Written Question
Thursday 21st December 2017
Asked by:
Tommy Sheppard (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which fruitless payments in excess of £30,000 her Department has made by (a) recipient of each such payment, (b) purpose of each such payment, (c) value of each such payment and (d) reason that payment was classified as fruitless in the 2017-18 financial year to date.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Fruitless payments are types of losses – e.g. due benefit not received, by the department for money spent.
I therefore refer the hon. Member for Edinburgh East to the answer I gave to PQ 115308, published on 30 November 2017: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&max=20&questiontype=AllQuestions&house=commons%2clords&uin=115308.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Dec 2017
Social Mobility Commission
"Alan Milburn is no longer a Member of this House, so he observes the Government from an outside and slightly detached point of view. When he says that this Government are riddled with
“indecision, dysfunctionality and a lack of leadership”,
I have to say to him that he should see …..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 30th November 2017
Asked by:
Tommy Sheppard (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many losses and special payments have been made by his Department in the 2017-18 financial year to date; and what the value of those losses and payments have been.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Data for 2017/18 is not yet available. It is standard for the department to collate and validate data on losses and special payment at two intervals during each financial year (up to the end of Period 9 in December in preparation for the annual accounts and again at Period 12 in March as part of year-end). We are unable to confirm 2017/18 figures until the data has been verified, validated, finalised and signed off by the relevant business area, for inclusion in the department’s 2017/18 annual accounts. Data for this financial year to the end of December 2017 should be available from the beginning of February. We welcome any subsequent request to share data on losses and special payment up to the end of December 2017 as per the estimated timing above. For general information, any losses and special payments in excess of £300,000 will be included in the department’s Consolidated Annual Report and Accounts for 2017/18. This will be available on the department’s GOV.UK website, in due course at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Trade Union Bill
"I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the clear intention behind the move from opt out to opt in is an attempt by some members of the Conservative party to attack the funding of the Labour party. Does he agree, however, that our defence of the right of trade unions …..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Trade Union Bill
"In order to try to help the House understand why you feel that there is a need for this cap on facility time, could you tell the House what percentage of public sector employers excessively grant facility time and how many of them would this cap be beneficial in stopping?..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Trade Union Bill
"At every stage of this Bill I have asked what great calamity there is in our land’s industrial relations that requires us to bring forward new primary legislation. I have yet to receive an answer, because of course there is none. This proposal is unique among many that we have …..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jan 2016
Student Maintenance Grants
"I went to Aberdeen University in 1977. I was the first member of my extended family to go to university, and I was able to do so because the tuition was free and I got a full maintenance grant. If it had not been for the Wilson Governments of the …..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jan 2016
Student Maintenance Grants
"I have been told not to take an intervention.
A small minority do become rich, and if the Government want them to pay, they should introduce a progressive taxation system whereby people pay more when they start to earn those high wages. Instead, of course, they are cutting taxes for …..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Oral Answers to Questions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
Oral Answers to Questions
"We do, of course, hope that the apprenticeship levy will provide the same opportunities for young people south of the border as the 25,000 who started a modern apprenticeship in Scotland this year have. Is the Minister aware of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ concerns that the number …..."Tommy Sheppard - View Speech
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