Departmental Recruitment
Home Department
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has spent on (a) recruitment services and (b) executive search agencies in each month since May 2010; and if she will make a statement.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
In Home Office HQ and the UK Border Agency, information is not held centrally on arrangements for recruitment to posts below the senior civil service, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
For the Identity and Passport Service, expenditure incurred can be found in the following table. The Criminal Records Bureau has incurred no expenditure on recruitment services or executive search agencies since May 2010.
| Annex A | |
| £ | |
| Senior civil service—Executive Search Agencies | |
| January 2011 | 24,000 |
| March 2011 | 16,250 |
| July 2011 | 16,000 |
| December 2011 | 30,000 |
| Identity and Passport Service | |
| Recruitment Services | |
| May 2010 | 13,845 |
| June 2010 | 37,100 |
| July 2010 | 14,463 |
| Executive Search Agencies | |
| May 2011 | 2,000 |
| June 2011 | 5,000 |