Speeches

Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff in his Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Justin Tomlinson

The information is provided in the following table:

Financial Year

Proportion of payroll staff (%)

Proportion of non-payroll staff (%)

2015-16

99.4

0.6

2014-15

99.7

0.3

2013-14

99.9

0.1

2012-13

99.9

0.1

2011-12

99.9

0.1

2010-11

99.9

0.1

Of the 520 non-payroll staff in the latest year the majority were employed to develop the technology for our major welfare reforms.