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Departmental Electronic Equipment
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) mobile telephones, (b) Blackberrys and (c) laptop computers have been issued to staff of his Department in each of the last five years; and how many of these were issued to (i) new staff and (ii) existing staff following the (A) loss or (B) theft of a previous device. [290586]
Chris Mole: The following tables show the known details for DfT (Central) and its agencies-in some cases, certain individual figures are unavailable, or available only at disproportionate cost. We are unable to split between existing and new staff. Where it is unclear whether original items are lost or stolen, they are shown as lost.
The Department for Transport is very conscious of its data security responsibilities and ensures that all mobile data units are properly encrypted.
| Mobiles issued (excluding Blackberry) | Blackberrys issued | Laptops issued | Mobiles replaced after loss or theft | BlackBerrys replaced after los or theft | Laptops replaced after loss or theft | |
| (1 )Lost. (2 )Stolen. | ||||||
Departmental Flexible Working
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what flexi-time arrangements were available to staff within the Department in each of the last five years; and how many staff participated in such arrangements in each such year. [290593]
Chris Mole: The Department for Transport (DfT) operate a Flexible Working Hours System which allows employees, subject to operational needs and line management agreement, to start and finish work between a flexible range of agreed hours provided they are present during certain hours of the day known as core-time and work a set number of hours each week. Staff can choose to take time off for any accrued time.
Not all DfT's business units keep a central record of the number of staff who participate in flexi-time arrangements and not all are able to provide the numbers of staff who have participated in flexi-time arrangements over the last five years. This information can be provided only by incurring disproportionate costs.
Departmental Legislation
Stephen Hammond: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport which legislative provisions introduced by the Department since 1997 have not yet been brought into force. [292339]
Chris Mole: I have placed in the Libraries of the House a list of the provisions in Acts for which the Department for Transport has lead responsibility, which have received Royal Assent since 1 January 1997 and which remain to be brought into force.
Stephen Hammond: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport which legislative provisions introduced by his Department's predecessors since 1997 have been repealed. [292340]
Chris Mole: I have placed in the Libraries of the House a list of the provisions in Acts for which the Department for Transport has lead responsibility, which have received Royal Assent since 1 January 1997 and which have been repealed.
Departmental Manpower
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the average length of employment of staff of his Department at each Civil Service pay band. [290589]
Chris Mole: The central Department for Transport and its agencies recorded average length of employment of staff by civil service pay band as:
| CS grade | Years |
Departmental Non-Domestic Rates
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many properties owned by his Department were liable for payment of (a) business rates and (b) empty property rates in each of the last five years; and what the liability in respect of each was in each such year. [290594]
Chris Mole: The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Pay
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what employee reward schemes are offered to staff of his Department; what the purpose of each scheme is; how many staff participate in each scheme; and what the cost of operating each scheme was in each of the last five years. [290595]
Chris Mole: The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Public Expenditure
Mr. Brady: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport which Minister in his Department has been assigned responsibility for overseeing the delivery of value for money in his Department; whether his Department has established a public sector reform team to implement service reforms; and if he will make a statement. [289733]
Chris Mole: I have assumed responsibility as the Minister responsible for overseeing delivery of value for money in the Department for Transport. The Department is committed to reforming public services to improve services to the citizen and we are working closely with colleagues in the centre of Government on this important agenda.
We have set in hand work to review our corporate functions and to lead our transformation programme, which will complement the work going on in the government-wide Operational Efficiency programme. At the strategic level we are also participating fully in the Public Value programme, which will help to establish key priorities going forward, whilst deriving the maximum value for money in how we carry out our business.
Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what data his Department holds on the level of diversity in its recruitment of employees in each of the last three years. [290509]
Chris Mole: The Department for Transport holds employee diversity data in line with the statutory monitoring requirements for public bodies set out in the Race Relations Act. This includes recruitment.
The Department additionally maintains this information by gender and disability. The Department also holds diversity data by age, sexual orientation, religion and belief, and by working pattern.
This information is published on the websites of the central Department and on those of the Department's agencies. However, information for all of the last three years is not available for all parts of the Department.
Departmental Recycling
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what proportion of his Department's waste was recycled in the latest period for which figures are available. [289663]
Chris Mole: For the latest period, financial year 2008-09, the Department for Transport, including its Executive agencies, recycled 47 per cent. of its waste arisings.
Departmental Sick Leave
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many sick days were taken by staff of his Department in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the public purse of these absences was. [290588]
Chris Mole: Since 2006 staff sickness has been published quarterly via the Department for Transport external website. Figures are provided using a rolling 12-month period as per Cabinet Office sickness absence methodology:
Under previous reporting methodology an average salary has been used to calculate the cost of sickness absence to the public purse. However, under current Cabinet Office methodology an average salary has not been identified. The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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