Use of recruitment agencies

Release date:
11 October 2019

You asked

Please provide answers to the following questions;

  1. Does your organisation utilise recruitment agencies for temporary and permanent staff? Yes or No?

  2. Does your organisation have a centralised staffing booking team for recruitment agencies? Yes or No?

  3. Between 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019 how many staff were working in the department via recruitment agencies? Please provide these figures as an annual breakdown between 2014-19.

  4. Please provide details of the Department's annual agency staff spend between 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019 for temporary placements only. Please provide these figures as an annual breakdown.

  5. Please provide details of the Department's annual agency staff spend between 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019 for permanent placements only. Please provide these figures as an annual breakdown.

  6. Please provide details of the department's annual agency spend between 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019 for temporary placements only for the following staffing categories. Please provide these figures as an annual breakdown:

  • A&C
  • Corporate
  • Finance
  • IT
  • Legal
  • Other

7. Please provide details of the department's annual agency spend between 2013-18 for permanent placements only for the following staffing categories. Please provide these figures as an annual breakdown:

  • A&C
  • Corporate
  • Finance
  • IT
  • Legal
  • Other

We said

Thank you for your request.

  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. We typically employ between 300 – 350 temporary workers. It has been consistent during the period you request but we do not record it in that format.
  4. We spend on average circa £11.5m per annum on temporary workers but we do not differentiate spend between temporary and permanent placements.
  5. We spend on average circa £11.5m per annum on temporary workers but we do not differentiate spend between permanent and temporary placements.
  6. We spend on average circa £11.5m per annum on temporary workers but we do not record by categories or by temporary or permanent placements.
  7. We spend on average circa £11.5m per annum on temporary workers but we do not record by categories or by permanent or temporary placements

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