Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of staff employed (a) directly and (b) indirectly by his Department were employed on (i) short term and (ii) zero hours contracts in each of the last 10 years.
Mr Shailesh Vara
We are unable to provide the number of staff and proportion of those employed by a third party to work indirectly by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This information is partially held centrally and to collate all of this information as a whole would incur disproportionate costs.
However figures that are held on the MoJ central systems on staff directly employed by the MoJ and its agencies from 2008 to 2014 on (i) short term and (ii) zero hour contracts can be found in the tables below.
MoJ Staff with Fixed Term Contracts (SFTC) of 12 months or less as per the Office on National Statistics definition can be found below.
|
|
SFTC |
% of SFTC Workforce in MoJ |
|
31-Mar-08 |
2,087 |
3% |
|
31-Mar-09 |
1,489 |
2% |
|
31-Mar-10 |
1,305 |
2% |
|
31-Mar-11 |
1,025 |
1% |
|
31-Mar-12 |
409 |
1% |
|
31-Mar-13 |
1,372 |
2% |
|
31-Mar-14 |
637 |
1% |
MoJ Staff recorded as having no fixed hours of employment i.e. zero hour’s contracts.
|
|
Staff on Zero Hours contract |
% of ‘Zero hour’ Workforce |
|
31-Mar-08 |
158 |
0.25% |
|
31-Mar-09 |
208 |
0.29% |
|
31-Mar-10 |
188 |
0.26% |
|
31-Mar-11 |
204 |
0.26% |
|
31-Mar-12 |
158 |
0.21% |
|
31-Mar-13 |
133 |
0.17% |
|
31-Mar-14 |
123 |
0.16% |
The percentage of MoJ staff on zero hour contracts has been decreasing since 2009.
