Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff in his Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.
Justin Tomlinson
The information is provided in the following table:
Financial Year |
Proportion of payroll staff (%) |
Proportion of non-payroll staff (%) |
2015-16 |
99.4 |
0.6 |
2014-15 |
99.7 |
0.3 |
2013-14 |
99.9 |
0.1 |
2012-13 |
99.9 |
0.1 |
2011-12 |
99.9 |
0.1 |
2010-11 |
99.9 |
0.1 |
Of the 520 non-payroll staff in the latest year the majority were employed to develop the technology for our major welfare reforms.