Department of Health and Social Care: Recruitment

(asked on 27th October 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Mike Wood Portrait
Mike Wood
(Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 9 October 2026 to Question 20872 on DHSC: Recruitment, for what reason the post was on a temporary contract in 2024.

Answered by
James Frith Portrait
James Frith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2026

The Civil Service will often recruit particular posts on a fixed-term contract where it considers it appropriate to do so. The Hon. Member can find more details about fixed-term employment contracts at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts

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