PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment Agencies (27 January 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in her Department were employed through employment or recruitment agencies in each year since 2010-11.

Asked by:
Bill Esterson (Labour)

Answer

The Department for Education has not used employment or recruitment agencies to employ any permanent staff onto its payroll since 2010-11.

The Department does, however, use employment agencies for agency and temporary staff. Monthly figures since March 2011 are in the public domain and can be found at: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/workforce-management-information-department-for-education. Cumulative annual data is not held.


Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
3 February 2015

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