Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
(asked on 30th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many members of staff have been employed by his Department (a) in total and (b) as caseworkers at the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last five years.
The table below shows how many members of staff have been employed in total by the Department for Work and Pensions and how many of these are Caseworkers for the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) over the past five years.
| 2012/2013 | 2013/2014 | 2014/2015 | 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 |
DWP | 106,551 | 97,394 | 91,464 | 86,347 | 85,301 |
CMS Caseworkers | 52 | 1,487 | 2,620 | 3,289 | 3,458* |
Notes:
- Figures show March resource level for each respective year
- *2016/2017 CMS figure shows position as of end February 2017 as March data is currently unavailable
- These figures include caseworkers at AO, EO and HEO grade. For the purposes of this answer all managers / team leaders have been excluded although these colleagues on occasion may complete work on a case