Indicative construction programmes are set out in the Environmental Statement submitted to Parliament in the Community Forum Area Volume 2 reports. These programmes will be developed further through the hybrid Bill and detailed design process. Information on the number of construction workers required and pay details for each month during construction can only be fully determined after Royal Assent. The cost will be delivered within the funding envelope for HS2.

For Phase One it is estimated there will be:

14,600 construction jobs

2,200 operations & maintenance jobs

5,480 supply chain jobs

30,000 jobs supported by stations & depots

The figures have been published in the HS2 Phase One Environmental Statement Non-technical summary section 7.10. The document is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-phase-one-environmental-statement-non-technical-summary

The information requested is in the attached document.

There are currently no plans to relocate officials from my Department to Birmingham to work alongside officials from HS2 Ltd.

Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from NHS organisations.

Information on the number of consultant dermatologists who hold agency contracts and other contractual or financial arrangements is not held by the Department

The latest annual workforce census data, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), shows there were 486 directly employed consultant dermatologists working in the NHS in England as at 30 September 2013.

The next census will be published by the HSCIC on the 25 March 2015 and will provide data for September 2014.

Since October HS2 Ltd has appointed 43 new staff.

The table below sets out the grading of 40 appointments.

In addition there were three senior appointments. Information on these is given in £5k bands.

2 appointments were in the range £185 – 190k

1 appointment was in the range £200 – 205k

HS2 Ltd has taken on 11 secondees since 1 October 2014. Salary details of these individuals are held by their parent organisation.

The Department for Transport’s complaints officer has not investigated any complaints against DfT staff working on HS2 or referred any such complaints to be considered by the Department’s independent complaints assessors.

HS2 Ltd has received a total of 12 complaints since the start of April 2014, two of which have been referred to the parliamentary and health services ombudsman (PHSO). These are ‘complaints about service’ and not necessarily complaints about particular employees. The 10 complaints not referred to the ombudsman are considered to be resolved by HS2 Ltd.

Information relating to personnel employed by HS2 Ltd, their grades and salary scales is shown in the following table. We are withholding information relating to previous employers as this is personal information and releasing it would contravene the first principle of the Data Protection Act 1998. Grade 23 and above have no range and individuals are effectively employed on a “spot-rate”. The individuals and their salaries are however already published in HS2 Ltd accounts.