Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Zero Hours Contracts
(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours contracts by his Department in each of the last eight years.
The number of (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff, and (d) any other staff directly employed on zero-hours contracts is given below:
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
(a) Full-time | 440 | 400 | 420 | 360 | 346 | 421 | 483 | 595 |
(b) Part-time | 50 | 50 | 40 | 40 | 48 | 54 | 44 | 61 |
(c) Temporary staff | * | * | * | 35 | 51 | 68 | 54 | 54 |
(d) Zero-hour contracts | ✝ | ✝ | ✝ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This data is based on the position at 31st March in each of the years given. The full-time and part-time figures include Civil Servants on DCMS’ payroll. This includes permanent staff, those on fixed-term contracts, those on paid loan/secondment in/out of DCMS and those on paid maternity leave.
Exact headcount is given for 2014 to 2017 based on data DCMS currently holds. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 for full-time and part-time staff for 2010 to 2013 as this information is taken from data published in the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey. This data source can be found here:
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&version=0&dataset=129
Data is based on the position at 31st March in each year so 2018 data is not yet available. This data will be uploaded to this website later in 2018.
* Information on temporary staff is taken from the Workforce Management Information which DCMS produces on a monthly basis and publishes annually. This information was not produced before 2013.
✝ Information on zero-hour contracts is not available before 2013.