Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

(asked on 11th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many additional staff her Department has employed on fixed-term contracts during the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will list when each of those contracts will end.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 16th March 2021

Since 1 April 2020 we have recruited 11,556 people on fixed term contracts. Of those who have started since 1 April 2020, we have 10,507 employees who remain in the business. Their contract end dates are set out in the following table reflecting, the position as at 28 February 2021, which is a continuously changing picture, given that people are actively being extended and recruited, and we will also lose people naturally through turnover before their end dates are due.

Contract end dates

Mar-21

2102*

Apr-21

412*

May-21

261*

Jun-21

122*

Jul-21

348*

Aug-21

81*

Sep-21

228

Oct-21

135

Nov-21

1499

Dec-21

763

Jan-22

1176

Feb-22

1322

Mar-22

16

Apr-22

1056

May-22

707

Jun-22

78

Jul-22

125

Aug-22

54

Sep-22

1

Oct-22

6

Nov-22

4

Dec-22

5

Jan-23

6

Total

10507

*Some contract end dates for people due to leave in these months are in the process of being extended.

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