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Departmental Taxis
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many miles (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department travelled by taxi in the course of their official duties in each year since 1997; and at what cost to the public purse in each such year. [302698]
Angela E. Smith: Management information provided by the Cabinet Office's taxi contract has been collected since 2007-08; this information is available in the Cabinet Office's Annual Report and Accounts 2008-09, copies of which have been placed in the Library and are available from the Department's website. It is not possible to provide figures prior to this period without incurring disproportionate cost, nor is it possible to distinguish between journeys made by Ministers and officials without incurring a disproportionate cost.
Departmental Theft
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many staff of the Prime Minister's Office have (a) been reprimanded, (b) had their contract of employment terminated and (c) been prosecuted for theft of departmental property in each of the last three years. [302934]
Angela E. Smith: The Prime Minister's Office is part of the Cabinet Office.
No Cabinet Office staff have been reprimanded, dismissed or prosecuted for theft of property during the last three years.
Driving
Dr. Ladyman: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what mechanisms are in place to ensure that staff who drive (a) a vehicle for which (i) her Department and (ii) its executive agency is responsible have valid driving licences and (b) their own vehicles in the course of their official duties for (A) her Department and (B) its executive agency have valid driving licences and insurance; what guidance is issued to those staff in respect of road safety while carrying out official duties; what steps are taken to monitor compliance with that guidance; what requirements there are on such staff to report to their line managers accidents in which they are involved while driving in the course of their official duties; and whether such reports are investigated. [302177]
Angela E. Smith: The Cabinet Office owns one minibus that is used by the Emergency Planning College. The licenses of staff are visually inspected by the trainer prior to attending the driving training course specific to this vehicle.
Staff are trusted to give accurate information. Equally staff are trusted to notify the Department should their circumstances change.
Cabinet Office does not check employees' driving licenses prior to the use of private vehicles for official journeys. Cabinet Office guidance states that if a member of staff uses their own vehicle for official travel they are responsible for ensuring the following insurance cover obtained at their own expense:
Business cover insurance in addition to fully comprehensive insurance for the vehicle.
Either fully comprehensive insurance and business cover or third party insurance and business cover for any motor cycle.
Cabinet Office has limited requirement for car hire. Provision of car hire services are contracted via our supplier Arval, which is responsible for checking that drivers are suitably qualified, which is further endorsed by in-house authorisation documents that state drivers must be qualified.
The Cabinet Office does not specifically advise staff on road safety if not using the Cabinet Office vehicle (minibus for which specific training is given).
The Cabinet Office would be informed by both the contractor and the person(s) involved should an accident occur.
There is no specific guidance should an accident occur in a member of staff's own vehicle.
Employment
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many (a) UK nationals, (b) UK-born people, (c) non-UK EU nationals and (d) non-EU nationals of working age were in employment in the (i) public and (ii) private sector in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available; what proportion of the number of people employed in each sector the figures in each such category represent; and what the equivalent figures were in 1987. [300823]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Jil Matheson, dated November 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) UK nationals, (b) UK-born people, (c) non-UK EU nationals and (d) non-KU nationals of working age were in employment in the (i) public and (ii) private sector in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available; what proportion of the number of people employed in each sector the figures in each such category represent; and what the equivalent figures were in 1987. (300823)
The available information is shown in the attached tables. The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Estimates for 1987 are not available. The earliest available estimates on a comparable basis are for 1995 and these have therefore been included.
In the LFS the distinction between public and private sector is based on respondents' views about the organisation for which they work. The public sector estimates provided do not correspond to official Public Sector Employment estimates. Those are derived directly from employers and are based on National Accounts definitions, but do not include a nationality breakdown.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. This is assessed in a footnote to the table.
The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. They are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
| Part 1: Employment levels for people of working age( 1) in employment by public and private sector and by nationality and country of birth Three months ending September 1995 and three months ending March, June, September and December, 2007 to 2009 United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | ||||||||||||
| Thousand | ||||||||||||
| Public sector( 2,3) | Private sector( 2,4) | Total employment( 4,5) | ||||||||||
| UK nationals | UK born | Non-UK EU nationals( 6) | Non-EU nationals( 6) | UK nationals | UK born | Non-UK EU nationals( 6) | Non-EU nationals( 6) | UK nationals | UK born | Non-UK EU nationals( 6) | Non-EU nationals( 6) | |
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