C. Outputs of the department M&E activities will be published in subsequent annual reports.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2022 to Question 11601, on Freeports, if he will publish the agreed (a) data indicators and (b) baseline data that will form the basis for the monitoring and evaluation of the Freeports Programme.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Freeports Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) strategy was published 6th May 2023. A subsequent update was published in the Freeports annual report, including an executive summary of the Framework at Annex C. Outputs of the department M&E activities will be published in subsequent annual reports.