PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Work and Pensions: Staff (14 September 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff working for her Department are employed on a fixed-term contract; and how many of those contracts are due to end each month in the next 12 months.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

DWP has 14,651 employees on Fixed Term Contracts as of 31 August 2021.

The full breakdown by month is not currently held centrally. We have recently extended a number of contracts and are in the process of updating our records on the HR and Payroll system.

Answered by:
Guy Opperman (Conservative)
20 September 2021