Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The estimated cost for using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in 2014/15 was £155,000.
Information for previous years is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.