You asked
I would like to make a request for information regarding agency workers under the Freedom of information Act.
Please provide the following information as set out below:
From 2000 to 2009, what was the numbers of agency workers that formed the labour market during this period in England and Wales?
Since the Agency Workers Regulation 2010, did the number of agency workers reduce in labour market in England and Wales?
Or has there been an increase the agency worker labour market?
We said
Estimates of agency workers for the United Kingdom are available at data table EMP07.
Estimates of agency workers for England and Wales 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.