You asked
Please would you confirm the number of Agency Workers active in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
The information I request is:
The amount of agency workers in the category of. Office / Admin, Retail / Catering, Construction, Transport / Warehousing, Care / Health Care, Public / Private sector, Others.
Their Demographic split by Citizenship, ie British, EU members, Commonwealth members, others.
I understand there may be a small charge. Please inform me if there is.
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We said
Estimates for the number of agency workers in the UK are available at data table EMP07.
This table shows estimates for all agency workers (broken down between men and women) and agency workers working part-time (also broken down between men and women).
More detailed estimates for agency workers can be obtained from the Social Surveys team. Special tabulations of data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk (Tel 01633 455678). We recommend that you contact the Social Surveys team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.