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	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
	tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
	uin	137942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department publishes details of consultancy and professional services spending on an annual basis, in the Annual Report and Accounts. Due to the categorisation of spend within Department systems, it is not possible to extrapolate consultancy spend specifically in relation to recruitment activity. However, a total of £233,056.01 (excluding VAT) has been identified as spend on external recruitment consultants within the last three years, broken down as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Spend (Ex VAT)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/2021</p></td><td><p>£116,358.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/2022</p></td><td><p>£61,824.44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/2023 (to 31 January 2023)</p></td><td><p>£54,872.90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£233,056.01</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This spending relates to external consultancy support, engaged by the Department, for the recruitment of substantive Civil Servants at delegated grades, Senior Civil Servants and Board Members, and excludes the recruitment and delivery of Apprenticeship schemes, and contingent labour workers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 16/02/2023 11:28:09 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

882508

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of job roles advertised within his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	135570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>All job roles advertised throughout 2016 and 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/04/2018 13:14:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

882543

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his Department's implementation plan is for banning the box on job applications.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	135605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>DCMS is committed to offering all applicants equality of opportunity to apply for job roles, to ensure that we attract and retain candidates with the most talent and potential. The DCMS recruitment process does not require applicants to declare unspent criminal convictions upon application.</p><p> </p><p>However, applicants are asked to declare unspent criminal convictions as part of basic employment checks when a provisional offer of employment has been made. Decisions concerning appointment to a post where an individual has a conviction history are made on a case-by-case basis using risk assessments.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/04/2018 13:13:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

843788

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which external recruitment agencies are used by his Department's non-departmental public bodies.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	128226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 22/02/2018 16:48:56 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens