Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate

(asked on 5th February 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Tulip Siddiq Portrait
Tulip Siddiq
(Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse to the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate since 2016; and how many FTE staff that inspectorate has employed on an annual basis since that date.

Answered by
Andrew Griffiths Portrait
Andrew Griffiths
This question was answered on 12th February 2018

The table below details the budget for the Employment Agency Standard’s (EAS) Inspectorate and the number of staff employed by EAS since 2016:

Year

Employment Agency Standard Inspectorate Budget

Number of Full Time Equivalent Staff for each year

2015/16

£500,000

11

2016/17

£500,000

11

2017/18

£725,000*

12

*The increase in budget was provided to purchase new IT systems to increase casework productivity and support EAS’ intelligence capability.

Full information regarding the activity of the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate can be found in in their annual reports. These can be found at the following location:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-agency-standards-eas-inspectorate-annual-reports

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