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Written Question
Conditions of Employment
Friday 20th March 2015

Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The number of staff who were engaged off-payroll in the Department for Education (including its Executive Agencies) can be found online at www.data.gov.uk.

The Department for Education does not collect data on the number of staff engaged off-payroll in its associated bodies.

Written Question
Staff
Thursday 22nd January 2015

Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Department records centrally the total amount spent on recruitment, but this is not broken down between money spent on recruitment agencies, executive search consultants, advertising expenditure and other recruitment costs, so we are unable to provide this figure.

The table below shows spend on outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff.

Financial year

Total Spend

2014 - 2015 to date

£ 14,175

2013 - 2014

£ 18,298

2012 - 2013

£ nil

2011- 2012

£ nil

2010 - 2011

£ 7,657

The table below shows spend on staff training.

Financial Year

Total spend

2014/15 to date

£1.3m

2013/14

£2.2m

2012/13

£3.2m

2011/12

£2.1m

2010/11

£3.4m

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"8. What estimate she has made of the number of women in low-paid work...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank the Minister for that answer, but she will know, as we do, that according to the House of Commons Library women have lost six times as much financially as men under the policies of this Government. Does she think that is fair and what is she going to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Dec 2014
Preparing Young People for Work

"I agree that every young person in this country deserves to be inspired about their future, and I am happy to hear the Secretary of State saying that and expressing her opinions on giving good quality careers advice. Unfortunately, that does not match with the recent record of this Government. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Mar 2013
Apprenticeships

"Following the question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson), when I speak to small businesses, they tell me not just that they do not have enough money to take on apprentices—[Interruption.] I will continue when the Minister is listening. The small …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2011
Sex and Relationship Education

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr Amess.

I start in the unusual situation of agreeing with everything said by the hon. Member for St Austell and Newquay (Stephen Gilbert). I congratulate the hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom) on calling the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2011
Sex and Relationship Education

"I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, but her earlier remarks showed how strongly she feels about the importance of relationship education and how sex and relationship education should be paired together. I suggest that homosexual relationships are separate from sex education and sex...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2011
Sex and Relationship Education

"I completely agree...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2011
Sex and Relationship Education

"I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, but I am not clear about the difference she is getting at between relationships of another sort and sexual relationships. My understanding from what she said earlier is that she is happy for people to talk about heterosexual relationships. I am happy …..."
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