Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent in total on external recruitment consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; whether any full-time equivalent posts were filled as a result of that expenditure; and whether any of those posts were filled by individuals recruited from outside the civil service.
This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.