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Written Question
Attorney General: Conditions of Employment
Tuesday 25th April 2017

Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of staff employed by the Law Officers' Departments are employed on a contract which is (a) full-time permanent, (b) part-time permanent, (c) for less than two years' duration, (d) on an agency basis and (e) zero-hours.

Answered by Jeremy Wright

Information on the number of staff employed by the Law Officers’ Departments full-time and part-time is available at: www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable

The details for parts (c), (d) and (e) of the question are as follows, as at 31 March 2017:

(c) less than two years' duration

(d) on an agency basis

(e) zero-hours

CPS

185 (3%)

14 (0.2%)

0

AGO

0

0

0

GLD

10 (0.5%)

233 (12.8%)

0

SFO

29 (5.5%)

116 (22.2%)

0

HMCPSI

0

0

0

The proportions in each case are a proportion of the staff employed by that Department.


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