Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have been recruited to her Department (a) at each location and (b) in each category of work in each week since July 2020.
DWP has 877 locations and has recruited into over a quarter of these during July and August 2020. The number of staff recruited by each Group and number of locations is as follows:
Business Group | Month | Number of staff recruited | Number of locations |
Change | July 2020 | 0 | 0 |
August 2020 | Less than 5 | 1 | |
Communications | July 2020 | 0 | 0 |
August 2020 | Less than 5 | 1 | |
Digital | July 2020 | 11 | 5 |
August 2020 | 13 | 6 | |
Finance | July 2020 | Less than 5 | 3 |
August 2020 | Less than 5 | 3 | |
People and Capability | July 2020 | Less than 5 | 2 |
August 2020 | Less than 5 | 2 | |
Policy | July 2020 | 6 | 2 |
August 2020 | 15 | 6 | |
Service Excellence | July 2020 | Less than 5 | 2 |
August 2020 | 7 | 5 | |
Work and Health | July 2020 | 680 | 171 |
August 2020 | 1095 | 125 | |
Total | 1846 | 334 |
Data has been provided by month and to end August 2020 as weekly data is not available for all recruitment.