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Departmental Homeworking
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people in his Department have been authorised to work from home in the last 12 months. [189787]
Kevin Brennan: ( )The Department was formed on 28 June 2007. Home working is available to all staff( )as part of my Department's flexible working arrangements and currently 50 per cent. of staff( )can access the Department's IT infrastructure from home.
Departmental ICT
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many of his Department's personal digital assistants have been (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last five years; and what the value of those items was. [185281]
Kevin Brennan: In the last five years four personal digital assistants (PDA) were reported as lost or stolen as follows:
| Number | Valued at (£) | |
Departmental Impact Assessments
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many regulatory impact assessments his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. [191276]
Kevin Brennan: ( )Regulatory impact assessments were replaced with impact assessments in May 2007.( )The new requirement was that any new policies would be assessed using the new( )framework from the beginning of the parliamentary Session in November 2007. Details( )of the regulatory impact assessments that were published by my Department are( )available from the House Library.
Departmental Marketing
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what products featuring departmental or Government branding were procured by (a) his Department and its predecessor and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years. [179911]
Kevin Brennan: To provide a comprehensive answer would incur disproportionate costs.
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether any of his Department's special advisers have declared a conflict of interest. [164509]
Kevin Brennan: Special advisers are appointed under terms and conditions set out in the “Model Contract for Special Advisers”. Copies of the “Model Contract” are available in the House Libraries.
Departmental Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the salary range is for each pay band of civil servants in his Department. [188806]
Kevin Brennan: The salary range for each pay band in my Department is set out as follows.
| £ | ||||
| London | National | |||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | |
| (1) As London | ||||
Departmental Public Participation
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the publicity budget was for the Time to Talk consultation. [178938]
Kevin Brennan: The total publicity costs for the Time to Talk consultation were £308,270.24.
Departmental Retirement
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many of his Department’s staff retired on the grounds of stress-related illness in each of the last three years. [187885]
Kevin Brennan: The Department was set up as part of the Machinery of Government changes on 28 June 2007, so departmental information on retirements is only available from then. There have been no stress-related medical retirements in my Department in the period since that date.
The Department has policies in place to reduce work related stress including a range of measures to support managers and employees on health and wellbeing issues. These include the provision of professional counselling and support from the Department’s Employee Assistance Provider, Right Corecare. My Department has piloted a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Stress Questionnaire and conducted Individual Stress Risk Assessments for employees who require them. It will shortly be launching a comprehensive Stress Prevention Policy, based on recognised HSE Management Standards.
Departmental Translation Services
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent on translation services by his Department and its predecessor, associated agencies and non-departmental public bodies in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07 and (e) in 2007-08 to date. [187985]
Kevin Brennan: Details of expenditure on translation services incurred by the Department over the last five years are set out as follows;
| £ | |
| (1) Up to and including February | |
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