Howard Sargent Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Oversight of DWP interaction and relations with the United Kingdom's Parliament.

London, United Kingdom

I provide guidance to Ministers' Private Offices and policy colleagues on Parliamentary procedures and protocols. I am the main point of contact between the Department and Houses of Parliament for Written Ministerial Statements, placing documents in the House libraries and laying of other documents i.e. Command Papers. I also deal with debates and questions for Ministers in the House (both Commons and Lords), ensuring briefing for the Minister concerned is commissioned where required. Furthermore I liaise with House and security colleagues on arranging relevant passes, etc to allow officials to support Ministers during debates in the Palace of Westminster. I support colleagues in the Parliamentary Relations Unit on commissioning and sending answers to Written Parliamentary Questions - from both MPs and Lords. Lastly I coordinate and commission briefings on Departmental policy and activity for the Leader of the House for when he takes questions every week when the House is sitting.

London, Uk

Forward planning of communications activity, announcements, publications, etc. This involved a great dea of liaising with teams right across the Department, ensuring we had the most accurate and up to date information on which to base forward planning decisions.

I was the longest serving member of a small team (never more than six people) implementing eRooms Collaborative Working Software by Documentum in businesses and teams across the Department.My role included:- Providing demonstrations of the software to a wide cross section of teams and seniority- Taking requirements for Collaborative Working and building rooms with tools to meet those requirements- Providing training (from informal at the shoulder type to two day, hands-on training events) for users of the software- Providing on-going support for users post-implementation- Maintaining licences and ensuring that the correct colleagues had access.

Worked on a variety of projects:- Transferring Benefit and Non-Benefit manuals and guides from hard copy to HTML- Moderation of Discussion Groups on the DWP Intranet, mainly an Intranet Development group- Research for and preparation of a document giving recommendations for an Electronic Archiving Strategy in relation to a new Web Content Management System- Project planning and support work for Web Content Management.

Provided content for the 'Make and Do' sections of the magazine - craft ideas, templates and instructions mainly aimed at the 6 to 11 year old age group

Provided statistics for regular and ad-hoc requests through interrogation of a QSL database. Interpreted data, spotting trends and analysed breakdowns on behalf of teams requesting the information.Liaised closely with a London policy department, providing data for the Secretary of State's Annual Report on the Social Fund. Worked alongside other teams and the National Audit Office to resolve the abandonment of recovery of a number of clerically paid applications.

Watford, United Kingdom

interpreted and issued various statistical returns including budgets and headcount.Area expert for a new running costs IT system, collating returns from 8 Districts.Provided IT support to management team, with additional responsibility as a Deputy Computer Support Officer for users in three offices.

Watford, United Kingdom

Dealt with applications for one-off payments, interviewed applicants and made decisions on claims and reviews.

Education record

Selected on first application to attend 7-day event, limited to 60 delegates annually

Using It

A-Levels: History, Economics, French

GCSE qualifications in English, English Literature, History, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics as well as Maths O-level