Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any non-executive directors employed in his Department are non-domiciled.
Answered by Andrew Murrison
This information is not routinely collected since it is generally not required for making public appointments.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
The information requested is not currently held centrally by the Department. Although examples will exist for specific roles, the Department does not, in general, make use of external recruitment consultants to fill fulltime roles.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Information on the number of Civil Servants who have left their posts within the Ministry of Defence is shown in the table below.
MOD Top Level Budget and Trading Fund Resignation Profile – By Financial Year
12 Months Ending | Headcount | |||||
| 31 March 2010 | 31 March 2011 | 31 March 2012 | 31 March 2013 | 31 March 2014 | 31March 2015 |
MOD Main TLBs Total Outflow | 4,710 | 4,470 | 9,425 | 6,190 | 4,585 | 3,755 |
Resignation | 1,190 | 1,220 | 970 | 1,040 | 1,070 | 1,135 |
Proportion of Outflow | 25.3% | 27.3% | 10.3% | 16.8% | 23.3% | 30.2% |
Trading Fund Total Outflow | 830 | 805 | 2,935 | 555 | 570 | 2,800 |
Resignation | 195 | 220 | 195 | 180 | 225 | 270 |
Proportion of Outflow | 23.4% | 27.5% | 6.7% | 32.4% | 39.6% | 9.7% |
Source Defence Statistics (Civilian)
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of officials of his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Stress is recorded as "Mental Disorders" under the World Health Organisation categories of absence, which includes non-stress related absences such as depression.
The proportion of working days lost due to sickness absence for Mental and Behavioural Disorders in each of the last five years is recorded in the table below:
Reporting Period | Absences due to ‘Mental Disorders’ as a Proportion of Total Working Days Lost |
1 January 2010 - 31 December 2010 | 18.4% |
1 January 2011 - 31 December 2011 | 19.3% |
1 January 2012 - 31 December 2012 | 19.1% |
1 January 2013 - 31 December 2013 | 20.2% |
1 January 2014 - 31 December 2014 | 21.5% |
The figures should not be read as being fully related to stress caused absence and it should also be noted that non-work related stress absences would also be recorded here.
Data for the reporting period 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2015 is due to be released at 9.30 on Thursday 17 March 2016 on the gov.uk website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-civilian-sickness-absence-financial-year-201516
Information on how many and what proportion of officials in the Ministry of Defence took sick leave for Mental and Behavioural Disorders in each of the last five years will take time to collate and I will write to the hon. Member when the data is available.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The payment of overtime is permitted where a Ministry of Defence (MOD) employee below the Senior Civil Service is required to work beyond conditioned hours or on days that they would not normally be required to work. There has been a conscious effort to reduce overtime costs in the MOD, line managers must scrutinise overtime and encourage time off in lieu as an alternative. As a guiding principle, overtime should only be granted when taken in direct support of current operations, it is of essential business resilience, or when posts require routinely long hours and time off in lieu no longer represents a realistic alternative.
A summary of the amount of MOD expenditure on overtime payments in the last 24 months is shown below.
Month | £ million |
March 2014 | 3.550 |
April 2014 | 5.990 |
May 2014 | 4.908 |
June 2014 | 7.172 |
July 2014 | 5.560 |
August 2014 | 5.744 |
September 2014 | 5.305 |
October 2014 | 7.050 |
November 2014 | 6.378 |
December 2014 | 5.416 |
January 2015 | 4.820 |
February 2015 | 6.726 |
March 2015 | 3.895 |
April 2015 | 5.018 |
May 2015 | 6.605 |
June 2015 | 6.039 |
July 2015 | 6.481 |
August 2015 | 6.313 |
September 2015 | 4.603 |
October 2015 | 2.424 |
November 2015 | 5.252 |
December 2015 | 6.576 |
January 2016 | 4.447 |
February 2016 | 6.232 |
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent from the public purse on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The cost of Employment Tribunals can be found within the HM Courts and Tribunals Service annual accounts published at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/433948/hmcts-annual-report-accounts-2014-15.pdf.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil law suits have been brought against his Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The requested information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 Philip Dunne
This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions a special adviser in his Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
Answered by Michael Fallon
On nine occasions.