Speeches

Louise Haigh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Justin Tomlinson

The actual Departmental cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in each of the last 5 years is:

Financial Year

Cost (£)

2010/11

3,944

2011/12

0

2012/13 ¹

394,511

2013/14 ¹

362,616

2014/15 ¹

141,232

¹ Includes Child Maintenance Group expenditure which joined DWP in August 2012.

Data excludes NDPBs