Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Insolvency Service spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
In the financial year 2022/23 the Insolvency Service had no spend on equality and diversity training.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Post Office spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
While publicly owned, Post Office operates at arm's length from Government as a commercial business with its own Board. As such, decisions such as the amount spent on Equality and Diversity training represent operational matters for the company to determine.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) spent £9,950 on diversity and inclusion training in the 2022-23 financial year.
For the financial year 2022-23 the Certification Office (CO) and the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) did not spend anything on diversity and equality training.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Central Arbitration Committee spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) spent £9,950 on diversity and inclusion training in the 2022-23 financial year.
For the financial year 2022-23 the Certification Office (CO) and the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) did not spend anything on diversity and equality training.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Certification Officer spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) spent £9,950 on diversity and inclusion training in the 2022-23 financial year.
For the financial year 2022-23 the Certification Office (CO) and the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) did not spend anything on diversity and equality training.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Regulatory Policy Committee spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
For the financial year 2022-2023 the Regulatory Policy Committee did not have any spend on equality and diversity training.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
For financial year 2022-23 there was no spend on equality and diversity training for both Companies House and the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much Companies House spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
For financial year 2022-23 there was no spend on equality and diversity training for both Companies House and the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the average time taken by her Department to respond to freedom of information requests in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) was formed on 7 February 2023 and took responsibility for processing Freedom of Information Requests from 1 July 2023 from predecessor departments. For this reason, we do not have 2022-2023 financial year FOI statistics for DBT.
Official National Statistics on FOI performance for all central government
departments and other monitored bodies can be found on www.gov.uk at
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps their Department is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) was established on 7 February 2023 and took responsibility for processing Freedom of Information Requests from legacy departments from 1 July 2023.
FOI statistics on departmental compliance will be available from late Autumn for the period of July-September https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics
The Department continually monitors and looks for ways to improve its FOI