Department of Health: Employment Agencies
(asked on 16th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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 Department uses external recruitment agencies to support appointments to the Senior Civil Service (SCS). The table below shows the costs of SCS appointments that have been made where a recruitment agency was involved, for each financial year since 2010/11.
Year | Spend |
1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011 | £45,673 |
1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012 | £160,404 |
1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013 | £49,275 |
1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014 | £76,973 |
1 April 2014 – 31 March 2015 | £68,906 |
1 April 2015 – November 2015 | £7,450 |