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	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to improve job security for people employed indefinitely on temporary or fixed-term contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	198616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to achieving a labour market that is both fair and flexible, which gives employers the confidence to create jobs, and individuals the choice to find work that suits them and their circumstances.</p><p>Temporary, agency and fixed term contracts are an important, but relatively small part of our labour market, as they give companies flexibility in how staff are hired and workers flexibility in how they work. In February to April 2014 there were 1.673 million temporary employees – 6.5% of all employees. Of these, ONS estimate that 35.9% were working temporarily because they could not find a permanent job – down from 39.7% a year ago.</p><p>Under this Government employment growth continues to be exceptionally strong, with levels up by 345,000 in the past quarter, and 780,000 in the past year – a record. Overall, in the 12 months to April 2014:</p><p> </p><p>· Employment increased by 780,000.</p><p> </p><p>· The number of employees working full time increased by 441,000 and the number of people working part time increased by 17,000.</p><p> </p><p>· The amount of people in self-employment rose by 337,000</p><p> </p><p>· The amount of temporary employees was 1.67 million in the three months to April 2014, up 79,000 on the same period last year. The amount of employees working temporary jobs because they could not find permanent jobs fell by 33,000 over the past year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 11/06/2014 16:11:21 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

57688

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people on (a) temporary and (b) fixed-term contracts in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	198617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 10/06/2014 15:43:36 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ 198617.pdf title ONS Letter to Member
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

169523

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contract staff work for his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies; and what is the longest length of time any contractor has been working for each.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	218103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The latest published figure for the number of specialist contractors within the ‘core’ Department is 64, as at 31 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at 31 October, the longest length of time any specialist contractor has been working for the Department is nine years and two months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Executive Agencies and Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies have supplied the information set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further comprehensive data about all contract staff in these bodies can be found on the workforce information website at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dh-workforce-information-2014</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p>Name of organisation</p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p>Specialist contract staff working in the organisation as at 31 October 2014</p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p>Longest length of time any specialist contractor has been working as at 31 October 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>Public Health England</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>19 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2 years and 4 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS England*</p></td><td><p>917*</p></td><td><p>Not Available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Monitor</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>160 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>4 years and 7 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Institute for Health and Care Excellence</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>5 years and 3 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health and Social Care Information Centre</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>1 year 7 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority</p></td><td><p> </p><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p><p>12 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Tissue Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Not applicable</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>*</strong>The NHS England figure of 917, taken from the organisation’s 2013-14 annual report and accounts, also includes other individuals engaged on a non-permanent basis such as agency staff and secondees</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 15/12/2014 17:42:02 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

170773

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on clerical agency staff in each month since July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	218950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Since April 2010 we have cut our overall spend on temporary staff by £35.5m. We only use temporary staff to fill business-critical posts and essential frontline services where they can provide a fast, flexible and efficient way to obtain necessary skills that are not currently available in-house. We will continue to examine our use of contractors and look for further reductions.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In responding to each question we have utilised data provided by our contracted supplier of temporary clerical staff.</p><p> </p><p>1) The following amounts (exclusive of VAT) have been spent on clerical agency staff across -</p><p> </p><p>July 2014 - £3,421,108.62 (5 week period)</p><p>August 2014 - £2,711,052.38 (4 week period)</p><p>September 2014 - £2,946,902.62 (4 week period)</p><p>October 2014 - £4,060,595.46 (5 week period)</p><p>November 2014 - £3,082,356.77 (4 week period)</p><p> </p><p>2) The following number of clerical agency staff have been utilised –</p><p> </p><p>July 2014 - 2117 (Actual)</p><p>August 2014 - 2129 (Actual)</p><p>September 2014 - 2271 (Actual)</p><p>October 2014 - 2509 (Actual)</p><p>November 2014 - 2257 (Actual)</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 219185 question first answered 06/01/2015 17:23:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan