PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment Agencies (26 January 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recruitment and employment agencies his Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Answer
The Department uses recruitment agencies to recruit some Senior Civil Servants (SCS). The Department has used the following number of recruitment agencies as shown in the table below to support the appointment process for Senior Civil Service roles in each year since 2010-11:
Financial Year | Number of Recruitment Agencies |
2010-11 | 2 |
2011-12 | 4 |
2012-13 | 2 |
2013-14 | 5 |
2014-15 to date | 3 |
Below SCS level, recruitment agencies are not used for the major parts of recruitment or for entire recruiting processes.
Answered by:
Dr Dan Poulter (Labour)
2 February 2015
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