Department for Education: Staff

(asked on 18th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's spending on (a) temporary agency staff and (b) consultants was as a proportion of her Department's total budget in each year since 2010-11.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 1st February 2016

The table below shows the Department’s budget for each the financial year requested and the total figure spent on temporary agency staff and consultants. The table also shows the percentage of the budget spent on temporary agency staff and consultants.

FY 2010-11

FY 2011-12

FY 2012-13

FY 2013-14

FY 2014-15

FY 2015-16 To Dec 2015

Department Total Budget

£58,242.15m

£56,407.12m

£57,956.19m

£57,094.72m

£59,483.69m

£55,874.16m

Total for Contingent Labour and Consultancy

£36.07m

£10.18m

£7.60m

£10.27m

£16.36m

£16.44m

Percentage of Department Budget

0.06%

0.02%

0.01%

0.02%

0.03%

0.03%


The Department publishes data relating to the number of consultants and temporary agency staff each month. This data has been published for 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. The publication page for each of the years published can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-monthly-workforce-management-information

Temporary Agency staff are recruited in line with the Department’s policy, which states that ‘agency workers should be used when there is a need to cover a gap for a short period of up to a maximum of 12 weeks and/or when resources are required quickly.’

The Department publishes data relating to which part of the organisation consultants and temporary agency staff are engaged. Information relating to which directorate they are engaged with is not recorded. This data has been published for 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16. The publication page for each of the years published can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-monthly-workforce-management-information

The Department does not record the equivalent Civil Service salary band for consultants and temporary staff.

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