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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Termination of Employment (26 March 2013)

Richard Benyon: ...of staff in core DEFRA, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies that left, for the reasons listed, in each calendar year between 2008 and 2012. Department   Reason for leaving 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Core DEFRA Resignation 89 53 59 44 38   Retirement 30 28 32 12 15   Redundancy 326 12 7 274 48   Transfer to other...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Termination of Employment (18 March 2013)

Gregory Barker: ...energy policy (previously with BERR, which is now BIS—the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), and climate change mitigation policy (previously with DEFRA—the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Therefore no data exists prior to that date. The number of civil servants who have left DECC is shown in the following table.   Resignation...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Redundancy (26 February 2013)

Richard Benyon: When a member of staff’s role comes to an end, redeployment or voluntary departure is considered before compulsory redundancy. The information provided as follows covers compulsory redundancies and voluntary departures (voluntary exits or voluntary redundancies). Figures for 2012-13 show the number and costs incurred of departures to date. Data is rounded to the nearest £1,000...

Trees: British Ash Tree — Question for Short Debate (5 November 2012)

Lord Knight of Weymouth: ...trees at similar risk?". The subject of other species takes us on to the capacity of the Forestry Commission to deal with this threat. The commission's February 2011 staff consultation document on redundancy, following its 25% cut in funding, said, under high-level risks on page 24: "There is no capacity to deal with costs of disease or other calamity. (e.g. Phytophthora is currently an...

[Sir Alan Meale in the Chair] — Offshore Wind Generation (North Wales) (24 October 2012)

Nia Griffith: ...the end of the consultation period, leaving businesses racing to install solar panels before deadlines; provoking difficulties in the supply chain, because manufacturers, fearful of being left with redundant stock, ran down production; and leaving out of pocket self-employed plumbers who had risen to the challenge of green energy and forked out on courses to train themselves up in...

General Matters (18 September 2012)

Stewart Jackson: ...to discuss a vexed issue of tax policy, namely air passenger duty, which has been described succinctly by the TaxPayers Alliance as an unwelcome burden on family holidays, a cost to business and redundant now that the European Union’s emissions trading system is being applied to aviation. I declare an interest at the outset as the constituency Member of Parliament for Peterborough,...

Public Bill Committee: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Clause 10 - Decisions by legal officers (28 June 2012)

Ian Murray: ...employee/employer disputes. Too often low-paid workers wait for months to recover wages or holiday pay from employers, which leaves them out of pocket. For example, Ministry of Justice research in 2009 found that an astonishing four out of 10 awards are simply not paid at all, and fewer than half of all awards are paid in full. It is sad that too many rogue employers fail to give these...

Financial Services Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (11 June 2012)

Viscount Trenchard: ...least as important as the regulatory structure. Today is not the day to debate the implementation of Sir John Vickers' recommendations, but I should like to say that the current extremely difficult economic environment should lead the Government to do what they can to provide a stable and benevolent framework for our financial services industry, which directly employs more than 2 million...

Supplementary Estimates 2011-12 — Home Office: Forensic Science Service (27 February 2012)

Diana Johnson: ...hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth (Mr Campbell), who was a distinguished Home Office Minister with responsibility for the FSS. He talked, in particular, about the decision by the Government in 2009 to make a grant of £50 million available to the FSS to restructure the business so that it could modernise and become more competitive, for example by closing forensic science sites and...

Autumn Budget Forecast — Statement (29 November 2011)

Lord Sassoon: ...the last Government left it to this Government to sort that mess out. The OBR's analysis feeds directly through to borrowing numbers that are falling, but not at the rate that had been forecast. In 2009-10, the last Government were borrowing £156 billion a year. During the first year of this Government, that fell to £137 billion. This year the OBR expects it to fall again, to...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Labour Turnover (5 September 2011)

Richard Benyon: The number of staff who have been (a) recruited, (b) made redundant and (c) taken voluntary redundancy or left on a voluntary exit scheme from (i) the Department, and (ii) each NDPB since May 2010 is set out in the following table. The NDPBs recorded here are DEFRA's executive non-departmental public bodies. Please note that the Commission for Rural Communities and the Sustainable Development...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Redundancy (5 September 2011)

Richard Benyon: The amount spent on (a) compulsory redundancy payments and (b) voluntary redundancy payments and compensation paid to staff leaving on voluntary exit schemes since May 2010 in (i) the Department, and (ii) each NDPB is set out in the following table. The NDPBs recorded here are DEFRA’s Executive NDPBs. Please note that the Commission for Rural Communities and the Sustainable Development...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Redundancy (5 September 2011)

Richard Benyon: holding answer 19 July 2011 The amount spent on (a) compulsory redundancy payments and (b) voluntary redundancy payments and compensation paid to staff leaving on voluntary exit schemes since May 2010 in (i) the Department, and (ii) each NDPB is set out in the following table. The NDPBs recorded here are DEFRA’s Executive NDPBs. Please note that the Commission for Rural Communities and...

Written Answers — Health: Research (24 May 2011)

Simon Burns: ...Dataset Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Mixed Sex Accommodation Monthly Return National Children's and Young Person's Dataset National Health Service (NHS) Health Check Dataset Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) Inspection Programme One-off NHS data collections initiated through ROCR process during period May 2010-April 2011: Commissioned National and Local Enhanced...

Government Departments: Soft Power — Debate (28 April 2011)

Lord Howell of Guildford: ...speech, these matters are interwoven. First, wars tend increasingly to be intrastate rather than interstate conflicts that cannot be won by force of arms; the concept of overwhelming force is redundant. Instead, parties must include ways to engage with different levels of society, using, with agility, the appropriate soft power tools that are available, namely cultural, political, military...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Employment Agencies (27 April 2011)

Richard Benyon: ...the financial year 2010-11 is set out in the following table. £ Core DEFRA/agency Recruitment agency fees (incl. media costs where reported) Outplacement agency fees to support displaced/redundant staff Staff training costs Rural Payments Agency (RPA) 0 20,800.00 276,275.49 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Agriculture Science (CEFAS) 42,476.54 0 276,586.00 ...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Redundancy (28 March 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

William Bain: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what expenditure public bodies sponsored by her Department incurred on redundancies in 2009-10; and what estimate has been made of equivalent expenditure in 2010-11.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Planning Bill: Second Stage (14 December 2010)

Roy Beggs: ...forward so late in the day and that so little time will be available for that careful scrutiny. It will put great pressures on the limited Assembly time that remains. I used to be a member of the Environment Committee, and I wish the current members well with the huge task of scrutinising the 248 clauses. It is vital work, and it must continue. Planning legislation is vital to our economy...

Scottish Parliament: Budget 2011-12 (17 November 2010)

John Swinney: As the Parliament knows, one of our most cherished approaches to Scottish Government staff in the past three years has been that of no compulsory redundancies. That has created the right atmosphere to enable us to find the substantial savings year on year that have already transformed efficiency in the Scottish Government. Clearly, the financial circumstances are totally different from what...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Protection of Quarry and Construction Industries (15 November 2010)

Tom Elliott: ...my thoughts on the industry and the professional manner in which it has carried out its work in the past number of years. It has invested heavily in new technologies and in ways to improve the environment. Anyone who has visited a quarry in recent years will see how quarrying has changed dramatically from 20 or 25 years ago. As someone who has used quarrying industry products regularly...