Defence Equipment & Support: Staff

(asked on 26th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2023 to Question 181899 on Defence Equipment and Support: Staff, how many contractors were employed at Defence Equipment and Support in each year since 2010.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 2nd May 2023

The numbers of contractors engaged per year as Contingent Labour to fill funded posts within Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) on a short-term basis since Financial Year 2010-11, are as follows:

Financial Year

Number*

2010-11

488

2011-12

390

2012-13

330

2013-14

617

2014-15

498

2015-16

292

2016-17

358

2017-18

254

2018-19

211

2019-20

643

2020-21

699

2021-22

657

* This is an average figure over the course of a year.

The number of contractors engaged to provide Public Sector Support to supplement DE&S capacity and capability to manage its programme of work and support business improvement and change programmes is not recorded by DE&S.

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