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Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cars are (a) owned and (b) leased by his Department; what models the cars are; what type of petrol each model requires; and what the fuel efficiency is of each model. [41350]
Mrs. McGuire: The available information is shown.
(a) Vehicles owned by the Department | |||
Make | Model | Number | Percentage |
(b) The Department does not lease any vehicles.
Records of fuel type by individual model are not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The information available is in the table.
Fuel types | Number |
The Department does not maintain records of the fuel efficiency of its vehicles.
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to his oral statement of 25 May 2006, Official Report, columns 1648-70, on pensions reform, what steps he is taking to allow early retirement funded by the Financial Assistance Scheme if a beneficiary is in ill health. [76824]
James Purnell: Financial Assistance Scheme payments commence at age 65, except in special circumstances where early payment can be made to terminally ill qualifying members or to survivors of qualifying members who have died, on application by the scheme trustees.
We have no plans to extend early access to payments more broadly to anyone in ill health.
Stewart Hosie:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the value is of (a) pay
supplements, (b) bonuses and (c) other incentive packages that are payable in his Department on the basis of geographic location; how many people are in receipt of each payment; and what the total cost to his Department of each payment was in 2004-05. [35913]
Mrs. McGuire: The information is as follows.
(a) DWP has four geographical pay areas:
National
Inner London
Outer London, and
Specified Location Zone (SLPZ)
The differential cost is not a standard amount but is calculated in each individual pay range.
The current numbers of staff in post in each individual pay area, the 2005 value of the average additional cost above national rates for each of the main grades and the estimated total additional cost in 2004-05 are contained in the following tables:
Table 1: Staff in post (October 2005) and additional average salary value above national rates in 2005 | |||||||
Grade | SLPZ | Outer London | Inner London | Total Staff | |||
Number | (£) | Number | (£) | Number | (£) | Number | |
Table 2: Estimated total additional cost of pay areas in 2004-05 | ||||
£ million | ||||
Grade | SLPZ | Outer London | Inner London | Total |
Table 4: Estimated total additional cost as a percentage of total paybill | ||||
Percentage | ||||
Grade | SLPZ | Outer London | Inner London | Total |
In addition to the above pay areas, DWP pays a location based recruitment and retention addition (RRA) to staff based on a number of Scottish islands:
Orkneys
Shetland
Outer Hebridies
Tiree
Islay and
Jura
In 2004-05 it is estimated that some 106 staff were eligible for payments at a total cost of some £92,000 pounds.
(b) DWP does not pay bonuses on the basis of geographical locations.
(c) DWP does not have any incentive packages in place for staff in any particular geographical locations.
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