Louise Haigh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Brandon Lewis

The total sums spent on using external agencies for recruitment to senior civil service posts in DCLG are as follows:

2010-2011 – £16,448.38

2011-12 – £10,950

2012-13 – Nil

2013-14 – £14,200

2014-15 – Nil

2015-date – Nil

These figures exclude Public Appointments and Cabinet Office recruitment but are inclusive of VAT.