Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in his Department have been employed through employment or recruitment agencies in each year since 2010-11.
The Department uses recruitment agencies to support permanent appointments to the Senior Civil Service (SCS). The table below shows the number of SCS appointments that have been made where a recruitment agency was involved, for each financial year since 2010-11.
Financial Year | Staff Employed |
2010-11 | 2 |
2011-12 | 7 |
2012-13 | 2 |
2013-14 | 4 |
2014 to date | 2 |
It should be noted that the above information does not include recruitment numbers for our executive agencies.
Below SCS level, recruitment agencies are only used for components of a recruitment exercise eg. advertising, sifting or assessment tests.