Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.

The Home Office does not report the information sought to the level of granularity required.

To identify spending on recruitment consultants specifically from our management systems would require a manual review of all consultancy related transactions.

This can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.