PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business and Trade: Recruitment (20 February 2023)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much her Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

Department for Business and Trade was created on 7 February in a Machinery of Government change. During the period in question, the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) were operating as two separate Departments.

DIT expenditure was: £648,408.47.

It is not possible to disaggregate the BEIS expenditure.

DIT spend

Year

Total Spend

20/21

£183,480.00

21/22

£161,970.70

22/23 year to date 31/01/23

£302,957.77

Total

£648,408.47


Answered by:
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative)
7 March 2023

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