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Mr. Scott: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much has been paid in bonuses to civil servants in his Department in each year since 2003. [306489]
Mr. McFadden: An element of the BIS overall pay award for staff below the SCS is allocated to non-consolidated variable pay related to performance. These payments are used to drive high performance and form part of the pay award. There are two types of award: in-year bonuses, which consist of special individual performance awards and non-pay rewards that recognise strong performance in particularly demanding tasks for situations. Staff in receipt of a special bonus may also receive an annual performance award. Annual performance awards are paid to members of staff who receive a highly successful performance rating.
Non-consolidated variable pay awards are funded from within existing pay bill controls, and have to be re-earned each year against pre-determined targets and, as such, do not add to future pay bill costs.
Performance awards for the SCS are part of the pay system across the whole senior civil service, and are used to reward high performance sustained throughout the year, based on judgements of how well an individual has performed relative to their peers.
The performance related pay scheme is designed to help drive high performance and support better public service delivery. Performance awards are non-consolidated and non pensionable. The percentage of the pay bill set aside for performance-related awards for the SCS is based on recommendations from the independent Senior Salaries Review Body.
BIS was formed through a Machinery of Government change that occurred in June 2009. The department was created by merging The Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). DIUS and BERR were themselves created as part of a Machinery of Government Change in June 2007. This means that BIS in its current format did not exist to award performance awards in previous years. The information as follows has been drawn from various data sources and provides details for both of the former departments that were merged to create BIS.
| £ | ||
| Financial year | BERR | DIUS |
| (1) DIUS was created by a MOG change that occurred in June 2007 and did not exist before this date. The majority of annual bonuses paid to staff in 2007/08 were issued by the departments that staff had transferred from. | ||
Departmental Rail Travel
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent of first-class rail travel for (a) Ministers and (b) staff of each grade in his Department in the last 12 months. [325134]
Mr. McFadden: Following a machinery of government change the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills was formed in June 2009. The following figures include former BERR and DIUS before the merger. The amount spent on first class rail travel for the period March 2009-February 2010 was:
Rail: £643,890-figures include overseas rail travel
All expenditure is incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety. The Department does not hold separate records of the travel undertaken by Ministers as opposed to those undertaken by civil servants, to provide this information would entail disproportionate costs.
Cabinet Office provides an annual list of overseas travel over £500 undertaken by Ministers. The 2008/09 list was published on 16 July 2009 and can be viewed at:
Departmental Senior Civil Servants
Mr. David Jones: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many grade 2 civil servants are employed in his Department. [324954]
Mr. McFadden [holding answer 29 March 2010]: Grade 2 as a description of staff level is no longer in general use. Senior civil servants in similar sized roles are now referred to as being in pay band 3 and usually have the job title of director general. BIS currently has 11.9 full-time equivalents at this level.
Enterprise Europe Networks
Robert Neill: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in which Government Office regions regional Enterprise Europe Networks have been established; and what funding (a) his Department, (b) Business Links and (c) regional development agencies have provided to such networks. [323051]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) consortia cover all Government office regions. This includes a joint consortium for East and West Midlands.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has not directly funded the network. In three regions EENs have received funding totalling £55,437 from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI). BIS, along with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is a parent Department of UKTI.
No funding has been provided to the EEN by Business Links.
Six regional development agencies (RDAs) have provided funding for the UK EEN totalling £2,212,485.
Housing: Conferences
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much has been spent by the (a) South East, (b) West Midlands and (c) North West Development Agency on accreditation for the MIPIM International Property conference in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009 and (iv) 2010 to date. [323250]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
The RDAs attend the MIPIM International Property conference to attract inward investment to the regions and to showcase land that is
available for development in the regions. The following table shows the amounts spent by AWM, NWDA and SEEDA on accreditation:
| Accreditation costs (individual registration costs) (£) | ||||
| RDA | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
| (1) Approx. Expected costs-invoice not received as yet. | ||||
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many representatives of the East Midlands Development Agency attended the MIPIM International Property conference in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. [323252]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is as follows.
| Number of emda staff attending | |
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many representatives of the North West Development Agency attended the MIPIM International Property Conference in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. [323253]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is as follows:
2007: No attendance from NWDA
2008: No attendance from NWDA
2009: One person from NWDA attended.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many representatives of the South East Development Agency attended the MIPIM International Property Conference in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. [323254]
Ms Rosie Winterton: SEEDA attends MIPIM to attract inward investment to the region and to showcase land that is available for development in the South East.
| Number of representatives | |
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent by the South East Development Agency on (a) travel and (b) accommodation for representatives attending the MIPIM International Property Conference in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009. [323255]
Ms Rosie Winterton: SEEDA attends MIPIM to attract inward investment to the region and to showcase land that is available for development in the South East.
| Travel (£) | Accommodation (£) | |
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent by the East Midlands Development Agency on (a) travel and (b) accommodation for representatives attending the MIPIM International Property Conference in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009. [323256]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is tabled as follows:
| £ | ||
| Accommodation costs | Travel costs | |
Learning Disability
Mr. Harper: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate has been made of the funding required by local authorities to administer the provision of learning for those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. [322924]
Mr. Iain Wright [holding answer 18 March 2010]: I have been asked to reply.
The primary source of funding for additional support for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD) aged 16 to 18 is Additional Learning Support Funding (ALS). In 2009-10 this system was administered by local authorities (for school sixth forms) and by the Learning and Skills Council (for other provision 16 to 18). In the 2009/10 academic year the budget for ALS in school sixth forms and 16 to 18 FE provision is £275 million.
From April 2010 local authorities will assume responsibility for funding all education and training provision for 16 to 18-year-olds. In the 2010/11 academic year local authorities will be allocated £289 million for ALS in school sixth forms and 16 to 18 FE provision to reflect these new responsibilities.
Manufacturing Industries
Mr. Wareing: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what percentage of gross domestic product the manufacturing industry generated in (a) 1997 and (b) 2009. [324772]
Ian Lucas: The latest year covered by most recent fully balanced UK National Accounts produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is 2007. Manufacturing gross value added (GVA) accounted for 20.3 per cent. of total UK GVA(1) at current prices in 1997, compared to 12.4 per cent. in 2007.
The ONS are due to publish the next set of balanced UK National Accounts, which will include balanced figures for 2008, in July this year. Currently, the ONS provisionally estimates that manufacturing GVA accounted for 12.3 per cent. of total UK GVA at current prices in 2008. The ONS's early provisional estimates for 2009 suggest that last year manufacturing accounted for 11.8 per cent. of total UK GVA at current prices. This early estimate put the value of manufacturing output at £148.7 billion in 2009, close to the £150.2 billion of manufacturing output produced in 1997.
(1) Gross value added is the output measure of GDP, but minus taxes less subsidies on products (such as VAT).
North West Development Agency: Visits Abroad
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent by the North West Development Agency on (a) travel and (b) accommodation for representatives attending the MIPIM international property conference in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009. [323281]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 22 March 2010]:
2007: No attendance from NWDA
2008: No attendance from NWDA
2009: One person from NWDA attended.
Flight-£303
Accommodation-£1,105 (This is high because you have to take accommodation for minimum of five nights during the MIPIM period, all Cannes hotels operated this principal during 2009).
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