Louise Haigh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The cost to the Department for Transport (including its executive agencies, but excluding its non-departmental public bodies)using external agencies for therecruitmentof Senior Civil Serviceposts in the last three financial years is set out below:

Financial year 2012/2013 – £195,596.40

Financial year 2013/2014 – £219,587.08

Financial year 2014/2015 – £198,740.56

The financial data on the cost of using external agencies for the recruitment of Senior Civil Service posts in the financial years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 are not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.