Speeches

Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of employees in his Department of each (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time.

Gregory Barker

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has a Flexible Working policy which allows its staff to apply to work through a range of flexible working options. These include part time working, job sharing, compressed hours, as well as working from home on an occasional or more regular basis or as part of a formal arrangements where staff are officially based at home. DECC does not hold central records of those staff who have made a statutory application for flexible working.

Information relating to staff who work part time is recorded centrally and the proportion of those by (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender is set out in the tables below.

Civil Service pay grade

Full Time

Part Time

AO

89%

11%

EO

93%

7%

HEO

96%

4%

FASTSTREAM

100%

0%

SEO

95%

5%

G7

91%

9%

G6

86%

14%

SCS

91%

9%

Grand Total

92%

8%

Gender

Full Time

Part Time

Female

86%

14%

Male

98%

2%

Grand Total

92%

8%