Owen Smith – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

January 1, 2023 admin 2015, Owen Smith, Parliamentary Question

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Owen Smith on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising in real terms in each year since 2010-11.

Justin Tomlinson

Administration has been assumed to be the Departmental Expenditure Limit Administrative spend and has been taken from the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2014/15 (Table 4, page 184).

The information that is available is in the table below:

The Department for Work and Pensions spent the following amounts:

	Temporary Agency Staff £m	Consultants £m	Administration £m
2010/11	30.8	14.3	5,610
2011/12	11.5	8.7	1,333
2012/13	12.6	8.4	1,180
2013/14	13.1	11.7	1,091
2014/15	31.1	10.5	894

Information on marketing and advertising costs could only be provided at disproportionate cost. To put this into context, the cost of temporary agency staff was just over 1% of the Department’s paybill in 2014-15.

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