Pamela Nash – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Agency staff in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) the UK were (i) on zero-hours contracts and (ii) temporary staff in each of the last two years up to the most recent period for which records are available.

Karen Bradley

The UK Border Agency was absorbed into the Home Office on 1 April 2013; its
successor business areas are UK Visas & Immigration and Immigration Enforcement.

(i) The Home Office and its Agencies do not employ and have not employed staff
on zero-hours contracts.

(ii) A geographical breakdown of temporary staff employed in UK Border Agency
successor business areas in each of the last two years is shown at Table 1.

[ATTACH TABLE]

NOTE: Office for National Statistics defines temporary staff as those civil
servants with contracts of employment of less than one year; staff with Fixed
Term Appointments and Permanent staff are reported separately by all government
departments, as are Agency and Contingent Workers.