Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many individuals were employed by his Department to work on internal communications in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
For each of these years, five members of staff were employed on internal communication.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much expenditure was allocated by his Department in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 to (a) internal communications and (b) the employment of staff to work on internal communications.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
We are unable to provide the pay costs for staff dedicated to internal communications as this could potentially identify specific staff member salaries owing to the small numbers involved. The Department routinely publishes the combined salary cost of its Communication function as part of its quarterly organogram which can be found here.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent in total on external recruitment consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; whether any full-time equivalent posts were filled as a result of that expenditure; and whether any of those posts were filled by individuals recruited from outside the civil service.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on external management consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; and which projects or work areas in each of those financial years required the largest proportion of expenditure on support from consultants.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Figures for consultancy spend are included each year in the Department's annual report. The corresponding figure for FY2021-22 is expected to be published by the end of July 2022.
Across the last three financial years, the top area for consultancy spend has been on the Building Safety Programme, primarily on support services for delivery of new cladding remediation funds.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent on (a) focus groups and (b) polling services in 2021.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much expenditure was allocated by his Department in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 to (i) the production of digital and video content, (ii) the employment of in-house staff to produce digital and video content, and (iii) the payment of external companies and individuals to produce digital and video content.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The information requested is published as part of the department’s transparency data and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mhclg-departmental-spending-over-250
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he expects to reissue the Private Parking Code of Practice.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Private Parking Code of Practice has been temporarily withdrawn to review the decisions to introduce new levels of private parking charges and to ban additional fees that are currently added on top of the late or unpaid parking charge. My department will continue to work with the industry and consumer groups to reissue the Code as quickly as possible. We are committed to reissuing a Code that provides both the best possible protection for motorists and enables effective management of parking.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Luton South of 16 March 2022 on London Luton Airport Operations Limited's annual passenger cap amendment.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
A response to the Hon Member will be issued shortly.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of increased homeworking during the covid-19 outbreak on his Department’s carbon footprint.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The Department monitors and reports on its greenhouse gas emissions - information on this is published in the Greening Government Commitments Annual Report.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to measure its carbon footprint.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Greenhouse gas emissions are published annually in the Greening Government Commitments Annual Reports.