Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-payroll staff are employed in his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such staff in the financial year to date.

There are currently 619 non-payroll staff employed in DWP through the Crown Commercial Service ‘CL1’ Framework. Year to date spend on non-payroll staff is £66,988,161. To be clear the year to date spend covers all non-payroll staff; some of whom are no longer employed by DWP.