Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.

The number of people engaged off payroll by the Home Office and the Non Departmental Public Bodies, for which it is responsible, are published each year in its Annual report and Accounts. These are available on our website and can be found by following the links set out below:

2013-14 (Average number of persons employed) (Page 39)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446
/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf

2012-13 (Average number of persons employed) (Page 45)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210660
/Annual_Report_and_Accounts_FINAL_updated_logo.pdf

2011-12 (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 46)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619
/annual-report-2011-12.pdf

2010-11 (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 45)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048
/annual-report-201011.pdf