Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by David T C Davies
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales spent the following on hospitality over the last three years:
Year | Spend (£) |
2020 | 4,356 |
2021 | 1,714 |
2022 to date | 7,344 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by David T C Davies
None. The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales does not have any contracts with G4S, Serco or Capita.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
Answered by David T C Davies
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has agreed no contracts worth over £1 million since 2010, and no contracts of such value are due to be agreed within the next 12 months.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which public appointments he is responsible for.
Answered by Alun Cairns
The Secretary of State for Wales is not responsible for making any public appointments.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the amount of unpaid overtime worked by staff in his Department in the last 24 months.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Office of the Secretary of State encourages flexible working and uses flexible working policies to enable staff to have working patterns that suit both individuals’ and the Department’s needs. The Department has arrangements in place for monitoring hours worked and line managers are responsible for ensuring that employees are not working excessive hours and are compliant with the Working Time Regulations.
The Department is committed to the wellbeing of staff and regularly informs them about wellbeing-related topics, including maintaining good physical and mental health.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the Corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251 on Government Departments: Staff, how many civil servants in his Department were working (a) part and (b) full time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (i) June 2016 and (ii) December 2018.
Answered by Alun Cairns
The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high-risk projects. Direct comparisons of the GMPP across years should therefore be treated with caution. Projects join and leave the GMPP throughout the year and it is therefore likely that a simple comparison across two-time points will refer to different sets of projects.
My Office works with lead Government departments on a range of major project investments in Wales in non-devolved sectors. The Office has no civil servants working full-time on the GMPP and does not record the number of staff engaged part-time on supporting these projects.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of contracts issued by his Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
Answered by Nigel Adams
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales receives procurement services from the Ministry of Justice and does not issue contracts directly.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in relation to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
Answered by Nigel Adams
The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has spent nothing on consultancy fees in relation to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what apps his Department has approved for use on mobile phones issued by his Department.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Due to national security concerns it would be inappropriate to publicly supply a list of applications approved for use on mobile phones issued by the Department, as to do so facilitates attacks against official systems by hostile actors.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many IT systems which his Department uses are more than (a) three, (b) five and (c) eight years old; and what steps he is taking to ensure that all his Department's IT systems are updated promptly.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Wales Office has no IT systems which are over three years old. The Wales Office uses IT systems provided by the Ministry of Justice and ensures that these systems are updated on a regular basis.