Home Office: Conditions of Employment

(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of staff employed by her Department are employed on a contract which is (a) full-time permanent, (b) part-time permanent, (c) for less than two years' duration, (d) on an agency basis and (e) zero-hours.


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Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 24th April 2017

The Home Office does not employ anyone on zero-hours contracts, the proportion of people employed on the remaining contract types is shown in table 1.

Table 1 - how many and what proportion of staff employed by her Department are employed on a contract which is (a) full-time permanent, (b) part-time permanent, (c) for less than two years' duration, (d) on an agency basis and (e) zero-hours.

Appointment Type

Headcount

%

a) Full-time Permanent

22,293

69.29%

b) Part-time Permanent

6,201

19.27%

c) Less than 2 years duration

975

3.03%

d) Agency

1,181

3.67%

e) zero hours

0

0.00%

f) Other

1,522

4.73%

Grand Total

32,173

100.00%

Data Source: Data View - Office for National Statistics compliant monthly snapshot corporate Human Resources data for Home Office.

Period Covered: Figures as at 31st March 2017.

Extraction Date: 1st April 2017.

Organisational Coverage: Figures include Home Office.

Employee Coverage: Data is based on headcount of all paid and unpaid civil servants and non civil servants who were current at 31st March 2017.

Note: 'Other' staff include Incoming Loans & Secondments and Contractors.

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