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<p>The Department has procedures in place to comply with Cabinet Office Efficiency
controls ensuring that all requests for consultancy or temporary staff are subject
to approval by formal panels. These panels provide the ultimate approval based upon
business case submissions.</p><p> </p><p>We do not recognise the term ‘resource board’,
however, the process for approving professional services spend is via a professional
services business case (PSBC) that gets approved by the Finance Approvals Panel (FAP).
Temporary staff are approved via one of two routes:</p><p> </p><p>- Specialist Contractors
= PSBC to secretariat then FAP</p><p> </p><p>- Admin and Clerical = complete a ‘Request
to Recruit’ Form (which is a proportionate type of business case) which is then submitted
via a secretariat.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to the question on rates, the Department
does hold this information on its electronic procurement system from which the proportion
of consultants on daily rates could be calculated, however, this would require a review
of each individual contract to check the payment method, and would result in disproportionate
cost. We are not therefore able to provide this information.</p>
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