Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on head-hunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The requested information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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 - Minister of State (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 of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on head-hunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Will Quince
The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on head-hunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Due to the financial reporting system in the department it is not possible to separate out spend associated with external recruitment consultancy services from all other consultancy spend for the majority of departmental recruitment.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
I refer the hon. Member for Edinburgh West to the answer I gave on 15 November 2022 to Question 76168.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his department has spent on headhunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
HM Treasury does not hold information on head-hunters separately within its recruitment costs.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent on headhunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This information is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on headhunters in each of the last three years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not report the information sought to the level of granularity required. To identify spending on head-hunters specifically from our management systems would require a manual review of all consultancy related transactions.
This can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision on the UK's video games industry, including on independent video game developers.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Under competition law, responsibility for investigating the impact of mergers and acquisitions on competition falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s independent competition authority. The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers and expertise to investigate the benefits and risks of mergers in relation to competition.
Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Competition and Markets Authority on the potential merits of maintaining competition in the video games industry in the context of assessing Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Under competition law, responsibility for investigating the impact of mergers and acquisitions on competition falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s independent competition authority. The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers and expertise to investigate the benefits and risks of mergers in relation to competition.