Serious Fraud Office: Staff
(asked on 28th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many contract and temporary staff the Serious Fraud Office employed annually from 2010 to the most recent period for which figures are available; and what the cost was of that employment for each such year.
The average number of temporary contract staff employed annually by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) since 2010 and the cost of that employment is detailed in the table below. The figure for 2016-17 is the actual number of temporary contract staff engaged by the SFO as at 31 October.
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Temporary Staff Cost | £3.693m | £2.296m | £2.672m | £3.926m | £4.646m | £6.991m | £3.735m |
Temporary Staff FTE | 20 | 51 | 29 | 36 | 69 | 106 | 113 |
The Serious Fraud Office operates a flexible resourcing model due to the demand-led nature of its casework and to take account of the mix of core and blockbuster funding. The majority of temporary staff are assigned to work on blockbuster cases and the number of such cases has increased since 2010.
Prior to April 2014 the SFO did not maintain a centralised record of temporary staffing and the figures prior to that date are estimates.