Agency Workers
(asked on 23rd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of agency workers in each of the last 10 years.
Table 1 shows numbers of agency workers for the last 10 years. The figures, obtained from a survey of UK Recruitment firms, represent a snapshot of the volume of workers undertaking a temporary assignment on a given day and are our best estimate of agency worker numbers.
Table 1: Average Daily Volume of agency workers, 2005/06 – 2014/15
Year | Number |
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2005/06 | 1,270,000 |
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2006/07 | 1,380,000 |
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2007/08 | 1,220,000 |
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2008/09 | 1,070,000 |
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2009/10 | 880,000 |
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2010/11 | 1,050,000 |
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2011/12 | 1,110,000 |
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2012/13 | 1,130,000 |
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2013/14 | 1,160,000 |
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2014/15 | 1,200,000 |
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Source: Recruitment Industry Trends Survey 2014/15, Recruitment & Employment Confederation Rounded to nearest 1000. | ||