Justice written question – answered at on 4 March 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department paid to recruitment agencies in relation to departmental appointments in each year since 1997.
My Department does not hold this information centrally and it is, therefore, not possible to collate this without incurring disproportionate costs.
For posts below SCS, recruitment agencies are not used, other than in exceptional circumstances when a particular skills set is identified. This information is not held centrally.
The Civil Service Recruitment website, which was launched in December 2002, is the site of first choice for central government recruitment. There is no advertising cost associated with this facility.
As a part of the Civil Service Reform agenda applications from outside the Civil Service and from all sections of the community are encouraged. External recruitment support may be used to facilitate this.
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