Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 8th June 2016 to Question 39232, how many agency workers were employed by her Department in each of the last five financial years.

The response to Question 39232 provided the financial spend for contingent workers over the last five financial years. This includes temporary workers, contractors and interims.

The number of temporary workers, contractors and interims engaged as at 31 March in each of the last five financial years is set out in the table . This is historical point in time data which was extracted from our legacy HR database at the first of April each year and cannot be retrospectively validated for accuracy.

As at 1 May 2016 there were 39 temporary workers, contractors and interims in DECC.

Number of temporary workers, contractors and interims.

• 31 March 2011 - 86
• 31 March 2012 - 137
• 31 March 2013 - 157
• 31 March 2014 - 145
• 31 March 2015 - 104
• 31 March 2016 - 58
• 1 May 2016 - 39