Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contractors have been employed by his Department for (a) up to one year, (b) between one and five years, (c) between five and 10 years and (d) over 10 years.

The Department has since December 2013 used a Call off Contract from the Crown Commercial Services Contingent Labour One framework RM960 for the hire of temporary workers. The information below has been provided by the suppliers on the call off contract - Capita and Brook Street.

Brook Street

- temporary workers employed up to one year – 170

- temporary workers employed between one and five years – one

Capita

The data provided by Capita shows that the total number of temporary workers hired by the Department from December 2013 to April 2018 was 535.

It is not possible to establish the continuous length of time each worker was hired from Capita to work for the Department due to the limitations of the available data.

Information on temporary workers for periods prior to December 2013 is not held centrally.

The Department also uses various suppliers from the Crown Commercial Service Non-Medical Non-Clinical framework RM971 for the recruitment and hire of temporary workers. There is no central data captured to show lengths of service for these workers.