Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent across Government on redundancies and severance payments for each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
While the Cabinet Office holds data on the cost of redundancy payments paid out by departments over the last five years under the terms of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS), it does not hold data on any severance payments made that fall outside of this remit, including special severance payments. Only departments themselves will hold the complete set of information requested.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on staff recruitment in each of the last five financial years for which data is available.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
This information is not held centrally. While the Cabinet Office holds data on recruitment from the Government Recruitment Services and its predecessor, many Government departments have individual recruitment teams.
The figures below, provided by the Government Recruitment Services, represent recruitment assessment services (including the growth in online testing), advertising and marketing and end to end recruitment management, including pre-employment checking. Central services have grown in the proportion to total Government recruitment over this period.
Year | Spend (£m) |
21/22 | £32.144 |
20/21 | £27.164 |
19/20 | £21.426 |
18/19 | £21.887 |
17/18 | £13.933 |
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants across Government received funded training in each of the last five financial years for which data is available.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The Cabinet Office manages a set of commercial contracts through which the Civil Service can commission training. These central frameworks give the Civil Service access to specialist training expertise and in providing a central service, increased efficiency, provide better insight on value for money and training impact.
The Cabinet Office can report on the training that is delivered through these contracts. Research conducted in early 2022 suggests that just less than half of all training spend in the Civil Service is routed through these frameworks. The Cabinet Office cannot report on training which is not delivered through these frameworks. This data is held by individual departments and professions.
The data held by the Cabinet Office shows that:
Operational Year | Spend - £m | Numbers |
2017 - 2018 | 41.3 | 432,432 |
2018 - 2019 | 48.3 | 429,768 |
2019 - 2020 | 46.6 | 338,114 |
2020 - 2021 | 49.9 | 551,629 |
2021 - 2022 | 65.6 | 327,549 |
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on training for civil servants across Government in each of the last five financial years for which data is available.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The Cabinet Office manages a set of commercial contracts through which the Civil Service can commission training. These central frameworks give the Civil Service access to specialist training expertise and in providing a central service, increased efficiency, provide better insight on value for money and training impact.
The Cabinet Office can report on the training that is delivered through these contracts. Research conducted in early 2022 suggests that just less than half of all training spend in the Civil Service is routed through these frameworks. The Cabinet Office cannot report on training which is not delivered through these frameworks. This data is held by individual departments and professions.
The data held by the Cabinet Office shows that:
Operational Year | Spend - £m | Numbers |
2017 - 2018 | 41.3 | 432,432 |
2018 - 2019 | 48.3 | 429,768 |
2019 - 2020 | 46.6 | 338,114 |
2020 - 2021 | 49.9 | 551,629 |
2021 - 2022 | 65.6 | 327,549 |