Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on agency workers in each of the last five years.
Since 2013/14, the Home Office has been required to publish its Contingent Labour and Agency Cost in the Annual Report and accounts, as a single figure, in a table headed ‘Contingent Labour / Agency Cost’. Copies of the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts for the period 2013/14 to 2015/16 can be found in the House Library. Prior to that date, there was no requirement to collect the data, and the data requested is therefore not available for 2011/12 and 2012/13.