Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many non-executive directors of her Department who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments she has made since May 2010.
Answered by Grant Shapps
DFID’s non-executive directors who were in post before 2015 have remained as part of the Departmental Board.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many recruitment and employment agencies her Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID has used the following number of recruitment and employment agencies to source staff in each year.
2010 | 5 |
2011 | 4 |
2012 | 9 |
2013 | 9 |
2014 | 9 |
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Data on how much my Department has spent on (a) taxis in each of the last five years is shown below. Data on how much my Department has spent on (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel is shown for the last four years. Due to a change in travel provider, data on class of travel is not available for the period 2009/10.
Business and first class travel may be overstated due to credits (eg from cancellations) possibly not having the correct class of travel applied.
All journeys of up to five hours must be in economy/standard class. Journeys of over five hours must also be in economy/standard class unless a line manager explicitly agrees that premium economy or business class is needed. First class travel is not allowed.
Expenditure £m | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
(a) Taxi fares | 0.26 | 0.19 | 0.23 | 0.23 | 0.26 |
(b) First Class rail fares | not available | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
(c) Business Class air fares | not available | 1.22 | 1.03 | 0.91 | 0.88 |
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) her Department and (ii) its non-departmental public body in each of the last five years.
Answered by Justine Greening
Before 2012/13 fraud data was published within the HM Treasury Fraud Report or estimated in the National Fraud Authority Annual Fraud Indicators. From 2012/13 figures on fraud and financial error have been provided to the Cabinet Office as part of the Quarterly Data Summary returns, for Central Departments, and all Arms-Length Bodies who receive over £100m public funding per annum.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID workforce management information, containings detail on consultant, temporary staff and contingent labour, is available on the government website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfid-workforce-management-information-public-body/
This includes information from 2010-11 up to and including August 2014.
Providing further detail, including the information on individual contracts could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 15 August 2011 calling for a family test to be applied to all domestic policy, which policies of her Department have been so assessed to date.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
DFID leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty internationally. It does not have a lead responsibility for domestic policies and has not made any assessments using the family test.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by her Department since May 2010.
Answered by Alan Duncan
No DFID jobs have been transferred to the private sector as a result of privatisation of outsourcing since May 2010.