Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether any ministerial redundancy payments have been repaid to their Department since 2019.
Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris
No ministerial redundancy payments have been repaid to the Department since 2019.
The Provision of severance payments for Ministers is set out in legislation. Details of the severance payments made to ministers when leaving office are published in departments’ annual reports and accounts.
Similarly, the provision of severance payments for special advisers is set out in the Model Contract, which is available on gov.uk, including provisions for repayment of severance if reappointed. The cost of severance payments made to special advisers across government is published annually by the Cabinet Office.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Northern Ireland Office has not awarded contracts to employers named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme following publication on 9 Dec 2021.
All employers must pay their staff correctly. Paying the minimum wage is not optional, it’s the law. Under the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme, employers who have previously broken minimum wage law can be publicly named. The Department for Business and Trade follows a clear and thorough process allowing firms to make representations against being named, if they meet our published criteria.
Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of the Union Jack flags purchased by his Department in each of the last two years were manufactured in the UK.
Answered by Conor Burns
My Department has not purchased any Union Jack Flags in each of the last two years.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which companies have supplied Union Jack flags to his Department since 2019.
Answered by Conor Burns
My Department has not purchased any Union Jack flags since 2019, and therefore, there is no list of relevant companies.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of organisations that hold contracts with her Department pay the National Living Wage.
Answered by John Penrose
The Northern Ireland Office does not hold this information centrally. However, the Department fully recognises that it is a criminal offence for employers to not pay someone the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much her Department has paid to hon. Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
Answered by John Penrose
Any such payments are published in the Department’s audited annual accounts, and these accounts can be found on gov.uk.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will publish a list of the mobile phone applications developed by her Department and its agencies in the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of developing of each of those applications.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The Northern Ireland Office receives managed ICT services from IT Assist (ITA), which is a service provided by Enterprise Shared Services, a body within the Department of Finance, Northern Ireland. Any such applications would be developed by them. The information requested is, therefore, not held by this Department.