Written Answers to Questions

Monday 3 March 2008

Scotland

Departmental Advertising

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each year since 2005. [187715]

David Cairns: The Scotland Office spent £17,510 in 2006-07 and nothing in 2005-06 on advertising.

Departmental Homeworking

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in his Department have been able to work from home in the last 12 months. [189775]

David Cairns: All the staff in the Scotland Office are on secondment from the Scottish Executive or the
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Ministry of Justice, which are both committed to achieving a work life balance for all staff. No staff in the Office have formally worked from home in the last year.

Departmental Public Relations

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which public relations companies had contracts with (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible since 2004. [187716]

David Cairns: The Scotland Office has incurred no expenditure on public relations since 2004.

Departmental Travel

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many journeys his Department's (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants made between London and Scotland on official business in each month since May 2007. [187062]

David Cairns: The information requested is set out in the following table. There were no journeys by car. In relation to ministerial journeys, the information relates to travel paid by the Scotland Office. This does not include weekly travel between London and Ministers' homes in Scotland, paid by the House of Commons.

Number
	Air		Rail
	Ministers	Civil Servants	Ministers	Civil Servants
May 2007	0.5	22.0	0.5	8.0
June	4.0	29.5	—	11.0
July	1.5	23.5	—	12.5
August	1.0	7.0	—	4.0
September	2.0	17.5	—	7.5
October	—	26.5	—	7.0
November	0.5	18.0	—	10.0
December	0.5	16.5	—	5.5
January 2008	3.5	21.5	—	8.5
Note: A return journey is classed as one journey; if, for example, the outward leg of a journey is undertaken by air and the return by train, this is shown as 0.5 of a journey under each column.

Fairtrade Initiative

Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will take steps to promote fair trade fortnight 2008 among staff within his Department; and if he will make a statement. [189507]

David Cairns: Fairtrade fortnight was recently promoted on the intranet to which all staff in the Scotland Office have access.

Mineral Waters

Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many litres of bottled water were purchased by his Department in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [191256]

David Cairns: The Scotland Office does not centrally record the number of litres of bottled water that are purchased.

Transport

A1: North Yorkshire

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what response she has made to the inspector’s report into the proposed A1 upgrade between Dishforth and Barton. [187043]

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Mr. Tom Harris: The inspector’s report is currently being considered and a decision on the published scheme will be made as soon as possible.

Departmental Manpower

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff under 18 years are employed by her Department. [189076]

Jim Fitzpatrick: Civil service statistics are collected by ONS from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey. The latest published statistics are for the year to 30 September 2006. This shows for the Department for Transport a headcount of 20 and 10 FTEs aged under 18 years.

Departmental Pay

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the salary range is for each pay band of civil servants in her Department. [188796]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The salary range for each pay band in the Department for Transport is given in the following tables which show the minimum and maximum salary for each grade encompassing the individual pay rates of the central Department and agencies.

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£
Grade	Location	Minimum	Maximum
AA	Outside London	10,850	16,141
	London	13,865	19,973
AO	Outside London	14,742	19,853
	London	17,499	23,355
EO	Outside London	18,689	26,099
	London	22,086	28,706
HEO	Outside London	23,147	33,260
	London	25,949	36,238
HEO/SEO	Outside London	28,356	33,710
	London	31,369	37,291
SEO	Outside London	30,625	41,692
	London	34,199	47,258
Grade 7	Outside London	38,269	56,830
	London	43,440	67,248
Grade 6	Outside London	48,070	64,787
	London	54,508	68,190

£
Grade	Minimum	Ceiling
SCSPB1	56,100	116,000
SCSPB2	81,600	160,000
SCSPB3	99,960	205,000

Specialist grades which are outside of the aforementioned
£
	Minimum	Maximum
Traffic management
1A	16,719	18,466
1B	17,248	20,912
2	23,716	28,751
3	37,516	45,478
Accident and nuclear
SEO	53,481	62,792
Grade 7	65,500	75,000
Grade 6	72,500	85,000
Coastguard technical S level	34,564	43,525
Senior driving examiners	24,258	26,866

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the current average basic pay for full-time equivalent (a) men and (b) women in (i) AA, (ii) AO and (iii) EO or equivalent grades is in each of her Department’s bargaining units. [190272]

Jim Fitzpatrick [holding answer 28 February 2008]: The current average basic pay for men and women within each of the Department’s bargaining units is shown in the following table. London and outside London salaries are included within the averages shown.

£
	AA		AO		EO
	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
DfT(C)	16,902.33	17,341.00	22,196.29	21,903.30	25,958.74	26,410.67
VOSA	12,510.00	16,240.00	16,860.00	20,520.00	22,600.00	25,970.00
DVLA	13,653.90	13,486.41	16,656.34	16,710.04	20,315.39	20,344.85
VCA	15,660.00	14,895.00	18,343.00	18,259.00	22,250.00	23,032.00
HA	15,688.00	15,402.00	16,653.00	16,530.00	20,459.00	20,300.00
MCA	13,751.74	13,581.47	16,838.16	17,178.70	21,880.16	23,215.66
DSA	14,855.50	14,600.20	17,276.50	17,205.46	21,802.30	21,685.47
GCDA	—	—	21,749.01	21,134.34	25,391.66	26,228.63
Note: VOSA levels made up of both technical and non-technical staff. Technical posts attract a market premium and these posts are predominantly filled by male staff.

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