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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment Agencies (28 January 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in his Department have been employed through employment or recruitment agencies in each year since 2010-11.

Asked by:
Bill Esterson (Labour)

Answer

The Department uses recruitment agencies to support permanent appointments to the Senior Civil Service (SCS). The table below shows the number of SCS appointments that have been made where a recruitment agency was involved, for each financial year since 2010-11.

Financial Year

Staff Employed

2010-11

2

2011-12

7

2012-13

2

2013-14

4

2014 to date

2

It should be noted that the above information does not include recruitment numbers for our executive agencies.

Below SCS level, recruitment agencies are only used for components of a recruitment exercise eg. advertising, sifting or assessment tests.


Answered by:
Dr Dan Poulter (Labour)
4 February 2015

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