Decisions about the recruitment and retention of police officers and staff are the responsibility of chief constables and police and crime commissioners, supported by the College of Policing.

In her last annual remit letter, the Home Secretary asked the independent Police Remuneration Review Body to consider evidence and proposals from police partners on boosting recruitment and retention in shortage groups. We look forward to receiving their recommendations later this year.

There are currently 16 customer access computers in the Glasgow South West constituency, and customers also have the option of using their own personal devices by connecting to the free Wi-Fi in Jobcentres. Customers are able to access Universal Jobmatch or apply for Universal Credit from any computer.

Where customers can access our services independently they are encouraged to do so. However, we also provide an assisted service for customers that require additional support to use the computers.

The advert for the post of senior administrator from NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is attached.

This post was approved by the Primary Care Commissioning Committee of the CCG’s governing body at its meeting held in public in August 2015. This was not a secondment but a CCG employed fixed term post for 12 months.

The Government are determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW or NLW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them.

The Government has more than trebled annual funding of minimum wage enforcement since 2014, providing a total budget of £25.3m in 2017-18. The additional investment has enabled a significant expansion of resources dedicated to enforcing the minimum wage.

Any HMRC employee can request flexible working, including part time hours and job sharing. Initial training for new recruits is usually delivered on a full-time basis during their induction. In recruitment campaigns, we make clear that full-time training may be required during the initial training period. This is due to the level of face-to-face training needed. For existing part-time staff, once induction training is completed, any future training can usually be offered on a part-time basis and we plan our training to fit with working patterns as far as possible.

As at 1 April 2017, there were 399 staff in post in HMRC’s NMW teams and 83 vacancies. Staff across HMRC contribute to enforcing NMW and NLW, including lawyers, technical advisers, and those specialising in criminal investigations. HMRC does not record the specific numbers of those staff involved beyond those identified above.

HMRC does not hold data in the format required to answer the question on average time to fill vacancies within these teams.

The Government are determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW or NLW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them.

The Government has more than trebled annual funding of minimum wage enforcement since 2014, providing a total budget of £25.3m in 2017-18. The additional investment has enabled a significant expansion of resources dedicated to enforcing the minimum wage.

Any HMRC employee can request flexible working, including part time hours and job sharing. Initial training for new recruits is usually delivered on a full-time basis during their induction. In recruitment campaigns, we make clear that full-time training may be required during the initial training period. This is due to the level of face-to-face training needed. For existing part-time staff, once induction training is completed, any future training can usually be offered on a part-time basis and we plan our training to fit with working patterns as far as possible.

As at 1 April 2017, there were 399 staff in post in HMRC’s NMW teams and 83 vacancies. Staff across HMRC contribute to enforcing NMW and NLW, including lawyers, technical advisers, and those specialising in criminal investigations. HMRC does not record the specific numbers of those staff involved beyond those identified above.

HMRC does not hold data in the format required to answer the question on average time to fill vacancies within these teams.

DCMS is leading a review focused on identifying the current and future advanced and specialist digital skills gaps in the UK’s digital technology sector and wider economy. This work will give DCMS a greater understanding of the characteristics of the existing advanced and digital specialist workforce in the UK, current and future advanced and specialist digital skills needs in the UK, and will inform how to focus efforts on developing the UK digital skills pipeline. We anticipate the review will be completed by summer 2017.

I will look into the specific issue that the hon. Gentleman raises, but I want to make it very clear that HMRC investigates absolutely every report of national minimum wage violations. We take the matter very seriously, and we do enforce it.

Can the Chancellor confirm that HMRC takes eight months to fill a vacancy in the national minimum wage compliance unit? If that is so, what will he do properly to resource that service so that workers can get a decent day’s pay for a decent day’s work?

West Bromwich Jobcentre sits in the West Bromwich East constituency. We currently have 21 computer terminals available for customers to use within West Bromwich Jobcentre to search Universal Jobmatch and to apply for universal credit.

The 21 computers also allow the Work Coaches to support customers who have limited knowledge of how to use a computer properly, particularly searching for jobs through the daily Job Clubs or one to one support.

We offer daily Job Clubs to all age groups, matching customers to vacancies, Apprenticeships and Traineeships and a triage service where employers are on site offering an immediate opportunity for customers to be seen by a variety of employers on the day.

Vulnerable customers are also given one to one support when either making new claims or again searching for jobs.

We work with a number of partner organisations across the Borough and within the West Bromwich East constituency, such as Sandwell Women’s Enterprise Development Agency who have 11 computers offering CV and Job search support to unemployed customers / constituents.

West Bromwich Library has 44 computers for constituent use.

Sandwell College have in excess of 260 main terminals and 60 laptops, offering on site or virtual learning from home for all unemployed people and both full and part time students.

The Ministry of Justice does not hold data regarding how long a position has been vacant in its recruitment database.

The Ministry of Justice turnover rates, excluding the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) are available in the following table. NOMS turnover rates are published in the NOMS Workforce Bulletin available on gov.uk.

The Royal Navy employs a range of mechanisms to attract and develop engineers including apprenticeship schemes and staged remunerative awards, as well as an active engagement in a University Technical Colleges affiliation programme aimed at assisting in the development of technically able young people.

The independent Migration Advisory Commission (MAC) reviews the Shortage Occupation List when commissioned to do so by the Government. The MAC’s reports and recommendations take account of all of the labour market conditions at the time. As future immigration arrangements for EU nationals are yet to be determined, it would be premature to try to assess the impact on the Shortage Occupation List at this stage.

The MAC has carried out two full reviews and four partial reviews of the Shortage Occupation List since May 2010. This includes a review of GPs in February 2015. The MAC recommended waiting until a Department of Health initiative to incentivise medical graduates to become GPs is evaluated, before considering the addition of GPs to the Shortage Occupation List. The report can be read at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/partial-review-of-the-shortage-occupation-lists.

The Government will consider further reviews of the list as part of the MAC’s wider work plan.

The independent Migration Advisory Commission (MAC) reviews the Shortage Occupation List when commissioned to do so by the Government. The MAC’s reports and recommendations take account of all of the labour market conditions at the time. As future immigration arrangements for EU nationals are yet to be determined, it would be premature to try to assess the impact on the Shortage Occupation List at this stage.

The MAC has carried out two full reviews and four partial reviews of the Shortage Occupation List since May 2010. This includes a review of GPs in February 2015. The MAC recommended waiting until a Department of Health initiative to incentivise medical graduates to become GPs is evaluated, before considering the addition of GPs to the Shortage Occupation List. The report can be read at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/partial-review-of-the-shortage-occupation-lists.

The Government will consider further reviews of the list as part of the MAC’s wider work plan.

The independent Migration Advisory Commission (MAC) reviews the Shortage Occupation List when commissioned to do so by the Government. The MAC’s reports and recommendations take account of all of the labour market conditions at the time. As future immigration arrangements for EU nationals are yet to be determined, it would be premature to try to assess the impact on the Shortage Occupation List at this stage.

The MAC has carried out two full reviews and four partial reviews of the Shortage Occupation List since May 2010. This includes a review of GPs in February 2015. The MAC recommended waiting until a Department of Health initiative to incentivise medical graduates to become GPs is evaluated, before considering the addition of GPs to the Shortage Occupation List. The report can be read at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/partial-review-of-the-shortage-occupation-lists.

The Government will consider further reviews of the list as part of the MAC’s wider work plan.

At a national level, we are retaining and recruiting the teachers we need. We recognise that the strengthening labour market and growth in pupil numbers have made recruiting or retaining staff more challenging for schools in certain circumstances and locations. We have undertaken research to understand the issues underpinning these differences and are now commissioning labour market analysis in a selection of more localised areas of the country to improve our understanding of supply problems in these areas.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) retains records on recruitment vacancies from 1 June 2014. From 1 June 2014, 100% of vacancies remained vacant for a period in excess of five working days.

The rest of the Law Officers’ Departments do not hold information about the number of positions that have been vacant for a week or longer. Such a situation arises frequently, for example, when an individual moves post and there is a gap of a week or more before his or her successor takes up post.

*The majority of staff based at the Attorney General’s Office are on loan to the department for a period of two to three years and return to their home department at the end of their loan. This business model also operates in HMCPSI although to a lesser degree than AGO

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given by My Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet office on 16 March 2017 to PQ66684.

The answer covers the core department only.

1. Defra does not retain details in the Department on the length of time that a post has been vacant.

2. The average turnover for Defra since 2010 is shown below:

* Turnover data for 2016 is provisional as Defra is verifying leaver numbers.

All leavers for the 12 month period (except those moving under a Machinery of Government change or those transferring to a Defra Agency or NDPB) divided by the average staff in post over the period.

The average turnover covers those staff who left the department as a result of retirement, resignation, dismissal, redundancy, voluntary paid exit, ending a period of secondment, loan, short or fixed term appointment, transfer to another government department (not as part of a Machinery of Government change) and death in service.

I would be happy to meet the hon. Gentleman and the headteachers he has in mind.

I draw the Secretary of State’s attention to recent research by the business-led Cambridge Ahead into teacher shortages in Cambridge.

Given the structural problems identified, will the Secretary of State meet Cambridge Ahead and Cambridgeshire MPs to discuss this?