Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) payroll staff in back-office functions, (b) non-payroll staff in back-office functions there are in the Student Loans Company; and what the full-time equivalent is for payroll and non-payroll staff employed by that company.
The number of payroll and non-payroll in back-office functions within the Student Loans Company (SLC) are as follows:
| Headcount | Full Time Equivalent |
Employee (Payroll) | 669 | 649.95 |
Contractors (Non-Payroll) | 11 | 11 |
Service Agreements* (Non-Payroll) | 392 | 392 |
* Service Agreements refer to staff employed by a third party company, who have a contract to deliver work packages for the SLC.
For the purposes of this question, we have defined ‘back-office functions’ to include HR, finance, legal and other corporate services, as well as staff responsible for IT change and development programmes.