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Departmental Pay

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the 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 his Department's bargaining units. [265575]

Mr. Hoon [holding answer 23 March 2009]: 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. Allowances are not included.

£
	AA		AO		EO
	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
DFT(C)	17,479	20,100	22,231	22,086	26,425	26,867
VOSA	15,474	15,401	18,986	18,784	23,851	23,853
DVLA	14,911	14,879	17,619	17,572	21,742	21,766
VGA	15,927	17,875	18,555	18,694	24,186	24,553
HA	16,455	15,739	17,168	17,253	21,055	20,980
MCA	14,227	14,155	17,139	17,258	22,278	23,512
DSA	17,261	15,837	18,894	17,519	23,694	23,412
GCDA	—	—	20,936	20,718	25,734	26,043

There are only a small number of staff in some of the grades which may affect the statistical significance of the salary levels shown. Additionally there are some differences in grading structures between the Department's businesses so it is not always possible to make direct salary comparisons based on grade. For example the salary range shown for VOSA at AA contains level 1 and level 2 VOSA staff. The above table is therefore a
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best fit only and this should be taken into account when reference is made to the salary levels.

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the current pay (a) minima and (b) maxima are for staff at each grade from AA to Grade 6 outside London in each of his Department’s bargaining units. [265577]

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Mr. Hoon [holding answer 23 March 2009]: The current pay minima and maxima applicable within the individual bargaining units in the Department for Transport for staff at each grade from AA to Grade 6 outside London are:

£
		AA	A0	EO	HEO	SEO	Grade 7	Grade 6
DfT(G)	Minimum	16,169	19,426	22,838	27,653	33,516	42,643	52,406
	Maximum	16,169	20,355	25,038	31,694	39,225	51,781	63,635
HA	Minimum	15,739	16,345	19,833	24,563	36,308	43,412	52,813
	Maximum	15,739	18,131	22,552	34,385	42,526	50,846	61,547
DVLA	Minimum	13,713	16,500	19,498	25,322	31,768	41,045	56,854
	Maximum	15,000	17,725	23,020	28,880	35,380	51,685	63,130
DSA	Minimum	13,647	15,317	20,390	24,743	31,856	39,034	50,547
	Maximum	16,464	19,595	24,322	29,977	37,833	51,434	62,399
MCA	Minimum	13,260	15,066	20,180	24,372	31,299	40,875	49,128
	Maximum	14,657	19,073	25,548	30,852	44,352	51,822	62,284
VOSA	Minimum	13,242	17,017	21,260	26,351	32,816	41,786	54,497
	Maximum	14,223	19,562	26,099	30,231	37,648	56,830	64,787
VCA	Minimum	13,900	16,600	21,000	26,000	34,550	43,500	56,900
	Maximum	16,250	19,610	25,480	34,450	42,700	56,750	65,820

There are some differences in grading structures between the Department’s businesses so it is not always possible to make direct salary comparisons based on grade. For example the salary figures shown for VOSA at AA contains level 1 and level 2 VOSA staff. The table is therefore a best fit only and this should be taken into account when reference is made to the salary levels.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Goodwill: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff in his Department are responsible for monitoring the expenditure of each of its executive agencies. [264727]

Mr. Hoon [holding answer 19 March 2009]: The Department for Transport is structured into five groups, each headed by a Director General (DG). Each DG group has an embedded finance team that monitors the financial activity of that group. The Department has four executive agencies and they report into three of these DG groups. The work of the embedded finance teams within these three DG groups includes reviewing the executive agency’s outturn. This is completed on a monthly basis with information being passed to the central finance teams and subsequently, in a summarised format, to the Department’s Executive Committee.

Departmental Recruitment

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, columns 487-88W, on departmental recruitment, what estimate he has made of the annual salary cost of (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff recruited by his Department in each year since 2005-06. [264289]

Mr. Hoon: Details of staff salaries are published in departmental annual reports and accounts.

Departmental Temporary Employment

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his Department's policy is on the renewal of the contracts of (a) temporary and (b) agency staff. [264291]

Mr. Hoon: The recruitment of temporary staff is governed by the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Code. The Department of Transport has contracts with employment agencies for the supply of agency staff.

Departmental Written Questions

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's internal round robin guidance for each round robin Parliamentary Question tabled to his Department since December 2008; and if he will make a statement. [259062]

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Mr. Hoon: In its response to the Third Report of Session 2003-04 from the Public Administration Select Committee, the Government made clear that while individual Departments may liaise with each other when they receive the same question, this co-ordination

“does not cut across the line of ministerial accountability which is that it is for individual Ministers to decide on the final content of an answer to a Parliamentary Question”.

The Department for Transport has provided advice to other Government Departments on this basis.

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