Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department (a) allocated for and (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Anthony Browne
The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. In the central Department for Transport, subscriptions for magazines are managed and budgeted for individually by each team. Therefore, the information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Anthony Browne
The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. In the central Department for Transport, subscriptions to newspapers, magazines and online journals are managed individually by each team. Therefore, the information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of digital posts in his Department are vacant.
Answered by Anthony Browne
12%
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Anthony Browne
Most of the systems within the Department for Transport and its agencies operate on the basis of updates being provided within the licence costs. As such, there is no specific budget or spend for updates.
The Department for Transport employs the Legacy IT Assessment Risk Framework, a standardised methodology designed by the Central Digital and Data Office, to assess the risks associated with legacy digital technology assets across His Majesty's Government. The highest category of risk within the framework is known as ‘red-rated’. This approach enables the Department for Transport to generate a prioritised overview of our legacy technology, clearly highlighting assets that necessitate remediation plans and the allocation of suitable funding for implementation.
At present, DfT(c) and its executive agencies have no red-rated systems and so we are providing a nil return.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Anthony Browne
Due to the financial reporting system in the department it is not possible to separate out spend associated with external recruitment consultancy services from all other consultancy spend.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The information requested is in the table below.
TIMEFRAME | NUMBERS OF VOLUNTARY RESIGNATIONS | % PROPORTION OF OFFICIALS (based on headcount not Full Time Equivalent Data) |
01/04/2015 - 31/03/2016 | 462 | 3.3 |
01/04/2014 - 31/03/2015 | 489 | 2.8 |
01/04/2013 - 31/03/2014 | 428 | 2.5 |
01/04/2012 - 31/03/2013 | 378 | 2.1 |
01/04/2011 - 31/03/2012 | 421 | 2.3 |
01/04/2010 - 31/03/2011 | 374 | 2.0 |
The Department for Transport data relates to the central department and its agencies during the timeframe indicated, Highways England are therefore excluded from the 15/16 figures.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave such sick leave was in each such year.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The available levels of sickness absence relating to stress is presented below for the central department and each agency for each of the last five financial years:
Department for Transport Group
Year | Number of officials taking stress leave | % staff taking stress leave | Stress | Total | % Stress Days of |
2011/12 | 401 | 2.12% | 12063.93 | 111402.7 | 10.83% |
2012/13 | 393 | 2.08% | 11934.16 | 101778.3 | 11.73% |
2013/14 | 344 | 1.83% | 10816.44 | 95113.3 | 11.37% |
2014/15 | 425 | 2.28% | 14473.77 | 105805.1 | 13.68% |
2015/ Feb 2016 * | 410 | 2.70% | 15118 | 108230 | 13.97% |
Note to data table:
*The current financial year uses sickness absence reported until end of February but to calculate % of total workforce uses the rolling FTE figures from December’s Cabinet Office returns. This is due to not having a quarter 4 rolling FTE or sickness absence, as the financial year has not yet finished.
The Civil Service takes a holistic approach to managing sick absence and improving wellbeing. In the Department for Transport, we have focussed on specific actions to tackle the cause and to reduce the incidence of stress related absence. This includes:
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many consultants' contracts were terminated early in each of the last six years for which figures are available; and what the cost of each such termination was in each of those years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The information requested is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The tables below contain information on the overtime spend by the Department for Transport, including the following agencies, for February 2014 – January 2016:
Month | Feb-14 | Mar-14 | Apr-14 | May-14 | Jun-14 | Jul-14 |
Overtime spend | £1,239,198 | £1,599,619 | £927,703 | £1,280,082 | £1,268,173 | £1,261,126 |
Month | Aug-14 | Sep-14 | Oct-14 | Nov-14 | Dec-14 | Jan-15 |
Overtime spend | £1,249,497 | £1,341,766 | £1,413,538 | £1,160,553 | £1,158,340 | £1,122,994 |
Month | Feb-15 | Mar-15 | Apr-15 | May-15 | Jun-15 | Jul-15 |
Overtime spend | £1,247,224 | £1,664,032 | £1,395,002 | £1,339,767 | £1,290,854 | £1,403,393 |
Month | Aug-15 | Sep-15 | Oct-15 | Nov-15 | Dec-15 | Jan-16 |
Overtime spend | £888,400 | £911,069 | £1,051,989 | £775,587 | £357,148 | £446,784 |
Both the twelve month periods shown above - February 2014 to January 2015 and February 2015 to January 2016 - show a reduction in overtime spend compared to the first twelve-month period of the Coalition government in 2010/11.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars his Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport publishes its publications, consultations and circulars on GOV.UK. Details of individual publications published since August 2012 can be found by searching GOV.UK for DfT publications and consultations: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-transport&official_document_status=all&from_date=31%2F07%2F2012&to_date.