Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.

The Department of Energy & Climate Change regularly publishes, as part of the Coalition Governments Transparency Agenda, details of the size and cost of its entire workforce on its website. The full details can be found at:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-workforce-management-information
• https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decc-annual-reports-and-accounts

Contract details and the equivalent civil service salary bands for each individual are not held centrally and to gather this information would incur disproportionate costs.