Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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.
Mark Lancaster
The table below shows the number of payroll and non-payroll appointments made by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in each of the last six Financial Years (FY).
|
FY |
Payroll staff |
Non-Payroll staff |
|
2010-11 |
66,187 |
1,571 |
|
2011-12 |
62,736 |
1,701 |
|
2012-13 |
54,973 |
1,764 |
|
2013-14 |
52,992 |
3,440 |
|
2014-15 |
52,278 |
3,739 |
|
2015-16 |
52,295 |
3,646 |
Off-payroll workers play an important role in helping the MOD meet short term needs for specialist advice and interim service.
Information about the MOD’s senior payroll appointees engaged for over £220 a day for more than six months, and those of its Arm’s Length Bodies have been published in the relevant Annual Reports and Accounts since FY 2012-13.
