§ Brian WhiteTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much time his Department spent dealing with honours in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by Civil Service grade. [173033]
§ Yvette CooperThe majority of the work on honours is undertaken by the departmental honours team. Honours work in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is dealt with in a dedicated Honours Secretariat dealing with honours nominations for both the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Department for Transport. One HEO deals with Office of the Deputy Prime Minister matters full-time and a SEO and AO deal with matters arising for both Departments.
Senior Civil Servants time spent on honours sift meetings Total hours Grade 1 8 Grade 2 18 Grade 3 16 Grade 6 2 Information is not available on time spent on honours related work by departmental staff who are not members of the Office's honours team or attendees of the formal sifting meetings.