Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
Workforce information including off-payroll staff (agency staff, interim managers, contractors and consultants) for the Ministry of Justice, its agencies and executive non-departmental public bodies is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-moj
Information prior to March 2011 is not held by the department.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2013, Official Report, column 93W, on conditions of employment, how many people in his Department were employed on zero hours contracts in each of the last two years up to the most recent period for which records are available.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
Information on the number of staff employed on zero-hour contracts in the Ministry of Justice is set out in the table below. The figures refer to staff in Her Majesty's Court and Tribunal Service and National Offender Management Service as these are the only parts of the Ministry where zero hours contracts have been used.
Period | Headcount |
01/04/10 - 31/03/11 | 238 (HMCTS) |
01/04/11 - 31/03/12 | 218 (HMCTS) |
01/04/12 - 31/03/13 | 172 (HMCTS) |
01/04/13 - 31/03/14 | 153 [146 HMCTS + 7 NOMS] |
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is undertaking a review of zero hours policy and practice and in the light of this work Cabinet Office will ascertain whether any changes need to be made to UK procurement policy.