Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which agencies his Department has used to recruit staff to that Department.

Recruitment of permanent staff into the Department for International Trade is done through Civil Service Resourcing (CSR), who utilise a set group of Crown Commercial Service approved recruitment agencies for certain posts.

Since the Department’s creation in July 2016, through CSR we have engaged with the following agencies to recruit permanent staff:

- Russell Reynolds Associates

- Veredus Executive Search and Selection

- Moloney Search

- Odgers Berndtson

We have also used the in-house Civil Service Executive Search function to fill posts, managed internally by CSR.