PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff (8 July 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many settlement agreements were agreed between his Department and staff in each of the last five years; and how much was paid out in respect of such agreements.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

The Department is interpreting the term “settlement agreement” to be an agreement that is reached and that is associated with a non-contractual payment, made in full settlement of a employee-related issue, that has arisen in the course of an employee’s employment with the Department.

The number of settlement agreements (cases) for each calendar year since the creation of the Department in July 2016 is as follows:

• July 2016 – December 2016 – No cases;
• January 2017 – December 2017 – No cases;
• January 2018 – December 2018 – No cases;
• January 2019 – December 2019 – No cases;
• January 2020 to date – No cases.

Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
17 July 2020