Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recruitment and employment agencies his Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.

The Department uses recruitment agencies to recruit some Senior Civil Servants (SCS). The Department has used the following number of recruitment agencies as shown in the table below to support the appointment process for Senior Civil Service roles in each year since 2010-11:

Below SCS level, recruitment agencies are not used for the major parts of recruitment or for entire recruiting processes.