Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, updated on 29 February 2024, when his Department first assessed each of the red-rated legacy IT systems in HM Revenue and Customs to be red-rated.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, has established a programme to support departments managing legacy IT. CDDO has agreed a framework to identify ‘red-rated’ systems, indicating high levels of risk surrounding certain assets within the IT estate. Departments have committed to have remediation plans in place for these systems by next year (2025).
It is not appropriate to release sensitive information held about specific, red-rated systems or more detailed plans for remediation within HMRC’s IT estate, as this information could indicate which systems are at risk and may highlight potential security vulnerabilities.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, updated on 29 February 2024, what steps his Department has taken to mitigate the risks of red-rated legacy IT systems.
Answered by Gareth Davies - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
I refer the hon Member to the answer given on 29 November 23 to PQ UIN 3658.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fraudulent payments of what total value were recovered by the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In December 2023, HMRC wrote a letter to the chair of the Committee of Public Accounts with the latest information on HMRC’s compliance activity on the COVID-19 support schemes up to the end of September 2023, when the Taxpayer’s Protection Taskforce transitioned into business-as-usual.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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 Gareth Davies - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
Consistent to answers given to written questions on 28 March 2023, 23 February 2023 and 17 May 2022, the information requested on external recruitment consultant expenditure is not available as we do not centrally hold data with this level of granularity on recruitment costs for the financial years in question.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Table 6.6 of the Public Expenditure - Statistical Analyses 2022, published July 2022, if he will provide a breakdown by (a) Department group and (b) segment programme of the outturn spend on education for (i) 2017-18 to (ii) 2021-22.
Answered by John Glen
Expenditure for the Education COFOG function, further broken down by department and by subsegment, covering the periods 2017-18 to 2021-22 are available from the OSCAR annual transparency release:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/oscar-annual-release-november-2022.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2023 to Question 188928 on Employment: Finance, if he will publish further details on what comprises (a) S032A001-Employment Programmes, (b) S032A074-Labour Market-Operational Delivery, (c) S032A085-Labour Market-Corporate and (d) Other spending.
Answered by John Glen
The selected segments in the question are from the OSCAR online database. In order to see what these comprise of we can direct you to the OSCAR annual transparency release:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/oscar-annual-release-november-2022
Please note that the cut of data for the transparency release was taken at a later point than the PESA dataset, the figures therefore, may show differences when compared to PESA.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics publication entitled Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of public spending on functions associated with skills.
Answered by John Glen
Information based on the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) is not available in the form requested. ‘Skills’ is not a functional category that can be defined using the Classifications of Functions of Government.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2022, if he will publish a breakdown of planned spending on skills by Department.
Answered by John Glen
Information based on the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) is not available in the form requested. ‘Skills’ is not a functional category that can be defined using the Classifications of Functions of Government.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Table 6.6 on Central government own current and capital expenditure on services by function, 2017-18 to 2024-25, of the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2022, published on 20 July 2022, if he will publish a breakdown by Department of planned spending on Economic affairs, of which: employment policies.
Answered by John Glen
As plans data is provisional and subject to change, outturn only is provided in the table below. The table shows PESA 2022 table 6.6 data for Economic affairs broken down by department:
Central government own current and capital spending on employment policies by department group, 2017-18 to 2021-22 | ||||||
£ million | ||||||
Spending Function | Department Group | 2017-18 Outturn | 2018-19 Outturn | 2019-20 Outturn | 2020-21 Outturn | 2021-22 Outturn |
Current expenditure on employment policies | Cabinet Office | 22 | 17 | 17 | 17 | |
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 56 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 58 | |
Education | 0 | |||||
Work and Pensions | 2,354 | 2,441 | 2,092 | 2,395 | 3,924 | |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 18 | 0 | ||||
Home Office | 21 | |||||
Northern Ireland | 80 | 96 | 86 | 74 | 100 | |
Wales | 0 | |||||
CURRENT Total |
| 2,512 | 2,632 | 2,253 | 2,543 | 4,098 |
Capital expenditure on employment policies | Cabinet Office | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Work and Pensions | 103 | 44 | 0 | 74 | 121 | |
Northern Ireland | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
CAPITAL Total |
| 105 | 47 | 2 | 77 | 124 |
Grand Total |
| 2,617 | 2,679 | 2,254 | 2,620 | 4,222 |
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Table 6.6 of the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of the £2.5 billion projected to be spent on employment policies in 2024-25.
Answered by John Glen
As plans data is provisional and subject to change, outturn only is provided in the table below. The table shows underlying data that is consistent with PESA 2022 table 6.6:
Central government own current and capital spending on employment policies by department group and by segment programme, 2017-18 to 2021-22 | ||||||||||||
£ million | ||||||||||||
Spending Function | Department Group | Segment | 2017-18 Outturn | 2018-19 Outturn | 2019-20 Outturn | 2020-21 Outturn | 2021-22 Outturn | |||||
Current expenditure on employment policies | Cabinet Office | S010EHR1 - COMMISSION FOR EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (ALB) | 11 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 17 | |||||
| S010GEO1 - GOVERNMENT EQUALITIES OFFICE | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Cabinet Office Total |
| 22 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | S084A094-ACAS | 51 | 55 | 54 | 56 | 56 | ||||||
| Other spending | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Total |
| 56 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 58 | ||||||
Work and Pensions | S032A001-EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES | 383 | 272 | 230 | 260 | 733 | ||||||
| S032A074-LABOUR MARKET - OPERATIONAL DELIVERY | 962 | 879 | 905 | 1,109 | 1,176 | ||||||
| S032A085-LABOUR MARKET-CORPORATE | 804 | 501 | 488 | 619 | 651 | ||||||
| S032A105-KICKSTART | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 853 | ||||||
| Other spending | 205 | 789 | 469 | 407 | 509 | ||||||
Work and Pensions Total |
| 2,354 | 2,441 | 2,092 | 2,395 | 3,924 | ||||||
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | S030A244- GOVERNMENT EQUALITIES OFFICE | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Total |
| 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Home Office | S034A006-GOVERNMENT EQUALITIES OFFICE | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Home Office Total |
| 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Northern Ireland | S099A018-EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS - EMPLOYMENT SERVICES | 21 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 19 | ||||||
| S099A022-LABOUR MARKET SERVICES | 46 | 59 | 48 | 39 | 57 | ||||||
| S099A024-BUSINESS REGULATION/SUPPORT | 13 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 24 | ||||||
Northern Ireland Total |
| 80 | 96 | 86 | 74 | 100 | ||||||
CURRENT Total |
| 2,512 | 2,632 | 2,253 | 2,543 | 4,098 | ||||||