Ministry of Justice: Zero Hours Contracts

(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were employed directly by his Department on zero-hours contracts in each of the last eight years.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 2nd March 2018

The table below shows the number of individuals working in MOJ and HMPPS who were placed on zero hours contracts over the specified time period. Currently those individuals on zero hours contracts within MOJ are scheduled court ushers who are working within HMCTS.

Snapshot date

Total

MOJ

HMPPS2

31/1/2017

21

21

0

31/12/2016

26

25

1

31/12/20151

30

27

3

31/01/2015

73

66

7

31/12/2013

120

120

0

31/12/2012

140

140

0

31/12/2011

172

172

0

  1. MOJ Snapshot of data taken in 12 month intervals on the 31st of December each year other than 2014 which is a snapshot on the 31st of January 2015. This is because of missing data.
  2. HMPPS data taken as a snapshot at 31st March of each year.
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