Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on staff recruitment in each of the last five financial years for which data is available.

This information is not held centrally. While the Cabinet Office holds data on recruitment from the Government Recruitment Services and its predecessor, many Government departments have individual recruitment teams.

The figures below, provided by the Government Recruitment Services, represent recruitment assessment services (including the growth in online testing), advertising and marketing and end to end recruitment management, including pre-employment checking. Central services have grown in the proportion to total Government recruitment over this period.