Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The Civil Service’s policy since February 2015 has been not to use confidentiality agreements in settlement agreements on termination of employment. The Department’s approach is to not use non-disclosure agreements for settlement agreements and instead be open and transparent with agreement outcomes.
Based on the information available for the Department of Transport, including executive agencies, the number of non-disclosure agreements used are:
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Total number of non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees | Data not held | Data not held | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of notice periods for people on agency contracts with regard to dismissal procedures.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
The termination arrangements for agency workers are determined by the contract of engagement.
In recognition of a need for greater transparency to better support agency workers, the Government set out in its response to the Taylor review of modern employment practice the intention to introduce a “key facts” page for agency workers, which will set out clearly all the information needed by an agency worker to make an informed decision prior to entering into a contract.