Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Agency Workers
(asked on 2nd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department has spent on agency workers in each of the last five years.
The expenditure on agency workers is included in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.
The former Department of Energy and Climate Change’s annual spend on temporary staff (including Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Executive Agency) is as follows:
Financial Year | Spend on temporary staff £’000 |
2011-12 | 5,434 |
2012-13 | 6,847 |
2013-14 | 10,171 |
2014-15 | 9,839 |
2015-16 | 11,706 |
The former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual spend on temporary staff (including Executive Agency and Non-Departmental Public Bodies) is as follows:
Financial Year | Spend on temporary staff £’000 |
2011-12 | 67,350 |
2012-13 | 85,337 |
2013-14 | 87,846 |
2014-15 | 70,711 |
2015-16 | 57,397 |
The expenditure on agency workers is included in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts under ‘other staff costs’ which is the basis for this answer. Please be aware that the costs may include payments to non-executive board members.
Total annual spend on temporary staff for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is therefore:
Financial Year | Spend on temporary staff £’000 |
2011-12 | 72,784 |
2012-13 | 92,184 |
2013-14 | 98,017 |
2014-15 | 80,550 |
2015-16 | 69,103 |