Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions his Department has made appointments by exception since 2010; and who was appointed for each such post.

Our recruitment records indicate that there have been 2698 appointments to DWP by exception since April 2010. The majority (2089) of these were short-term appointments (for up to a maximum of two years). The remainder included secondments, re-appointments, the recruitment of disabled individuals and nine were short-term appointments at Senior Civil Service (SCS) level. As the information constitutes sensitive personal data the Department is unable to disclose the names of the individuals recruited by exception.