PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Work and Pensions: Staff (11 March 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many additional staff her Department has employed on fixed-term contracts during the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will list when each of those contracts will end.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

Since 1 April 2020 we have recruited 11,556 people on fixed term contracts. Of those who have started since 1 April 2020, we have 10,507 employees who remain in the business. Their contract end dates are set out in the following table reflecting, the position as at 28 February 2021, which is a continuously changing picture, given that people are actively being extended and recruited, and we will also lose people naturally through turnover before their end dates are due.

	Contract end dates
Mar-21	2102*
Apr-21	412*
May-21	261*
Jun-21	122*
Jul-21	348*
Aug-21	81*
Sep-21	228
Oct-21	135
Nov-21	1499
Dec-21	763
Jan-22	1176
Feb-22	1322
Mar-22	16
Apr-22	1056
May-22	707
Jun-22	78
Jul-22	125
Aug-22	54
Sep-22	1
Oct-22	6
Nov-22	4
Dec-22	5
Jan-23	6
Total	10507

*Some contract end dates for people due to leave in these months are in the process of being extended.

Answered by:
Guy Opperman (Conservative)
16 March 2021