Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7983, on Treasury: temporary employment, for what reasons his Department does not have a resource board.

HMT conducts an annual business planning round and the Executive Management Board delegates budgets and headcount targets to Directors. Within these constraints, Directors are free to make their own resourcing decisions, including whether to make use of temporary staff. Historically, the use of temporary staff has been very low in HMT.