Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the average time taken has been to date to fill vacancies for (a) Administrative Assistant/Administrative Officer, (b) Executive Officer, (c) Senior Executive Officer/Higher Executive Officer, (d) Grades 6 and 7 civil servants and (e) Senior Civil Service grade positions in his Department.

The Department of Exiting the European Union continues to recruit the brightest and the best talent from across the civil service, the wider public sector and the private sector.

The Government Recruitment Service (GRS) runs a number of our recruitment campaigns. Based on the data provided by GRS the average length of time taken to fill vacancies since the Department was set up in 2016 is as follows -

a. Administrative Assistant/Administrative Officer - local campaigns - non GRS

b. Executive Officer - local campaigns - non GRS

c. Senior Executive Officer/Higher Executive Officer - 49 days

d. Grades 6 & 7 - 47 days

e. Senior Civil Service grade positions - 29 days

The figures for (c) and (d) are predominately based on large campaigns which are usually run over a period of time and can therefore increase the overall average length of time of some campaigns compared to other government departments which use the central government recruitment system for all campaigns.

The Department manages all other recruitment campaigns across all grades locally and does not collect the data electronically through local campaigns, so is unable to calculate the time taken to fill vacancies without a disproportionate cost being incurred by the Department.