Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his 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 Helen Grant
New tighter rules governing ‘off-payroll’ appointments in central government were established in May 2012 when the Chief Secretary to the Treasury published the Review of the Tax Arrangements of Public Sector Appointees.
The recommendations of the Review mean that the most senior staff must go on the payroll, and departments are now able to seek assurance in relation to the tax arrangements of their long-term, high paid contractors.
The Treasury has carried out two evaluations of compliance with the rules which were published on 11 March 2014 and 5 March 2015. The most recent review revealed that the large majority of central government departments are operating the rules effectively.
Off-payroll engagements for more than £220 per day and that last for longer than six months:
Department /ALB | 2013-14 | 2012-13 |
DCMS | 28 | 24 |
Ofcom | 25 | 1 |
Olympic Delivery Authority | 13 | 38 |
British Library | 7 | 9 |
Equality & Human Rights Commission | 7 | 15 |
Visit Britain | 6 | 0 |
British Museum | 5 | 0 |
British Film Institute | 3 | 0 |
Tate | 2 | 0 |
UK Sport | 2 | 0 |
V&A | 1 | 0 |
Arts Council England | 0 | 2 |
National Gallery | 0 | 3 |
Natural History Museum | 0 | 5 |
Sport England | 0 | 1 |
Data Source: DCMS Annual Reports 2012-13 and 2013-14
The following Arm’s Length bodies have not used off-payroll engagements for more than £220 per day and that last for longer than six months:
· Churches Conservation Trust |
· English Heritage |
· Gambling Commission |
· Geffrye Museum |
· Horniman |
· Horse race Betting Levy Board |
· Imperial War Museum |
· National Heritage Memorial Fund /Heritage Lottery Fund |
· National Museums Liverpool |
· National Portrait Gallery |
· Royal Armouries |
· Royal Museums Greenwich |
· Science Museum Group |
· Sir John Soane’s Museum |
· Sports Ground Safety Authority |
· The Royal Parks |
· Wallace |
For appointments prior to this and below this threshold, the cost to provide the numbers would be disproportionate.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
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.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in his 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 Dan Poulter
The number of staff (expressed as Full Time Equivalents: (FTE)) engaged ‘off payroll’ - defined as agency workers, contractors and consultants - by the Department and its executive agencies: the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Public Health England (PHE) are given in the tables below.
Figures for the Department
Financial Year | Total FTE |
2010 - 11 | 507.1 |
2011 - 12 | 353.1 |
2012 - 13 | 399.5 |
2013 - 14 | 262.7 |
2014 – 15 to date | 187.5 |
Figures for MHRA
Financial Year | Total FTE |
2010 - 11 | Nil |
2011 - 12 | Nil |
2012 - 13 | 2.0 |
2013 - 14 | 3.0 |
2014 – 15 to date | 2.7 |
Figures for PHE (Established 1 April 2013)
Financial Year | Total FTE |
2013 - 14 | 490.9 |
2014 – 15 to date | 283.7 |
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many off-payroll engagements there were in (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's arms-length bodies in each of the last five years.
Answered by Claire Perry
In 2012, the Treasury published its Review of the Tax Arrangements of Public Sector Appointees. It began requiring Departments to report on these arrangements in their Annual Reports and Accounts, and to implement tax assurance processes. The Department for Transport’s Annual Reports and Accounts are all available on gov.uk. The off-payroll assurance process for the current financial year is ongoing and final results will be published in the Annual Report and Accounts in June. Data is not available, other than at disproportionate cost, for years prior to 2012, and for those being paid less or who have been engaged to work for less than six months.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the income tax gap in Scotland in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Gauke
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published its latest tax gap estimates on 16 October 2014 in 'Measuring Tax Gaps' 2014 edition.
Estimates of the UK tax gap for each type of tax are provided from 2005-06 to 2012-13. In 2012-13 the overall UK tax gap was estimated at £34 billion, 6.8 per cent of total tax due. Within this, the tax gap due to Income Tax, National Insurance Contributions and Capital Gains Tax was estimated at £14.2 billion.
HMRC do not break down any of the estimates by country.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his 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 Lord Maude of Horsham
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
Audited information about staff engaged off-payroll has been published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts for the last 2 full financial years (2012/13, 2013/14) and these are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts .
Audited information for 2014/15 will be published in the 2014/15 Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts in due course.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 Dan Rogerson
The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts set out the number of off-payroll workers employed by the Core Department, its Executive Agencies and Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies each year. The table below shows the information requested in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2013-14 (the last financial year for which a set of accounts has been published).
Organisation | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
Core Defra | 362 | 119 | 73 | 73 | 91 |
Executive Agencies: | |||||
Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (see Note) | 133 | 56 | 104 | 93 | 90 |
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science | 14 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
Food and Environment Research Agency (see Note) | 15 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 11 |
Rural Payments Agency | 320 | 32 | 54 | 150 | 206 |
Veterinary Medicines Directorate | 7 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 10 |
Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies: | |||||
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (see Note) | 0 | 73 | 34 | 18 | 38 |
Consumer Council for Water | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Environment Agency | 868 | 349 | 687 | 764 | 403 |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Marine Management Organisation | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
National Forest Company | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural England | 183 | 124 | 131 | 135 | 181 |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | 35 | 41 | 28 | 48 | 36 |
Sea Fish Industry Authority | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Note: the figures for the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency reflect the organisation’s then structure, which was created from a merger of the Animal Health agency and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency on 1 April 2011. The figures do not reflect the restructuring into the Animal and Plant Health Agency on 1 October 2014, when some areas of work undertaken previously by Fera (Food and Environment Research Agency) were brought into the new organisation.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in 10 Downing Street were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.
Audited information about staff engaged off-payroll has been published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts for the last 2 full financial years (2012/13, 2013/14) and these are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts .
Audited information for 2014/15 will be published in the 2014/15 Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts in due course.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2015 to Question 223222, how much funding was allocated for the specialist inheritance tax compliance teams in each of the last five years for which records are available.
Answered by David Gauke
The funding allocations for staff allocated to the Inheritance Tax compliance teams for the last four years are:
2014/15 £5,930,000
2013/14 £6,357,000
2012/13 £6,293,000
2011/12 £6,334,000
Prior to 2011/12 the teams were organised and structured in a different way and comparable figures are not available.
HM Revenue & Customs has re-engineered the IHT compliance process. This has delivered efficiencies which are reflected in the funding allocations.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in fuel poverty in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland used prepayment meters to pay for (i) gas and (ii) electricity in each year since May 2010.
Answered by Amber Rudd
Data on fuel poverty is published annually at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics.