Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on head-hunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The following figures apply to Senior Civil Service Recruitment only, to note, this does not include digital recruitment.
2020/21: £190,627.84
2021/22: £211,054.00
2022/23 YTD: £171,608.46
These figures represent executive search activity spend on SCS (Deputy Director – Director General) recruitment for non-digital roles across these years.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)