Ministry of Justice: Agency Workers
(asked on 20th June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18873, what proportion of his Department's staff were agency workers covering (a) operational uniformed staff and (b) clerical agency staff in each year since 2010.
We only use temporary staff to fill business-critical posts and essential frontline services, where they can offer a fast, flexible and efficient way of providing skills not currently available in-house.
The proportion of the department’s staff agency workers either covering operational uniformed staff of clerical agency staff is displayed in the following table. Data prior to 2011/12 is not available.
Year-end date | Proportion of Operational Uniformed Staff | Proportion of Clerical agency staff |
31/03/2012 | 1.92% | 0.58% |
31/03/2013 | 2.03% | 0.76% |
31/03/2014 | 3.17% | 1.14% |
31/03/2015 | 4.61% | 1.61% |